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Author Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif, 1953-

Title Forgotten voices : power and agency in colonial and postcolonial Libya / Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 108 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents From the Ottomans to the Italians: a political economy approach to state formation in nineteenth-century Libya -- The rediscovery of the state of Awlad Muhammad: sources and significance, 1550-1813 -- From tribe to class: the origins and politics of class formation in colonial Libya -- Italian facism-benign? collective amnesia concerning colonial Libya -- Identity and alienation in postcolonial Libyan literature: the trilogy of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih -- The Jamahiriya: historical and social origins of a populist state
Summary Aims to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist analyses of modern Libya, which have ignored Libyan society and culture. This work argues that both colonial and postcolonial Libyan society has confronted contradictions modernity, genocide, and nation-state and alienation. It is aimed at Middle East scholars influenced by the perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-103) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Africa -- North.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Libya -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Libya -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Libya
Libyen
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203955826
020395582X
9780203825129
0203825128
0415949866
9780415949866