LEADER 04733nam 22005655 450 001 9910592978903321 005 20230810175132.0 010 $a9783031038457$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031038440 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-03845-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7080707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7080707 035 $a(CKB)24782721700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-03845-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924782721700041 100 $a20220905d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn Archival Journey through the Qatar Peninsula $eElusive and Precarious /$fby Sue-Ann Harding 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (361 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Harding, Sue-Ann An Archival Journey Through the Qatar Peninsula Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031038440 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: Murwab -- Introduction -- PART I: MAPS -- 1. Claudius Ptolomaeus, ?Sexta Asia Tabula?, 1478 -- 2. Carsten Niebuhr, ?Sinus Persicus?, 1765 -- PART II: LITTORAL -- 3. William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, 1807 -- 4. G.B. Brucks, Memoir Descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia, c.1830 -- 5. R. Hughes Thomas, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, 1856 -- 6. W.G. Palgrave, Narrative of a Year?s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1865 -- PART III: DESERT, SEA -- 7. Hermann Burchardt, ?Ost-Arabien von Basra bis Maskat auf Grund eigener Reise?, 1906 -- 8. J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915 -- 9. The Arabian Mission: Quarterly Letters From the Field, 1899-1906 -- 10. Handbook of Arabia, 1917 -- 11. Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 1932 -- PART IV: SKY -- 12. Coll 5/11 ?Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route ? Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar?: Royal Air Force Reconnaissance of Qatar, 9 May 1934 -- PART V: METROPOLIS -- 13. Jette Bang and Klaus Ferdinand, Bedouins of Qatar, 1959 -- 14. Nobody Gets Hurt Today -- Epilogue: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qasim Al Thani Museum. 330 $aThis book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves geographically through the landscape and chronologically through selected sources, drawing on digitised maps, manuscripts, hydrographic surveys, government records, traveller accounts, early photographs, archaeological and ethnographic reports. While these are standard sources recruited by Qatar to tell its own singular, streamlined history, this book is a subversive reading of those sources. It braids together elusive and precarious stories ? difficult to find, at risk of being lost, and never before brought together into a single volume ? to write a more complicated story of place. Through them, we can reimagine a place that, like many in the world, works hard to control a limited set of stories about itself. Readers who know something about Qatar will be surprised by the book?s nuances and details. Readers who know little or nothing will be drawn in to discover that, even in the most out-of-the-way and inhospitable places, deserts are never empty. Sue-Ann Harding is a Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queen?s University Belfast. Her research investigates translation in diverse contexts, particularly in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (Manchester University Press, 2012), has travelled widely, and lived and worked in Doha for almost five years. . 606 $aMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aHistory of the Middle East 606 $aCultural History 606 $aIntellectual History 615 0$aMiddle East$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of the Middle East. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aIntellectual History. 676 $a953.63 676 $a953.63 700 $aHarding$b Sue-Ann$01190292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910592978903321 996 $aAn Archival Journey Through the Qatar Peninsula$92914706 997 $aUNINA