The yellow or bronze racial color is the hallmark of Oriental despotisms.
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It was a polemic defending Hastings against the Edmund Burke line, citing oriental despotism, Montesquieu and Edward Gibbon.
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Aron refers to Karl August Wittfogel's work " Oriental despotism : a comparative study of total power " ".
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On Friday, Ioseliani lashed out at Shevardnadze, accusing him of seeking to " introduce his own version of oriental despotism ."
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Wittfogel is best known for his monumental work " Oriental Despotism : A Comparative Study of Total Power ", first published in 1957.
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"In all honesty, we must admit that we are still struggling to eradicate the vestiges of the so-called Oriental despotism, " he said.
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Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a " hydraulic bureaucracy " nor an oriental despotism, but rather, an organized spectacle.
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The term was coined by the German American historian Karl August Wittfogel ( 1896 1988 ), in his book " Oriental Despotism " ( 1957 ).
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In Geertz's original usage, the concept of the theatre state contests the notion that precolonial society can be analysed in the conventional discourse of Oriental despotism.
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Later in West Germany, Bahro said that the theoretical bases for " The Alternative " were Karl August Wittfogel's " Oriental Despotism " and earlier Marxist works.