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Nile Delta : Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period by Katherine Blouin (2024, Hardcover)

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Nile Delta : Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period, Hardcover by Blouin, Katherine (EDT), ISBN 1009175149, ISBN-13 9781009175142, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009175149

ISBN-139781009175142

eBay Product ID (ePID)28060632014

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Book TitleNile Delta : Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period

Number of Pages348 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicAncient / General

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorKatherine Blouin

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.6 in

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.9 in

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Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal962.1

Table Of Content1. Introduction: the Nile Delta, real and imagined Katherine Blouin; 2. Call me by my names: naming the Delta through time and space Katherine Blouin; 3. The Nile Delta before the Pharaohs Frédéric Guyot; 4. The khetem-border-posts in the Delta during the New Kingdom Claire Somaglino; 5. New land amongst new rivers? Reconstructing the ancient waterscape and settlement history in the Central Northwestern Delta Robert Schiestl; 6. The Mareotis area: integration of a marginal territory into Egypt through wine production Marie-Françoise Boussac and Bérangère Redon; 7. From Memphis to Alexandria: the Delta within the Persian and Macedonian Empires (end of the sixth to the first century BCE) Damien Agut-Labordère; 8. Growing with the empire? From village to town: Kom Abou Bellou and its urban development Sylvain Dhennin; 9. Mapping the cult of Christian saints in the Nile Delta from the fifth to the ninth century CE Ramez Boutros; 10. Alexandria: a brief overview of the major hydraulics of the city, from its foundation to the Arab Conquest Isabelle Hairy; 11. Imperial power, tribal settlement and fiscal revolts in the early Islamic Delta (seventh to ninth century CE) Sobhi Bourderbala; 12. The Nile as nexus: the nilometer at al-Rawda Island between veneration and mediation in medieval Islamic Egypt Heba Mostafa; 13. Water and prices: a view of the Nile from the Cairo Genizah Ben Outhwaite; 14. Water development in the medieval Western Delta Wakako Kumamura; 15. The Nile Delta in European cartography, 1200-1800 Lucile Haguet; 16. Just passing through? The Nile Delta, colonial modernity and the Egyptian tourist economy (ca. 1870-1914) Rachel Mairs; 17. Reclaiming the archive: the contribution of Egyptian women to the archaeologies of the Delta (1880-1924) Heba Abd el Gawad; 18. Short commentary on accounting documents from a vanishing cotton estate ('izba) in the Nile Delta Mona Abaza.

SynopsisThe first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology., This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.

LC Classification NumberDT116.N5 2023