The Nile Delta : histories from antiquity to the modern period / edited by Katherine Blouin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blouin, Katherine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nile River Delta (Egypt)--History.

Nile River Delta (Egypt).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 647 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology

Contents:

Introduction: the Nile Delta, real and imagined / Katherine Blouin

2. Call me by my names: naming the Delta through time and space / Katherine Blouin

3. The Nile Delta before the Pharaohs / Frédéric Guyot

4. The khetem-border-posts in the Delta during the New Kingdom / Claire Somaglino

5. New land amongst new rivers? Reconstructing the ancient waterscape and settlement history in the Central Northwestern Delta / Robert Schiestl

6. The Mareotis area: integration of a marginal territory into Egypt through wine production / Marie-Françoise Boussac and Bérangère Redon

7. From Memphis to Alexandria: the Delta within the Persian and Macedonian Empires (end of the sixth to the first century BCE) / Damien Agut-Labordère

8. Growing with the empire? From village to town: Kom Abou Bellou and its urban development / Sylvain Dhennin

9. Mapping the cult of Christian saints in the Nile Delta from the fifth to the ninth century CE / Ramez Boutros

10. Alexandria: a brief overview of the major hydraulics of the city, from its foundation to the Arab Conquest / Isabelle Hairy

11. Imperial power, tribal settlement and fiscal revolts in the early Islamic Delta (seventh to ninth century CE) / Sobhi Bourderbala

12. The Nile as nexus: the nilometer at al-Rawda Island between veneration and mediation in medieval Islamic Egypt / Heba Mostafa

13. Water and prices: a view of the Nile from the Cairo / Genizah Ben Outhwaite

14. Water development in the medieval Western Delta / Wakako Kumamura

15. The Nile Delta in European cartography, 1200-1800 / Lucile Haguet

16. Just passing through? The Nile Delta, colonial modernity and the Egyptian tourist economy (ca. 1870-1914) / Rachel Mairs

17. Reclaiming the archive: the contribution of Egyptian women to the archaeologies of the Delta (1880-1924) / Heba Abd el Gawad

18. Short commentary on accounting documents from a vanishing cotton estate ('izba) in the Nile Delta / Mona Abaza

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

9781009188487

1009188488

9781009188494

1009188496

9781009175166

1009175165