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America's Kingdom : Mythmaking on the Saudi oil Frontier / Robert Vitalis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Verso, c. 2009.Description: xxiiii, 353 p.: ill., map; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781844673131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7665509538  VIT 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9576.S334 A738 2007
Online resources:
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
NB - Book (Non borrowing) NB - Book (Non borrowing) Central Library First floor Baccah 338.7665509 VIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 000018303
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Index : p. 339-353.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 329-338.

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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