Forgotten voices power and agency in colonial and postcolonial Libya

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-103) and index.

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.