Reviewer has described it as the 'definitive World Systems book on the Rim'
Multidisciplinary, the book will appeal to those in asian studies, sociology, development studies and economic and political geography
'A very detailed synthesis of a large variety of empirical materials presented in previous scholarly work by other social scientists.' - Progress in Human Geography
Ravi Arvind Palat is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghampton and has previously taught at the Universities of Hawaii and Auckland.