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Book Title
Sinews of War and Trade : Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
Publication Name
Sinews of War and Trade
Title
Sinews of War and Trade
Subtitle
Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
Author
Laleh Khalili
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1786634813
EAN
9781786634818
ISBN
9781786634818
Publisher
Verso Books
Genre
Transportation, Social Science, Political Science
Topic
Political Economy, General, World / Middle Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Release Date
28/04/2020
Release Year
2020
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
1.1in
Item Length
9.5in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Publication Year
2020
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore - indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula's ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.

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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1786634813
ISBN-13
9781786634818
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038395937

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sinews of War and Trade : Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
Author
Laleh Khalili
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Economy, General, World / Middle Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Transportation, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
He559.A73k43 2020
Reviews
"If the maritime industry represents the circulatory system of the modern global economy, then Laleh Khalili has offered us a uniquely insightful forensic assessment of how this capillary system took shape through history and the central role played by ports on the Arabian Peninsula. Sinews of War and Trade makes clear that these ports have been far more than just tacit intersections of international trade. They have played and continue to play a vital role in framing racial labour hierarchies, accumulating capital in specific hands, and reinforcing colonial regimes of profit, law and administration. Both lucid and nuanced, the book offers a masterful study in the ways that violence and security as well as licit and illicit trade, get negotiated in and by these ports. This is one of those rare pieces of academic research that is at once readable and accessible for the lay public while also making a genuine contribution to the relevant historical scholarship." --Ian Urbina, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of Outlaw Ocean "Laleh Khalili's fascinating new book opens the window on another world, hidden in plain sight, a shadow world of ports and container ships that holds a key to the often violent workings of contemporary capitalism. To read Sinews of War and Trade is to understand the truth of Derek Walcott's observation that 'the sea is history.'" --Adam Shatz
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-052101
Dewey Decimal
387.5/440953
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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