Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State 1921-1946 Guthorn Harrison B.
The history of the city of Amman under the British protectorate government of Transjordan.Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for…
Specifikacia Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State 1921-1946 Guthorn Harrison B.
The history of the city of Amman under the British protectorate government of Transjordan.Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first, and a city second. As a representation of the new centralized authority, Amman became the seat of the Mandatory government that orchestrated the development of Transjordan, the British protectorate established in 1921.Despite its diminutive size, the city grew to house all the components necessary for a thriving and cohesive state by the end of the British protectorate in 1946. However, in spite of its modernizing and regulatory ambitions, the Transjordan government did not control all facets of life in the region. Instead, the story of Transjordan is one of tensions between the state and the realities of the region, and these