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The Libyan Revolution : It's Origins and Legacy a Memoir and Assessment
Publisher :
O Books
Published Date : 2009/10
Binding : Paperback
ISBN : 9781846942563
BookWeb Price : S$ 34.70 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : S$ 27.76 Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Usually dispatches within 3 - 4 weeks. Language : English |
Book Description
Source: ENG
Place of Publication: Great Britain
Geographic Designator: Middle East/North Africa
Place of Publication: Great Britain
Geographic Designator: Middle East/North Africa
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Part One The End of the Old Regime 1 (40)
Pro-Western Tripoli 3 (18)
The Decadence of a Dying Order 21 (20)
Part Two sThe Revolution and its Aims 41 (50)
The 1969 Coup 43 (16)
Gaddafi's Anti-Western Measures: Growing 59 (32)
Extremism
Part Three The Achievements of the Revolution 91 (51)
Growing Terror and Isolation: 1971-1980 93 (18)
Terrorism and Nuclear Weapons, 1981-2001 111(16)
Returning to the International Fold and 127(15)
Disarmament, 2002-2009
Timeline 142(147)
Appendix
Portrait of Western Libya
Catching the Libyan Atmosphere and 155(134)
Western Links
Tripoli Castle: Two Caramanlis 157(3)
Suk Al-Jum'a: Camels and Volkswagen 160(5)
Nomads
Our Lady of Garian and the Troglodyte 165(6)
Wife
Tripoli's Old City: The Old British 171(5)
Consulate and the Baker
Leptis: Septimius Severus and the 176(7)
Medallioned Groom
Sabratha: Flavius Tullus and the 183(8)
Mosaic-Maker
Two Amphitheatres: Beasts and a 191(9)
Thracian Gladiator
Tripoli's Old City: A Tarbooshed 200(6)
Merchant, a Sandalled Plague-Bearer
New Tripoli: A Ghaffir with Italian 206(5)
Medals, 45s in an Oilman's Car
Miss Tully's Story of Yusef Caramanli 211(8)
The Shar'a Shart Fort: Battleships and 219(4)
a Rope Sling
The Intrepid: Decatur's Fireship, a 223(5)
Seaman with a Knotted Scarf
Djerba: Lotus and Skewered Lamb 228(4)
Viper's Valley: A Legend which Came 232(5)
True? The James Halifax Story
Casino: Wheel and a Rippling Jaw 237(3)
Focus on the Amphitheatres of Leptis 240(4)
and Sabratha: The Whereabouts of the
Beast-Pens and the Gladiator Prison
Tripoli: Old and New under a Blue Sky 244(3)
London: Merrie Dandies and a Blind Piper 247(4)
Palestine: The Arab Case in Britain 251(5)
London: Traditional, Modern, 256(5)
Underground, Pop, the Cultural Scene
Libyan-British Relations 261(7)
Provincial France: Grey Blinds, Baroque 268(5)
Statues, Frenchness
Libyans Show Solidarity with the 273(2)
Revolutionary Command Council
Old Regimes 275(4)
Libya's Young Puritans 279(4)
Libya under its Colonel from the Desert 283(4)
Dates of Articles 287(2)
Notes and References to Sources 289(6)
Bibliography 295
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