Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, and the Gulf Region : fifty years of transformation / Frauke Heard-Bey.

Includes previously published articles and papers, with additional contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.

PART ONE. A WORLD APART: THE GULF IN THE 1960S AND 1970s : 1. The Gulf States and Oman in Transition - 2. Social Changes in the Gulf States and Oman - 3. Inside Oman - 4. Oman Revisited - 5. The Role of Archives in Conjunction with Oral History - 6. A Journey into the Liwa - 7. Development Anomalies in the Beduin Oases of Al-Liwa - 8. Madinat Zayid - A Traditional Tribal Society in a New Oil-Age Town - 9. The Centre for Documentation and Research, CDR - 10. The Tribal Society of the UAE and its Traditional Economy - 11. The Beginning of the Post-Imperial Era for the Trucial States from World War I to the 1960s - 12. Abu Dhabi's Greatest Ancestor: Shaikh Zayed bin Khalifah - 13. The Oil-Industry in Abu Dhabi: A Changing Role - 14. Changing Adaptions - Adapting to Change : The Architecture of the UAE. A Historical Background to Traditional and Modern Living Conditions in the UAE - 15. Art in the United Arab Emirates -- PART TWO. THE TOPIC OF FEDERATION : 16. Federation as a Political Process. The Case of the United Arab Emirates - 17. The United Arab Emirates. Twenty Years of Federation - 18. The Local Response to the Withdrawal from the Gulf and the Formation of the United Arab Emirates - 19. The United Arab Emirates: Transition in a Federal State - 20. A Biography of Shaikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates - 21. The United Arab Emirates: Statehood and Nation-Building in a Traditional Society - 22. Hard Choices : The United Arab Emirates' Development from Obscurity to Prominence -- PART THREE. REGIONAL POLITICS - PAST AND PRESENT : 23. The Gulf in the Twentieth Century - 24. Perceived and Real Challenges to the British Position in the Gulf - 25. Horses in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and the Trade with India: An Overview in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries - 26. Conflict Resolution and Regional Co-operation: The Role of the Gulf Co-operation Council 1981-2002 - 27. The Impact of Globalisation on Gulf Culture: An Insider's View - 28. Ballot Boxes and Other Forms of Participation in Five Countries of the GCC - 29. Gulf Security in the Twenty-first Century - 30. Labour Migration and Culture: The Impact of Immigration on the Culture of the Arab Societies in the Gulf -- Appendix : Chronology 1. Abu Dhabi, Trucial States and UAE - Chronology 2. The Gulf, GCC and the Middle East.