Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times

Name: Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times
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ISBN: 9780197261835

ISBN-10: 0197261833

ISBN-13: 9780197261835

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alan K. Bowman, Eugene Rogan

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From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and compare the patterns of agricultural exploitation across historical periods (including Ptolemaic, Roman, and Ottoman times). Among important themes discussed are: the changing composition of agrarian elites, relationships between state, landholders and peasants, the impact of commercialization on the rural economy, technology, irrigation and water control, and changes in crop patterns and production. This volume's comparativist…

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List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/24/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times



The Village Economy in Pharaonic Egypt



Land Tenure in the New Kingdom: the Role of Women Smallholders and the Military



Land Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt



Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum



New and Old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum



Agricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman Egypt



The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century



Agrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large Estates



Agriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and Theory



Land Tenure in Egypt in the First Six Centuries of Islamic Rule (7th-12th Centuries C. E.)



International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian Countryside



Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey



A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s



An Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth Century



A Long Look at nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple Cotton



Irrigation in Contemporary Egypt



State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt