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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TransliterationPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. Ecological and Social Origins of Regionalism and Pastoralism: The Myth of the Hilali Conquest2. Ottoman Social Formation: A Trading and Communal Political Economy, 1830-19113. Markets, States, and Class Formation in Tripolitania and Fezzan, 1830-19114. The Political Economy of the Sanusiyya: Religion, Trade, and State Formation5. Reactions to Colonialism: The Politics of Collaboration and Resistance, 1911-1932Conclusion: Toward the Recovery of Libya’s Civil SocietyAfterwordAppendixesAppendix A. The Rates of Exchange of Other CurrenciesAppendix B. Libya’s Major Trading Partners, 1885-1910Appendix C. Volume of Libyan Exports and Imports in 1900Appendix D. Trading Partners 1899-1902; ImportsAppendix E. Major Trading Partners; Libyan ExportsAppendix F. Transit Trade Export from Tripoli (1862-1904)NotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TransliterationPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. Ecological and Social Origins of Regionalism and Pastoralism: The Myth of the Hilali Conquest2. Ottoman Social Formation: A Trading and Communal Political Economy, 1830-19113. Markets, States, and Class Formation in Tripolitania and Fezzan, 1830-19114. The Political Economy of the Sanusiyya: Religion, Trade, and State Formation5. Reactions to Colonialism: The Politics of Collaboration and Resistance, 1911-1932Conclusion: Toward the Recovery of Libya’s Civil SocietyAfterwordAppendixesAppendix A. The Rates of Exchange of Other CurrenciesAppendix B. Libya’s Major Trading Partners, 1885-1910Appendix C. Volume of Libyan Exports and Imports in 1900Appendix D. Trading Partners 1899-1902; ImportsAppendix E. Major Trading Partners; Libyan ExportsAppendix F. Transit Trade Export from Tripoli (1862-1904)NotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TransliterationPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. Ecological and Social Origins of Regionalism and Pastoralism: The Myth of the Hilali Conquest2. Ottoman Social Formation: A Trading and Communal Political Economy, 1830-19113. Markets, States, and Class Formation in Tripolitania and Fezzan, 1830-19114. The Political Economy of the Sanusiyya: Religion, Trade, and State Formation5. Reactions to Colonialism: The Politics of Collaboration and Resistance, 1911-1932Conclusion: Toward the Recovery of Libya’s Civil SocietyAfterwordAppendixesAppendix A. The Rates of Exchange of Other CurrenciesAppendix B. Libya’s Major Trading Partners, 1885-1910Appendix C. Volume of Libyan Exports and Imports in 1900Appendix D. Trading Partners 1899-1902; ImportsAppendix E. Major Trading Partners; Libyan ExportsAppendix F. Transit Trade Export from Tripoli (1862-1904)NotesGlossaryReferencesIndex