Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East

by Arang Keshavarzian

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638871
• ISBN13: 9781503638877
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"