Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1850439710
ISBN 13
9781850439714
Category
Common Room
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Nationalism -- Persian Gulf States; National characteristics, Arab; Nationalism; Middle East -- Persian Gulf States; Monarchies.
Abstract
"Despite their small populations, the Arab states of the Gulf exercise an enormous and global influence. In most academic literature, however they are treated as it their only importance were as counters on a strategic game board, and most literature about them deals in simple models of oil, wealth and power. This book takes a quite different approach. By combining the interests of anthropologists, political scientists and others, it explores how the citizen populations of these states define themselves in a wider context."--Jacket.
Number of Copies
1
