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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj : merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf /
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites. - ;The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain's relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxv, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-337) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191527852 0191527858 9780199228102 0199228108 9786611150129 6611150129 1281150126 9781281150127 0191607762 9780191607769 |