Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis
- Bib ID:
- 4706154
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Curtis, Michael, 1923-
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521767255
- 0521767253
- 9780521749619
- 0521749611
- Full contents:
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- Introduction. What's Past Is Prologue
- 1. European Views of Islam and Their Correlation with Oriental Despotism
- 2. Observant Travelers
- 3. Political Thinkers and the Orient
- 4. The Oriental Despotic Universe of Montesquieu
- 5. Edmund Burke and Despotism in India
- 6. Alexis de Tocqueville and Colonization
- 7. James Mill and John Stuart Mill: Despotism in India
- 8. Karl Marx: The Asiatic Mode of Production and Oriental Despotism
- 9. Max Weber: Patrimonialism as a Political Type
- 10. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353 - 365) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Until 2093 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2023
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- Publication date:
- 2009
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