Oriental despotism
Subtitle: a comparative study of total power.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Notes: "The peculiar forms of Oriental despotism, not limited to the Orient, had their origin in societies where irrigation was a matter of life and death to the people and their crops,and control of the watercourses was in the hands of the ruler and his bureaucracy." Wrapper.