Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) Book

Despite their small populations the Arab states of the Gulf exercise an enormous and global influence. In most academic literature however they are treated as if their only importance were as counters on a strategic game board. This book takes a quite different approach.Read More

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    By combining the views of anthropologists, political scientists and others, this book explores how the citizen populations of the Arab states of the Gulf define themselves in a wider context. The Gulf provides extreme examples, not only because these polities are so dependent on transnational flows of wealth and imagery, but because at home the citizen work-force is often out-numbered by migrant-labor. The resultant identity-construction embraces an acute yet singular nationalism.

  • 1850439710
  • 9781850439714
  • Paul Dresch, James P. Piscatori
  • 27 May 2005
  • I B Tauris & Co Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
  • illustrated edition
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