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Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia / Rosie Bsheer.

By: Bsheer, Rosie [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and culturesPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020] Description: xxvi, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781503605183; 9781503612570Subject(s): Archives -- Saudi Arabia -- History | Historic preservation -- Saudi Arabia | Urban renewal -- Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia -- History -- Study and teaching | Saudi Arabia -- HistoriographyLOC classification: DS222.92 | .B74 2020
Contents:
The Archive Question -- Occluded Pasts : History and the Making of the Modern Saudi State -- A State with No Archive : Control Without Hegemony -- Amnesiac Nation : Assembling the Past in Post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as War : Secular Infrastructure and the Remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the Past : History, Modernity, and Urban Redevelopment in Mecca -- The Violence of History.
Summary: "This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index.

The Archive Question -- Occluded Pasts : History and the Making of the Modern Saudi State -- A State with No Archive : Control Without Hegemony -- Amnesiac Nation : Assembling the Past in Post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as War : Secular Infrastructure and the Remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the Past : History, Modernity, and Urban Redevelopment in Mecca -- The Violence of History.

"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"-- Provided by publisher.

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