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Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis.
LIBRA JC381 .C87 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Michael, 1923-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism--Islamic countries.
- Despotism.
- Islam and politics.
- Asiatic mode of production.
- Social scientists--Europe--Attitudes--History.
- Social scientists.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, European.
- Islamic countries.
- Public opinion--Europe--History.
- Political science--Europe--History.
- Political science.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 382 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 European Views of Islam and Their Correlation with Oriental Despotism 31
- 2 Observant Travelers 38
- 3 Political Thinkers and the Orient 51
- 4 The Oriental Despotic Universe of Montesquieu 72
- 5 Edmund Burke and Despotism in India 103
- 6 Alexis de Tocqueville and Colonization 139
- 7 James Mill and John Stuart Mill: Despotism in India 177
- 8 Karl Marx: The Asiatic Mode of Production and Oriental Despotism 217
- 9 Max Weber: Patrimonialism as a Political Type 258
- 10 Conclusion 299.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521767255
- 0521767253
- 9780521749619
- 0521749611
- OCLC:
- 257555570
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