Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf

Nelida Fuccaro is a Lecturer in the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Her previous publications include The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq (1999).

• List of abbreviations; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and terminology; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Indigenous state traditions and the dialectics of urbanisation in Bahrain, 1602–1923; 2. The making of Gulf port towns before oil; 3. Ordering space, politics and community in Manama, 1880s–1919; 4. Restructuring city and state: the municipality and local government; 5. 'Disorder', political sociability and the evolution of the urban public sphere; 6. City and countryside in modern Bahrain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of persons, tribes and families; Index of subjects; Index of places.

'This book on the modern history of one of the major port cities in the Persian Gulf is a major achievement and represents a milestone in the field. … The book is very rich in detail.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies