Download or read book The Persian Gulf written by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940) was a British colonial administrator, soldier, and politician. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1903 and served as an officer in the British Army in India. He was transferred to the Indian Political Department and subsequently sent to the Persian Gulf. Wilson was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918-20. Although he was credited with improving the country's administration, he was criticized for his violent repression of the 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I, he successfully recommended changing the Greek name "Mesopotamia" to the Arabic "Iraq." However, the British government ultimately rejected his view that Iraq should not be granted independence, and he was removed from his position. Wilson later became a member of Parliament. With the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He served as a pilot officer and was killed in action in northern France. The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century is a concise history of the region. Wilson begins with the writings of Greek, Roman, and Muslim geographers, followed by chapters on the arrival of European powers, beginning with the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch. A later chapter discusses the growth of the British influence, starting in the 18th century. Other topics covered in the book are piracy, the slave trade, and the growth of Arab principalities.

Download or read book New Arabian Studies Volume 2 written by P. Bidwell and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics. Contributions by Hussein Abdullah al-Amri, Madawi Al-Rasheed, W. J. Donaldson, A. B. D. R. Eagle, Andrey Korotayev, Richard I. Lawless, Eric Macro, Brian Marshall, Mikhail Rodionov, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Martine Vanhove and Jerzy Zdanowski

Download or read book Geological Magazine written by Henry Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of Mesopotamia and Its Borderlands written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London written by Geological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)

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Download or read book Petroleum Geology of the Persian Gulf written by Fereydoun Ghazban and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of Mesopotamia and Its Borderlands written by Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues written by Christopher G. St. C. Kendall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications. The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high standards as those published in the journal Sedimentology and several of these volumes have become standard works of reference. This volume commemorates the eclectic research of Douglas James Shearman into evaporites, which was initiated by his studies of the prograding UAE coastal sabkhas or salt flats that incorporate evaporite minerals which displace and replace earlier carbonate sediments. His subsequent proselytization of the study of ancient evaporites in sedimentary sections all over the world led to fundamental advances in our understanding of arid zone carbonate sedimentology. The papers presented here are based on presentations made in Abu Dhabi, UAE 12-14th October 2004 and 7th –8th November 2006. They provide a retrospective from the 1960's and 70's of Holocene evaporites and carbonates, recapturing Shearman's contribution by revisiting the Holocene coastal evaporite and carbonate sediments of the Arabian/Persian Gulf from Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman. The first set of papers considers these sediments from the perspective of their coastal geomorphology, sedimentary character and their geochemistry. Later papers examine the significance of these settings in the ancient geological section world-wide, including examples from the Mesozoic-Cenozoic of the Moroccan Atlantic margin and the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation of the Arabian Gulf.

Download or read book Change and Development in the Middle East Routledge Revivals written by Clarke John and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title’s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Much modern development has been spatially polarized, accentuating the concentrations of rapidly growing populations and posing severe problems for planners. Cultivation and pastoralism, the main traditional activities, have often suffered from neglect and insufficient investment, and both require re-evaluation. These are the issues addressed by this volume, first published in 1981, which contains a series of overviews and case studies written by present or former members of staff and research students of the Department of Geography in the University of Durham in honour of W.B. Fisher. Change and Development in the Middle East provides an interesting and relevant geographical and demographic analysis of this diverse and volatile region.

Download or read book Records of the Geological Survey of India written by Geological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Annual report of the Geological Survey of India, 1867-

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Shaikh Salman Bin Al Khalifa written by Andrew Wheatcroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. In this book the author presents an analysis of Shaikh Salman's role in the process of development. It is not a full, narrative, history of Bahrain during his period of rule, but an investigation of the forces that propelled Bahrain forward into the modern age.

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Download or read book Great Warm Deserts of the World written by Andrew Goudie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the nature and history of the landscapes of the world's great warm deserts, that illustrates how their distinctive features have developed in response to major climatic and tectonic changes over millions of years. The treatment is a regional one, and each of the world's major warm deserts has its own chapter. Written by a leading expert in the field.