The GCC states : national development records : communication and transport : 1860-1960  The GCC States: National Development Records: Communication and Transport: 1860-1960 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2441429Y

  Author(s)

  Burdett, A. L. P.

  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

  Burdett, A. L. P.

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

• Description

  The GCC States: National Development Records: Communication and Transport: 1860-1960 9-volume set with 8 books and 1 map case with 14 maps. Approximately 6,300 pages. ISBN of this edition is 1852076208, subsequent editions use 9781852076207 (print) and 9781139964807 (e-book). This collection traces the development of the modern network of communications which makes light of the great distances involved in traversing the Middle East. From the first schemes to link India to Europe via a submarine cable through Muscat and Bushire in 1859, the documents detail a slow blooming of infrastructure in all aspects of communications: the development of deep water ports, shipping routes and navigational data; the growth of telegraph, cable, wireless and finally telephone systems, the press and broadcasting; the spectacular success of the railways in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; the creation of a reliable postal service; the improvement of roads and the 20th century expansion of motor transport, all creating links between and within the Gulf states.