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City of Gold: DUBAI: From Desert Outpost to Global Metropolis

City of Gold: DUBAI: From Desert Outpost to Global Metropolis

Ishikawa, Alex

Paperback

Arabian PeninsulaGeneral Middle EastGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN13: 9798186836766
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 11 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From a pearl-diving village of a few thousand souls to the world's most visited city - in a single lifetime.

Few places on earth have transformed as radically, as visibly, and as recently as Dubai. In 1960, its skyline was one wind-tower and a fringe of palm trees. Today it is home to the world's tallest building, an artificial archipelago visible from space, an economy driven by tourism, finance, and trade rather than oil, and 3.8 million residents from more than 200 nationalities living side by side on a strip of Gulf coastline.

In City of Gold: Dubai, Alex Ishikawa traces the full arc of that transformation - from the pre-Islamic Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, through the founding of the Al Maktoum dynasty in 1833, the collapse of the pearl trade, the discovery of oil in 1966, the visionary rule of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, and the audacious mega-projects that turned a desert emirate into a global brand.

Inside this book you will discover:


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