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Persia and the Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect, John F. Standish, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0–312–16142–5, x, 214 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, and index.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
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