Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion
Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East
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- Author: Graham Jevon, University of Oxford
- Date Published: May 2019
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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.
Read more- Provides unprecedented access to the unofficial archives of the Arab Legion, including Glubb's private papers and the Arab Legion's London office
- Uses Glubb and the Arab Legion to guide the reader through the intersection of decolonisation, the Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict, thus synchronizing the major historical phenomena of the twentieth century
- New research provides a fresh insight into the partition of Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and a major revision of the 1956 Suez debate
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'In Britain's imperial history in the Middle East, Glubb Pasha falls somewhere between Lord Cromer and Lawrence of Arabia. In this ground-breaking new study, Glubb is placed at the crossroads between the making of modern Jordan, the birth of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the end of Britain's moment in the Middle East. An outstanding work of history of contemporary relevance.' Eugene Rogan, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
See more reviews'The dismissal of General Glubb - Glubb Pasha - by King Hussein of Jordan in March 1956 has always been regarded as a key event leading to the Suez crisis. In an extraordinarily perceptive assessment of both Glubb and Hussein, Graham Jevon places Jordan and other countries of the Middle East in historical context, above all, Egypt and Israel. He writes with sustained clarity and breadth of vision while paying exemplary attention to archival sources and specialized studies. A milestone in our knowledge of the Middle East in the 1950s.' Wm Roger Louis, University of Texas, Austin
'Jordan was a major pillar of Britain's informal empire in the Middle East and Glubb Pasha was an outstanding practitioner of the techniques of informal empire and indirect rule. This is by far the best study we have of the complex soldier-politician who was often referred to as a 'second Lawrence of Arabia'. Graham Jevon's book is based on a significant range of new archival sources and, above all, on the Glubb papers. The book covers the subject in considerable detail and great depth. It throws a great deal of new light on Glubb, on the Arab Legion he commanded, on the politics of his 'little army', and on Anglo-Jordanian relations during an eventful decade in what Elizabeth Monroe famously called 'Britain's moment in the Middle East'.' Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
'Jevon's ground-breaking study of Glubb and Jordan's Arab Legion is a fascinating insight into the military and political life of this British-officered army that also sheds new light on the international history of the Middle East in the 1940s and 1950s as the Legion contended with rising Arab nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the fading might of the British empire.' Matthew Hughes, Brunel Law School
'Using Glubb and the Arab Legion as his focus, Jevon has produced a stimulating reassessment of Britain's imperial relationship with Jordan in the immediate post-war period. By using newly released official documents, as well as underused private papers, not least those deriving from Glubb himself, Jevon has succeeded in challenging the existing historiography of Anglo-Jordanian relations in innovative and thought-provoking ways.' Simon C. Smith, The English Historical Review
'Jevon is to be congratulated for a scholarly, readable, and valuable study of the life and times of Glubb 'Pasha' from 1945 to 1956. Jevon's work proves the value of how new source material can add substantially to our under- standing of a key period of history.' Bustan
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- Date Published: May 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316629239
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 5 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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