Toby Craig Jones, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia . Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2011, 320 pages

Toby Craig Jones, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

Bouarrouj, Khelil¹ 

关键词: nationalisme;    CPG (Congrès populaire général);    discours politique;    identité collective;    parti politique;    nationalism;    collective identification;    political narrative;    PGC (Popular General Congress);    YEM;   

DOI  :  10.4000/cy.1954

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Centre Francais d Archeologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa

【 摘 要 】

It has become an axiom in Western reports on Saudi Arabia to portray the reigning Al Saud family as enforcing eastern despotism on the home front yet, when it comes to their own personal habits, yearning for all the efficacy (mostly Western) modernity has to offer. In his lucid (and highly recommended) account on the contemporary history of Saudi Arabia, Toby Jones problematizes this dichotomy: rather than hoarding a monopoly on modernity, the ruling family preached its gospel as a measure of...

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