La Libye, un laboratoire des variations de la relation coloniale pendant la Première Guerre mondiale ?

• Main Author: François Dumasy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Provence 2017-10-01
• Series: Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
• Subjects: Libya; colonisation; First World War; Libyan soldiers; labour movement; Tripoli
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/9827

Abstract : Libya was characterised during the First World War both by the decline of the colonial power and the affirmation of new identities and belongings within the Libyan society. Historians have therefore tried to study the impact of the First World War in a broader temporal and geographical frame, insisting on the rivalry between regional authorities and, on the other hand, on the rivalry between great powers. The enlargement of prospect spurs, however, also to analyse the evolution of the colonial encounter at the local level by taking into account the convergences and adaptations between the different figures of the colonial society in loco. The following study is thus based on the specific cases of the Libyan soldiers sent in Sicily during the war, and on the political and union demands of the labour movement in Tripoli in the immediate post-war period.