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The history of Egypt / Glenn E. Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Glenn E. (Glenn Earl), 1940- author.
- Series:
- Greenwood histories of the modern nations
- The Greenwood histories of the modern nations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egypt--History--1798-.
- Egypt.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 240 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]
- Summary:
- Every school and public library should update its resources with these engagingly written and succinct narrative histories of the world's nations covering prehistoric times through today. Based on the most recent scholarship, each history provides a chronological narrative examining the political, cultural, philosophical, and religious continuities in the featured nation's long, rich history in an exploration of how its people came to be who they are today. Each volume includes a chronological narrative history, timeline of events, biographical sketches of key figures, glossary, and bibliographic essay. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Egypt today
- Ancient Egypt
- Islamic Egypt to 1798
- From Bonaparte to the British
- "Liberal" Egypt
- Nasir's revolutionary era
- Sadat and counterrevolution
- The Mubarak era
- Aborted revolution, renewed dictatorship.
- Notes:
- Original edition published: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610699136
- 1610699130
- OCLC:
- 915943328
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