Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion

Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion

Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East

Jevon, Graham (University of Oxford)

Cambridge University Press

04/2017

332

Dura

Inglês

9781107177833

15 a 20 dias

A study of Britain's role in the Middle East from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to the 1956 Suez Crisis, based on significant new findings from the private papers of Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion. This book revises several key narratives regarding the decline of Britain's imperial presence in the region.
Introduction; 1. The 1946 Treaty, Palestine, and the preclusion of the Arab Legion's planned post-war disbandment; 2. The Partition of Palestine, the Greater Transjordan solution, and the new-found significance of Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion; 3. The 1948 war and Glubb's management of the Greater Transjordan scheme; 4. Bringing the 1948 war to an end: the ad hoc consolidation of Greater Transjordan; 5. Beyond 1948: the Arab Legion, Arab nationalism and the Cold War; 6. A puppeteer in search of a puppet: the royal succession and Britain's policy of selective non-intervention; 7. The Glubb paradox and King Hussein's quest for control of the Arab Legion; 8. Behind the veil of Suez: Glubbless Jordan and the termination of the Treaty; Conclusion.