Kuwait by the First Photographers.
by FACEY, WILLIAM AND GILLIAN GRANT
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- ISBN 10
- 1860642713
- ISBN 13
- 9781860642715
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About This Item
London.: I.B.Tauris.. 1999.. Many stricking black and white photographic plates, 128pp, bibliography, index, hardback with dustjacket. Oblong quarto. This book "documents the period between 1900 and 1950, which saw Kuwait's emergence from a vunerable shaikhdom negotiating a precarious independece amongst neighbouring powers - the British in India and the Gulf, the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia, and the central Arabian chieftaincies of Ha'il and Riyadh - to a nation state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centering on pearling, fishing, boat-building and trade by land and sea, was swept away." Publisher's Description. .
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- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53789
- Title
- Kuwait by the First Photographers.
- Author
- FACEY, WILLIAM AND GILLIAN GRANT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860642713
- ISBN 13
- 9781860642715
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Keywords
- Boats, Fishing, History, Kuwait, Middle East, Photography, Trade, Tradition, zz_Gallery_NewBooks
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