Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Arabia Incognita: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies....Pages 11-33
The ˋImama vs. the ˋIqal: Hadari—Bedouin Conflict and the Formation of the Saudi State....Pages 35-75
Ecology, Knowledge, and Trade in Central Arabia (Najd) during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries....Pages 77-102
Shifting Loyalties and Failed Empire: A New Look at the Social History of Late Ottoman Yemen, 1872–1918....Pages 103-117
Leaving Only Question-Marks: Geographies of Rule in Modern Yemen....Pages 119-149
Aramco World: Business and Culture on the Arabian Oil Frontier....Pages 151-181
The Capture of Riyadh Revisited: Shaping Historical Imagination in Saudi Arabia....Pages 183-200
Struggles Over History and Identity: “Opening the Gates” of the Kingdom to Tourism....Pages 201-228
Evacuating Memory in Postrevolutionary Yemen....Pages 229-245
Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen....Pages 247-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-313