Egypt : : A Short History / / Robert L. Tignor.
This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and comp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | With a New afterword by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 25 color illus. 6 halftones. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CREDITS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE. The Land and People
- CHAPTER TWO. Egypt during the Old Kingdom
- CHAPTER THREE. The Middle and New Kingdoms
- CHAPTER FOUR. Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE
- CHAPTER FIVE. Christian Egypt
- CHAPTER SIX. Egypt within Islamic Empires, 639-969
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798
- CHAPTER NINE. Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail
- CHAPTER TEN. The British Period, 1882-1952
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Mubarak's Egypt
- AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION: Egypt Transformed?
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX