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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bunbury, J. (Judith), author.
Contributor:
Cambridge University Press.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
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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