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Archive wars : the politics of history in Saudi Arabia / Rosie Bsheer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 379 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503612587
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS222 .A734 2020
  • DS222
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state -- A state with no archive : control without hegemony -- Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca -- Conclusion : the violence of history.
Subject: "This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction DS222.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1128886034

"This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, historical preservation, and urban redevelopment to consolidate power after the Gulf War. It shows how the Saudi regime attempted to shift the terrain of domestic opposition from the political to the historical and from the streets to institutions, transforming the nation's landscape into a revenue-generating asset"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the archive question -- Occluded pasts : history and the making of the modern Saudi state -- A state with no archive : control without hegemony -- Amnesiac nation : assembling the past in post-Gulf War Saudi Arabia -- Heritage as war : Secular infrastructure and the remaking of Riyadh -- Bulldozing the past : history, modernity, and urban redevelopment in Mecca -- Conclusion : the violence of history.

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