Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, Third Edition

by John Peterson and J.E. Peterson

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now has been under the spotlight of Western curiosity for more than 80 years. More than 15% of the world's total oil reserves lie underneath Saudi Arabia and, in the early 1990s, the kingdom became the world's largest crude oil producer. Not surprisingly, a world highly dependent on oil regards the desert kingdom as an area of intense strategic concern, as reflected in the coalition of forces assembled on Saudi soil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153811979X
• ISBN13: 9781538119792
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"