Political Diaries of the Persian Gulf: 1951-54
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
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Political Diaries of the Persian Gulf: 1907
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
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Political Diaries of the Persian Gulf: 1904-06
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
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Kuwait Transformed
Author : Farah Al-Nakib
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0804798575
Book Description
As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open, tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a "right to the city"—the right of all inhabitants to shape and use the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.
Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics
Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429514085
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Persian Gulf politics, history, economics, and society. The volume begins its examination of Ottoman rule in the Arabian Peninsula, exploring other dimensions of the region’s history up until and after independence in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the book demonstrates how the Persian Gulf’s current, complex politics is a product of interwoven dynamics rooted in historical developments and memories, profound social, cultural, and economic changes underway since the 1980s and the 1990s, and inter-state and international relations among both regional actors and between them and the rest of the world. The book comprises a total of 36 individual chapters divided into the following six sections: Historical Context Society and Culture Economic Development Domestic Politics Regional Security Dynamics The Persian Gulf and the World Examining the Persian Gulf’s increasing importance in regional politics, diplomacy, economics, and security issues, the volume is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and policy makers interested in political science, history, Gulf studies, and the Middle East.
Building Sharjah
Author : Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035622779
Book Description
Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Author : W. Fain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2008-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0230613365
Book Description
This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.
Sources in British Political History 1900-1951
Author : P. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 1985-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134917825X
Book Description
Oil and Politics in the Gulf
Author : Jill Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521466356
Book Description
This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity.
Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951
Author : C. Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349155667
Book Description
From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Fiananced by the Social Science Research Council, and under the direction of Dr Chris Cook, this project has attempted a unique and systematic operation to locate, and then to make readily available, those archives that provide the indispensable source material for the contemporary historian. This volume (the fifth in the series) provides a guide to the papers of propagandists who were influential in British public life. Included in this volume are the papers of such persons as newspaper editors, leading economists, social reformers, socialist thinkers, trade unionists, industrialists and a variety of theologians and philanthropists. In all, this volume not only completes the findings of the project but opens up the archive sources of a hitherto neglected area of research into contemporary social and political history.
