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Drawing Boundaries : Oil, Empire, and the Making of the Emirati State.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Open, Path to.
- Series:
- Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Arab Emirates--Boundaries--History.
- United Arab Emirates.
- United Arab Emirates--Politics and government.
- United Arab Emirates--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--United Arab Emirates.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The boundaries between the seven constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates form one of the most complex territorial landscapes in the Middle East that is marked simultaneously by striking fragmentation on the map and inconspicuousness on the ground.Niklas A.
- Contents:
- Autochthonous Territorial Control
- The Long Road to Boundary-Making
- "The Sword of Solomon" : British Boundary Delimitation
- "The Trend of History" : The Emergence of the Inter-Emirate Borders
- A Period of Transitions : Boundaries and the Formation of the UAE
- The Inter-Emirate Boundaries as Federal Boundaries.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-5751-X
- 9780815657514
- OCLC:
- 1572094403
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