TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Toby Craig TI - Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia SN - 9780674059405 AV - DS244 U1 - 953.805 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Natural resources-Government policy-Saudi Arabia-History-20th century KW - Water resources development-Government policy-Saudi Arabia-History-20th century KW - Water-Government policy-Saudi Arabia-History-20th century KW - Petroleum industry and trade-Government policy-Saudi Arabia-History-20th century KW - Saudi Arabia-Politics and government-20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- 1. The Nature of the State -- 2. Imperial Geology -- 3. The Dogma of Development -- 4. Engineering the Garden -- 5. The Black Gold Coast -- 6. The Wages of Oil -- 7. Nature's Retreat -- Epilogue: House of Wisdom -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "Desert Kingdom" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300883 ER -