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Title: The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Briton C. Busch
Publication: The Historian (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc.
Volume: 62 Issue: 2 Page: 386Article Type: Book Review, Brief ArticleDistributed by Thompson Gale

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The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. By Frederick F. Anscombe. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $47.50.)

The half-century preceding World War I was an important era for the Persian or Arabian Gull Not only did the area attract growing imperialist interest from the European powers, most notably Britain, Russia, and Germany, but also the Ottoman dependencies of Kuwait, Qatar, and central Arabia (the provinces of Hasa and Najd, later to be Sa'udi Arabia) each laid the foundation for subsequent independence. Frederick Anscombe explores this subject in considerable detail in the era 1870-1914 in this interesting study based, above all, on Ottoman Imperial archives in Istanbul.