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100 1 $aThompson, Jason,$d1950-
245 12 $aA history of Egypt :$bfrom earliest times to present /$cJason Thompson.
260 $aCairo ;$aNew York :$bAmerican University in Cairo Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 382 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Maps on pages xii and xiii by Ola Seif"--T.p. verso.
500 $a"Dar el Kutub no. 3055/07"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-361) and index.
505 0 $aThe gift of the Nile -- The birth of Egyptian civilization : predynastic and early dynastic Egypt -- The Old Kingdom -- The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom -- The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom -- The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period -- Ptolemaic Egypt -- Egypt in the Roman Empire -- Coptic Egypt -- The advent of Islam -- The Fatimids and Ayyubids -- The Mamluks -- Egypt in the Ottoman Empire -- The birth of modern Egypt -- Mid-nineteenth-century Egypt -- The British occupation of Egypt -- The parliamentary era -- Nasser -- Sadat -- Mubarak and beyond.
520 1 $a"Rarely is this nation's history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras - pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern - that are rarely studied in connection to each other, despite the strong elements of continuity running through all of these periods. But here, historian Jason Thompson has written a cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past." "In A History of Egypt, readers are offered a sure guide through the sometimes labyrinthine corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central scholarly issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated as a whole and how the west has shaped prevailing images of it, both through direct contact and through the lens of western scholarship. Drawing on current historical scholarship as well as his own research, Jason Thompson has written a remarkable work of synthesis and concision, offering students, travelers, and general readers alike a one-volume narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile."--Jacket.
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