Bibliography

You will find below a preliminary bibliography relating to Italy's colonial policy in north Africa and to Libyan resistance. Recommendations on these and related topics are welcomed. Please email me at historyweb_uk@yahoo.co.uk
 

Abbott, C.F. The Holy War in Tripoli (London, 1912)

Anderson, Lisa. The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya 1830-1980
                        (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)

Barbar, Aghil. “The Tarablus Resistance to the Italian Invasion: 1911-1920,”
                        Ph.D. dissertation University of Wisconsin, Madison 1980

Betts, R.F.  Uncertain Dimesnions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century, (Oxford, 1985)

Burke III, Edmund and Lapidus, Ira eds.  Islam, Politics and Social Movements
                                                    (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)

Colucci, Massimo. Il Regime della Proprieta Fondiaria nell’ Africa Italiana
                                    Volume 1, Libia (Bologna, 1942)

Dajani, Ahmad.  al-Haraka al-Sanusiya  (Cairo: Ma’tba al Faniyaa, 1988)

Dalton, William.  “Patronage in Libyan Rural Development,” Nomadic Peoples 18 (June 1985)

De Leone, Enrico. La Colonizzione Dell’Africa Del Nord (Padaua: Cedam-Cassa Editrice, 1957)

De Rosa, Luigi. “Economics and Nationalism in Italy (1861-1914)"
                       The Journal of European Economic History 11:3 (winter 1983)

Del Boca, Angelo. Gli Italiani in Libia: Tripoli Bel Soul D’Amore 1860-1922. (Rome: Literza Figli, 1986)

Ensapato, Enrico. Libyan-Italian Relations 1902-1930 (Tripoli: Center for Libyan Studies, 1980)

Forbes, Rosita, “The Sanusi as a Factor in North African Development,”
                           Journal of the Central Asian  Society, VIII (1921)

Giglio, Carlo. La Confraternita Senussita dalle sue Origine as Oggi (Padova, 1932)

Goldfrank, Walter. “Silk and Steel: Italy and Japan between the two world wars.” In Edmund Burke III ed.
                             Global Crises and Social Movements. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988

Graziani, Rodolfo. Cirenaica Pacificata (Milano, 1932)

Joffe, E.G.H. ed. Social and Economic Development of Libya. Kent, England: MENAS, 1982

Le Gall, Michel. “The Ottoman government and the Sanusiya: A reappraisal.”
                           International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (1989)

Macaluso, Giuseppe. Turchi, Senussi e Italiani in Libia (Bengasi, 1930)

Macartney, Maxwell and Cremona, Paul. Italy’s Foreign and Colonial Policy 1914-1937
                                                            (London: Oxford University Press, 1938)

Mawusu’at Riwayat al-Jihad (A collection of oral history of the Libyan jihad)
                                            (Tripoli: Libyan Studies Center, 1983)

Mola, A.  L’Imperialismo Italiano: La politica estera dell’Unita al fascismo, Roma, 1980.

Morsy, Maghali. North Africa 1800-1900. London: Longman, 1987.

Pamuk, Sevket. The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913.
                            Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Perticone, G.  La politica coloniale italiana negli atti, documenti e discussioni parlamentari, Roma, 1972.

Piccioli, Angelo ed. La Nuova Italia d’Oltremare two volumes (Milano, 1933-34)

Robinson, Ronald. “Non-European foundations of European imperialism.” In R. Owen and B. Sutcliffe, eds.
                               Studies in the Theory of Imperialism. London: Longman, 1972.

Salihiya, Muhammad. “The Libyan papers documented secret, letters of  Ahmad al-Sharif, 1875-1933.”
                                   Annals of the College of Arts (Kuwait University) I 1980.

Sanderson, G.N., ‘The European Partition of Africa: Coincidence or Conjecture ’ in Penrose, E.F., ed.
                               European Imperialism and the Partition of Africa, London, 1975.

Shukri, Muhammad.  Al-Sanusiya (Cairo: Dar al-Fikir al-Arabi, 1948)

Serra, Fabrizio.  Italia e Senussia (Milano-Roma, 1933)

Simon, Rachel. Libya Between Ottomanism and Nationalism. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1987.

Al-Tillisi, Khalifa. Ma’arik al-Jihad (Tripoli: 1982)

Villari, Luigi. Italian Foreign policy Under Mussolini (New York:Devin-Adair, 1950)

Al-Wafi, Muhammad. al-Tariq Ila Lausanne. Tripoli: Dar al-Firjani, 1980.

Wright, John. “Outside Perceptions of the Sanusi.” Maghreb Review 13:1-2 (1988)

Wrigley, David. “Germany and the Turco-Italian War 1911-1912.” International Journal of Middle East
                            Studies 11 (3) (May 1980).

Two useful links on Italian history are the bulletinboard for libraries (UK) and  the Institute of Historical Research (UK)

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