TY - BOOK AU - Blackwell,Stephen ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - British military intervention and the struggle for Jordan: King Hussein, Nasser and the Middle East crisis, 1955-1958 T2 - British politics and society AV - DS154.16.G7 B53 2009 U1 - 956.04/4 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Nationalism KW - Jordan KW - Foreign relations KW - Great Britain KW - United States KW - Arab countries KW - Egypt KW - History KW - Intervention, 1956 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index; Introduction : Jordan, Suez and the decline of British influence in the Middle East -- Glubb's Jordan : the Arab legion, the Hashemites and the nationalist challenge, 1948-1956 -- Amman under the shadow of Nasser : Jordanian nationalism and the Suez crisis, April-November 1956 -- The British abandonment and the American retrieval of Jordan, November 1956-April 1957 -- The kings against the colonels : Jordan and the Anglo-American plot to overthrow the Syrian government, 1957 -- Combating Nasser : Anglo-American support for Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, November 1957-June 1958 -- The Baghdad coup and the Macmillan government's decision to intervene in Jordan, 14-17 July 1958 -- A tenuous foothold : British paratroops deploy in Amman, July-August 1958 -- Managing the international crisis : creating a UN 'mantle' for Jordan, September-November 1958 -- Belated reappraisals : Anglo-American policy, regional nationalism and the future of Jordan, November 1958-March 1959; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=370984 ER -