Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Arabia Incognita: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies -- 2 The `Imama vs. the `Iqal: Hadari-Bedouin Conflict and the Formation of the Saudi State -- 3 Ecology, Knowledge, and Trade in Central Arabia (Najd) during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 4 Shifting Loyalties and Failed Empire: A New Look at the Social History of Late Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1918 -- 5 Leaving Only Question-Marks: Geographies of Rule in Modern Yemen -- 6 Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier -- 7 The Capture of Riyadh Revisited: Shaping Historical Imagination in Saudi Arabia -- 8 Struggles Over History and Identity: "Opening the Gates" of the Kingdom to Tourism -- 9 Evacuating Memory in Postrevolutionary Yemen -- 10 Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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