The Arabian Peninsula : Society and Politics

Hopwood, Derek ; editor :

Published by Allen and Unwin, London, 1972

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22x14cm, 320 pp., Series: Studies on Modern Asia and Africa, no. 8. Consists of 14 papers presented at a joint seminar of the University of London Centre of Middle Eastern Studies and the Oxford University Middle East Centre, 1968-69, and at a conference a the University of London, March, 1969. Includes: The Development of the Gulf States; Wahhabism & Saudi Arabia; The Origins of the Omani State; Maritime Trade & Imamate Government: Two Principal Themes in the History of Oman to 1728; A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics & Religion in Oman and Trucial Oman;The Arabian Peninsula in Arab & Power Politics; Britain, Iran & the Persian Gulf: Some Aspects of the Situation in the 1920s and 1930s; Some Social Aspects of the Trucial States; Measuring the Changing Family Consumption Patterns of Aramco's Saudi Arab Employees, 1962 and 1968; Education & the Press in South Arabia; etc. Minor wear. Name on flyleaf. VG., dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 028745

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Arabian Peninsula : Society and Politics

Publisher: Allen and Unwin, London

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: orig. boards

Illustrator: Textual map.