Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia /

"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bsheer, Rosie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020.
Colección:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Temas:
Archives > Saudi Arabia > History.
Historic preservation > Saudi Arabia.
Urban renewal > Saudi Arabia.
Archives > Arabie saoudite > Histoire.
Préservation historique > Arabie saoudite.
Rénovation urbaine > Arabie saoudite.
HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula.
Archives.
Historic preservation.
Historiography.
Education.
Urban renewal.
Saudi Arabia > History > Study and teaching.
Saudi Arabia > Historiography.
Arabie saoudite > Histoire > Étude et enseignement.
Saudi Arabia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the archive question
  • Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state
  • A state with no archive : control without hegemony
  • Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia
  • Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh
  • Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca
  • Conclusion : the violence of history.

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