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Oriental despotism: a comparative study of total power

Karl August Wittfogel 1957 © Karl August Wittfogel
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  • Comparative/World
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  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page iii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • CHAPTER 1: The Natural Setting of Hydraulic Society (page 11)
  • CHAPTER 2: Hydraulic Economy--a Managerial and Genuinely Political Economy (page 22)
  • CHAPTER 3: A State Stronger than Society (page 49)
  • CHAPTER 4: Despotic Power--Total and Not Benevolent (page 101)
  • CHAPTER 5: Total Terror--Total Submission--Total Loneliness (page 137)
  • CHAPTER 6: The Core, the Margin, and the Submargin of Hydraulic Societies (page 161)
  • CHAPTER 7: Patterns of Proprietary Complexity in Hydraulic Society (page 228)
  • CHAPTER 8: Classes in Hydraulic Society (page 301)
  • CHAPTER 9: The Rise and Fall of the Theory of the Asiatic Mode of Production (page 369)
  • CHAPTER 10: Oriental Society in Transition (page 413)
  • NOTES (page 451)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 491)
  • GENERAL INDEX (page 531)
  • INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS (page 550)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAOS 81.1 (Jan. 1961): 59-60 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28196101%2F03%2981%3A1%3C59%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
GJ 126.1 (Mar. 1960): 80-81 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28196003%29126%3A1%3C80%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
Man 59 (Jun. 1959): 103-104 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28195906%291%3A59%3C103%3A1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
AHR 64.2 (Jan. 1959): 387-388 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28195901%2964%3A2%3C387%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
ASEER 17.3 (Oct. 1958): 351-352 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1049-7544%28195810%2917%3A3%3C351%3AODCSOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
ASR 23.4 (Aug. 1958): 446-448 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224%28195808%2923%3A4%3C446%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
IA 34.3 (Jul. 1958): 334-335 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850%28195807%2934%3A3%3C334%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
PA 31.2 (Jun. 1958): 186-187 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-851X%28195806%2931%3A2%3C186%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
JAS 17.3 (May 1958): 435-446 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28195805%2917%3A3%3C435%3ATSOODA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
RR 17.2 (Apr. 1958): 148-150 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-0341%28195804%2917%3A2%3C148%3AODACSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
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