The Nile Delta
Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period
- Editor: Katherine Blouin, University of Toronto
- Date Published: February 2024
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009175142
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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.
Read more- Shows the instrumental role played by the Nile Delta in the construction of the ancient-to-modern Afro-Eurasian worlds
- Introduces environmental, archaeological and archival evidence in a way accessible to the non-specialist reader
- Demonstrates how inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches allow us to redefine our understanding of the region's history across the longue durée
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- Date Published: February 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009175142
- length: 676 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 175 x 41 mm
- weight: 1.32kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus. 35 colour illus. 10 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 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.
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