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The Evolution of Historical Writing on Jordan in English

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Within fifteen years of the creation of the state of Jordan, the first histories of the new country began to appear. Over the past century, three distinct phases of history writing can be discerned: subjective histories, written by British and Jordanian participants in the mandate state-building project; objective histories, written by researchers who were independent of the Anglo-Jordanian founders of the state; and revisionist historians who based their work on archival sources to challenge and extend the scope of earlier histories. Over the past quarter century, revisionist historians have come increasingly to rely on archival resources and previous research work in Jordan.

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I. Introduction: A Conceptual Framework.- I The Political Environment.- II. The Historical Background.- Abdullah's Campaign in Transjordan.- The Churchill-Abdullah Agreement.- Political Life in the Early Period.- Britain, Abdullah, and the Nationalists.- Britain, Abdullah and the tribes.- III. The Communal Structure of Politics.- Two People and One Nation.- Ethnic, Religious, and Social Minorities.- The Circassians.- The Christians.- The Refugees.- IV. Economic and Demographic Conditions.- Economic Conditions.- Agriculture and the Land.- Land Tenure.- Manufacturing and Mining.- Public Finance.- Demographic Characteristics.- II The Changing Structure of Society.- V. Patriarchal Oligarchy.- State-Building: The Adoption of Legal Status, 1922.- The Constitutional Structure, 1928-1946.- Political Parties.- The Political Process.- VI. Palace Politics Versus Constitutionalism (1950-1953).- The Constitutional Structure.- Political Parties since 1950.- Ideological Parties.- Bloc Parties.- The Political Process, 1950'1953.- The Cabinet.- Freedom of Expression and Political Association.- The Constitutional Amendments.- The Pattern of Challenge and Response: Reaction of the Palace Group.- The Defeat of Liberalism.- III External Factors in Political Development.- VII. From The Baghdad Pact to The Eisenhower Doctrine (1954-57).- Jordan and the Baghdad Pact.- The Dismissal of General Glubb.- The Unified Arab Command.- The Triumph of the Opposition.- Restoration of Royal Absolutism.- The Reign of Terror.- VIII. Jordan, The Arab Union, And The United Arab Republic.- The Arab Union: Constitutional Arrangements.- The Arab Union, Jordan and the Regional Balance of Power.- Jordan and the United Nations.- The System of Checks and Balances.- IX. The Search for Stability, 1959-1965.- Jordan and the United States, 1959-1960.- Jordan and Inter-Arab Relations, 1959-1962.- The United States and Inter-Arab Relations.- Economic and Political Reforms.- The First Phase: The Premiership of Hazza al-Majali.- The Second Phase: The Premiership of Wasfi Tell.- Economic Development: The Seven-Year Plan.- Political Reforms: The Seventh Parliament.- Political Reforms and Inter-Arab Politics.- X. Summary and Conclusions.
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