Karl August Wittfogel (6 September 1896 – 25 May 1988) was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. He was originally a Marxist and an...

Power is a book of political theory and comparative history by Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988) published by Yale University Press in 1957. The book...

Study of Russian Planned Economy) with Ernst Jünger, Georg Lukács, Karl Wittfogel and Friedrich Hielscher, under whose auspices he visited the Soviet...

in his history of the conquest of the Aztec Empire. As late as 1957 Karl Wittfogel included Rome and the Incan Empire in his study of what he called Oriental...

history. The theory was rejected in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Karl August Wittfogel suggested in his 1957 book, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study...

was the president of the Société des océanistes from 2013 to 2015. Karl Wittfogel Rationalité et irrationalité en économie – 1969 (2 volumes) (Rationality...

Silk Road Project; editor of the journal of the Silkroad Foundation Karl Wittfogel – sinologist and historian; author of Oriental Despotism: A Comparative...

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

Soviet regime as an Asiatic mode of production Aron refers to Karl August Wittfogel's work Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Marx...

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

taught at Rutgers University. On 5 September 1951, an ex-communist, Karl Wittfogel, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that Finley...

Party (see Silvermaster file 2C page 18). Louis Budenz and an academic Karl Wittfogel who met Greenberg in Cambridge and stated that he "must have" been a...

when it was formally founded with him as chairman. He also worked with Karl Wittfogel, Alexander Schwab and his other brother Herman at this time. In 1919...

Fabric of Chinese Society (1953). His mentors were Julian Steward and Karl Wittfogel. His cohort included Elman Service, Eric Wolf, Sidney Mintz and Stanley...

met the economic historian Karl Wittfogel, then a member of the German Communist Party. Ji was deeply influenced by Wittfogel's Marxist analysis, which used...

This view is often pejorative. The term is often associated with Karl August Wittfogel's 1957 book Oriental Despotism. Asian values Asiatic mode of production...

Günther Anders), Waldemar Gurian, Siegfried Kracauer, Otto Neurath, Karl August Wittfogel, Béla Fogarasi, and Leo Strauss.[citation needed] In the early 1970s...

Institute—half forgotten names such as Carl Grünberg, Henryk Grossman and Karl August Wittfogel, were social scientists of an orthodox Marxist conviction. They...

associated with each. He noted the authors' extensive rebuttal of Karl Wittfogel's ideas and their broader critique of Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, world-systems...

extermination camp's Lager I section Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988), German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist Karl August Wuensche (1838–1912)...

on a successful administration and a strong central government (cf. Karl Wittfogel's hydraulic hypothesis). Later on, the leading engineer became a sacred...

different schools of Marxism, and included György Lukács, Karl Korsch, Karl August Wittfogel, and Friedrich Pollock. In 1927/1928 Pollock traveled to the...

Chinese Dynastic History Project, headed by the German refugee scholar Karl Wittfogel, which set out to translate and annotate the official histories compiled...

grew out of his understanding of Oriental Despotism and debates with Karl Wittfogel. Michael's first monograph was his 1942 study, The Origins of Manchu...

in 1974 under Joseph Schiebel, who had been heavily influenced by Karl Wittfogel's studies on "Soviet communism and its resemblance to oriental despotism...

with Karl Wittfogel in 1947, whom he helped with research and Russian translations and also to his contact with Karl Korsch. Krader was Wittfogel's assistant...

leftist figures such as Georg Lukács, Karl Korsch, Richard Sorge, Friedrich Pollock, and Karl August Wittfogel. The success of this event led him and...

In Ulmen, G.L. (ed.). Society and History, Essays in Honour of Karl August Wittfogel. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 215–230. ISBN 978-90-279-7776-2. Baxter...

home in Berlin". Sorge considered Friedrich Adolf Sorge, an associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to be his grandfather, but he was actually Sorge's...

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-24331-9 Wittfogel, Karl A., and Feng Chia-sheng. "History of Chinese Society, Liao (907-1125)...