Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gulf history and society. The archaeology and early history of the Persian Gulf / D.T. Potts ; The Persian Gulf in late antiquity: the Sasanian Era (200-700 C.E.) / Touraj Daryaee ; The Gulf in the early Islamic period: the contribution of archaeology to regional history / Donald Whitcomb -- The Kings of Hormuz: from the beginning until the arrival of the Portuguese / Mohammad Bagher Vosoughi ; Boom and bust: the port of Basra in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Rudi Matthee ; The Arab presence on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf / Shahnaz Razieh Nadjmabadi ; Gulf society: an anthropological view of the Khalijis--their evolution and way of life / William O. Beeman -- The Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The cultural unity of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean: a longue durée historical perspective / M. Redha Bhacker ; The Persian Gulf and the Swahili coast: a history of acculturation over the longue durée / Abdul Sheriff ; India and the Gulf: encounters from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries / Patricia Risso -- The role of outsiders. The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf / João Teles e Cunha ; Dutch relations with the Persian Gulf / Willem Floor ; The Ottoman role in the Gulf / Frederick Anscombe ; Britain and the Gulf: at the periphery of empire / J.E. Peterson -- The United States and the Persian Gulf in the twentieth century / Gary Sick.

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