History of Egypt From Earliest Times to the Present

Name: History of Egypt From Earliest Times to the Present
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ISBN: 9780307473523

ISBN-10: 030747352X

ISBN-13: 9780307473523

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jason Thompson

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The first-ever compact, accessible, one-volume history of all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation. Never before has anyone attempted to tie together in a single volume the many eras of Egyptian history, usually the strictly separate domains of specialists: Prehistoric, Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Medieval Islamic, Ottoman, British Colonial, and Modern. In taking on this daringly ambitious project, Jason Thompson makes the case that few if any other countries have as many threads of continuity running through their entire historical experience. With its unprecedented…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.94" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Maps



The Gift of the Nile



The Birth of Egyptian Civilization: Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt



The Old Kingdom



The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom



The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom



The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period



Ptolemaic Egypt



Egypt in the Roman Empire



Coptic Egypt



The Advent of Islam



The Fatimids and Ayyubids



The Mamluks



Egypt in the Ottoman Empire



The Birth of Modern Egypt



Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt



The British Occupation of Egypt



The Parliamentary Era



Nasser



Sadat



Mubarak and Beyond


Notes


Recommended Reading


Image Sources


Index