TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Toby Craig
TI  - Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia 
SN  - 9780674049857
AV  - DS244.52 .J66 2010eb
U1  - 953.805 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Water
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. The Nature of the State --; 2. Imperial Geology --; 3. The Dogma of Development --; 4. Engineering the Garden --; 5. The Black Gold Coast --; 6. The Wages of Oil --; 7. Nature's Retreat --; Epilogue: House of Wisdom --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This is an environmental and political history of Saudi Arabia, revealing the power of the environment to shape and influence the political state. Jones traces the modernization of the Saudi state and its rich oil reserves that were developed with the help of U.S. expertise and a technocratic elite who managed not only the vast oil reserves and water supplies but also the growth of political institutions. From the time oil was discovered in the 1930s, its control has been at the center of Saudi political authority and of the modern state. In addition the state quickly learned to exploit access to water as a means of controlling the population. Jones demonstrates the power of the Saudi environment to influence its modern political institutions and ideologies over the last eighty years. It is a fascinating story that helps explain not only how the Saudi state was transformed but also how the U.S. was inextricably involved in its technological and political modernization from the beginning
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