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Jordan Select Bibliography

Art and Archaeology

Fowden, Garth.
Quṣayr ʻAmra : art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004.
Lilly Library ND2819.J6 F69 2004 Check availability @ Duke
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MacDonald, Burton.
Pilgrimage in early Christian Jordan : a literary and archaeological guide.
Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books; David Brown, 2010.
Library Service Center DS153.3.M32 P55 2010 Check availability @ Duke
Malt, Carol.
Women's voices in Middle East museums : case studies in Jordan.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Perkins/Bostock Library AM79.4 .M35 2005 Check availability @ Duke
Markoe, Glenn (ed.)
Petra rediscovered : the lost city of the Nabataeans.
New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2003.
Lilly Library DS154.9.P48 P49 2003 Check availability @ Duke
Petersen, Andrew.
The medieval and Ottoman hajj route in Jordan : an archaeological and historical study.
Oxford ; Oakville Conn.; London: Oxbow Books; Council for British Research in the Levant, 2012.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS153.3 .P47 2012 Check availability @ Duke

History

Munīf, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.
Story of a city : a childhood in Amman.
London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1996.
Perkins/Bostock Library Check availability @ Duke
Robins, Philip.
A History of Jordan.
Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.5 .R63 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Politics and Government

Abdullah II, King of Jordan.
Our last best chance : the pursuit of peace in a time of peril.
New York: Viking, 2011.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.6.A23 A3 2011 Check availability @ Duke
Al O'ran, Mutayyam.
Jordanian-Israeli relations : the peacebuilding experience.
London ; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.16.I75 A4 2009 Check availability @ Duke
Ashton, Nigel John.
King Hussein of Jordan : a political life.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.55 .A84 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Eilon, Joab B.
The making of Jordan : tribes, colonialism and the modern state.
London ; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.5 .E45 2007 Check availability @ Duke
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Joyce, Miriam.
Anglo-American support for Jordan : the career of King Hussein.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.55 .J79 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Lynch, Marc.
State interests and public spheres : the international politics of Jordan's identity.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.55 .L89 1999 Check availability @ Duke
Milton-Edwards, Beverley.
Jordan : a Hashemite legacy.
London ; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS154.5 .M55 2009 Check availability @ Duke
Ryan, Curtis R.
Inter-Arab alliances : regime security and Jordanian foreign policy.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library HV6295.J67 R93 2009 Check availability @ Duke
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Tell, Tariq.
The social and economic origins of monarchy in Jordan.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Perkins/Bostock Library JC375 .T4 2013 Check availability @ Duke