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9780791441688

All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democratic Prospects in the Middle Eastern Monarchies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791441688

  • ISBN10:

    0791441687

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-06-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

A new & provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Figures, Tables, and Charts
xi
Acknowledgments xv
A Note on T itles, Names, and Conventions xvii
Introduction
1(20)
The Emergence of Dynastic Monarchy and the Causes of Its Persistence
21(30)
Arabian Society and the Emergence of the Petro-State
51(16)
The Dynasties: The Al Sabah and the Al Saud
67(42)
The Dynasties: The Al Thani, Al Khalifa, Al Nahayan, Al Maktum, and Al Said
109(48)
Strategies of Regime and Opposition in the Dynastic Monarchies
157(26)
Libya and Afghanistan
183(26)
Five Nondynastic Monarchies
209(26)
Dynastic Monarchism and the Persistence of Hereditary Rule
235(20)
The Theory of the Rentier State and Constitutional Monarchy in the Middle East
255(14)
Notes 269(46)
Bibliography 315(20)
Index 335

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