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A History of Modern Libya

A History of Modern Libya

by Dirk Vandewalle

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 274 PAGES

An authoritative modern history. Dirk Vandewalle, a professor at Dartmouth, covers Libya from the 1900s through the Italian colonial period, monarchy and the nation since the 1969 revolution and rule by Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. This book is essentially an update of Vandewalle's Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-building.  (NAF41, $31.99)


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