Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chronology, 1900–2011
- Acronyms
- Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state
- Chapter 1 “A tract which is wholly sand …” Herodotus
- Chapter 2 Italy’s Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911–1950
- Chapter 3 The Sanusi Monarchy as Accidental State, 1951–1969
- Chapter 4 A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 1969–1973
- Chapter 5 The Green Book’s stateless society, 1973–1986
- Chapter 6 The limits of the revolution, 1986–2000
- Chapter 7 Reconciliation, civil war, and fin de régime, 2003–2011
- Epilogue Whither Libya?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chronology, 1900–2011
- Acronyms
- Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state
- Chapter 1 “A tract which is wholly sand …” Herodotus
- Chapter 2 Italy’s Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911–1950
- Chapter 3 The Sanusi Monarchy as Accidental State, 1951–1969
- Chapter 4 A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 1969–1973
- Chapter 5 The Green Book’s stateless society, 1973–1986
- Chapter 6 The limits of the revolution, 1986–2000
- Chapter 7 Reconciliation, civil war, and fin de régime, 2003–2011
- Epilogue Whither Libya?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- A History of Modern Libya , pp. 237 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012