Book contents
- Rice
- Rice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Purity and Promiscuity
- 1 Global Visions vs. Local Complexity: Experts Wrestle with the Problem of Development
- 2 Rice, Sugar, and Livestock in Java, 1820–1940: Geertz’s Agricultural Involution 50 Years On
- 3 A Desire to Eat Well: Rice and the Market in Eighteenth-Century China
- 4 Rice and Maritime Modernity: The Modern Chinese State and the South China Sea Rice Trade
- 5 Promiscuous Transmission and Encapsulated Knowledge: A Material-Semiotic Approach to Modern Rice in the Mekong Delta
- 6 Red and White Rice in the Vicinity of Sierra Leone: Linked Histories of Slavery, Emancipation, and Seed Selection
- Part II Environmental Matters
- Part III Power and Control
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Global Visions vs. Local Complexity: Experts Wrestle with the Problem of Development
from Part I - Purity and Promiscuity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
Book contents
- Rice
- Rice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Purity and Promiscuity
- 1 Global Visions vs. Local Complexity: Experts Wrestle with the Problem of Development
- 2 Rice, Sugar, and Livestock in Java, 1820–1940: Geertz’s Agricultural Involution 50 Years On
- 3 A Desire to Eat Well: Rice and the Market in Eighteenth-Century China
- 4 Rice and Maritime Modernity: The Modern Chinese State and the South China Sea Rice Trade
- 5 Promiscuous Transmission and Encapsulated Knowledge: A Material-Semiotic Approach to Modern Rice in the Mekong Delta
- 6 Red and White Rice in the Vicinity of Sierra Leone: Linked Histories of Slavery, Emancipation, and Seed Selection
- Part II Environmental Matters
- Part III Power and Control
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- RiceGlobal Networks and New Histories, pp. 41 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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