: European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Michael Curtis.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 382 p.
Dimensions
; 24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
What's past is prologue -- European views of Islam and their correlation with Oriental despotism -- Observant travelers -- Political thinkers and the Orient -- The Oriental despotic universe of Montesquieu -- Edmund Burke and despotism in India -- Alexis de Tocqueville and colonization -- James Mill and John Stuart Mill : despotism in India -- Karl Marx : the Asiatic mode of production and Oriental despotism -- Max Weber : patrimonialism as a political type.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dictatorship - Islamic countries.
Islam and politics.
Asiatic mode of production.
Social scientists - Europe - Attitudes - History.
Public opinion - Europe - History.
Political science - Europe - History.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islamic countries - Foreign public opinion, European.