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A History of Modern Libya » (New Edition)
Authors: Dirk Vandewalle
ISBN-13: 9780521615549, ISBN-10: 0521615542
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Dirk Vandewalle
Dirk Vandewalle is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-building (1998), and the editor of Qadhafi's Libya, 1969-1994 (1995).
Book Synopsis
First comprehensive history of modern Libya over the last two decades.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : Libya, the enigmatic oil state | 1 | |
| 1 | "A tract which is wholly sand ..." (Herodotus) | 11 |
| 2 | Italy's fourth shore and decolonization, 1911-1950 | 24 |
| 3 | The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951-1969 | 43 |
| 4 | A Libyan sandstorm : from monarchy to republic, 1969-1973 | 77 |
| 5 | The Green Book's stateless society, 1973-1986 | 97 |
| 6 | The limits of the revolution, 1986-2000 | 139 |
| 7 | Fork in the road : Libya in the twenty-first century | 175 |
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