The Birth of Saudi Arabia

Britain and the Rise of the House of Sa'ud
1. Auflage 1976
ISBN: 978-0-7146-3062-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

First Published in 1976. Today the name Sa'udi Arabia evokes images of desert wastes, limitless reservoirs of oil and economic might. When one thinks of the predominant foreign power concerned with the desert kingdom, one thinks of the United States. Forty yean; ago, oil had yet to be discovered, ibn Sa 'ud had just unified the greater part of the Arabian Peninsula and Great Britain exercised paramount influence at the Sa'udi Court. This book deals with the drama of the immediate pre-oil era and sets the stage for the Sa'udi Arabia of today. The following pages examine in detail the unification of Arabia and British policy towards ibn Sa'ud during the early twentieth century when he laid the foundations of present-day Sa'udi Arabia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Troeller, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter I: Perspective Chapter II: The Pre-War Era: 1910 to 1914 Chapter III: Anglo-Sa'udi Relations during the First World War Chapter IV: The Khurma and the Turaba Dispute Chapter V: British Policy 1920 to 1922: Subsidies and Frontiers Chapter VII: The Wahhabi Capture of the Hedjaz and the Conclusioa of the Hadda aad Bahra Agreements

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Troeller Senior Anaryst, Batelle Institute, Frankfurt