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a global history of the Persian Gulf

from the Stone Age to the present, by Alan Framerts.

For over 4,000 years, the Gulf, sometimes called the Persian

Gulf, sometimes the Arabian Gulf, has been a global crossroads while managing

to avoid control by the world's greatest empires.

This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East,

placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters.

Focusing each chapter on a different port.

The center of the world shows how the people of the Gulf adapted to larger changes in world

history, creating a system of free trade,

merchant rule, and commerce that continues to define the region today.

Learn more about the center of the world at you see from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting this introduction from Providence, Rhode Island.

The dig repeatedly returns to the question of internationalism because it's foundational

to socialist politics.

For starters, US imperialism imposes

neo-colonial military and economic orders

on unwilling peoples.

And so has long been a key opponent of popular democratic movements

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