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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- East and West -- The Asiatic Mode of Production -- The Asiatic Form of Property -- Oriental Society -- Rhetoric and Controversy -- The Asiatic Mode of Production in China -- In Defense of the AMP -- Denying the Uniqueness of the East: The AMP as Primitive Society -- The AMP as a Sixth Mode of Production -- Challenging Unilinear History -- Abandoning the Model -- Notes -- 2 Some Questions Concerning Research on the Asiatic Mode of Production -- Five or Six Modes of Social Production? -- Is Social Development Unilinear or Multilinear? -- Understanding the Nature of Soviet Society Today -- Periodization of Premodern Chinese History -- The Political Significance of Studying the AMP -- Notes -- 3 Ancient Chinese Society and the Asiatic Mode of Production -- The Genesis of Marx's Asiatic Theory -- How to Interpret the Asiatic Mode of Production -- Ancient Chinese Society and the Asiatic Mode of Production -- Monarchical State Ownership of Land -- The Persistence of the Rural Commune -- The Status of the "General Slave -- Notes -- 4 The Well-Field System in Relation to the Asiatic Mode of Production -- Notes -- 5 The Unproblematic Asiatic Mode of Production -- The AMP Is the Mode of Production of the Ancient Period -- The AMP Is the Universal Primitive Socioeconomic Formation -- Marx Did Not Inherit the AMP from Hegel -- Why "Asiatic"? -- What Problem Did the AMP Solve? -- The AMP and Oriental Despotism -- The Unity of Rent and Tax, and Commodity Production under Tribute Relations -- The Role of River-Based Irrigation in the AMP -- The AMP in Marx's and Engels' Later Years -- The AMP as Problematic -- Notes -- 6 Some Questions Concerning Research on the Theory of the Asiatic Mode of Production

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- Prelude -- The problematic of the history of the sciences -- Some crucial issues in the history of the social sciences and Marxism -- PART I: THE AMP: SOURCES AND FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT -- Preliminaries -- The intellectual sources of the concept -- The sixteenth century -- Seventeenth-century travellers and polemics on absolutism -- The French and Scottish Enlightenments -- The nineteenth century: German philosophy and British political economy -- The nineteenth century: the village community: evolutionary and revolutionary perspectives -- Marx and Engels on oriental societies and the Asiatic mode of production -- Correspondence and articles on India -- The 'Grundrisse' -- 'A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy' (1859) -- 'Capital' and 'Theories of Surplus Value' -- Marx's ethnological research and his correspondence on the Russian mir -- Engels's 'Anti-Dührmg' (1878) and articles on Russia (1875, 1894) -- Notes -- PART II: THE FATE OF THE AMP FROM PLEKHANOV TO STALIN -- Editors' Introduction -- Our Differences -- Civilisation and the Great Historical Rivers -- A Letter to the St Petersburg Workers -- The Legitimacy of the AMP -- The Asiatic Bureaucracy as a Class -- The AMP and the Class Struggle -- The Reaffirmation of Unilinealism -- Selected further readings: Part II -- PART III: THE WITTFOGEL WATERSHED -- Editors' Introduction -- The Stages of Development in Chinese Economic and Social History -- The Theory of Oriental Society -- Wittfogel on the Asiatic Mode of Production -- Wittfogel's 'Oriental Despotism' -- Reply to Arnold Toynbee -- Wittfogel's 'Oriental Despotism' -- 'Oriental Despotism': Political Weapon or Sociological Concept?