8vo. 242 pp., numerous tables & figures, cloth in d/w, biblio, index, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & lower cover, Croom Helm, London, 1980.

Synopsis

The focus in this book is on the Arab Gulf region as an area with its own problems of social, economic and political development. It examines the dimensions of the attempts by the governments and people of the area to create new social, economic and political structures stemming from their new-found oil wealth.