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Oriental despotism: a comparative study of total power
Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896-1988.
Year: 1957.
Publisher:  Yale University Press. 
© Karl August Wittfogel
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Frontmatter
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: The Natural Setting of Hydraulic Society
CHAPTER 2: Hydraulic Economy--a Managerial and Genuinely Political Economy
CHAPTER 3: A State Stronger than Society
CHAPTER 4: Despotic Power--Total and Not Benevolent
CHAPTER 5: Total Terror--Total Submission--Total Loneliness
CHAPTER 6: The Core, the Margin, and the Submargin of Hydraulic Societies
CHAPTER 7: Patterns of Proprietary Complexity in Hydraulic Society
CHAPTER 8: Classes in Hydraulic Society
CHAPTER 9: The Rise and Fall of the Theory of the Asiatic Mode of Production
CHAPTER 10: Oriental Society in Transition
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
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Title: Oriental despotism : a comparative study of total power by Karl A. Wittfogel.
Author: Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896-1988
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Source Version: Oriental despotism : a comparative study of total power by Karl A. Wittfogel. 
Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896-1988
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03224
Subject Headings: • Civilization, Oriental
• Irrigation
• Despotism
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