1st Edition
The Birth of Saudi Arabia Britain and the Rise of the House of Sa'ud
By Gary Troeller
Copyright 1976
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Gary Troeller Senior Anaryst, Batelle Institute, Frankfurt
