Montesquieu
In Our Time
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The Origins of Despotism
Mesquieu's vision of oriental despotism simply had no attraction really, that he depended on travel literature. But as soon as east indio company officials found themselves based from the 17 fifties onwards, in places like bengal therefore more deeply understanding its history and constitutional make up, they began to see montesquieu was inapplicable. And they hade to basically reconstruct from the ground up how the thing actually worked. So that seems to me an interesting chapter in the history of his reception. Yes, we've talked about a lot of continuities, but actually the place of history in the in political science is something that that obsettes mont
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