Orientalism and islam European thinkers on oriental despotism in the Middle East and India

By:

Curtis, Michael, 1923-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2009Description: ix,382p. 24 cmISBN:

9780521749619

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DDC classification:

320.557 22 CU-O

LOC classification:

JC381 .C87 2009

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Table of contents only

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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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	320.557 CU-O (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		112603

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and index.

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