An Archival Journey Through the Qatar Peninsula: Elusive and Precarious Harding Sue-Ann
This 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…
Specifikacia An Archival Journey Through the Qatar Peninsula: Elusive and Precarious Harding Sue-Ann
This 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