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THE SPIRIT OF FEAR: ROME AND ABSOLUTISM
Heródoto, 2016 This article affirms that Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu produced a historical and political theory based on the history of Rome. The main focus of this text is the association contained in the idea of a similarity between the Roman Empire and ...
Adilton Luís Martins
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Goldsmith's cosmopolitanism [PDF]
, 2006 [First Paragraph] Although imaginary travelers and voyages date back at least as far as the work of Lucian, the figure of the fictional oriental traveler seems to belong primarily to the eighteenth century.
Watt, J
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Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England [PDF]
, 2014 Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually “despotic” towards the poor. Such assumptions are highly questionable:
Zhang, Taisu
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In View of European: Vision of the East in Abraham Anquetil-Duperron`s «Oriental Legislation»
Європейські історичні студії, 2019 XVII-XVIII centuries determined by further European inclination into the Eastern countries affair`s. Due to old custom and to enlarge European understanding of the East, a lot of travelers made their own accounts about nearly everything the saw.
Andrii Chalyi, Oleksandr Ivanov
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The Shelleys and the Idea of Europe [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores how the Shelleys and their circle configure ideas of “Europe” between January 1817 and March 1818. I begin with Frankenstein, discussing how Mary Shelley associates Frankenstein's experiment with the particularly “European” problem ...
Stock, Paul
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Principle of legality in Russian law of 16th and 17th century [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2018 This research concentrates on emergence and development of the principle of legality in the Russian law of 16th and 17th century. The paper begins with a review of the thesis that Russian state was an oriental despotism and denies even existence of an ...
Čvorović Zoran
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Det orientalske despotis afvikling i Montesquieus Lettres persanes
Sjuttonhundratal, 2014 Montesquieu’s Dismantlement of Oriental Despotism in Persian Letters. Montesquieu’s epistolary novel, Persian Letters, is often presented as a satire of the mores of the French under the reign of Louis XIV, and an early example of what became a well ...
Knut Ove Eliassen, Anne Fastrup
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Critical evaluation of the theory of Oriental Despotism; A historical approach to Iranian society [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللیExtended AbstractIntroduction: The oriental tyranny that Wittfogel envisions is the result of a mechanism that Marx and Engels called the “Asiatic mode of production.” The scarcity of water in the East makes its economical use inevitable, and to achieve ...
Ehsan Alini
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Validation of the Ttheory of "Oriental Ddespotism" in Uunderstanding Ssocial Ddevelopments in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2019 Many of the research works on the Iranian history and culture, while embracing the theory of Oriental Despotism, regard despotism as a feature of Iranian society, and they believe that during the history of Iran, the shadow of tyranny has always been ...
Muzaffar Namdar, Javad Nazarimoghaddam
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Collaborative and competitive strategies in the variability and resiliency of large-scale societies in Mesoamerica [PDF]
, 2018 Examinations of the variation and duration of past large-scale societies have long involved a conceptual struggle between efforts at generalization and the unraveling of specific trajectories. Although historical particulars are critical to understanding
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