Despotism
121Westinghouse Time Capsules — Westinghouse s 1964 1965 World s Fair time capsule exhibit …
122Lincoln's first inaugural address — On Monday, March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was formally sworn in as the sixteenth President of the United States. As seven states had seceded from the United States by this time and formed the Confederate States of America (the new flag of the CSA …
123Nazism — National Socialism redirects here. For other ideologies and groups called National Socialism, see National Socialism (disambiguation). Nazi redirects here. For the Sumerian deity, see Nazi (god) …
124Karl August Wittfogel — (* 6. September 1896 in Woltersdorf, heute Landkreis Lüchow Dannenberg; † 25. Mai 1988 in New York, USA) war ein deutscher Soziologe und Sinologe. Er erhielt 1941 die US amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft. Einige seiner wichtigsten Bücher sind die… …
125Karl August Wittvogel — Karl August Wittfogel, né à Woltersdorf en Allemagne, le 6 septembre 1896 et mort à New York aux États Unis, le 25 mai 1988, est un historien de la Chine, qui fut communiste puis conservateur. Il est l auteur du Despotisme oriental, ouvrage qui a …
126Simon Burrows — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Burrows. Simon Burrows est un historien anglais, spécialiste d histoire culturelle et politique à l époque de la Révolution française (1760 1820). Ses travaux s intéressent à la bohème littéraire, aux relations… …
127democracy — /di mok reuh see/, n., pl. democracies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2. a state… …
128monarchy — /mon euhr kee/, n., pl. monarchies. 1. a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Cf. absolute monarchy, limited monarchy. 2. supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person. [1300 50; ME… …
