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1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge Middle East Studies, 30 |
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Cambridge Middle East Studies, 30
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and terminology; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; Why cities and urban history?; Histories of city and state in Manama; 1 Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602-1923; Safavid Bahrain; Piety, popular Shi'ism and the collapse of the 'Islands of Paradise'; Upheaval from the sands: the tribal 'revolution'; Urban and rural spheres in the Al Khalifah era; Built environments and spaces of socialisation; Conclusion |
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2 The making of Gulf port towns before oilGulf ports as 'native' towns; The regional context: the long eighteenth century and the Pax Britannica; Of tribes, pearls and empire: directives of urbanisation; Merchants, tribal rulers and urban economies; Manama, Bahrain: the town of foreigners; Conclusion: unity and diversity in the evolution of port polities; 3 Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s-1919; Trade and politics: the harbour; The markets; Mapping the marketplace; Merchants and rulers: coercion, taxation and the politics of real estate; Urban quarters |
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Merchants as urban leadersImmigrants and the politics of patronage; Religious sentiment, patronage and public architecture; The houses of mourning and the organisation of sect; Conclusion; 4 Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government; The age of reform; The changing rhetoric of empire; Imperial intervention and state building before oil: the baladiyyah and the law; The collapse of pearling and the chain of debt, 1927-35; Recreating the merchant class in the oil era; Inside the majlis: old notables as new councillors; The making of municipal markets; The import markets |
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Contest over the local marketsElections and the market place: urban conservatism, nationalist politics and the collapse of the municipal regime; Conclusion; 5 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere; Communal violence and 'foreigners', 1900-23; The baladiyyah affair: the emergence of Arab sentiment; The pearling riots: challenging old and new orders; 'Ashura' as a public performance; Ritual behaviour and communal hierarchies; Muharram and the state; Fitnah al-Muharram, September 1953; Urban and national politics as a 'mass subject', 1932-5761 |
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The emergence of a new nationalist class in the interwar periodThe making of a new public opinion; al-Ha'yah: organising popular militancy, 1954-6; The limits of national space; Conclusion; 6 City and countryside in modern Bahrain; Organising Manama as a modern capital; Mapping state intervention: the port and the inner city; Urban expansion and the land regime; Immigrants, nationality and land; 'Rationalising' the rural world: the politics of land; The decline of agriculture and the ideology of rural resistance; Conclusion; Conclusion; Challenging the received wisdom on the Gulf |
| Summary |
An examination of the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, exemplified by Manama in Bahrain |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Port cities -- Bahrain -- Manama -- History
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Port cities -- Middle East -- History
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Port cities
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| SUBJECT |
Manama (Bahrain) -- History
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Bahrain -- Manama
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511604485 |
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0511604483 |
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