Introduction : the archive question -- Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state -- A state with no archive : control without hegemony -- Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca -- Conclusion : the violence of history
Summary
"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (De Gruyter, viewed March 31, 2022)
