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Willys (pronounced , "Willis") was a brand name used by Willys–Overland Motors, an American automobile company, founded by John North Willys. It was best known for its design and production of World War II–era military jeeps (MBs), Willys M38 and M38A1 military jeeps as well as civilian versions (Jeep CJs), and branding the 'jeep' military slang-word into the '(Universal)&#;Jeep' marque.

History

Early history

In , John Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of Standard Wheel Company and in renamed it Willys–Overland Motor Company. From to , Willys was the second-largest producer of automobiles in the United States after Ford Motor Company.

In , Willys acquired a license to build Charles Yale Knight's sleeve-valve engine, which it used in cars bearing the Willys–Knight nameplate. In the mids, Willys also acquired the F. B. Stearns Company of Cleveland and assumed continued production of the Stearns-Knight luxury car, as well.

John Willys acquired the Electric Auto-Lite Company in and in formed the Willys Corporation to act as his holding company. In , it acquired the Russell Motor Car Company of Toronto, Ontario, and the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in Buffalo, New York, by , New Process Gear, and in acquired the Duesenberg Motors Company plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The New Jersey plant was replaced by a new, larger facility in Indianapolis, and was to be the site of production for a new Willys Six at an adjacent site, but the depression of –21 brought the Willys Corporation to its knees. The bankers hired Walter P. Chrysler to sort out the mess and the first model to go was the Willys Six, deemed an engineering disaster. Chrysler had three auto engineers: Owen Skelton, Carl Breer, and Fred Zeder (later nicknamed The Three Musketeers) begin work on a new car, commonly referred to as the Chrysler Six.^[9&

1John M. Willis’ book is a complex, nuanced and yet fascinating analysis of the construction of Yemeni state institutions in relation to their environment in the late 19 and early 20 centuries. Rather than offering a linear narrative of locally generated or “self‑originating” (p. 12) processes and dynamics that would highlight the “manifest destiny” of a unitary and centralized state and nation, the author insists on the one hand on the random or indeterminate character of most historical dynamics and decision making processes engaged, and on the other hand, he shows how much Yemen in the early 20 century, that is the Northern imamate and the British Protectorate in the South, were highly integrated into a series of spaces, debates and power structures that had developed well beyond the south‑western tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

2At the crossroads of different sub‑disciplines (colonial studies, nationalism theory, law, and Islamic studies), Unmaking North and South looks deep into the way history interacts and constructs geography and space, and influences identities. It analyses the construction of Yemen’s internal borders beyond the easy opposition of North and South Yemen that only became meaningful entities in the framework of the Cold War. For instance he shows how the local, mainly in the shape of tribes, has been in interaction with more global processes linked to transnational trade for instance.

3The volume’s capacity to bring together and use a wide variety of sources (diplomatic archives, biographies, newspaper articles but also interestingly poetry, Islamic and tribal law and iconography) and especially to compare the histories of North and South Yemen and confront Ottoman archives with reports published by British colonial institutions are obvious and impressive assets. In doing this, the book manages to bridge not only sub‑disciplinary gaps but also spaces between two sub‑area studies, between academic culture that som

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