Essays on the economic history of the Middle East / edited by Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim
1988, 1st edition. London ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #384809
ISBN: 0714633186
Physical description; 211 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; Despotism and the disintegration of the Iranian economy 1500-1800 / Ahmad Seyf -- Silk and socioeconomic changes in Lebanon, 1860-1919 / Kais Firro -- Reflections on a sub- sistence economy: production and trade of the Mahdist Sudan, 1881-1898 / Yitzhak Nakash -- Land tenure and taxation in Iran, 1800-1906 / Ahmad Seyf -- Recent trends in agricultural development in the Near East /A.A. El-Sherbini -- Oil nationalization movement, the British boycott and the Iranian economy, 1951-1953 / Kamram M. Dadkhah -- The costs of foreign investment: the case of the Egyptian free zones /Leslie Sklair -- Labour migration to the Arab Gulf in the 1980s / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- Saudi Arabia's industrialization strategy: a question of comparative advantage / Robert E. Looney -- One Arab state, many Arab states: the impact of population growth and oil revenues / Gad G. Gilbar. Subjects; Geschichte 1500-1988. Economic history. Middle East Economic conditions. Iran.
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