Author: Muḥammad Yūsuf Quʻayd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844370337
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
Author: Muḥammad Yūsuf Quʻayd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Scott Trafton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how the fascination with ancient Egypt among both black and white Americans was manifest in a range of often contradictory ways. Both groups likened the power of the United States to that of the ancient Egyptian empire, yet both also identified with ancient Egypt’s victims. As the land which represented the origins of races and nations, the power and folly of empires, despots holding people in bondage, and the exodus of the saved from the land of slavery, ancient Egypt was a uniquely useful trope for representing America’s own conflicts and anxious aspirations. Drawing on literary and cultural studies, art and architectural history, political history, religious history, and the histories of archaeology and ethnology, Trafton illuminates anxieties related to race in different manifestations of nineteenth-century American Egyptomania, including the development of American Egyptology, the rise of racialized science, the narrative and literary tradition of the imperialist adventure tale, the cultural politics of the architectural Egyptian Revival, and the dynamics of African American Ethiopianism. He demonstrates how debates over what the United States was and what it could become returned again and again to ancient Egypt. From visions of Cleopatra to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, from the works of Pauline Hopkins to the construction of the Washington Monument, from the measuring of slaves’ skulls to the singing of slave spirituals—claims about and representations of ancient Egypt served as linchpins for discussions about nineteenth-century American racial and national identity.
Author: Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Author: Brenda Williams
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403405166
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Presents an overview of war in ancient Egypt, including noteworthy wars, weaponry, types of fighting, and the importance of warfare in ancient Egyptian society.
Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Amicus (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: Israel
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435409
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 723
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Israel in Egypt is an investigation into the Jewish experience of the land and people of Egypt from antiquity to the middle ages. Using contemporary sources to explore the varied experience of Egypt’s Jews, the volume brings together a rich collection of studies from top scholars in the field.
Author: Anthony J. Spalinger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470777508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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This book is an introduction to the war machine of New Kingdom Egypt from c. 1575 bc–1100 bc. Focuses on the period in which the Egyptians created a professional army and gained control of Syria, creating an “Empire of Asia”. Written by a respected Egyptologist. Highlights new technological developments, such as the use of chariots and siege technology. Considers the socio-political aspects of warfare, particularly the rise to power of a new group of men. Evaluates the military effectiveness of the Egyptian state, looking at the logistics of warfare during this period. Incorporates maps and photographs, a chronological table, and a chart of dynasties and pharaohs
