Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Preface
- Chronology, 1900–2005
- List of acronyms
- Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state
- 1 “A tract which is wholly sand …” (Herodotus)
- 2 Italy's Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911–1950
- 3 The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951–1969
- 4 A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 1969–1973
- 5 The Green Book's stateless society, 1973–1986
- 6 The limits of the revolution, 1986–2000
- 7 Fork in the road: Libya in the twenty-first century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
List of maps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Preface
- Chronology, 1900–2005
- List of acronyms
- Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state
- 1 “A tract which is wholly sand …” (Herodotus)
- 2 Italy's Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911–1950
- 3 The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951–1969
- 4 A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 1969–1973
- 5 The Green Book's stateless society, 1973–1986
- 6 The limits of the revolution, 1986–2000
- 7 Fork in the road: Libya in the twenty-first century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of Modern Libya , pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006