A land transformed : the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Aramco /

A land transformed : the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Aramco / edited by Arthur P. Clark, Muhammad A. Tahlawi ; authors, William Facey, Paul Lunde, Michael McKinnon, Thomas A. Pledge ; contributing editors, Thomas A. Pledge, Helen El Mallakh, James P. Mandaville, Kay Hardy Campbell. - Dhahran, Saudi Arabia : Houston, Tex. : Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) ; Aramco Services Co., c2006. - xxiii, 323 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps ; 34 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.

A land transformed -- Arabia before Islam -- The revelation and the Ummah -- Arabia since the revelation -- The emergence of the Saudi state, 1700-1932 -- Tradition and modernization, 1932-present -- Wildlife and conservation -- Tapping the treasure

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Saudi Arabia--History.
Saudi Arabia--Pictorial works.
Arabian Peninsula--History.
Arabian Peninsula--Pictorial works.

DS204 / .L36 2006

953.8 L253c