History of Libya

by John Wright and John Wright

Book Overview

John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence of a "new" Libya in 2011. After surveying the story of the central Sahara's early hunter-gatherers and its Garamantian civilization, Wright briskly recounts the land's succession of foreign invaders, followed by the semi-independent Karamanli regime in 1711 and the return of the Turks in 1835. He discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327114
• ISBN13: 9780199327119
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"