TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Michael
TI  - Orientalism and Islam: European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India 
SN  - 9780521767255
AV  - JC381 .C978 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Asiatic mode of production
KW  - Social scientists
KW  - Europe
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - History
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Political science
KW  - Foreign public opinion, European
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008040759.html
ER  -