TY - GEN AU - AL-Nakib, Farah TI - Kuwait transformed : a history of oil and urban life SN - 9780804798525 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2016/// CY - California PB - Stanford University Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii Note on Transliteration xvi Introduction 1 1. Pre-Oil Urbanism 21 2. Port City Life 43 3. A Cosmopolitan Community 71 4. Oil-Era Modernization 91 5. The Move to the Suburbs 121 6. The Privatization of Urban Life 149 7. The De-Urbanization of Society 175 8. The Right to the City 199 Notes 225 Glossary of key Terms 253 Bibliography 255 Index 269 ER -