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Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf : Manama since 1800 /
In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it add...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Middle East studies ;
30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil. By using a variety of local sources and oral histories, Fuccaro questions the role played by the British Empire and oil in state-making. Instead, she draws attention to urban residents, elites and institutions as active participants in state and nation building. She also examines how the city has continued to provide a source of political, social and sectarian identity since the early nineteenth century, challenging the view that the advent of oil and modernity represented a radical break in the urban past of the region. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780521514354 0521514355 9780511605123 0511605129 0511604483 9780511604485 0511603703 9780511603709 0511604823 9780511604829 0511602928 9780511602924 1282317822 9781282317826 9786612317828 6612317825 0511605420 9780511605420 1107190134 9781107190139 0511699301 9780511699306 9781107404441 1107404444 |