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List of illustrations | |
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List of tables | |
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Preface | |
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Chronology | |
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Glossary | |
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Saudi Arabia, main regions and cities | |
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Saudi Arabia, main tribes | |
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Introduction | |
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Society and politics, 1744-1818 and 1824-1891 | |
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The origins of Al Sa'ud (1744-1818) | |
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A fragile Sa'udi revival (1824-1891) | |
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The Rashidi emirate in Ha'il (1836-1921) | |
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The Sharifian emirate in Hijaz | |
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Hasa in the nineteenth century | |
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Emirate formation in Arabia | |
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The emerging state, 1902-1932 | |
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The capture of Riyadh (1902) | |
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The First World War and Ibn Sa'ud (1914-1918) | |
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The capture of Ha'il (1921) | |
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The capture of Hijaz (1925) | |
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The mutawwa'a of Najd | |
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The ikhwan | |
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An alliance not so holy: Ibn Sa'ud, the mutawwa'a and the ikhwan | |
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The collapse of the ikhwan rebellion | |
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Control and loyalty, 1932-1953 | |
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Marginalising Sa'udi collateral branches | |
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Consolidating Ibn Sa'ud's line of descent | |
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Power and pomp in the pre-oil era: the majlis | |
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Srate affairs | |
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The oil concession (1933) | |
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Oil in commercial quantities | |
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Oil and society in the 1940s and 1950s | |
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Saudi Arabia and Britain | |
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The end of an era | |
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The politics of dissent, 1953-1973 | |
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The reign of King Sa'ud (1953-1964) | |
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Saudi Arabia and the Arab world in the 1950s | |
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Saudi Arabia and the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s | |
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The reign of King Faysal (1964-1975) | |
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Faysal and die Arab world | |
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From affluence to austerity, 1973-1990 | |
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Affluence: the oil embargo (1973) | |
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Vulnerabilities: Sa'udi-American relations in the 1970s | |
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The reign of King Khalid (1975-1982) | |
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Austerity: die reign of King Fahd (1982-2005) | |
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Saudi Arabia and the Gulf context in the 1980s | |
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Sa'udi-American relations in the 1980s | |
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The Gulf War and its aftermath, 1990-2000 | |
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Sa'udi responses to the Gulf War | |
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State responses: the reforms of March 1992 | |
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The Islamist opposition | |
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Succession | |
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Narratives of the state, narratives of the people | |
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Official historiography | |
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Political speech | |
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The historical narrative challenged | |
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The centennial celebrations: the capture of Riyadh revisited | |
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The centennial celebrations challenged | |
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The challenges of a new era | |
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Internal challenges | |
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External pressures | |
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Modernising authoritarian rule | |
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The state reformist agenda | |
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A new king | |
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Society's reformist agenda | |
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Conclusion | |
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Al Sa'ud rulers in Dir'iyyah (1744-1818) | |
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Al Sa'ud rulers in Riyadh (1824-1891) | |
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Ibn Sa'ud's sons (1900-1953) | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |