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Kuwait and the Sea: A Brief Social and Economic History
Yacoub Yusuf Al-Hijji
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| #3134538 in Books | Arabian Publishing Ltd | 2010-05-05 | 2010-05-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x1.10 x6.10l,1.37 | File type: PDF | 228 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Kuwait Before Oil|By Robert Lebling|We know the Kuwait that oil built, today's ultramodern "city state." But few of us know the Kuwait before oil: essentially a tiny, walled town called al-Qurain, surrounded by desert, bereft of natural resources, which turned to the sea and built a prospering economy based on the fruits of the Gulf and a long-distance maritime trade that exten||Kuwait and the Sea takes up an important position on the shelf of both Middle East and Indian Ocean historiography.' (Farah Al-Nakib The Middle East in London, Vol 19 1900-01-00)
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Though inhabited for millennia, Kuwait began to emerge as an Arab shaikhdom relatively late. Entering the historical record during the early 18th century as a junction of caravan and sea routes, it quickly grew to be a commercial rival to Basra at the head of the Gulf. As its prosperity increased, it had to negotiate a precarious autonomy amongst its larger neighbours - the Ottomans in Iraq, the Saudis and Rashidis in central Arabia, and the British who, from 1820, set a...
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