History of Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Civilization in Context

AvDonald B. Redford

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-09
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:348
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
ISBN:9781524988920

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PrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER ONEThe Geography of EgyptThe RiverThe Annual InundationArable Land and AgricultureFoodstocksDemographyEastern and Western DesertsThe Coast East and West of the DeltaFurther ReadingsCHAPTER TWOThe Foundations: The Prehistory of EgyptThe Appearance of ManThe Agricultural RevolutionThe Sedentary Community in Ancient EgyptBelief Systems in Prehistoric EgyptA Selection of Egyptian Towns and DeitiesUnderstanding the World: Mythic NarrativeFurther ReadingsCHAPTER THREEThe Advent of Complex Society and the Rise of the Pharaonic StateThe Naqada II Period and the End of the NeolithicEgypt and the "Uruk Phenomenon"The Rise of the First DynastyThe Creation of a Civil Service and the Mechanisms of GovernmentGovernment Archives"The Hermeneutic of Horus": The Creation of a Royal MythologyThe Nascent State: Expansion and ReactionFurther ReadingCHAPTER FOURThe Third and Fourth Dynasties: The High Old KingdomThe Worship of the Ancestors and Mortuary EconomicsThe Evolution of the Tomb and the Monument of DjoserAdvances in Pyramid ConstructionThe Fourth Dynasty: The Apogee of Royal PowerPharaoh's GovernmentSocial Class and the Reward SystemPharaoh's Sphere of Foreign InfluenceArtificial Consistency in the Belief System: SyncretismThe King as Perfect god and ManThe Cult of the Sun-God ReThe Royal Mortuary TempleThe Pyramid TextsFurther ReadingsCHAPTER FIVEThe Collapse of the Old Kingdom and the Regime of HerakleopolisTownship and ManorThe Downsizing of the StateThe CollapseThe Social Phenomenon of the "Common Man"Magic and the Coffin TextsOsiris, the Hypostasis of Fertility and SalvationThe Civil WarThe Theban Eleventh DynastyFurther ReadingCHAPTER SIXThe Middle KingdomAmenemhet I: The Beginnings of ReformThe Writing SchoolThe Literature of PersuasionThe Reorganization of EgyptThe Reign of Amenemhet IIIThe Twelfth Dynasty and the External WorldFurther ReadingsCHAPTER SEVENThe Decline of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos ConquestThe Downsizing of the StateRelations with Western AsiaThe HyksosThe Hyksos in Later TraditionFurther ReadingsCHAPTER EIGHT". . . With Their Tribute on Their Backs" The Rise of the Egyptian EmpireThe War of Liberation: The Seventeenth DynastyThe Early Eighteenth Dynasty: Spiritual Heirs to the Middle KingdomThe Coming of the Indo-EuropeansEmpire or Retrenchment?The Matriarchal Regency of HatshepsutThe Conquests of Thutmose IIIThe Annihilation of Kush and the Creation of an African EmpireThe Provinces of Asia and Kush: A Contrast in AdministrationCultural Exchange during the Empire of the Eighteenth DynastyFurther ReadingsCHAPTER NINEMonarchy in CrisisThe Reign of Amenophis IIIThe God Amun and His CultAkhenaten: The ManThe Early Years at ThebesThe New City of Amarna: "The Horizon of the Sun Disk"Further ReadingsCHAPTER TENThe Reaction against Egypt and the Hittite WarThe Hittite Threat to SyriaThe End of the Eighteenth DynastyThe Army Assumes PowerThe Accession of Ramesses II, "The Great"The Resumption of Hostilities with the HittitesThe Egypto-Hittite EntenteFurther ReadingsCHAPTER ELEVENThe Life and Times of Ramesses the GreatThe Royal House of the Nineteenth DynastyGovernment Officials and the Grandees of the Realm (l–m)The Professional ScribesThe Professional Priesthood (n–o)The ArmyWorkers, Peasants, and P.O.W.s: The Demographics of EmpireLandholding and TaxationLaw during the New KingdomFamily LifeA Day in the Life ofThe "Literature" of the New KingdomFurther ReadingsCHAPTER TWELVEThe Decline of the New Kingdom (Dyn. 20–21)Keftiu and the Hau-nebuInternational Trade and ExchangeThe End of the Nineteenth DynastyPiracy and the "Sea Peoples"Economic Hardship and Social ProtestThe Dynastic Succession of the Twentieth DynastyThe Priesthood of Amun and the ArmyThe Tanite Period: The De Facto Division of EgyptFurther ReadingsCHAPTER THIRTEENThe Libyan Kings (Dyn. 22–24)The MeshweshEgypt and Asia in the Iron AgeThe Revolt of ThebesThe Decline of Libyan HegemonyEgyptian Society in the Eighth Century BCFurther ReadingsCHAPTER FOURTEENThe Evolution of the Belief System of Egypt from the End of the New Kingdom to Christian TimesThe Syncretism of the Amun TheologyAnimal WorshipThe Personal Piety of the MassesSickness and ProphylacticTrial after DeathThe Afterlife: A Pessimistic ViewReward and PunishmentThe Invention of Heaven and HellThe Island with No NameFurther ReadingsCHAPTER FIFTEENKush, Assyria, and the Struggle for EgyptThe Rise of Independent KushThe Assyrian Threat and the Consolidation of the DeltaThe Kushite Hold on Egypt (712–664 BC)The Twenty-fifth Dynasty and Assyrian ExpansionFurther ReadingsCHAPTER SIXTEENThe Spirit of Sais: The Twenty-sixth DynastyA Note on Sources for Saïte HistoryThe Triumph of PsamtekThe Reunification of the Two LandsThe Central Government and the Saïte CourtThe Restoration of Provincial AdministrationThe Reorganization of the Armed ForcesFiscal Controls and CommerceThe Reassurance of AntiquityThe Community of Proto-philosophic ThoughtFurther ReadingsCHAPTER SEVENTEENEgypt in the World of the Persian EmpireThe Persian Conquest of 525 BCEgypt under Cambyses and Darius IPersian AdministrationThe Denigration of the Monarch and the Folklore of DeliveranceThe Last Period of Political Independence: Dynasties 28–30The Last Persian Conquest of EgyptFurther ReadingsCHAPTER EIGHTEEN"No Longer Masters of Their Own House": Egypt under the PtolemiesThe Arrival in Egypt of Alexander the GreatA Note on SourcesThe Government of the PtolemiesThe Ideology of KingshipThe Egyptian Temples under the PtolemiesRace Relations between Egyptian and GreeksEgypt under the Roman EmpireEgypt's Spiritual Bequest to the Roman WorldAncient Egypt in the Writings of Classical AuthorsThe Impact of ChristianityAppendix ITextual Sources for Egyptian HistoryOur Sources for the Old KingdomOur Sources for the First Intermediate PeriodThe Middle KingdomThe New KingdomThe Period of Libyan HegemonyThe Kushite, Saïte, and Persian PeriodsAppendix IIBasis of Our ChronologyAppendix IIIThe King ListIndex

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