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Orientalism and Islam, European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India, Michael Curtis

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Orientalism and Islam, European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India, Michael Curtis

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-365) and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Orientalism and Islam

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bibliography

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257555570

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Michael Curtis

Sub title

European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India

Table Of 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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