000			02011cam a2200301 i 4500
008			191108s2020 cauab b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781503605183 _q(cloth)
020			_a9781503612570 _q(paperback)
020			_z9781503612587 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aDS222.92 _b.B74 2020
100	1		_aBsheer, Rosie, _eauthor. _916090
245	1	0	_aArchive wars : _bthe politics of history in Saudi Arabia / _cRosie Bsheer.
260			_aStanford, California : _bStanford University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axxvi, 379 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aStanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aArchives _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory. _916091
650		0	_aHistoric preservation _zSaudi Arabia. _93390
650		0	_aUrban renewal _zSaudi Arabia. _916092
651		0	_aSaudi Arabia _xHistory _xStudy and teaching. _916093
651		0	_aSaudi Arabia _xHistoriography. _916094
830		0	_aStanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. _911
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