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Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

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 | #673265 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2010-11-08 |  2010-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.34 x1.02 x6.02l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A bit too nuanced, but ultimately informative|By SMS|This book does a good job of examining the dynamics of food and energy production, distribution, and control in the early part of its post oil history.|9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Stimulating but flawed|By G. J. Dowling|The attention this creative (and| |[A] provocative book...Desert Kingdom is a much needed addition to the small shelf of Saudi Arabian histories based on archival research and political economy rather than caricatures of oil wealth and the desert. The connection of geography to political

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 was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the moder...

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