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
Print Book, English, 1987
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1987
Biographies
xxii, 289 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
9780521324212, 9780521399876, 0521324211, 0521399874
15629457
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