9696 Muscat and the Trucial States

 

Research about ;

Muscat and the Trucial States 

 You will be doing some research for this course and then writing a paper that reports on your findings. 

For the research, you should locate and use a minimum of 2 (two) primary sources and 1 (one) secondary source. Your primary sources may be found in the digital archives accessed through the Library’s newspaper and historical archive databases. If you choose to use primary sources other than those, please have them approved before you begin your research. A good secondary source is one of the textbooks or readings that we have used in class. 

Your research report should be 4-5 pages long. For information on formatting your paper properly and using correct citations, please refer to the Social Sciences Style Guide on Blackboard.
Suggestions for research: 

1. Locate newspaper articles about the Trucial States from one of the digital newspaper archives available through our library. 

2. 3. a. 

Read the articles.
What kind of article are they? 

Reporting an incident? 

b.
c.
d.
4.
5.
mistakes in the article? 

6. Do you think the articles present facts, or do they push a perspective? 

7. Write a short essay analyzing the articles you found using all the points listed above. 

Examples of articles that you can look for: 

1. Treaties being signed with the British 

2. The Pirate Coast 

3. Piracy 

4. Slavery 

5. Descriptions of rulers and/or the people of the Trucial States 

6. Incidents and/or disagreements between the British and Emiratis 

7. Reports about British activities in the region during WW1 and WW2 

8. Reports about the Buraimi Dispute 

9. Reports of Lord Curzon’s “durbar” in Sharjah 

10. Discovery of oil. 

11. Bedouins 

12. Oil Sheikhs 

Library Sources:
Times of London Digital Archives
New York Times Digital Archives
British Library
National Archives
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/journals/srchbm.htm