@article{1478937,
      recid = {1478937},
      author = {Jones, Toby Craig,},
      title = {Desert Kingdom : How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi  Arabia /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This is an environmental and political history of Saudi  Arabia, revealing the power of the environment to shape and  influence the political state. Jones traces the  modernization of the Saudi state and its rich oil reserves  that were developed with the help of U.S. expertise and a  technocratic elite who managed not only the vast oil  reserves and water supplies but also the growth of  political institutions. From the time oil was discovered in  the 1930s, its control has been at the center of Saudi  political authority and of the modern state. In addition  the state quickly learned to exploit access to water as a  means of controlling the population. Jones demonstrates the  power of the Saudi environment to influence its modern  political institutions and ideologies over the last eighty  years. It is a fascinating story that helps explain not  only how the Saudi state was transformed but also how the  U.S. was inextricably involved in its technological and  political modernization from the beginning.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478937},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059405},
}