KUWAIT
Social Change in Historical Perspective
by Jacqueline S. Ismael
Syracuse University Press, c1982, FIRST EDITION, 202 pages 1st EDITION . EXCELLENT Condition Hardcover with a VERY GOOD Condition Dust Jacket protected with a Mylar Cover. This book is ex-library with usual markings, fep removed & dj edgewear & sunned spine. Pages & Binding are NICE & TIGHT!
Contemporary Kuwait is a super-affluent, oil-rich Arab Gulf state with profound economic and political significance. Ismael's study of social change in Kuwait charts the development of the country from a tribal colony to an independent center of world trade and finance.
Drawing on the socioeconomic theory of dependency for a conceptual framework, Ismael divides the analysis into two major sections-"Pre-Oil Kuwait" and "Post-Oil Kuwait. ' In the first section the author examines the emergence and development of Kuwaiti society, the role of the British in Kuwait during the nineteenth century, and the underdevelopment of Kuwait prior to the emergence of an oil economy. The second section discusses the transformation of Kuwait into a modern capitalist society with a surplus of wealth-the result of social class dialectics in a changing world economy.
The linkage between the imperialist penetration of Kuwait in the nineteenth century and the integration of contemporary Kuwait into the world capitalist economy is carefully delineated. Ismael then points out the developments in Kuwaiti society which have resulted from this integration: narrow specialization of production in the economic sector, the exploitation of immigrant labor and ethnic stratification, the birth of a welfare state, and the emergence of "planning" as a means to effect social control. In conclusion, Ismael reviews the inherent social contradictions of Kuwait's dependent mode of production and the dialectic between continuity and change that these contradictions generate.
Included are twenty-six(26) tables and two figures, a bibliography, two appendices (the first reproduces "The Law of the Divers," a piece of legislation regulating the Kuwait pearl industry; the second contains a list of the Councils of Ministers of Kuwait, 1962-81), and an index.
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