The political transformation of Gulf tribal states : elitism and the social contract in Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai, 1918-1970s /: elitism and the social contract in Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai, 1918-1970s. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shaul Yanai.
• Authors: Yanai, Shaul
• Contents: Front Cover; About the Book & About the Author; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Prof. Uzi Rabi; Preface; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I: From Chiefdoms to Tribal States: Kuwait, Bahrain, and Dubai until 1930; Introduction to PartI; Chapter 1: Foundations of the Tribal State; Tribal Society in Transition; Kuwait: The Essence of a Tribal Merchant State; Bahrain: Tribal-State Relations; Dubai: Chiefdom and State; Summary; Chapter 2: Relations between Merchant Elites and Ruling Families: From the late Nineteenth Century to the Early 1920s. The Roots of Political Rivalry between the Elites and Ruling FamiliesKuwait: Sources of Utub Elite Power; Undermining the Status of the Utub Elite; Bahrain: Tribal Elite-State Conflict; Dubai: The al-Maktoum Family and the Tribal Elite; Summary; Chapter 3: The Rise of the Tribal State in the 1920s; Kuwait: The 1921 Majlis; The Elite between Crisis and Reform; Bahrain: Institutionalization of the Tribal State; Uprising of the Tribal Elite; Dubai: Preservation of the Tribal State; Schism and Crisis in the al-Maktoum Family; Summary of Part I. Part II: The Change in Tribal Policy: The Period of Centralism and Parliamentarianism, 1930-1938Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4: Modernization, Tradition and the Utub Elite in Kuwait; The Concentration of Power: Sheikh Ahmad al-Sabah; The Demand for Reforms in the Second Half of the 1930s; Sheikh Ahmad al-Sabah's Foreign Policy; The Reform Movement of 1938; Chapter 5: Dubai: Tradition and Modernization; Attempts at Regime Change; The Weakening of the Tribal Elite; Dubai's Reform Movement of 1938; Chapter 6: Bahrain: Modernization of the Tribal State in the 1930s. Building State InstitutionsThe Shiite Reform Movement of 1935; The Reform Movement of 1938; Britain and the Reform Movement of 1938; The Failure of the 1938 Reform Movement; Summary of Part II; Part III: Parliamentarianism and Tribalism: The Crisis Years, 1938-1940; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 7: Kuwait's Legislative Council, 1938-1939; The Struggle over the Legislative Council's Powers; Modernization of the Tribal State; Opposition to the Legislative Council; Dissolution of the Legislative Council; Election of the Second Legislative Council and Debate over its Powers. The Failure of the Kuwaiti Constitutional CouncilChapter 8: Dubai's Legislative Council, 1938-1940; Institutionalization of the Tribal State; The Power Struggle between the Legislative Council and Sheikh Sa'id al-Maktoum; The Violent Dissolution of the Legislative Council; Explaining the Legislative Council's Failure; Part IV: Parliamentarianism in the Age of Independence; Introduction to Part IV; Chapter 9: The Development of a New Political Culture; Conflicts within the Kuwaiti al-Sabah Family Prior to Independence; A New Political Culture in the al-Sabah family.
• Publisher Details: Sussex, England : Sussex Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (351 pages)
• Subjects: 953.6; Social change -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 20th century; Political culture -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 20th century; Tribal government -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 20th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 20th century; Social contract -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY -- Middle East -- General; Elite (Social sciences); Political culture; Politics and government; Social change; Social contract; Tribal government; Persian Gulf States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Kuwait -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Bahrain -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Bahrain; Kuwait; Middle East -- Persian Gulf States; United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate); History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782841807; 1782841806; 9781782841784; 1782841784
• Related ISBNs: 1845196155; 1782841784; 1782841792; 9781782841791; 9781845196158
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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