online archive assignment

Assignment Objectives

To explore online primary document archives and understand their contents, organization, and methodology.

    To critically evaluate primary sources and how to choose and analyze them.

    To practice organizing sources for writing.
 
Assignment: find a primary document regarding the British policy in Trucial States that reflects a social, economic or political aspect that happened during Trucial states period.
the primary document is ( oil production in abu dhabi )

https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fco/8/1538/n/39

following these to write the essay :

1.    Describe the document, explaining what kinds of information it contains, how they are organized,
2.    Identify the document historical background, its relevance to British policy in Trucial States
3.    Categorize the document nature (social, political, economic, military..) and explain what it contains and what it means to UAE history.
4.    You should organize your essay  : This assignment is about primary documents, not introductions, essays, or other secondary material.

i will upload the reading we used to study in the course relating to this. so total 2 references

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