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In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil. By using a variety of local sources and oral histories, Fuccaro questions the role played by the British Empire and oil in state-making. Instead, she draws attention to urban residents, elites and institutions as active participants in state and nation building. She also examines how the city has continued to provide a source of political, social and sectarian identity since the early nineteenth century, challenging the view that the advent of oil and modernity represented a radical break in the urban past of the region.

History of Asia --- anno 1800-1999 --- Bahrain --- Port cities --- Cities and towns, Port --- City-ports --- Emporia (Port cities) --- Port towns --- Cities and towns --- Harbors --- History. --- Manama (Bahrain) --- Manāmah (Bahrain) --- Manama, Bahrein --- المنامة (Bahrain) --- Al Manāma (Bahrain) --- al-Manāmah (Bahrain) --- منامة (Bahrain) --- Горад Манама (Bahrain) --- Horad Manama (Bahrain) --- Μανάμα (Bahrain) --- Manamo (Bahrain) --- 마나마 (Bahrain) --- Манамæ (Bahrain) --- Manamæ (Bahrain) --- מנאמה (Bahrain) --- Menama (Bahrain) --- マナーマ (Bahrain) --- Manaama (Bahrain) --- Manam (Bahrain) --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Tombs --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Bahrain --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Civilization.

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Protest movements --- Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Bahrain --- Politics and government --- Bahrain --- Politics and government.

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Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, --- Bahrain --- Kings and rulers --- History.

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This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives-aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social-in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a counter to gray urban environments, green has not always been good for cities. Similarly, manifestation of the color green in arid urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of green from an environmental point of view. This paradox is at the heart of the book. In arid environments such as Bahrain, the contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain, where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and exists in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. Explicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place.

Colors --- Farbenpsychologie. --- Green --- Greenbelts --- Greenbelts. --- Grünfläche. --- Landschaftsarchitektur. --- Stadt. --- Urban landscape architecture --- Urban landscape architecture. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Bahrain. --- Green belts --- Open spaces --- Colours --- Color --- Landscape architecture --- arab gulf states. --- arab. --- bahrain landscape. --- bahrain social infrastructure. --- bahrain. --- bahraini landscape. --- date palms. --- green architecture. --- green cities. --- green in the built environment. --- green landscape. --- green scenery. --- greenbelts. --- greenery. --- landscape architecture. --- manama greenbelt. --- middle east. --- middle eastern landscape architecture. --- persian gulf landscape. --- persian gulf. --- the color green. --- urban environments. --- urban landscape architecture. --- urban landscape. --- urban planning.