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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fromherz, Allen James.     Subjects     Khalīfah ibn Ḥamad Āl Thānī, Amir of Qatar, 1929-     Āl Thānī, Ḥamad ibn Khalīfah.     Petroleum industry and trade -- Qatar.     Gas industry -- Qatar.     Qatar -- History.     Qatar -- Economic conditions.     Qatar -- Politics and government.     Qatar -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.     Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Qatar.     Qatar -- Strategic aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fromherz, Allen James.       by title:      Qatar : a modern his...         MARC Display

Qatar : a modern history / Allen Fromherz. by Fromherz, Allen James. London ; New York : I.B.Tauris & Co. ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Subjects Khalīfah ibn Ḥamad Āl Thānī, Amir of Qatar, 1929-   Āl Thānī, Ḥamad ibn Khalīfah.   Petroleum industry and trade -- Qatar.   Gas industry -- Qatar.   Qatar -- History.   Qatar -- Economic conditions.   Qatar -- Politics and government.   Qatar -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.   Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Qatar.   Qatar -- Strategic aspects. ISBN:  9781589019102 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1589019105 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781848851672 1848851677 Description:  224 p. : 16pp integrated bw illustrations. Contents:  Qatar : a new model of modernity? -- Qatar : geography of a near frontier -- The origins of Qatar : between 'emergence' and 'creation' -- Creating social realities : Qatar and the British in the twentieth century -- Sheikh Khalifa and the enigma of independence -- Sheikh Hamad and the future of Qatar -- Qatar's political economy : a classic rentier state? -- The emir and the exercise of authority in Qatar. Requests:  0 Summary:  With the second greatest natural gas resources in the region, Qatar's economic clout is considerable. At the same time the Qatar story is replete with paradoxes: the state hosts the Al-Jazeera media network, an influential expression of Arab nationalism and anti-Americanism, while also hosting the principal US naval base in the region.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 953.63 Fr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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