Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India /
Curtis, Michael, 1923-
Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / by Michael Curtis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009. - ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780521767255 0521767253 9780521749619 0521749611
2008040759
Dictatorship -- Islamic countries.
Islam and politics -- Europe -- Attitudes
Asiatic mode of production.
Social scientists
Public opinion
Political science
JC381 / .C87 2009
321.9 / CUO
Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / by Michael Curtis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009. - ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780521767255 0521767253 9780521749619 0521749611
2008040759
Dictatorship -- Islamic countries.
Islam and politics -- Europe -- Attitudes
Asiatic mode of production.
Social scientists
Public opinion
Political science
JC381 / .C87 2009
321.9 / CUO