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This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex history for general readers, tourists, and anyone else who wants a better understanding of this vibrant and fascinating country, one that has played a central role in world history for millennia--and that continues to do so today.

 

 

Respected historian Robert Tignor, who has lived in Egypt at different times over the course of five decades, covers all the major eras of the country's ancient, modern, and recent history. A cradle of civilization, ancient Egypt developed a unique and influential culture that featured a centralized monarchy, sophisticated art and technology, and monumental architecture in the form of pyramids and temples. But the great age of the pharaohs is just the beginning of the story and Egypt: A Short History also gives a rich account of the tumultuous history that followed--from Greek and Roman conquests, the rise of Christianity, Arab-Muslim triumph, and Egypt's incorporation into powerful Islamic empires to Napoleon's 1798 invasion, the country's absorption into the British Empire, and modern, postcolonial Egypt under Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak.

 

 

This book provides an indispensable key to Egypt in all its layers--ancient and modern, Greek and Roman, and Christian and Islamic. In a new afterword the author analyzes the recent unrest in Egypt and weighs in on what the country might look like after Mubarak. (Verlagstext)

 

 

 

 

 

 

/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / /

 

List of Illustrations vii

 

Credits ix

 

Preface xi

 

CHAPTER ONE The Land and People 1

 

CHAPTER TWO Egypt during the Old Kingdom 26

 

CHAPTER THREE The Middle and New Kingdoms 51

 

CHAPTER FOUR Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE 80

 

CHAPTER FIVE Christian Egypt 105

 

CHAPTER SIX Egypt within Islamic Empires, 639-969 122

 

CHAPTER SEVEN Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 146

 

CHAPTER EIGHT?Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 174

 

CHAPTER NINE Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail: Egypt in the Nineteenth Century 196

 

CHAPTER TEN The British Period, 1882-1952 228

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981: Nasser and Sadat 256

 

CHAPTER TWELVE Mubarak's Egypt 282

 

CONCLUSION Egypt through the Millennia 311

 

Notes 321

 

Bibliography 327

 

Index 347