{"title":"The Long Road to Independence","authors":"Philip J. Robins","doi":"10.1017/9781108605373.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108605373.006","url":null,"abstract":"By the late 1920s there was no longer any dispute about the existence of either state or regime in Transjordan. Britain was the mandate overlord in the emirate; Prince Abdullah was the titular head of the regime; a combination of British officials and a largely imported administrative class presided over the government of the country; and Amman was established as the growing power centre of the state. 1 Peace and order prevailed in the settled part of the country, if not in the majority of its territory.","PeriodicalId":183731,"journal":{"name":"A History of Jordan","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123509766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roaring Fifties","authors":"D. Edward","doi":"10.1017/9781108605373.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108605373.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183731,"journal":{"name":"A History of Jordan","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127497097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}