Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf

Manama since 1800

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Nelida Fuccaro

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Cambridge Middle East Studies

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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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Nelida Fuccaro is a Lecturer in the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Her previous publications include The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq (1999).

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September 3rd, 2009

Author

Nelida Fuccaro

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

276

Series

Cambridge Middle East Studies

Dimensions

160x235x18

ISBN-13

9780521514354

Product ID

3651292

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