TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alon,Yoav
TI  - The making of Jordan: tribes, colonialism and the modern state 
SN  - 9781848850132 (pbk.)
AV  - DS154.5 .A46 2009
U1  - 956.9504 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Jordan
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -