Rulers and Merchants in Pre-oil Kuwait: The Significance of Palm Dates

Arts & Humanities

• Kuwait 100%
• Merchants 79%
• Oil 68%
• Ruler 65%
• Wealth 42%
• Economics 38%
• World War I 23%
• Iraq 22%
• Plantation 22%
• Domination 22%
• State Formation 22%
• Economic Crisis 20%
• 1830s 20%
• Elites 19%
• Luxury 19%
• Commerce 17%
• 1920s 14%
• Commodities 14%
• 1950s 14%
• 1930s 14%
• Profitability 12%
• Income 10%

Social Sciences

• Kuwait 89%
• twentieth century 49%
• economics 24%
• luxury 23%
• First World War 22%
• profitability 22%
• economic power 21%
• state formation 20%
• commerce 18%
• domination 18%
• commodity 18%
• nineteenth century 18%
• economic crisis 17%
• Iraq 17%
• elite 14%
• demand 12%
• income 12%
• time 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• twentieth century 47%
• oil 44%
• economics 43%
• family 43%
• ruling 19%
• nineteenth century 17%
• profitability 17%
• commodity 15%
• plantation 13%
• income 13%
• society 11%
• demand 9%
• world 8%