All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture

Abstract

Archives at St Antony’s College, Oxford, which possesses a unique collection of papers on Oman and its armed forces. Supposedly books like this are subjected to rigorous editorial controls but there are numerous avoidable anomalies, including phrases such as “styptic defence vote” (p. 73), the inconsistent spelling of names (Glen/Glencairn Balfour-Paul rather than Hugh, p. 174, note 105, page 179, note 130) and titles (Peter Tripp was not British ambassador to Jordan, p. 228), and some of the references are not included in the bibliography (Imperial War Museum, p. 97, note 115). As such, this is a book of omissions as much as it is a historic telling and partial and limited as a result.