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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? 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 Difficult To Define. It Considers The Concentration Of Power In The Hands Of Single Rulers, But This Study Also Demonstrates That The Exercise Of Power Is Often Conditioned By Ideological Factors. Leadership And Autocracy -- Despotism, Tyranny And Totalitarianism (excursus 1: Alexander, One Man's Despotism) -- 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 Ptolemies -- Depredatory Despotism: Timur The Tartar -- Constitutional De

Author

Eric Carlton

Publisher

Aldershot, England: Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate Pub. Co.

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781859280454

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences