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This collection traces the development of the modern network of communications which makes light of the great distances involved in traversing the Middle East. From the first schemes to link India to Europe via a submarine cable through Muscat and Bushire in 1859, the documents detail a slow blooming of infrastructure in all aspects of communications: the development of deep water ports, shipping routes and navigational data; the growth of telegraph, cable, wireless and finally telephone systems, the press and broadcasting; the spectacular success of the railways in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; the creation of a reliable postal service; the improvement of roads and the 20th century expansion of motor transport, all creating links between and within the Gulf states.

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• Full title: The GCC States: National Development Records 9 Volume Hardback Set Including Boxed maps
• Subtitle: Communications and Transport 1860–1960
• Author: A. Burdett
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 6300
• EAN: 9781852076207
• ISBN: 1852076208
• ID: 02060699
• Publisher: Archive Editions Ltd
• Weight: 14500 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 160 × 271 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 1995

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