agricultural economy. Historical records on Oman show in detail how such a system functioned before the era of modern economic …

Oman's history is characterized by duality of marketing structures. The spatial structure of these two different … economic systems can be analyzed with reports on economic activity in Oman from several decades either side of 1900. Coastal … Oman has always been very trade oriented and thus open to foreign influences. Although the Batinah is densely populated …

The history of Oman is largely a story of competition, and often conflict, between two very different entities. This … duality was even symbolized by the name of the country, “Sultanate of Muscat and Oman,” until 1970. The sultanate was formed … from the fusion of the Batina coastal plain and its port cities, symbolically Muscat, and the interior of the country, Oman …

Oman traditionally was characterized by a dichotomy between the economic systems of the coast and interior, evident in … were linked. There are now also many linkages between the two former systems, so that the market structure of Oman today …