Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf
Subtitle: Manama since 1800
By: Nelida Fuccaro.
Series: Cambridge Middle East studies -- 30; Cambridge Middle East studies -- 30.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780521514354
Subjects: Port cities -- Bahrain -- Manama -- History; Port cities -- Middle East -- History; Manama (Bahrain) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602-1923; title: The making of Gulf port towns before oil; title: Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s-1919; title: Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government; title: 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere; title: City and countryside in modern Bahrain.