Download or read book Unmaking North and South written by John Matthew Willis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willis revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, and religious reform in the Indian Ocean arena. The study is centred on the formation of the British Aden Protectorate and the Zaydi-Shiite Imamate of the Hamid al-Din family in the period between 1857 and 1934.