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050	0	0	_aDS244.52 _b.J66 2010
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100	1		_aJones, Toby Craig, _d1972- _994688
245	1	0	_aDesert kingdom : _bhow oil and water forged modern Saudi Arabia / _cToby Craig Jones.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2010.
300			_a312 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe nature of the state -- Imperial geology -- The dogma of development -- Engineering the garden -- The black gold coast -- The wages of oil -- Nature's retreat.
520	1		_a"Oil And Water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil's abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom's ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it teas through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged." "The central government's power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution." "Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi stare. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert."--BOOK JACKET.
651		0	_aSaudi Arabia _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _994689
650		0	_aNatural resources _xGovernment policy _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory _y20th century. _994691
650		0	_aWater resources development _xGovernment policy _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory _y20th century. _994694
650		0	_aWater _xGovernment policy _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory _y20th century. _994695
650		0	_aPetroleum industry and trade _xGovernment policy _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory _y20th century. _994698
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