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Modernity and tradition : the Saudi equation
- Title
- Modernity and tradition : the Saudi equation / Fouad Al-Farsy.
- Author
- Farsy, Fouad, 1946-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Kegan Paul International ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | DS204 .F37 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 337 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 26 cm
- Summary
- Al-Farsy offers an assessment of progress in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, providing an overview of the most ambitious development program in history, setting the Kingdom in a global political and economic context. He shows how rapid progress was achieved in the only country on earth which uses the K.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322) and index.
- Contents
- The geography of the kingdom -- Historical and cultural background -- Islam, the faith on which the kingdom is founded -- The judicial system -- The political system -- Description and organizational structure of the kingdom's ministries -- Description of major government agencies -- Saudi Arabia and petroleum -- The economy -- Planning -- Industrial development -- Agricultural development -- Population and manpower resources of the kingdom -- Infrastructure -- Social development -- Education -- Health -- Foreign relations -- Saudi Arabian aid to the developing world -- How others see us.
- ISBN
- 0710303955
- 9780710303950
- 0710303855 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 90005131
- OCLC
- ocm22277630
- 22277630
- SCSB-1930610
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library