Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Region: Fifty Years of Transformation

Frauke Heard-Bey

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1hj9wgd

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Edition: 1/2016
Copyright Year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-000-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-001-6
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 497
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1. 1 The Gulf States and Oman in Transition No access
2. 2 Social Changes in the Gulf States and Oman No access
3. 3 Inside Oman No access
4. 4 Oman Revisited No access
5. 5 The Role of Archives in Conjunction with Oral History No access
6. 6 A Journey into the Liwa No access
7. 7 Development Anomalies in the Beduin Oases of Al-Liwa No access
8. 8 Madīnat Zāyid – A Traditional Tribal Society in a New Oil-Age Town No access
9. 9 The Centre for Documentation and Research, CDR No access
10. 10 The Tribal Society of the UAE and its Traditional Economy No access
11. 11 The Beginning of the Post-Imperial Era for the Trucial Statesfrom World War I to the 1960s No access
12. 12 Abu Dhabi’s Greatest Ancestor: Shaikh Zayed bin Khalifah No access
13. 13 The Oil-Industry in Abu Dhabi: A Changing Role No access
14. 14 Changing Adaptions – Adapting to Change:The Architecture of the UAE. A Historical Backgroundto Traditional and Modern Living Conditions in the UAE No access
15. 15 Art in the United Arab Emirates No access
1. 16 Federation as a Political Process. The Case of the United Arab Emirates No access
2. 17 The United Arab Emirates. Twenty Years of Federation No access
3. 18 The Local Response to the Withdrawal from the Gulf andthe Formation of the United Arab Emirates No access
4. 19 The United Arab Emirates: Transition in a Federal State No access
5. 20 A Biography of Shaikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahayan,President of the United Arab Emirates No access
6. 21 The United Arab Emirates: Statehood and Nation-Buildingin a Traditional Society No access
7. 22 Hard Choices: The United Arab Emirates’ Developmentfrom Obscurity to Prominence No access
1. 23 The Gulf in the Twentieth Century No access
2. 24 Perceived and Real Challenges to theBritish Position in the Gulf No access
3. 25 Horses in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and theTrade with India: An Overview in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries No access
4. 26 Conflict Resolution and Regional Co-operation:The Role of the Gulf Co-operation Council 1981-2002 No access
5. 27 The Impact of Globalisation on Gulf Culture: An Insider’s View No access
6. 28 Ballot Boxes and Other Forms of Participationin Five Countries of the GCC No access
7. 29 Gulf Security in the Twenty-first Century No access
8. 30 Labour Migration and Culture: The Impact of Immigrationon the Culture of the Arab Societies in the Gulf No access
1. Chronology 1: Abu Dhabi, Trucial States and UAE No access
2. Chronology 2: The Gulf, GCC and the Middle East No access
Photographs No access Pages 476 - 486