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Desert kingdom : how oil and water forged modern Saudi Arabia / Toby Craig Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Toby Craig, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy.
- History.
- Water--Government policy.
- Water.
- Water resources development--Government policy.
- Natural resources--Government policy.
- Natural resources.
- Politics and government.
- Saudi Arabia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Natural resources--Government policy--Saudi Arabia--History--20th century.
- Water resources development--Government policy--Saudi Arabia--History--20th century.
- Water resources development.
- Water--Government policy--Saudi Arabia--History--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy--Saudi Arabia--History--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- The nature of the state
- Imperial geology
- The dogma of development
- Engineering the garden
- The black gold coast
- The wages of oil
- Nature's retreat.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674049857
- 0674049853
- OCLC:
- 555658501
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