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Chieftaincy to Monarchical State (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); H. St.

John Philby's Sa'udi Arabia (London: Benn; New York: Praeger, 1955); Karl

Twitchell's Saudi Arabia, with an Account of the Development of Its Natural Re¬

sources, 3rd ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958); and James Wyn-

brandt's A Brief History of Saudi Arabia (New York: Checkmark Books, 2004).

Background studies include R. Bayly Winder, Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Cen¬

tury (New York: St. Martin's, 1965); and William Ochsenwald, Religion, Society,

and State in Arabia: The Hijaz Under Ottoman Control (Columbus: Ohio State

University Press, 1984). On oil, see the relevant sections of Daniel Yergin's The

Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York: Simon & Schuster,

1991). For Saudi Arabia's US connection, read Parker T. Hart, Saudi Arabia and

the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998). A Web site that

covers Saudi Arabia to 1992 is http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/satoc.html.

CHAPTER 15

Of benefit to both scholars and students is a collaborative work on Egypt's history
since the Arab conquest, the two-volume Cambridge History of Egypt (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998), of which the first volume was edited by Carl
Petry and the second by M. W Daly. A good introduction to Egypt's early twentieth-
century history is Selma Botman, Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991). Advanced students will profit from
Arthur Goldschmidt, Amy Johnson, and Barak Salmoni, eds., Re-Envisioning Egypt
(Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005). Other books on this period in¬
clude Joel Beinin and Zachary Lockman, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Commu¬
nism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1987); Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski, Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search
for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986);
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt's Liberal Experiment, 1922-1936 (Berkeley: Uni¬
versity of California Press, 1977); Richard Mitchell, The Society of Muslim Brothers
(London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1969; reprinted 1993); Charles
Smith, Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt: A Biography of
Muhammad Husayn Haykal (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983); William Stadiem, Too
Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk (New York: Carroll and Graf,
1991); and Robert L. Tignor, State, Private Enterprise, and Economic Change in
Egypt, 1918-1952 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
On the overthrow of the monarchy, start with Joel S. Gordon, Nasser's Blessed
Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution (Cairo: American University
in Cairo Press, 1996), followed by some personal accounts: Khaled Mohi El Din,
Memories of a Revolution (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995); Gamal
Abdel Nasser, Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (Washington, DC: