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Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf
Manama since 1800

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Part of Cambridge Middle East Studies

  • Date Published: May 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107404441

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  • 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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    'This book on the modern history of one of the major port cities in the Persian Gulf is a major achievement and represents a milestone in the field. … The book is very rich in detail.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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    • Date Published: May 2012
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107404441
    • length: 278 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.38kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    List of abbreviations
    List of maps
    Acknowledgements
    Note on transliteration and terminology
    Glossary
    List of abbreviations
    Introduction
    1. Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602–1923
    2. The making of Gulf port towns before oil
    3. Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s–1919
    4. Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government
    5. 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere
    6. City and countryside in modern Bahrain
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index of persons, tribes and families
    Index of subjects
    Index of places.

  • Author

    Nelida Fuccaro, University of London

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