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Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era Pbdirect - Regime and Elites; Conflict and Collaboration (Hardcover)
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Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era Pbdirect - Regime and Elites; Conflict and Collaboration (Hardcover)
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Saudi Arabia has undergone a rapid social and economic
transformation. When Ibn Saud declared the nation a unified kingdom
in 1932, the majority of its population was nomadic and lived in a
state of poverty or semi-poverty. Now the processes of
modernisation, financed by the exploitation of the country's vast
oil reserves, have produced a prosperous and predominantly urban
population. However, this social change has not been without its
tensions; the emergence of a rising middle class has called into
question the monopoly of power of the House of Saud, its
involvement in the kingdom's economy and its oil and foreign
policy, while the rapid urbanisation of the rural population has
eroded the traditional social structures and has not solved, but in
some cases promoted, social division. This book, first published in
1988, explores the recent history of the Saudi oil state in an
analysis of the struggle for social and political power in modern
Saudi Arabia.
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