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Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India
- Title
- Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis.
- Author
- Curtis, Michael, 1923-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 382 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3980
- ISBN
- 9780521767255 (hardback)
- 0521767253 (hardback)
- 9780521749619 (pbk.)
- 0521749611 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008040759
- OCLC
- 257555570
- Author
- Curtis, Michael, 1923-
- Title
- Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3980