Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author /
"This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5,000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, a...
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Princeton University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The land and people
- Egypt during the Old Kingdom
- The Middle and New Kingdoms
- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE
- Christian Egypt
- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969
- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517
- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798
- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century
- The British period, 1882-1952
- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat
- Mubarak's Egypt
- Conclusion : Egypt through the millennia.