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" Spatial Transformations and the Emergence of 'the National': Infrastructures and the Formation of the United Arab Emirates, 1950-1980 "
Matthew MacLean
Keshavarzian, Arang
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804678
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TL49513
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1941431480; 10260060
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Khalifeh Soltani, Ebrahim
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Spatial Transformations and the Emergence of 'the National': Infrastructures and the Formation of the United Arab Emirates, 1950-1980\ Matthew MacLeanKeshavarzian, Arang
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New York University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History
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2017
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410
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Committee members: Jones, Toby C.; Lockman, Zachary; Ludden, David; Pursley, Sara
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-12790-4
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This dissertation explores the emergence of “the national” as a spatial category in the context of three major transformations in the mid- to late twentieth century United Arab Emirates (UAE) – first, increasing integration of the lower Gulf region into circuits of capitalism as a result of oil production; second, the intensification of relationships with the Arab Middle East and restructuring of Gulf-Indian Ocean connections in an era of decolonization; and third, the decline of a highly decentralized mid-20<sup> th</sup> century political economy in which exchange was governed by communal and moral relations and its replacement by a more capitalist mode of economic life in the course of the 1960s and 1970s. A focus on Ras al-Khaimah, normally considered a peripheral location, highlights the contestations, spatial inequalities, and oppositional politics that characterized the development process in the Trucial States and early UAE.
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Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies
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Social sciences;Development;Infrastructure;Nationalism;Spatial history;State formation;United arab emirates
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Keshavarzian, Arang
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and HistoryNew York University
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