Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-365) 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.
