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Desert Kingdom

How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

Toby Craig Jones

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ISBN 9780674049857

Publication Date: 11/08/2010

320 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Toby Craig Jones is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

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