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Format: 1 online resource (392 p.) : , 29 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations

ISBN: 9781474430678

Content: A new interdisciplinary approach to Gulf StudiesThe Gulf sits at an ancient crossroads of cultures and faiths, and at the heart of modern trade stretching back to the origins of civilization. As a site of both conflict and peaceful encounter, it can be studied in the context of world history, as a place of cultural and historical encounter. From medieval astrology to museum architecture, from the trade of glass and pearls to the role of Indians, Africans, Christian monks, Mandaeans and merchants, this book spans historical periods and disciplinary approaches. It is united by one overarching theme: the Gulf as a cosmopolitan nexus and space of encounter. The chapters describe a Gulf simultaneously perched on the edge of empires and at the centre of world events. Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.Key FeaturesThe first interdisciplinary study of the Gulf incorporates scholarship on cosmopolitan and global connections in archaeology, history and heritage studiesIncludes contributions from leading scholars from many disciplines who link the Gulf to the history of the Mediterranean and of the Indian Ocean Presents new ideas, new evidence and new approaches to the archaeology, theory and history of the GulfFocuses on diversity within the Gulf given its location on the edge of empiresContributorsAllen Fromherz, Georgia State UniversityRichard McGregor, Vanderbilt UniversityValeria Piacentini Fiorani, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan Charles Häberl, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyGhulam A. Nadri, Georgia State University Abdulrahman al Salimi is an Omani Researcher, Sultanate of OmanJohan Mathew, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyMatthew S. Hopper, California Polytechnic State University Mark Horton, University of BristolMichael A. Ryan, University of New MexicoEric Staples, Zayed UniversityTimothy Power, Zayed UniversityRobert Carter, University College London (UCL) Qatar Carolyn M. Swan, University College London (UCL) QatarWilliam G. Zimmerle, Farleigh Dickinson UniversityKaren Exell, University College London (UCL) QatarLamya Harub is an Omani Diplomat

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Illustrations -- , Map of the Gulf -- , Acknowledgements -- , List of Contributors -- , 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History -- , Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism -- , 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia -- , 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE -- , 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? -- , Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean -- , 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- , 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 -- , 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s -- , Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa -- , 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism -- , 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean -- , Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea -- , 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf -- , 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks -- , 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis -- , Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology -- , 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE -- , 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf -- , Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf -- , 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner -- , 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World -- , 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis -- , Index , In English.

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Subjects: History

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

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Subjects: History

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Format: 1 online resource (197 pages)

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Content: 〈p〉〈em〉Berkeley Castle Tales〈/em〉 presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive archival and geophysical research, the narrative behind the construction of Berkeley Castle, the corresponding town, and the area of the Severn valley that overlooks the borders with Wales. By combining the results of archaeological fieldwork with information contained in the castle's impressive collection of 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our knowledge and understanding of the early medieval period and the subsequent changes in landscape and society that occurred with the coming of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site. Throughout the publication the advances that the Berkeley Castle project offered to archaeological practice, to excavation and geophysics methodology, and to the community and public archaeology are evident, since the editors intend the volume to be a milestone not only for the study of a castle landscape but also for archaeological method and practice.〈/p〉

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Series Statement: IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 96/126

Content: Russia, the Baltic states and the other countries of the former Soviet Union inherited health and education systems that were in need of substantial structural and financial reform. In spite of a sharp decline of real resources, this reform has barely begun. While health and education have not suffered disproportionate cuts, employment has been maintained, with real wages sharply compressed, purchases of materials reduced and energy-related spending taking a greater share of resources in many countries. Structural and financial reform would include reducing staffing and physical capacity, while increasing expenditures for materials and wages for the more highly qualified

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Horton, Mark Health and Education Expenditures in Russia, the Baltic States, and the Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996 ISBN 9781451936551

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Series Statement: Occasional Papers Occasional Paper No. 246

Content: When policymakers have little option but to consider a sizable fiscal adjustment, they are confronted by the following questions: Can a large fiscal adjustment be implemented succesfully? How is a large adjustment best designed and implemented? What will be its impact on the economy? This Occasional Paper addresses these questions by describing the experience of countries that have undertaken large fiscal adjustments in the last three decades. It provides operational guidance to policymakers by identifying preconditions, common policy approaches, and institutional arrangements underlying successful and unsuccessful adjustment episodes

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Horton, Mark Experience with Large Fiscal Adjustments Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006 ISBN 9781589064584

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Series Statement: IMF Working Papers

Content: This paper employs two established macroeconomic models to show that fiscal policy in the euro area can help monetary policy in reducing inflation. Specifically, a fiscal consolidation of 1 percent of GDP for two years and 0.5 percent in the third year across the euro area would ease the policy interest rate by 30-50 basis points relative to the baseline scenario, while lowering inflation. It would also put the public debt-to-GDP ratio on a downward path, with the output costs reversing after the second year. Additionally, a stronger fiscal contribution to the policy mix could mitigate financial fragmentation risks. In the current context of elevated inflation in all euro area economies, the findings suggest two key takeaways: first, synchronized fiscal and monetary policies offer gains even when monetary policy is unconstrained and, second, sharing the burden of lowering inflation through fiscal consolidation among euro area members is beneficial for union-wide inflation reduction, improving debt sustainability and inducing a lower policy rate path.

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ISBN: 1-4623-8041-7 , 1-4552-3855-4 , 1-4623-5962-0

Series Statement: Technical Notes and Manuals

Content: This technical note focuses on computing cyclically adjusted balances and automatic stabilizers. The note provides guidance on how to decompose overall fiscal balances into cyclical and cyclically adjusted components, and how to interpret automatic fiscal stabilizers. These indicators are commonly used to assess how fiscal policy responds to macroeconomic conditions. Various approaches to cyclical adjustment and estimation of the automatic stabilizers are possible. This note focuses on the approach used by the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department in the paper on the State of Public Finances and in the Fiscal Monitor.

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