Oriental despotism refers to the Western view of Asian societies as politically or morally more susceptible to despotic rule, and therefore different from...

Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is a book of political theory and comparative history by Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988) published...

local chieftains, kings, and emperors. The concept of despotism, and especially oriental despotism, entered European political thought with Montesquieu's...

Muscovite absolutism,[i] Muscovite despotism,[j][k] Russian despotism,[l] tsarist despotism[m] or imperial despotism.[n] Ivan III (reigned 1462–1505) built...

Maoism, 1960? Class Structure and Total Power in Oriental Despotism, 1960 A Stronger Oriental Despotism 1960 The Russian and Chinese Revolutions: A Socio-Historical...

German-American historian Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988), in his book Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (1957). Wittfogel asserted that...

Seduced "Other" of German Orientalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001 (ISBN 0-313-30857-8). Minuti, Rolando: Oriental Despotism, European History Online...

included Rome and the Incan Empire in his study of what he called Oriental Despotism, demonstrating the term still carries a meaning in Western thought...

suggested in his 1957 book, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, that his concept of Oriental despotism showed that this was because...

narrowness of village economies and the state's role in production. Oriental despotism was generally regarded in Europe as a major factor in the relative...

undermining local religion and cultures. Chinweizu borrows ideas of oriental despotism in his perspective on North African and Middle East Arabs as secondary...

Numbers on 18th century France, labels Quesnay an "apologist for Oriental despotism." Because of his admiration of Confucianism, Quesnay's followers bestowed...

such systems made bureaucratic despotism inevitable in Oriental lands. When Wittfogel published his Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power...

and Continuity in an African Society is published. Karl Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is published. Michael Young's...

and Russian Policy, Trafford Publishing, 2004. Abrahamian Ervand, "Oriental Despotism:The Case of Qajar Iran" International Journal of Middle East Studies...

previously dominated Ottoman economic history, above all the notion of an "Oriental despotism" which supposedly inhibited economic development, and instead to examine...

theories as modified by Karl August Wittfogel and his 1957 book, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Yet this materialism is distinct...

and Global South Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world Oriental Despotism Orientalism What We Mean by the West - Foreign Policy Research Institute...

nationality into three components, and the introduction of the concept of "oriental despotism" into Russia. However, most historians agree that Kievan Rus' was...

portray the degraded Turkish court, using "the harem, the Sultan court, oriental despotism, luxury, gems and spices, carpets, and silk cushions" as an unfavorable...

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Asiatic mode of production Aron refers to Karl August Wittfogel's work Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Marx enumerated various modes...

as Spain and France. The 'hydraulic thesis' in Karl A. Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, in which despots would control...

complex societies in two distinct forms: oriental despotism and the classical polis. In oriental despotism, the despot personifies society – all property...

Législation orientale, in which he endeavoured to prove that the nature of oriental despotism had been greatly misrepresented by Montesquieu and others. His Recherches...

precolonial society can be analysed in the conventional discourse of Oriental despotism. Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali Bread and circuses...

cultural map of the world Opposition to immigration Occidentalism Orientalism Oriental Despotism Potential superpowers Protracted social conflict Religious pluralism...

analogies were also made between the harem, the Sultan's court, oriental despotism, luxury, gems and spices, carpets, and silk cushions with the luxury...

violence and armed power. — Michael Curtis, Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India (2009), p. 31,...

subversion of parliamentary government in favour of some simulacrum of the oriental despotism its creator was alleged to admire. Smith notes that there was indeed...