The making of modern Libya state formation, colonization, and resistance /
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida.
- second edition.
- Albany, [N.Y. : SUNY Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ecological and social origins of regionalism and pastoralism : the myth of the Hilali conquest -- Ottoman social formation : a trading and communal political economy, 1830-1911 -- The political economy of the Sanusiyya : religion, trade, and state formation -- Reactions to colonialism : the politics of collaboration and resistance, 1911-1932 -- Conclusion : toward the recovery of Libya's civil society.