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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Lawrence G. Potter -- Gulf history and society. The archaeology and early history of the Persian Gulf / D.T. Potts -- The Persian Gulf before Islam : the Sasanian Era (200-700 C.E.) / Touraj Daryaee -- The Gulf in the early Islamic period : the contribution of archaeology to regional history / Donald Whitcomb -- The Kings of Hormuz : from the beginning until the arrival of the Portuguese / Mohammad Bagher Vosoughi -- Boom and bust : the port of Basra in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Rudi Matthee -- The Arab presence on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf / Shahnaz Razieh Nadjmabadi -- Gulf society : an anthropological view of the Khalijis, their evolution and way of life / William O. Beeman -- The Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The cultural unity of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean : a longue dure historical perspective / M. Redha Bhacker -- The Persian Gulf and the Swahili coast : a history of acculturation over the longue dure / Abdul Sheriff -- India and the Gulf : encounters from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries / Patricia Risso -- The role of outsiders. The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf / Jo'o Teles'e Cunha -- Dutch relations with the Persian Gulf / Willem Floor -- The Ottoman role in the Gulf / Frederick Anscombe -- Britain and the Gulf : at the periphery of empire / J.E. Peterson -- The United States and the Persian Gulf in the twentieth century / Gary Sick. - Includes bibliographical references and index

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