Oriental despotism: a comparative study of total power
The natural setting of hydraulic society -- Hydraulic economy, a managerial and genuinely political economy -- A state stronger than society -- Despotic power, total and not benevolent -- Total terror, total submission, total loneliness -- The core, the margin, and the submargin of hydraulic societies -- Patterns of proprietary complexity in hydraulic society --Classes in hydraulic society -- The rise and fall of the theory of the Asiatic mode of production -- Oriental society in transition
