The Making of Jordan
Subtitle: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 22, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781848850132
Subjects: History -- Asia; History -- Middle East -- Jordan; History -- World; Nonfiction -- Politics -- Practical Politics; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Political Science -- Political Doctrines
First sentence: The administrative situation in my country before my arrival quite resembled anarchy, namely tribal feuding and a degree of weakness and incoherence of the local governments such that most of the famous leaders were not able to travel from their tribal areas to the surrounding areas.1