Author: Barry J. Kemp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351166468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors. In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years, whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents, while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.
Ancient Egypt
Author: Barry J. Kemp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351166468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors. In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years, whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents, while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351166468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors. In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years, whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents, while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.
Cultivating the Nile
Author: Jessica Barnes
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376210
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376210
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.
The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year 1885 [i.e. 1887] Inclusive
Author: Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt)
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Antiquary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal geographical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Second Supplement to the Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description