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Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf - Manama since 1800 (Paperback)
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Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf - Manama since 1800 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
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This book was first published in 2009. In this path-breaking and
multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the
Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life
of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in
Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and
community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban
development, politics and society before and after the discovery of
oil. By using a variety of local sources and oral histories,
Fuccaro questions the role played by the British Empire and oil in
state-making. Instead, she draws attention to urban residents,
elites and institutions as active participants in state and nation
building. She also examines how the city has continued to provide a
source of political, social and sectarian identity since the early
nineteenth century, challenging the view that the advent of oil and
modernity represented a radical break in the urban past of the
region.
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