350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book tells the story of the Yemeni people, treating them as a single people. It shows that all over South West Arabia a unique civilisation arose in antiquity and many of its manifestations so conformed to the Yemeni temperament that they have lingered, until the present day.

    Map showing location of South West Arabia -- Introduction -- Map showing tribes of South West Arabia -- Pre-Islamic and Mediaeval Yemen -- European Intervention, Isolation and Renewed Intervention -- Two Empires in the Yemen -- Aden and the Hinterland 1919-1959 -- Yemen under the Mutawakilite Kings 1919-1962 -- The Federation of South Arabia -- The War in the North 1962-1970 -- The Two Yemens 1968-1972 -- The Two Yemens 1972-1979 -- Postscript: March 1979 to October 1981 -- Bibliography

    Biography

    Robin Bidwell