This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production – a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.
1. The AMP: Sources and Formation of the Concept
2. The Fate of the AMP
from Plekhanov to Stalin
3. The Wittfogel Wateshed
4. The Contempoary Debate
on the AMP
Anne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera
