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Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: ix, 382 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521767255
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC381 .C978 2009
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and index.

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.