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100	1		_aArang Keshavarzian
245	1	0	_aMaking Space for the Gulf: _bHistories of Regionalism and the Middle East
260			_aStanford: _bStanford University Press, _c2024
300			_a303 p., _bill., maps; _c24 cm
490	0		_aWorlding the Middle East
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Region-Making across Scale and Time -- 1. Boundless Regionalism -- 2. Imperial Enclosure -- 3. Divided Sovereignties -- 4. Globalization's Seams -- Urbanism Rebounded -- Conclusion: Spatial Frictions
520			_a"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." --Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aGlobalization _zPersian Gulf Region
650		0	_aCapitalism _xPersian Gulf Region
650		0	_aPersian Gulf Region _xTransnational relations
650		0	_aPersian Gulf Region _xHistory
650		0	_aPersian Gulf Region _xSocial aspects
650		0	_aPersian Gulf Region _xGeopolitics
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