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Kuwait (country)
Arabian history | For younger readers | Kuwait
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Arabian history
Who's Who in the Arab World. Publitec, 1996. Up-to-date biographical source.
Glubb, John. A Short History of the Arab Peoples. Hippocrene, 1988. Concise introductory history from pre-Islamic times to the present; includes maps.
Goldschmidt, Arthur. A Concise History of the Middle East. Westview, 1998. Introductory college-level text.
Hitti, Philip K. The Arabs: A Short History. Regnery, 1996. Author is a leading historian of the Arabic-speaking peoples.
Hourani, Albert Habib. A History of the Arab Peoples. Warner, 1992. Comprehensive and definitive history of social, economic, political, and cultural life in the Middle East, from the prophet Muhammad to the 20th century.
Lewis, Bernard W. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. Touchstone, 1997. Draws on many sources, including the work of archaeologists and scholars, to chronologically trace the political, economical, social, and cultural development of the Middle East.
Mansfield, Peter. The Arabs. Penguin, 1992. Informed journalist's introduction to the history of the modern Arab world.
Robinson, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Emphasizes Islamic economy, society, knowledge, art, and architecture.
For younger readers
Kort, Michael G. The Handbook of the Middle East. 21st Century, 2002. For readers in grades 7 and up.
O'Shea, Maria. Kuwait. 2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. In the Cultures of the World series, for readers in grades 4 to 8.
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Kuwait
Facey, William. Kuwait by the First Photographers. St. Martin's, 1998, 2002. Interesting look at Kuwait through historical photographs taken from 1900 to 1950.
Khadduri, Majid, and Edmund Ghareeb. War in the Gulf 1990-1991: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications. Oxford University Press, 1997, 2001. Background information on the events that culminated in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
O'Shea, Maria. Kuwait. Cavendish, 1998. General introduction for younger readers.
Zahlan, Rosemarie Said, and Roger Owen. The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Routledge, Ithaca, 1989. 1999. Comprehensive discussion of the creation of the Persian Gulf states.
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