Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture.

orig.cloth Small label on dust wrapper, minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper 23x15cm, xviii, 274 pp Contains 9 papers. Includes: E. Davis "Theorizing Statecraft and Social Change in Arab Oil-Producing Countries"; K.H. al-Naqeeb "Social Origins of the Authoritarian State in the Arab East"; L. Anderson "Legitimacy, Identity, and the Writing of History in Libya"; A. Dessouki "Social and Political Dimensions of the Historiography of the Arab Gulf"; E. Davis & N.Gavrielides "Statecraft, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture in Iraq and Kuwait"; N. al-Falah "Power and Representation: Social Change, Gender Relations, and the Education of Women in Kuwait"; M.R. al-Najjar " Contemporary Trends in the Study of Folklore in the Arab Gulf States"; M.J.al-Musawi "The Sociopolitical Contexts of the Iraqi Short Story, 1908-1968 "; A. Mortad "Economic Relations among Social Classes in Algerian Proverbs" . Small label on dust wrapper, minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.