Agriculture in Egypt, From Pharaonic to Modern Times
Produktdetaljer
Bowman and Rogan, representing Graeco-Roman Egypt and Islamic Egypt, have brought together in this volume an excellent group of studies on the management of land in Egypt T.G.H. James, Times Literary Supplement, 02/07/99 For anyone who has had reason to study the life of an Egyptian small farmer ... the picture evoked by this ancient text will resonate strongly ... T.G.H. James, Times Literaty Supplement, 02/07/99
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.
- Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times
- The Village Economy in Pharaonic Egypt
- Land Tenure in the New Kingdom: the Role of Women Smallholders and the Military
- Land Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt
- Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum
- New and Old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum
- Agricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman Egypt
- The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century
- Agrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large Estates
- Agriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and Theory
- Land Tenure in Egypt in the First Six Centuries of Islamic Rule (7th-12th Centuries C. E.)
- International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian Countryside
- Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey
- A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s
- An Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth Century
- A Long Look at nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple Cotton
- Irrigation in Contemporary Egypt
- State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt