America's kingdom : Mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier / Robert Vitalis.

By:

Vitalis, Robert, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and culturesPublication details: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, c. 2007.Description: xxvii, 353 p., [ 7 ] p. of plates, ill., map; 24 cmISBN:

0804754462
9780804754460 (cloth : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

338.7665509538 VIT 22

LOC classification:

HD9576.S334 A738 2007

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- Eye of the desert -- El jefe rojo -- America's kingdom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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