TY - BOOK AU - Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi (ed) TI - The Yemeni War of 1994: causes and consequences SN - 9789948149705 AV - DS247 .Y48 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Abu Dhabi PB - ECSSR N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119) and index N2 - Andrew Wheatcroft in this powerful study argues that the founding father of modern Bahrain was its ruler from 1942 to 1961, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. Analysing a wealth of new evidence, he suggests that Shaikh Salman should now be considered one of the pioneers of the modern Middle East. He rejects the accepted historiography, based on a partial reading of the evidence, that credits others with the creation of Bahrain's structure of social welfare ER -