Jeremy Jones, Nicholas Ridout

A History of Modern Oman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from close analysis of Oman's politics and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781107402027
• ISBN-10: 1107402026
• Artikelnr.: 42801006

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Jones has an Oxford-based consulting business and has worked on Oman since the 1980s. His first book Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East anticipated the Arab Spring.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Oman and the Al Bu Said
2. Oman, Zanzibar and empire
3. Oman in the age of British ascendancy and the Arab nahda
4. The Sultanate as nation
5. Dhofar
6. Oil, government and security, 1955-80
7. Shura, diplomacy and economic liberalization, 1980-2000
8. Oman in the twenty-first century.