Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on the Transliteration Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Ecological and Social Origins of Regionalism and Pastoralism: The Myth of the Hilali Conquest 2. Ottoman Social Formation: A Trading and Communal Political Economy, 1830-1911 3. Markets, States, and Class Formation in Tripolitania and Fezzan, 1830-1911 4. The Political Economy of the Sanusiyya: Religion, Trade, and State Formation 5. Reactions to Colonialism: The Politics of Collaboration and Resistance, 1911-1932 Conclusion: Toward the Recovery of Libya's Civil Society Afterword Appendixes Appendix A. The Rates of Exchange of Other Currencies Appendix B. Libya's Major Trading Partners, 1885-1910 Appendix C. Volume of Libyan Exports and Imports in 1900 Appendix D. Trading Partners 1899-1902; Imports Appendix E. Major Trading Partners; Libyan Exports Appendix F. Transit Trade Export from Tripoli (1862-1904) Notes Glossary References Index

About the Author

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida is Professor of Political Science at the University of New England. He is the author of Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya and the editor of Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture, and Politics.