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Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents : From Pearls to Oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf (2 Volumes).
""Oil Men"" represents a unique resource for the student of the challenges, both physical and political, of oil prospecting in a region with no infrastructure and no formal boundaries between local power bases. The book charts the slow and unexpected transformation of the emirate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Gerlach Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Gulf studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Common Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Before and During the War Years; 1.1 Why is There so Much Oil in the United Arab Emirates?; 1.2 The Search for Oil; 1.3 The Red Line Agreement and the IPC, PCL and PD(TC); 1.4 A Summary of Events in the UAE up to 1939. The First Geologists; 1.5 The Concession Negotiators; 1.6 Lermitte, the PD(TC) New Man; 1.7 And His (Her) Majesty's Government (HMG); 1.8 What Was Lermitte Doing when, on 3 September 1939, War Broke out in Europe?
- 1.9 Lermitte Visited the Rulers1.10 A Concession for Fujairah?; 1.11 A Dramatic Turn of Events; 1.12 Every Inch to be Covered by a Concession; 1.13 There Appears to Have Been War Panic in London; 1.14 Williamson (Geologist) was Busy in London; 1.15 Preparing for Post-war Operations; 1.16 An American Visitor; 1.17 Longrigg Returns from the War; 1.18 The War is Over; 2 Don't Shoot the Geologist; 2.1 A Large Step Back in Time; 2.2. The Role of HMG; 2.3 The Trucial Oman Levies (Later Trucial Oman Scouts, TOS); 2.4 The IPC Office in London
- 2.5 Time for the Geologists to Return to the Trucial Coast2.6 But Wait: Mohamed Ali Huwaidin al Kitbi has Something to Say; 2.7 Jebel Faiyah at Last, or Not?; 2.8 Why Shoot at a Geologist?; 2.9 Geologists Resume Work at Faiyah; 2.10 Was it Much Ado About Nothing?; 2.11 Plans for 3 Geophysical Parties to Come to the Trucial Coast in Autumn 1946; 2.12 The First Geophysical Survey in the North of the Country; 2.13 Vehicles
- for the Sheikhs; 2.14 And Now We Shoot at the New Man
- Welcome to Abu Dhabi; 2.15 Back to the North Where No One Wants to Know the Ghafalah Tribe
- 2.16 The Surveyor, Fallon Does Not Find it Easy2.17 Would You Believe it?; 2.18 Another Season of Geophysical Surveys, also in Abu Dhabi Territory; 2.19 Jackson PD(TC) is Summoned by Sheikh Shakhbut; 3 Adventures in the Sultanate of Oman; 3.1 PD(TC) to Have a Man at Buraimi/Al 'Ain; 3.2 Bird is Engaged; 3.3 How did Bird Equip Himself for Such a Venture?; 3.4 Bird at Buraimi/Jahili. In Al 'Ain; 3.5 Bird's Second Trip to Buraimi/Jahili; 3.6 Sultan with Bird; 3.7 But Could the Sultan Deliver?; 3.8 Was Mr. W. Thesiger a Pest?; 3.9 Bird Goes to London; 3.10 The Sultan Asserts Himself
- 3.11 Bird Goes to Muscat Again3.12 The Geologist Survey
- for a Time; 3.13 A Re-appraisal; 3.14 Bird Back at Jahili; 4 Turbulent Times; 4.1 Poverty, Gossip and Intrigue; 4.2 Did the Company Help to Ease the Poverty?; 4.3 Now a Bit of Economics; 4.4 Longrigg Returns to Abu Dhabi After 10 Years; 4.5 Ra's al-Khaimah, PD(TC) and a New Ruler; 4.6 How to Make an Enemy of Your Neighbour
- by Harbouring His Enemies; 4.7 Dubai; 4.8 Abu Dhabi; 4.9 And How were Disputes Settled?; 4.10 Hamriyah Sheikh Says 'Me Too'; 4.11 More Surprises, from Abu Dhabi