General Information

Author/Creator

Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896-1988.

Language

English.

Published

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1957.

Physical Description

xix, 556 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Despotism.

Civilization, Oriental.

Irrigation.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Karl A. Wittfogel.

Content

1. The natural setting of hydraulic society -- 2. Hydraulic economy - a managerial and genuinely political economy -- 3. A state stronger than society -- 4. Despotic power - total and not benevolent -- 5. Total terror - total submission - total loneliness -- 6. The core, the margin, and the submargin of hydraulic societies -- 7. Patterns of proprietory complexity in hydraulic society -- 8. Classes in hydraulic society -- 9. The rise and fall of the theory of the Asiatic mode of production -- 10. Oriental society in transition.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	321.6 WIT		OSA Repository	-

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