Author
Haug, Brendan.
Publication Date
2024
Publication Place
Ann Arbor -
University of Michigan
Subject
Irrigation - Égypte - Histoire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Type
Book
Language
ara,ell,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
University of Heidelberg
Library Asset ID
978-0-472-90440-2
Record ID
69334007
Date
2024
Sample Text
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt's Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. Until the arrival of modern perennial irrigation in the nineteenth century, the Fayyūm was the only region of premodern Egypt to be irrigated by a network of artificial canals. By linking large numbers of rural communities together in shared dependence on this public irrigation infrastructure, canalization introduced to Egypt a radically new way of interacting both with the water of the Nile and with fellow farmers. Drawing upon ancient Greek papyri, medieval Arabic literature, and modern comparative evidence, this book explores the ways in which the Nile's water, local farmers, and state power together continually reshaped this irrigated landscape over more than thirteen centuries. Following human/water relationships through both space and time further helps to erode disciplinary boundaries and bring multiple periods of Egyptian history into contact with one another
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Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Haug, Brendan: Garden of Egypt. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, 2024 |(DLC)2024002467
Dipnotlar
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index
Toplam başlık serisi
New texts from ancient cultures
Kurumlar
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) [Verlag]
Yerel URL (Üniversite Kütüphanesi)
full text
Yazı Dili
Text in English; passages in Arabic and Ancient Greek with English translation
