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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [46] (61/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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46
POLITICAL CONDITIONS
[No. 90
are some signs of such an increase), it would not be
again the wild creed of Nejd, but a philosophic deism,
which would look to India or Mesopotamia. Much
more than half Arabia is the desert or semi-desert
home of very primitive people, incapable of economic
development; and geographical conditions make so
strongly for particularism that even a network of rail
ways and trunk roads, made and maintained by a
State supported in turn by some outside Power (for
lack of any other possible support), would probably do
little to overcome it. So far as human foresight can
tell, the peninsula is fated to remain parcelled out
internally into at least as many autonomous States as
at this day, even if it should become in the future the
exclusive political sphere of one external Power.
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (69 folios)
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- Title
- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence