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Monsoon revolution : republicans, sultans, and empires in Oman, 1965-1976

"The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1975) was the longest-running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East. Monsoon Revolution retrieves the political, social, and cultural history of that remarkable process. Relying upon a wide range of untapped Arab and British archival and oral sources, it revises the modern political history of Oman by revealing the centrality of popular movements in shaping events and outcomes. The ties that bound transnational anti-colonial networks are explored, and Dhufar is revealed to be an ideal vantage point from which to demonstrate the centrality of South-South connections in modern Arab history" ... Dust jacket
Print Book, English, 2016
First published in paperback View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016
Hochschulschrift
ix, 342 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm
9780198783176, 9780199674435, 0198783175, 0199674434
1002280260
Introduction1: Imperial Sovereignty in Omani History2: Dhufari Politics, Society, and Economy3: A Struggle for Sovereignty4: Crises and Constellational Shifts, 1966-19685: Relocating the Revolutionary Subject: From DLF to PFLOAG6: Last Stand of the Raj7: The Sultan is Deposed, Long Reign the Sultan!8: Constructing the Absolutist State9: Revolutionary Culture10: From Citizenship to Subjecthood: Episodes From 1971-1976ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex