Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / by Michael Curtis.

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009.Description: ix, 382 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780521767255
0521767253
9780521749619
0521749611

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DDC classification:

321.9 23 CUO

LOC classification:

JC381 .C87 2009

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	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Central Library, University of Barishal	Shelve No 10	321.9 CUO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3298

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

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