A History of Libya (Columbia/Hurst)

by John Wright and John Wright

Book Overview

John Wright begins his history of Libya as far back as prehistoric times and concludes with the fortieth anniversary of the Gadafi revolution. Wright briefly shares the story of the territory's early hunter-gatherers and the activities of its mid-desert Garamantian civilization. Then he travels briskly through the land's successive invaders: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Muslim Arabs, Genoans, Normans, Spaniards, Knights of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231701667
• ISBN13: 9780231701662
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher