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FROM TRUCIAL STATES TO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. NEW EDITION By FRAUKE HEARD-BEY. London, Longman, 1996. xxvi + 540 pp.
This is one book that amply deserved a second edition, IS years after first being published. Re-reading it, it is obvious why it became one of the classic texts on the Arabian Gulf. Heard-Bey combines thorough scholarship (there are 80 pages of useful notes) with the skills and insights of the historian, the sociologist and the anthropologist. The evolution of traditional society...