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A history of modern Libya /
An updated edition of Libya's history by one of its leading scholars charts developments up to the revolution in 2011.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2012]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; A history of modern Libya; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chronology, 1900-2011; The Ottoman and Italian period; Libya in the aftermath of World War II; The Libyan monarchy; The Qadhafi period; Acronyms; Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state; Chapter 1: "A tract which is wholly sand . . ." Herodotus; Libya's geography; The Ottoman period and the Sanusiyya; Europan intrusions and the young Turk revolt; The Ottoman legacy; Chapter 2: Italy's Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911-1950.
- The Italian occupation, 1911-1923; Fascism and the Italian settler colony; World War II, Italy's defeat, and the great power deliberations; Legacies at the eve of independence; Chapter 3: The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951-1969; Politics of avoidance: The reluctant monarchy; The development challenges of the first decade; The Libyan oil industry; The unification of the kingdom; The social impact of oil and the early seeds of revolution; The monarch in perspective; Chapter 4: A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 1969-1973; Libya's young revolutionaries.
- Popular revolution, participation, and legitimacy; Charisma and rhetoric as mobilizational tools; Oil and economic management; The revolution on the eve of the 1973 oil crisis; Chapter 5: The Green Book's stateless society, 1973-1986; Revolutionaries, technocrats, and "The green book" as political primer; "The green book's" economic and social directives; Oil and development; The revolutionary society; Symbols, myths, Islam, and opposition; Terrorism, Aadventurism, and confrontation with the west; The revolutionary decade revisited; Chapter 6: The limits of the revolution, 1986-2000.
- Curtailing revolutionary energy "The great green charter of human rights"; Protecting the regime: Formal and informal means of power and control; The economic sanctions and their impact; Economic sanctions and oil policies; Attempts at economic reform; The lessons of failed reforms; Confrontation, terrorism, and sanctions; The revolution curtailed; Chapter 7: Reconciliation, civil war, and fin de régime, 2003-2011; The road to disarmament; pragmatism, economic reform, and political reality; From Arab socialaism to Pan-African unity; The delusions of Qadhafi and of the west.
- The uprising in Cyrenaica and the civil war epilogue: Whither Libya?; Notes; 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 sandstrom: from monarchy to republic, 1969-1973; 5 The green book's stateless society, 1973-1986; 6 The limits of the revolution, 1986-2000; 7 Reconciliation, civil war, and fin de régime, 2003-2011; Bibliography; Index.