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010			_a2019052101
020			_a9781786634825
050			_aHE559.A73 K43 2020
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245		0	_aSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula/ _bLaleh Khalili
260			_aLondon; NY; _bVerso; _c2020
300			_a357p; _c20x13cm
520			_aHow shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism. 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.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aHE561-971 Transportation and communications- Shipping _96571
650			_aPorts _96572
650			_aShipping _96573
651			_aMaritime economy _96574
700			_aKhalii, Laleh _96575
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