Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times

NOTE EDITORE

From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and compare the patterns of agricultural exploitation across historical periods (including Ptolemaic, Roman, and Ottoman times). Among important themes discussed are: the changing composition of agrarian elites, relationships between state, landholders and peasants, the impact of commercialization on the rural economy, technology, irrigation and water control, and changes in crop patterns and production. This volume's comparativist approach to the subject is crucial in crossing the linguistic and historical barriers between the different eras in Egypt's agrarian history.

SOMMARIO

Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan: Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times; Christopher J. Eyre: The Village Economy in Pharaonic Egypt; Sally L. D. Katary: Land Tenure in the New Kingdom: the Role of Women Smallholders and the Military; J. G. Manning: Land Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt; Dorothy J. Thompson: Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum; Dorothy J. Thompson: New and Old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum; Jane Rowlandson: Agricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman Egypt; Michael Sharp: The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century; Jairus Banaji: Agrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large Estates; Terry G. Wilfong: Agriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and Theory; Gladys Frantz-Murphy: Land Tenure in Egypt in the First Six Centuries of Islamic Rule (7th-12th Centuries C. E.); A. L. Udovitch: International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian Countryside; James G. Keenan: Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey; Kenneth M. Cuno: A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s; Ghislaine Alleaume: An Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth Century; Roger Owen: A Long Look at nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple Cotton; Nicholas S. Hopkins: Irrigation in Contemporary Egypt; Reem Saad: State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197261835
• Collana: Proceedings of the British Academy
• Dimensioni: 242 x 42.0 x 161 mm Ø 873 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 5 maps, 2 graphs, tables
• Pagine Arabe: 456