The Persian Gulf in Modern Times

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf

Chapter 3 Narrative and the Historian’s Craft in the Arabic Historiography of the Gulf

Chapter 4 The Historiography of the Persian Gulf: A Survey of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Persian Sources

Chapter 5 Narrating the Gulf: Literary Evidence for History

Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall of Port Cities in the Persian Gulf

Chapter 7 Muscat as a Port City

Chapter 8 Bushehr: Southern Gateway to Iran

Chapter 9 Inside a Gulf Port: The Dynamics of Urban Life in Pre-Oil Kuwait

Chapter 10 Indian Communities in the Persian Gulf, c. 1500–1947

Chapter 11 The Baloch as an Ethnic Group in the Persian Gulf Region

Chapter 12 “Purity and Confusion”: The Hawala between Persians and Arabs in the Contemporary Gulf

Chapter 13 The African Presence in Eastern Arabia