Arabia's frontiers : the story of Britain's boundary drawing in the desert / John C. Wilkinson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-408) and index.

PART I. GEO-POLITICAL SETTING : Chapter 1. The Regional Powers : Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Britain -- Chapter 2. The Gulf -- PART II. THE BLUE LINE : Chapter 3. The 1913 Anglo-Ottoman Convention -- Chapter 4. The Violet Line -- PART III. SUCCESSOR STATE : Chapter 5. Britain's Relations with Ibn Saud up to the End of World War I -- Chapter 6. Post-War Relations -- Chapter 7. Conflict with Yemen --PART IV. Chapter 8. PRE-WORLD WAR II NEGOTIATIONS : Oil : The Casoc and Qatar Conesssion Boundaries -- Chapter 9. Negotiations -- Chapter 10. Aftermath : 1936-9 -- PART V. A NEW CLAIM : Chapter 11. Procrastination -- Chapter 12. The Oman Problem -- Chapter 13. Final Negotiations -- PART VI. CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION : Chapter 14. Unilateral Declaration of Frontier -- Chapter 15. Aftermath -- Maps : 1. Main frontier claims and area submitted to arbitration - 2. Col. Pelly's map of territories in the Gulf, 1863 - 3. The Aden-Yemen frontier area around the Wadi Bana according to the Anglo-Ottoman 1905 Protocol - 4. Holmes's Concession map ca. 1923 - 5. Frontier lines around the base of the Qatar Peninsula - 6. Frontier lines in Eastern Arabia -7. Map of Aden area (Naval Intelligence, Western Arabia, 1946) - 8. Trucial Oman - 9. Post-war frontier lines and proposals, Abu Dhabi/UAE - 10. Part of the map drawn for G. W. Rendel (Head of FO Eastern Department, 1930-38) in 1935 - 11. Boundary claims according to the Saudi Memorial, 1955.