Desert Kingdom : How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia /
This is an environmental and political history of Saudi Arabia, revealing the power of the environment to shape and influence the political state. Jones traces the modernization of the Saudi state and its rich oil reserves that were developed with the help of U.S. expertise and a technocratic elite...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2011]
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. The Nature of the State
- 2. Imperial Geology
- 3. The Dogma of Development
- 4. Engineering the Garden
- 5. The Black Gold Coast
- 6. The Wages of Oil
- 7. Nature's Retreat
- Epilogue: House of Wisdom
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index