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  • Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulfby Simon C. Smith

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 178.00

    This book examines the decision-making process which underpinned this reversal and considers the interaction between British decision-making, and local responses and initiatives, in shaping the modern Gulf. more...

  • Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulfby Madawi Al-Rasheed

    Routledge 2004; US$ 160.00

    This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon. more...

  • Ruling Shaikhs and Her Majesty's Government, 1960-1969by Miriam Joyce

    Frank Cass 2003; US$ 184.00

    This volume discusses the evolution of the British-protected Gulf states during the 1960s and explains how these small Shaikhdoms moved towards independence. more...

  • The History of Aden, 1839-72by Z.H. Kour

    Frank Cass 1980; US$ 160.00

    The growth of the settlement; trade; the administration; Sultan Muhsin; Sultan 'Ali; Sultan Fadl; appendix - Rassam. more...

  • A Survey of the Islamic Sites Near Aden and in the Abyan District of Yemenby G. R. D. King; Cristina Tonghini

    Routledge 1996; US$ 140.00

    This volume provides a brief historical and geographical background to the district of Abyan in the Yemen, followed by a description of the sites identified during the 1994 excavations of sites from the Islamic period carried out by a team from the School of Oriental and African Studies. more...

  • The Graves of Tarimby Engseng Ho

    University of California Press 2006; US$ 17.56

    The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges?in kinship and writing?that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies... more...

  • Kuwait Amid War, Peace and Revolutionby Lori Plotkin Boghardt

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 95.00

    Explores Kuwaiti internal security challenges including terrorism, sabotage and subversion, and examines policy responses such as mass deportations and special security trials. This study details how turmoil in neighbouring states, and ethnic and religious tensions inside Kuwait, shape Kuwait's threat environment. more...

  • The Siege of Meccaby Yaroslav Trofimov

    Knopf Publishing Group 2008; US$ 11.99

    In The Siege of Mecca , acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilling, pivotal, and overlooked episode of modern history, examining its repercussions on the Middle East and the world.On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. That same morning, gunmen stunned the world by seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca, creating a siege that trapped 100,000 people and lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths. But in the days before CNN and Al Jazeera, the press barely took notice. Trofimov interviews for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, and draws upon hundreds... more...

  • Bahrainby Carol Ann Gillespie

    Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 30.00

    Discusses the geography, history, people, culture, economy, and future of Bahrain. more...

  • Kuwaitby Soloman A. Isiorho

    Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 30.00

    - Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries more...