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Author:   Donald B. Redford
Publisher:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9781524988920

ISBN 10:   1524988928
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction CHAPTER ONE The Geography of Egypt The River The Annual Inundation Arable Land and Agriculture Foodstocks Demography Eastern and Western Deserts The Coast East and West of the Delta Further Readings CHAPTER TWO The Foundations: The Prehistory of Egypt The Appearance of Man The Agricultural Revolution The Sedentary Community in Ancient Egypt Belief Systems in Prehistoric Egypt A Selection of Egyptian Towns and Deities Understanding the World: Mythic Narrative Further Readings CHAPTER THREE The Advent of Complex Society and the Rise of the Pharaonic State The Naqada II Period and the End of the Neolithic Egypt and the ""Uruk Phenomenon"" The Rise of the First Dynasty The Creation of a Civil Service and the Mechanisms of Government Government Archives ""The Hermeneutic of Horus"": The Creation of a Royal Mythology The Nascent State: Expansion and Reaction Further Reading CHAPTER FOUR The Third and Fourth Dynasties: The High Old Kingdom The Worship of the Ancestors and Mortuary Economics The Evolution of the Tomb and the Monument of Djoser Advances in Pyramid Construction The Fourth Dynasty: The Apogee of Royal Power Pharaoh's Government Social Class and the Reward System Pharaoh's Sphere of Foreign Influence Artificial Consistency in the Belief System: Syncretism The King as Perfect god and Man The Cult of the Sun-God Re The Royal Mortuary Temple The Pyramid Texts Further Readings CHAPTER FIVE The Collapse of the Old Kingdom and the Regime of Herakleopolis Township and Manor The Downsizing of the State The Collapse The Social Phenomenon of the ""Common Man"" Magic and the Coffin Texts Osiris, the Hypostasis of Fertility and Salvation The Civil War The Theban Eleventh Dynasty Further Reading CHAPTER SIX The Middle Kingdom Amenemhet I: The Beginnings of Reform The Writing School The Literature of Persuasion The Reorganization of Egypt The Reign of Amenemhet III The Twelfth Dynasty and the External World Further Readings CHAPTER SEVEN The Decline of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos Conquest The Downsizing of the State Relations with Western Asia The Hyksos The Hyksos in Later Tradition Further Readings CHAPTER EIGHT "". . . With Their Tribute on Their Backs"" The Rise of the Egyptian Empire The War of Liberation: The Seventeenth Dynasty The Early Eighteenth Dynasty: Spiritual Heirs to the Middle Kingdom The Coming of the Indo-Europeans Empire or Retrenchment? The Matriarchal Regency of Hatshepsut The Conquests of Thutmose III The Annihilation of Kush and the Creation of an African Empire The Provinces of Asia and Kush: A Contrast in Administration Cultural Exchange during the Empire of the Eighteenth Dynasty Further Readings CHAPTER NINE Monarchy in Crisis The Reign of Amenophis III The God Amun and His Cult Akhenaten: The Man The Early Years at Thebes The New City of Amarna: ""The Horizon of the Sun Disk"" Further Readings CHAPTER TEN The Reaction against Egypt and the Hittite War The Hittite Threat to Syria The End of the Eighteenth Dynasty The Army Assumes Power The Accession of Ramesses II, ""The Great"" The Resumption of Hostilities with the Hittites The Egypto-Hittite Entente Further Readings CHAPTER ELEVEN The Life and Times of Ramesses the Great The Royal House of the Nineteenth Dynasty Government Officials and the Grandees of the Realm (l–m) The Professional Scribes The Professional Priesthood (n–o) The Army Workers, Peasants, and P.O.W.s: The Demographics of Empire Landholding and Taxation Law during the New Kingdom Family Life A Day in the Life of The ""Literature"" of the New Kingdom Further Readings CHAPTER TWELVE The Decline of the New Kingdom (Dyn. 20–21) Keftiu and the Hau-nebu International Trade and Exchange The End of the Nineteenth Dynasty Piracy and the ""Sea Peoples"" Economic Hardship and Social Protest The Dynastic Succession of the Twentieth Dynasty The Priesthood of Amun and the Army The Tanite Period: The De Facto Division of Egypt Further Readings CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Libyan Kings (Dyn. 22–24) The Meshwesh Egypt and Asia in the Iron Age The Revolt of Thebes The Decline of Libyan Hegemony Egyptian Society in the Eighth Century BC Further Readings CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Evolution of the Belief System of Egypt from the End of the New Kingdom to Christian Times The Syncretism of the Amun Theology Animal Worship The Personal Piety of the Masses Sickness and Prophylactic Trial after Death The Afterlife: A Pessimistic View Reward and Punishment The Invention of Heaven and Hell The Island with No Name Further Readings CHAPTER FIFTEEN Kush, Assyria, and the Struggle for Egypt The Rise of Independent Kush The Assyrian Threat and the Consolidation of the Delta The Kushite Hold on Egypt (712–664 BC) The Twenty-fifth Dynasty and Assyrian Expansion Further Readings CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Spirit of Sais: The Twenty-sixth Dynasty A Note on Sources for Saïte History The Triumph of Psamtek The Reunification of the Two Lands The Central Government and the Saïte Court The Restoration of Provincial Administration The Reorganization of the Armed Forces Fiscal Controls and Commerce The Reassurance of Antiquity The Community of Proto-philosophic Thought Further Readings CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Egypt in the World of the Persian Empire The Persian Conquest of 525 BC Egypt under Cambyses and Darius I Persian Administration The Denigration of the Monarch and the Folklore of Deliverance The Last Period of Political Independence: Dynasties 28–30 The Last Persian Conquest of Egypt Further Readings CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ""No Longer Masters of Their Own House"": Egypt under the Ptolemies The Arrival in Egypt of Alexander the Great A Note on Sources The Government of the Ptolemies The Ideology of Kingship The Egyptian Temples under the Ptolemies Race Relations between Egyptian and Greeks Egypt under the Roman Empire Egypt's Spiritual Bequest to the Roman World Ancient Egypt in the Writings of Classical Authors The Impact of Christianity Appendix I Textual Sources for Egyptian History Our Sources for the Old Kingdom Our Sources for the First Intermediate Period The Middle Kingdom The New Kingdom The Period of Libyan Hegemony The Kushite, Saïte, and Persian Periods Appendix II Basis of Our Chronology Appendix III The King List Index"

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