books.google.ca - The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite extraordinary. This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of economic change and the fundamental...http://books.google.ca/books/about/An_Economic_History_of_the_Middle_East_A.html?id=t2UESIFL0tkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAn Economic History of the Middle East And North Africa