Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion
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Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion

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

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Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion

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

About this book

During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb's private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain's post-1945 retreat from empire in the Middle East. Jevon details how Glubb's command of the Arab Legion secured British and Jordanian interests during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, answering questions that have dogged historians of this conflict for decades. He reveals how the Arab Legion was transformed, by Cold War concerns, from an internal Jordanian security force to a quasi-division within the British Army. Jevon also sheds new light on the succession crisis following King Abdullah's assassination, and uses previously unseen documents to challenge accepted contentions concerning King Hussein's dismissal of Glubb, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the nature of Britain's imperial decline.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781107177833
eBook ISBN
9781316836002
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A note on transliteration
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The 1946 Treaty, Palestine, and the Preclusion of the Arab Legion’s Planned Post-War Disbandment
  12. 2 The Partition of Palestine, the Greater Transjordan Solution, and the Newfound...
  13. 3 The 1948 War and Glubb’s Management of the Greater Transjordan Scheme
  14. 4 Bringing the 1948 War to an End: The Ad Hoc Consolidation of Greater Transjordan
  15. 5 Beyond 1948: The Arab Legion, Arab Nationalism, and the Cold War
  16. 6 A Puppeteer in Search of a Puppet: The Royal Succession and Britain’s Policy of Selective Non-Intervention
  17. 7 The Glubb Paradox and King Hussein’s Quest for Control of the Arab Legion
  18. 8 Behind the Veil of Suez: Glubbless Jordan and the Termination of the Treaty
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index