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Oman Since 1856 /
Oman, a state in southeastern Arabia, is a prime example of a country that has not benefited greatly from modernization, but instead has fallen into economic and political insignificance as a result of economic and technological innovations introduced by the West. Prior to the nineteenth century Mr....
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J.
Princeton University Press
2016, [2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviated titles of Often-quoted works
- PART I. Introduction: Oman and the Old Order in the Persian Gulf
- 1. The Premodern Persian Gulf
- 2. Oman Before the Late Nineteenth Century
- PART II. The Impact of Early Economic and Technological Modernization
- 3. The Beginnings of Modernization in the Persian Gulf
- 4. Economic Change in Oman During the Late Nineteenth Century
- PART III. The Consolidation of British Political Paramountcy in Oman and the Persian Gulf
- 5. The Evolution of Indirect Rule, 1862-92
- 6. The Defense of British Predominance, 1892-1903
- PART IV. Oman's Political Accommodation to a New Age
- 7. Collapse of the Moderate Regime, 1856-71
- 8. Reconstruction of the Moderate Regime, 1871-1903
- 9. Epilogue: Oman in the Twentieth Century
- Bibliographical Notes
- Index