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Italian ColonialismState and Class Formation and Collaboration in Colonial Libya

Italian Colonialism: State and Class Formation and Collaboration in Colonial Libya [In early nineteenth-century Libya, townsmen, peasants, and tribesmen identified their interests according to kinship, regional, and religious ideologies rather than class affiliation. Although distinct classes existed, class formation was hindered by the self-sufficiency of seminomads and small peasantry, and the instability of the central state and private property. By 1911, when Italian rule began, the effects of eighty years of Ottoman state formation and the development of European capitalism had unsettled the old tributary social structure and fostered the emergence of more defined class configurations that differed markedly among the country’s three regions. Tripolitania had an urban notable class, a peasantry, and tribal confederations, while Fezzan was dominated by tribal confederations, landowning clans, and sharecropping peasants. Cyrenaica had no peasantry, and the formation of the Sanusi state integrated tribal factions into one cohesive social force.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismState and Class Formation and Collaboration in Colonial Libya

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
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978-0-230-60636-4
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59 –71
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10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_6
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Abstract

[In early nineteenth-century Libya, townsmen, peasants, and tribesmen identified their interests according to kinship, regional, and religious ideologies rather than class affiliation. Although distinct classes existed, class formation was hindered by the self-sufficiency of seminomads and small peasantry, and the instability of the central state and private property. By 1911, when Italian rule began, the effects of eighty years of Ottoman state formation and the development of European capitalism had unsettled the old tributary social structure and fostered the emergence of more defined class configurations that differed markedly among the country’s three regions. Tripolitania had an urban notable class, a peasantry, and tribal confederations, while Fezzan was dominated by tribal confederations, landowning clans, and sharecropping peasants. Cyrenaica had no peasantry, and the formation of the Sanusi state integrated tribal factions into one cohesive social force.]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Class Formation; Wage Laborer; Italian State; Urban Market; Local Notable

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