All in the family absolutism, revolution, and democracy in the Middle Eastern monarchies - Herb, Michael (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index
Figures Tables, and Charts - xi -- - A Note on Titles, Names, and Conventions - xvii -- - 2 - The Emergence of Dynastic Monarchy and the Causes of Its Persistence - 21 -- - 4 - The Dynasties: The Al Sabah and the Al Saud - 67 -- - 5 - The Dynasties: The Al Thani, Al Khalifa, Al Nahayan, Al Maktum, and Al Said - 109 -- - 6 - Strategies of Regime and Opposition in the Dynastic Monarchies - 157 -- - 7 - Libya and Afghanistan - 183 -- - 8 - Five Nondynastic Monarchies - 209 -- - 9 - Dynastic Monarchism and the Persistence of Hereditary Rule - 235 -- - 10 - The Theory of the Rentier State and Constitutional Monarchy in the Middle East - 255