Faces of despotism

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Faces of despotism

Eric Carlton

Scolar Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

What exactly is despotism? Is it the same as tyranny? And in what ways is either of these related to dictatorship? Despots are, by definition, leaders, but are leaders 'born', or is leadership a function of particular types of situation? In other words, is despotism conditioned by its social context, and are the circumstances in which it is generated different from those which serve to maintain it? These are some of the issues which are taken up in this text. Not that there are any final answers. But it is hoped that readers will find the ensuing discussion stimulating and informative. This study is both historical and comparative, and ranges over a wide spectrum of societies. The analysis aims to show that although different manifestations of despotism have much in common, it is actually no one kind of a thing. It is essentially about the concentration of power in the hands of single rulers, but this study also demonstrates that the actual exercise of power is often conditioned by ideological factors.

目次

  • Contents: Leadership and Autocracy
  • Despotism, Tyranny and Totalitarianism
  • Primitive Despotism: African Tribal Society
  • Despotism in Archaic Society: the Egyptian Old Kingdom
  • Oriental Despotism: Early Unified China
  • Despotism in Classical Society
  • Dynastic Despotism: the Ptalemies
  • Depredatory Despotism: Timur the Tartar
  • Constitutional Despotism: Henry VIII
  • Absolute Despotism: Ivan the Terrible and Louis XIV
  • Ecclesiastical Despotism: the Borgias
  • Enlightened Despotism: an 18th -century European Phenomenon
  • Revolutionary Despotism: the French Revolution and its Aftermath
  • 'Proletarian' Despotism: Stalin and the Great Terror
  • Populist Despotism: Peron of Argentina
  • Religious Despotism: Messianism and Fundamentalist Islam
  • Military Despotism: Uganda and the Rule of Idi Amin
  • Syndicate Despotism: the Mafia
  • Delegated Despotism: Hans Frank and the Government-General in Poland
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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