Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis.
By: Curtis, Michael.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521767255 (hardback); 0521767253 (hardback); 9780521749619 (pbk.); 0521749611 (pbk.).Subject(s): Dictatorship -- Islamic countries | Islam and politics | Asiatic mode of production | Social scientists -- Europe -- Attitudes -- History | Public opinion -- Europe -- History | Political science -- Europe -- History | Islamic countries -- Foreign public opinion, EuropeanDDC classification: 320.5/57 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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