[PDF] Kuwait eBook

Author : B. Slot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004094093

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Since the discovery of the worlds third largest oil reserves within its borders, Kuwait has achieved international political prominence far exceeding its physical size. The country had already played a role in history before, however. Local sources take that history back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The present book takes the history of Kuwait still further back using European sources. It includes analyses and comparisons of indications on maps from the sixteenth century onwards and of references to the Kuwait area in documents produced by officials of the Dutch East India Company-the principal Western political and economic power in the Gulf during most of early modern times-, in British documents and in early travel accounts. The book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the political position of Kuwait in history vis-a-vis its neighbours, especially the Ottoman authorities in Basra.

Author : Yaʻqūb Yūsuf Ḥijjī
Publisher : Arabian Publishing Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :

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Ever since Kuwait emerged in the 18th century as a young maritime state with an extreme dependence on the sea, it has been renowned for the consummate skills of its sailors and dhow-builders. Kuwait's shipwrights became justly famed for the beauty, seaworthiness and practicality of their vessels, and the Kuwaiti boum became a symbol of Kuwait's maritime prowess on all the dhow routes linking Arabia, Iran, India and East Africa. This book describes in detail how Kuwaiti shipwrights built their vessels, in particular the boum .As with dhows everywhere, this was done entirely by hand and eye, without drawings of any kind. There are chapters on celebrated master builders and famous dhows, on sails, rigging and launching, and on tools and timber. There is also an extensive glossary of Kuwaiti nautical terms. Today the era of Kuwait's sailing dhows is long gone. In The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait Dr Ya'qub Al-Hijji, himself a Kuwaiti maritime historian, provides a timely memorial of the craft industry which sustained this unique maritime nation. It is lavishly illustrated with drawings, colour photographs and remarkable old black-and-white images.The latter, from the first half of the 20th century, include many by Alan Villiers, and form an eloquent pictorial elegy on the passing of a great maritime tradition.

Author : Francesca Spencer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1326786202

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Based on real-life stories from an international school in Kuwait, which chart the survival of teachers from the thrown-in-at-the-deep-end start to the I-can't-believe-we-made-it finish. Outlandish comedy abounds as the teachers laugh and lose it, through a mine field of barriers to logic, and challenges to plain common sense.The book illuminates the startling excesses of the oil-money rich as they balance a past of poverty with an extreme pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. It shows Kuwait as a microcosm reflecting the more global issues surrounding waste, ecology, using more than we need, and consumerism gone mad. The stories reveal the pros and cons of teaching on the international circuit and how the teachers adapt to an alien land of dust, sexual and racial inequality and an oppressive political regime, both inside and outside school. Resilience, fortitude and a hefty dose of humour gets the teachers through to the end with a cheer and a wave.

Author : E. Lauterpacht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521463089

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This volume of documents relates to the legal aspects of the international crisis arising out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1996.

Author : Hamdi Hassan
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745314112

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To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?

Author : Michael S. Casey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313340730

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Presents a comprehensive history of the nation of Kuwait from the first Mesopotamian settlements as early as 3000 BCE, its independence from British control, occupation by Iraq in 1990, and liberation and reconstruction.

Author : Zahra Freeth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351669923

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This book, first published in 1972, describes a Kuwait normally hidden to the eyes of visitors. The author draws upon a vast experience of the country, from both before and after the discovery of oil, and analyses the changes to the physical appearance of the city as well as the changes to the customs and outlook of its people.