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020			_a9781108448383
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100	1		_aPhilip Robins
245	1	2	_aA History of Jordan
250			_a2nd ed.
264		1	_aCambridge; _aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2019
300			_a316 p., _bill.; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aOn the edge of empire -- Founding state and regime --The long road to independence -- Loss of innocence -- The roaring fifties -- The road to disaster -- Illusions of progress -- Hussein's choices -- Abdullah's governance debate at home -- International relations under Abdullah -- Conclusion : Jordan: still a politely run authoritarian state..
520			_a"Since the publication of the first edition, substantial changes have occurred in the political landscape of Jordan and the Middle East. King Abdullah II has cemented his rule amidst an onslaught of threats which have faced his kingdom since he succeeded his father in 1999. The Syrian civil war has fundamentally shifted the political context of its neighbouring countries, with Jordan experiencing a huge population explosion as people moved across the border from Syria. This second edition of Robins' accessible and succinct survey of Jordanian political history is an account of a century of events within a country whose fortunes are closely identified with its heads of state. Beginning in the early 1920s in the Mandate years, and now benefiting from new material on the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, attempts at democratisation, the collapse of the economy, the Jordan Spring and refugee crisis, this new edition featuring original research brings Jordan's political history into the twenty-first century"-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		0	_aJordan _xHistory _y20th century
651		0	_aJordan _xHistory _y21st century
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