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    The making of Jordan : tribes, colonialism and the modern state / Yoav Alon.

    By: Alon, YoavMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2009Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xiv, 214 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781848850132 (pbk.); 1848850131 (pbk.)Subject(s): Nation-building -- Jordan -- History | Jordan -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 956.9504 LOC classification: DS154.5 | .A46 2009
    Contents:
    The study of state, tribe and colonial rule in Jordan -- Between two empires : Transjordan on the eve of Abdullah's arrival -- 'Bedu Amir' or constitutional monarch? The struggle for the nature of the emirate, 1921-1924 -- The making of a colonial state, 1924-1930 -- Colonialism as a fine art : Glubb Pasha and the desert tribes, 1928-1936 -- State consolidation and tribal participation, 1930-1946 -- Towards an appraisal of the mandate's legacy in Jordan -- Tribes and shaykhs.
    Summary: "At the beginning of the 20th century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes. By the time of its independence in 1946 it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarchy, with the help of the British colonial administrators."-back cover.
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    Originally published: 2007.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-202) and index.

    The study of state, tribe and colonial rule in Jordan -- Between two empires : Transjordan on the eve of Abdullah's arrival -- 'Bedu Amir' or constitutional monarch? The struggle for the nature of the emirate, 1921-1924 -- The making of a colonial state, 1924-1930 -- Colonialism as a fine art : Glubb Pasha and the desert tribes, 1928-1936 -- State consolidation and tribal participation, 1930-1946 -- Towards an appraisal of the mandate's legacy in Jordan -- Tribes and shaykhs.

    "At the beginning of the 20th century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes. By the time of its independence in 1946 it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarchy, with the help of the British colonial administrators."-back cover.

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