Economic survey of the United Arab Emirates. An enterprising economic survey of the United Arab Emirates, which charts the first years of modernisation after the discovery of commercial quantities of oil. Fenelon's work was one of the first monographs to focus solely on the economy the UAE (then called the Trucial States) as it entered 'into the main currents of world trade and world politics', and was published with the intention of encouraging other scholars to 'undertake more detailed economic studies of the individual shaikhdoms' (p.5).

First edition; 8vo; 3 full-page maps; original sky-blue cloth, gilt, with printed dust-jacket, corners bumped, otherwise very good, the jacket slightly worn with small tears to extremities, otherwise near very good. Pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper and several instances of pencil underlining to the text. 87 pp.