From warriors to administrators: Capital and coercion in the early process of state formation in Arabia (1900-1938)
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[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Ahmed S. Alowfi
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Serhan, Randa
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
American University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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102
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Schneider, Cathy L.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-70929-2
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Sociology
Body granting the degree
American University
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The major scholarship on state formation tends to privilege external (colonial or post-colonial) factors when it addresses cases of non-European states. Contributing to a growing literature that complicates such a tendency, this thesis challenges the standard view of the rise of Arab national states by demonstrating how the formation of the Saudi Arabian modern state was primarily driven by internal factors. It suggests that the emergence of a centralized state in the early twentieth century Arabia was largely a response to internal threats rather than a consequence of war threats or a construction of a colonial project.