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King Abdallah and Palestine : A Territorial Ambition

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When in 1921 the British created the 'Amirate of Transjordan' for Abdallah to rule, the barren and desolate region he was given made him concentrate almost from the start on Palestine for an expansionist drive that was to underpin the legitimacy of the kingdom he craved and lend lustre to the crown he coveted.

Analyzing Abdallah's strategies vis-a-vis the other players involved - the British, the Jews, the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs - the author painstakingly shows how Abdallah gradually went about fulfilling that lifelong ambition.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
0333674081 / 9780333674086
Hardback
15/11/1996
United Kingdom
English
256p.
22 cm
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