Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Paperback - Laleh Khalili

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This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original el...

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International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they interact. This book examines how Port...

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