Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era Pbdirect - Regime and Elites; Conflict and Collaboration

Summary

Saudi Arabia has undergone a rapid social and economic transformation. When Ibn Saud declared the nation a unified kingdom in 1932, the majority of its population was nomadic and lived in a state of poverty or semi-poverty. Now the processes of modernisation, financed by the exploitation of the country?s vast oil reserves, have produced a prospe

Product details

• Authors: Mordechai Abir, Abir Mordechai
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9781138846333
• ISBN: 978-1-138-84633-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, Social and ethical issues, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)