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The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC / J.G. Manning.
LIBRA DT92 .M36 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Joseph Gilbert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.
- Ptolemaic dynasty.
- Pharaohs--History.
- Pharaohs.
- State, The--History.
- State, The.
- History.
- Egypt--Politics and government--332 B.C.-30 B.C.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Economic conditions--332 B.C.-640 A.D.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 264 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Egypt in the first millennium BC
- The historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state
- Moving beyond despotism, economic planning, and state banditry : Ptolemaic Egypt as a premodern state
- Shaping a new state : the political economy of the Ptolemies
- Creating a new economic order : economic life and economic policy under the Ptolemies
- Order and law : shaping the law in a new state
- Conclusions
- Appendix: The trial record of the property dispute held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC, before the local laokritai-judges.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691142623
- 0691142629
- OCLC:
- 318585610
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