Fuccaro, Nelida

Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf : Manama since 1800 Nelida Fuccaro - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009 - xvi, 257 p. : ill., maps 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and indexes. Introduction -- Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602-1923 -- The making of Gulf port towns before oil -- Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s-1919 -- Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government -- 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere -- City and countryside in modern Bahrain

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Manama (Bahrain) - History
Port cities - Bahrain - Manama - History
Port cities - Middle East - History

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