The Trucial Coast political reports 1958-1963 : the slow progress from pearls to oil / edited and commented by David Heard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heard, David (Petroleum engineer), editor.

Series:

Gulf studies.

Gulf studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited--History.

Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited.

Petroleum industry and trade--United Arab Emirates--History.

Petroleum industry and trade.

United Arab Emirates--Politics and government.

United Arab Emirates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.

Summary:

<i>The Trucial Coast Political Reports</i> are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.<br><br>These men regularly met to discuss and negotiate with the Rulers of the Trucial States - sometimes in a state of mutual incomprehension - the conditions under which the Company (Petroleum Development/Trucial Coast or PD/TC) would operate in their various territories.<br><br>Boundaries and frontiers marked out in the desert were as much a novelty to the Bedouin as the notions of royalties and depreciation were to the Rulers.<br><br>Men such as Bird, Codrai and Henderson learnt to understand, to some extent, the language and ways of the people of the Trucial Coast. They in turn had to contend with the ways of the legal, financial and business executives in London who tended to see affairs very differently.<br><br>It is thanks to these Company Representatives living on the Trucial Coast that the bulk of the Diaries was saved. It is due to the efforts of the London executives that much other material was lost in the name of economy of storage space.<br><br>These <i>Reports</i> record important events as well as the writer's observations. The editor has included some additional material from the PD/TC company files to present a more complete account.

Contents:

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).

Includes bibliograpical references (pages 273-277).

Other Format:

Print version: Heard, David The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1958-1963

ISBN:

9783959941396

OCLC:

1328132765