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Oriental despotism: a comparative study of total power
Karl August Wittfogel
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Frontmatter
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PREFACE (page iii)
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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CHAPTER 1: The Natural Setting of Hydraulic Society (page 11)
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CHAPTER 2: Hydraulic Economy--a Managerial and Genuinely Political Economy (page 22)
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CHAPTER 3: A State Stronger than Society (page 49)
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CHAPTER 4: Despotic Power--Total and Not Benevolent (page 101)
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CHAPTER 5: Total Terror--Total Submission--Total Loneliness (page 137)
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CHAPTER 6: The Core, the Margin, and the Submargin of Hydraulic Societies (page 161)
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CHAPTER 7: Patterns of Proprietary Complexity in Hydraulic Society (page 228)
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CHAPTER 8: Classes in Hydraulic Society (page 301)
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CHAPTER 9: The Rise and Fall of the Theory of the Asiatic Mode of Production (page 369)
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CHAPTER 10: Oriental Society in Transition (page 413)
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NOTES (page 451)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 491)
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GENERAL INDEX (page 531)
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INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS (page 550)