Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf :

Fuccaro, Nelida.

Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf : Manama since 1800 / Nelida Fuccaro. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xvi, 257 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Cambridge Middle East studies ; 30 . - Cambridge Middle East studies ; 30. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and indexes.

Introduction -- Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602-1923 -- The making of Gulf port towns before oil -- Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s-1919 -- Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government -- 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere -- City and countryside in modern Bahrain.

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Port cities--History.--Bahrain--Manama
Port cities--History.--Middle East


Manama (Bahrain)--History.

DS247.2.M35 / F83 2009