"The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space-an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space...

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1. Verfasser:	Keshavarzian, Arang 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Worlding the Middle East
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800- Naher Osten Golfstaaten Geopolitics / Persian Gulf Region Globalization / Persian Gulf Region Persian Gulf Region / History Persian Gulf Region / Strategic aspects Géopolitique / Persique, Région du golfe Mondialisation / Persique, Région du golfe Persique, Région du golfe / Histoire Persique, Région du golfe / Aspect stratégique
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Zusammenfassung:	"The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space-an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings of the region over the last two centuries. Here, the Gulf comes into view as a created space, encompassing dynamic social relations and competing interests. Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Peninsula together within global processes. He connects moments more often treated as ruptures-the discovery of oil, the Iranian Revolution, the rise and decline of British empire, the emergence of American power-and crafts a narrative populated by a diverse range of people-migrants and ruling families, pearl-divers and star architects, striking taxi drivers and dethroned rulers, protectors of British India and stewards of globalized American universities. Tacking across geographic scales, Keshavarzian reveals how the Gulf has been globalized through transnational relations, regionalized as a geopolitical category, and cleaved along national divisions and social inequalities. When understood as a process, not an object, the Persian Gulf reveals much about how regions and the world have been made in modern times. Making Space for the Gulf offers a fresh understanding of this globally consequential place"--
Beschreibung:	XIII, 303 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9781503633346 9781503638877