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Desert kingdom : how oil and water forged modern Saudi Arabia / Toby Craig Jones.

LIBRA DS244.52 .J66 2010
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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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