Sinews of war and trade : shipping and capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula / Laleh Khalili.

• 1. Route-making -- Admiralty Charts and the Making of Routes -- The Emergence of Steam -- 'The Seas Inlaid with Eloquent, Gentle Wires' -- Pilgrimage -- The Suez Canal -- Port Management of Routes -- Freight Rates -- Speculative Routes -- 2. Harbour-Making -- Curzon's 'Prancing in the Persian Puddle' -- Dammam -- Creeks and Harbours of the Trucial Coast -- Dubai -- Aden -- Making and Remaking the Land and the Sea -- 3. Palimpsests of Law and Corporate Sovereigns -- Weaponising Arbitration Tribunal -- Dubai Ports World -- Geophysical Features into Legal Categories -- The Offshore -- The Global Struggle Over Subsea Resources -- Free Zones -- Jabal Ali -- Saudi Economic Cities -- 4. Roads and Rails Leading Away -- Oil Roads and Rail -- Roads as Economic Pacification Weapons -- Competing Powers and Roads -- Federating Transports -- Peninsular Connections -- 5. 'Mechanic, Merchant, King' -- Tanker and Cargo Shipping Companies -- Merchants and Capitalists -- Insurance and Banking -- Advisers, Bureaucrats, and Experts -- The Technopolitics of Managing Ports -- 6. Landside Labour -- Conditions of Work -- Migration -- Protests in the Peninsula -- Politics or Workplace Protests? -- Forms of Protest -- Unions as Channels for Protest -- Chokepoints and Counterlogistics -- 7. Shipboard Work -- Lascars, Asiatics, and Others -- Circulation of Revolt -- Global Hierarchies Aboard Ships Today -- Working on Tankers -- Flagging -- 8. The Bounties of War -- Routes of War -- Wars of Routes -- The Utility of Regional Wars for the Peninsula -- Tankers, Wars, and Tanker Wars -- Desert Storm and After -- The Importance of Bases -- The Riches of Military Construction and Logistics -- Epilogue. 

• "On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal, oil-arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels China's manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian peninsula. Much of the material shipped from China are transported through the ports of Arabian peninsula, Dubai's Jabal Ali port foremost among them. China's 'maritime silk road' flanks the peninsula on all sides. Sinews of War and Trade is the story of what the making of new ports and shipping infrastructure has meant not only for the Arabian peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond. The book is an account of how maritime transportation is not simply an enabling companion of trade, but central to the very fabric of global capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade, logistics, and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of labour, engineer the lived environment, aid the accumulation of capital regionally and globally, and carry forward colonial regimes of profit, law and administration"-- 

Ämnesord

Sjöfart  (sao)

Handel  (sao)

Kapitalism  (sao)

Shipping  -- Arabian Peninsula. (LCSH)

Capitalism  -- Arabian Peninsula. (LCSH)

Capitalism.  (fast)

Commerce.  (fast)

Economic history.  (fast)

Shipping.  (fast)

Shipping  -- Arabian Peninsula. (nli)

Capitalism  -- Arabian Peninsula. (nli)

Commerce  (LCSH)

Shipping  (LCSH)

Capitalism  (LCSH)

Arabiska halvön  (sao)

Arabian Peninsula  -- Commerce. (LCSH)

Arabian Peninsula  -- Economic conditions. (LCSH)

Arabian Peninsula.  (fast)

Arabian Peninsula  -- Commerce. (nli)

Arabian Peninsula  -- Economic conditions. (nli)

Klassifikation

HE559.A73 (LCC)

387.5440953 (DDC)

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