The Origins of Kuwait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of Kuwait write by B. Slot. This book was released on 1991. The Origins of Kuwait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the discovery of the worlds third largest oil reserves within its borders, Kuwait has achieved international political prominence far exceeding its physical size. The country had already played a role in history before, however. Local sources take that history back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The present book takes the history of Kuwait still further back using European sources. It includes analyses and comparisons of indications on maps from the sixteenth century onwards and of references to the Kuwait area in documents produced by officials of the Dutch East India Company-the principal Western political and economic power in the Gulf during most of early modern times-, in British documents and in early travel accounts. The book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the political position of Kuwait in history vis-a-vis its neighbours, especially the Ottoman authorities in Basra.
The Kuwait Crisis
The Kuwait Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kuwait Crisis write by E. Lauterpacht. This book was released on 1991. The Kuwait Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of documents relates to the legal aspects of the international crisis arising out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1996.
The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait
The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait write by Yaʻqūb Yūsuf Ḥijjī. This book was released on 2001. The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ever since Kuwait emerged in the 18th century as a young maritime state with an extreme dependence on the sea, it has been renowned for the consummate skills of its sailors and dhow-builders. Kuwait's shipwrights became justly famed for the beauty, seaworthiness and practicality of their vessels, and the Kuwaiti boum became a symbol of Kuwait's maritime prowess on all the dhow routes linking Arabia, Iran, India and East Africa. This book describes in detail how Kuwaiti shipwrights built their vessels, in particular the boum .As with dhows everywhere, this was done entirely by hand and eye, without drawings of any kind. There are chapters on celebrated master builders and famous dhows, on sails, rigging and launching, and on tools and timber. There is also an extensive glossary of Kuwaiti nautical terms. Today the era of Kuwait's sailing dhows is long gone. In The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait Dr Ya'qub Al-Hijji, himself a Kuwaiti maritime historian, provides a timely memorial of the craft industry which sustained this unique maritime nation. It is lavishly illustrated with drawings, colour photographs and remarkable old black-and-white images.The latter, from the first half of the 20th century, include many by Alan Villiers, and form an eloquent pictorial elegy on the passing of a great maritime tradition.
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait write by Hamdi Hassan. This book was released on 1999-09-20. The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
Kuwait's Politics Before Independence
Kuwait's Politics Before Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kuwait's Politics Before Independence write by Abdulrahman Alebrahim. This book was released on 2019-09. Kuwait's Politics Before Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book re-examines the historiography of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing scholarship on the subject has several shortcomings due to the lack of consideration given to the role played by some important social forces in the Kuwaiti political scene. Most historians working on Kuwait's modern politics have focussed on two forces: the ruling family and the merchants. Although these two actors have undeniably been the most influential, other segments of society, such as the labour force, the villagers, the intelligentsia and the religious scholars, should not be overlooked. These forces have had a decisive impact, with varying levels of influence across time, on the balance of power in Kuwait. This book generates new insights by considering the role of these balancing forces in influencing the struggle between the sheikhs and the merchants over the nature of the political system in Kuwait between 1921 and 1962.
