The book traces growing state intervention in the rural areas of Tunisia
and Libya in the middle 1800s and the diverging development of the two
countries during the period of European rule. State formation
accelerated in Tunisia under the French with the result that, with
independence, interest-based policy brokerage became the principal form
of political organization. For Libya, where the Italians dismantled the
pre-colonial administration, independence brought with it the revival of
kinship as the basis for politics.
Originally published in 1986.
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