JWSR

JWSR
The Journal of World Systems Research

About Ravi Arvind Palat

 


Ravi Arvind Palat Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Faculty Affiliate at the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH is an historical sociologist and political economist. His books include Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim, Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250-1650: Princes, Paddyfields, and Bazaars. He is currently working on two books: one on the construction of national cuisines and the other on the impact of the Americas on early modern Asia. He had previously taught Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and sociology at the University of Auckland.

Contribution to Caravanserai:

briCs+, and Changing Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century


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