King Abdullah, Britain, and the making of Jordan
The first in-depth study of the historical and personal circumstances that made King Abdullah such a controversial figure in modern Middle East history
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York
Cambridge University Press
1987
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| Series: | Cambridge Middle East library
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Mecca and Istanbul
- 3. The Arab revolt
- 4. The creation of Transjordan
- 5. Settling in
- 6. Discovering the limits
- 7. Abdullah and Palestine, 1921-39
- 8. War and politics
- 9. Abdullah, Britain and the Arab world, 1945-8
- 10. 1948
- 11. The end of ambition
- 12. Epilogue