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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacqueline S Ismael |
| ISBN: | 0813011868 9780813011868 |
| OCLC Number: | 26800682 |
| Description: | xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction ---- Part I. Pre-Oil Kuwait. 1. The Origins and Structural Development of Kuwait --- 2. British Gulf Policy and Kuwait in the Nineteenth Century --- 3. The Underdevelopment of Kuwait ---- Part II. Post-Oil Kuwait. 4. The New Integration: The Continuity of Dependency --- 5. The Transformation of Kuwait --- 6. The Politics of Stratification: Social Change and Social Control in the Welfare State --- 7. Kuwait: From Protectorate to Periphery --- 8. Post-Modern Kuwait: The Limits of Dependency ---- Appendix 1: The Law of Divers --- Appendix 2: Councils of Ministers of Kuwait, 1962 to 1981 --- Appendix 3: Text of Closing Statement Issued by the Kuwaiti National Congress, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, October 13-15, 1990 --- Appendix 4: Plan for the Creation of a National Front of Kuwaiti Political forces. |
| Responsibility: | Jacqueline S. Ismael. |
Abstract:
"Ismael covers first the period from the foundation of Kuwait in the early 18th century, when the land was inhabited by camel-breeding bedouins, to the beginning of oil exportation at the end of World War II. She describes its decline from a thriving center of maritime commerce to an impoverished pearling backwash by the end of the war. In the second part she addresses the postwar impact of oil wealth on Kuwait and examines resulting changes in Kuwaiti society. Describing transformations in the world oil economy in the 1980s, Ismael adds a new section to chronicle changes in the political economy of the Gulf that threatened the superstructure of the region (constituted of absolute monarchies in rentier states). She sees Iraq's invasion of Kuwait as part of the larger political reality in the Gulf: change in the region will be forestalled by Western industrial powers at any price. Maintenance of the status quo now is dependent on military force, not political processes, and overt repression increasingly will replace cooptation as the means of quieting any opposition." -- Publisher description.
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