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The Nile and ancient Egypt : changing land- and waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman era / Judith Bunbury (Cambridge University).
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bunbury, J. (Judith), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Nile River Watershed--Management--History.
- Water-supply.
- Water resources development--Nile River--History--To 1500.
- Water resources development.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Nile River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Climatic changes.
- Agriculture--Nile River Valley.
- Agriculture.
- History.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Management.
- Nile River--History.
- Nile River.
- Nile River Region.
- Nile River Valley.
- Nile River Watershed.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Humans and climate change: how past peoples can inform our responses to landscape and climate change
- The green deserts: lakes and playas of the Saharan wet phases
- The climate seesaw: the balance between hunter-gathering and farming in the wadis and marshes of the Nile Valley
- The development of Egypt's capitals: condensation of the Nile into meandering channels with inhabited levees
- Climate change and crisis: differing views of devolution across the First Intermediate Period
- Islands in the Nile
- The flood and the New Delta
- Renewed strength in the South: the rise of Thebes (Karnak) and management of the minor channels of the Nile
- High tides of empire: the New Kingdom to the Roman period
- development of large-scale Nile water management
- From Coptic to Islamic times: a well-documental movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
- Modern changes to Egypt: dams and irrigation: Can we ever control the Nile?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780511997884
- 0511997884
- Publisher Number:
- 99985017762
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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