Egypt: a country study

by Metz, Helen Chapin

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Full title :Egypt : a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Helen Chapin Metz.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1991.
Edition:5th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O, The Division
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:1991.

Notes

Previous ed. has statement of responsibility: Foreign Area Studies, the American University ; edited by Richard F. Nyrop.

"Research completed December 1990."

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxv, 428 pages) : : illustrations, maps.

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn555663392
LC Classification:DT46
Dewey Decimal:962

Ancient Egypt. The Predynastic Period and the First and Second Dynasties, 6000-2686 B.C. ; The Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and Second Intermediate Period, 2686 to 1552 B.C. ; Pyramid building in the Old and Middle Kingdoms ; The New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, 1552-664 B.C. ; Art and architecture in the New Kingdom ; The Cult of the Sun God and Akhenaten's monotheism ; The Late Period, 664-323 B.C. -- Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, 332 B.C.-A.D. 642. The Alexandrian conquest ; The Ptolemaic period ; Egypt under Rome and Byzantium, 30 B.C.-A.D. 640 -- Medieval Egypt. The Arab conquest, 639-41 ; The Tulinids, Ikhshidids, Fatimids, and Ayyubids, 868-1260 ; The Mamluks, 1250-1517 -- Egypt under the Ottoman Empire -- Modern Egypt. The Neo-Mamluk Beylicate, 1760-98 ; The French invasion and occupation, 1798-1801 ; Muhammad Ali, 1805-48 ; Abbas Hilmi I, 1848-54 and Said, 1854-63 ; Social change in the nineteenth century -- From autonomy to occupation: Ismail, Tawfiq, and the Urabi Revolt. Khedive Ismail, 1863-79 ; From invention to occupation, 1876-82 -- From occupation to nominal independence. The occupiers ; Economy and society under occupation ; Egypt under the pro…