Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Region fifty years of transformation

The unexpected decision of the British Government in January 1968 to withdraw its military and diplomatic protection from the Gulf catapulted the region into the limelight. For the following five decades the historian Dr. Frauke Heard-Bey was best placed to observe subsequent developments in the Gul...

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Main Author: Heard-Bey, Frauke (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Germany Gerlach Press 2017
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Call Number :DS 326 .H43 2017

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520 |a The unexpected decision of the British Government in January 1968 to withdraw its military and diplomatic protection from the Gulf catapulted the region into the limelight. For the following five decades the historian Dr. Frauke Heard-Bey was best placed to observe subsequent developments in the Gulf, having joined her husband David, a petroleum engineer, in Abu Dhabi in 1967. The results of much of this work (which rely little on secondary sources) are collected in this volume, parts of which have been printed in hard-to access journals, while others are published here for the first time. 
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