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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Route-making

Admiralty Charts and the making of routes

The emergence of steam

‘The seas inlaid with eloquent, gentle wires’

Pilgrimage

The Suez Canal

Port management of routes

Freight rates

Speculative routes

Chapter 2 – Harbour-making

Curzon’s ‘prancing in the Persian puddle’

Dammam

Creeks and harbours of the Trucial Coast

Dubai

Aden

Making and remaking the land and the sea

Chapter 3 – Palimpsests of Law and Corporate Sovereigns

Weaponising arbitration tribunal

Dubai Ports World

Geophysical features into legal categories

The offshore

The global struggle over subsea resources

Free zones

Jabal Ali

Saudi economic cities

Chapter 4 – Roads and Rails Leading Away

Oil roads and rail

Roads as economic pacification weapons

Competing powers and roads

Federating transports

Peninsular connections

Chapter 5 – ‘Mechanic, Merchant, King’

Tanker and cargo shipping companies

Merchants and capitalists

Insurance and banking

Advisers, bureaucrats, and experts

The technopolitics of managing ports

Chapter 6 – Landside Labour

Conditions of work

Migration

Protests in the Peninsula

Politics or workplace protests?

Forms of protest

Unions as channels for protest

Chokepoints and counterlogistics

Chapter 7 – Shipboard Work

Lascars, Asiatics, and others

Circulation of revolt

Global hierarchies aboard ships today

Working on tankers

Flagging

Chapter 8 – The Bounties of War

Routes of war; wars of routes

The utility of regional wars for the Peninsula

Tankers, wars, and Tanker Wars

Desert Storm and after

The importance of bases

The riches of military construction and logistics

Epilogue

Glossary & abbreviations

Bibliography

Media (online and print), trade journals

Court Cases

Published Sources

Notes

Index