Records of the Emirates : primary documents : 1820-1958  Records of the Emirates: Primary Documents: 1820-1958 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2441394Y

  Author(s)

  Tucson, Penelope

  City

  Cambridge 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  - 

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Tucson, Penelope

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

• Description

  Records of the Emirates: Primary Documents: 1820-1958 12-volume set of 11 books and 1 map case of 11 maps. Approximately 8,250 pages. ISBN of this edition is 185207230X, subsequent editions use 9781852072308 (print) and 9781139964074 (e-book). In these 8000 pages, East View presents a key selection of facsimile original British government documents detailing the history and development of the United Arab Emirates from 1820 to modern times. The set includes a map box containing 10 maps dated between 1826 and 1956, and a set of the genealogical tables of the ruling families of the seven Emirates. The collection offers historical evidence for the political, economic and social evolution of the seven Emirates. It includes internal and external frontier negotiations and questions of island sovereignty, constitutional and military developments; the Trucial States Council and the Trucial Oman Levies, municipal development, banking, medicine, and air travel. Such records complete the historical background to the extraordinary evolution of the Emirate, from desert subsistence economies to modern city states.