Arabia without Sultans

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Author's Preface......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Contents......Page 10 Part One Peninsular Politics......Page 16 Introduction The Revolutionary Movement in Arabia......Page 18 1. Society and History in the Arabian Peninsula......Page 34 2. Saudi Arabia: Bonanza and Repression......Page 48 Part Two North Yemen......Page 80 3. The Imamate and Its Contradictions......Page 82 4. Civil War and Counter-Revolution......Page 102 5. The Counter-Revolutionary State......Page 132 Part Three South Yemen......Page 152 6. South Yemen Under British Rule......Page 154 7. The Liberation Movement 1953-67......Page 179 8. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen......Page 228 Part Four Oman......Page 264 9. The Sultanate of Oman - A British Colony......Page 266 10. Guerrilla War in Dhofar......Page 313 11. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf......Page 370 Photos......Page 274 Part Five The Gulf......Page 402 12. Oil and Exploitation......Page 404 13. The Smaller States of the Gulf......Page 436 14. Iran......Page 475 Part Six Conclusion......Page 504 15. Imperialist Strategy and Gulf Revolution......Page 506 Appendix One Abbreviations......Page 522 Appendix Two Basic Data on Peninsular and Gulf States......Page 524 Appendix Three......Page 526 Postscript......Page 528 The Reading Generation [A note in Sindhi]......Page 539