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‘Between the devil of the desert and the deep blue sea’ : re-orienting Kuwait, c.1900–1940
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Fletcher, Robert S. G. (2015) ‘Between the devil of the desert and the deep blue sea’ : re-orienting Kuwait, c.1900–1940. Journal of Historical Geography, 50 . pp. 51-65. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.020 ISSN 0305-7488.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.020
Abstract
This article examines the place of two environmental regimes – the desert and the sea – in the history of Kuwait before oil. Historians have long approached Kuwait through its maritime past, foregrounding its connections around the Persian Gulf and across the Indian Ocean. This article shifts the emphasis, arguing that in the early twentieth century Kuwait faced westwards across the desert as much as it did across the sea. It takes this possibility as an opportunity to revisit a set of assumptions about the shape of the pre-oil Kuwaiti economy, the structure of its politics, and the nature of its position within a wider British Empire. In all three, the interwar years in particular witnessed a loosening of Kuwait's maritime bonds and a turn to the desert: an orientation which helped the state survive the difficult years preceding the coming of oil revenues.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Historical Geography | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0305-7488 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 51-65 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.020 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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