The Study of Oriental Despotisms as Systems of Total Power

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Review Article| May 01 1958

Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power

. By Karl A. Wittfogel.

New Haven

:

Yale University Press

,

1957

. xix,

556

. Notes, Bibliography, Indices. $7.50.

S. N. Eisenstadt

The Eliezer Kaplan School of Economics and Social Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

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