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The Emergence of Libya: Selected Historical Essays
The Emergence of Libya Selected Historical Essays Author:John Wright The Emergence of Libya is a collection of pieces published over thirty-five years in a diversity of periodicals which include Encounter, Africa, The Maghreb Review, Slavery and Abolition and, most abundantly, Libyan Studies. In this selection, read about ... — - why, in about 1860, Britain lost its earlier enthusiasm for Tripoli and the Sahara as... more » a 'Gateway to Africa';
- what made the Zionist movement drop plans to settle one million East European Jews in Cyrenaica;
- why Mussolini accepted the 'Sword of Islam' in Tripoli in 1937;
- why Libya had such an easy passage to independence in 1951;
- how as a young leader, Moammar Gaddafi was publicly ridiculed by an Arab leader nearly old enough to be his grandfather, who claimed that the Libyans were still living in the days of Adam and Eve.
These are just some of the issues covered in the twenty-one essays in this book.« less