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From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / Donald B. Redford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redford, Donald B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Egypt--History.
- Black people.
- Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.
- Egypt.
- Nubia--History.
- Nubia.
- Egypt--Relations--Sudan.
- Sudan--Relations--Egypt.
- Sudan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a compelling account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world.
- Contents:
- Egyptians and Nubians
- The problem of frontiers
- Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence
- "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen
- From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush
- The Egyptian empire in Kush
- The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata
- The Sudan invades Egypt
- The invasion of Piankhy
- The twenty-fourth dynasty
- The resistance to Assyrian expansion
- "Taharqa the conqueror"
- Egypt of the "black pharaohs"
- Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty
- The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-207) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0409-5
- OCLC:
- 794701428
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