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Title:
A history of Egypt : from earliest times to the present / Jason Thompson ; [maps on pages xii and xiii by Ola Seif].
Author:
Thompson, Jason, 1950-
Publication Information:
Cairo, Egypt ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2008.
Call Number:
DT77 .T48 2008
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ISBN:
9789774160912

9780307473523
Physical Description:
xi, 382 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Dar el Kutub no. 3055/07"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
The gift of the Nile -- The birth of Egyptian civilization : predynastic and early dynastic Egypt -- The Old Kingdom -- The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom -- The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom -- The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period -- Ptolemaic Egypt -- Egypt in the Roman Empire -- Coptic Egypt -- The advent of Islam -- The Fatimids and Ayyubids -- The Mamluks -- Egypt in the Ottoman Empire -- The birth of modern Egypt -- Mid-nineteenth-century Egypt -- The British occupation of Egypt -- The Parliamentary Era -- Nasser -- Sadat -- Mubarak and beyond.
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