This book narrates the history of cities that appeared and disappeared on the banks of the river Nile the world's longest river system over four millennia.
This book narrates the history of cities that appeared and disappeared on the banks of the river Nile the world's longest river system over four millennia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, planner and urban historian. He is Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Faculty Director of the Centre for Arab Societies and Environment Studies for two decades. He has published numerous books including, most recently, Cairo: Histories of a City (Harvard University Press, 2011) and Traditions: The Real, the Hyper and the Virtual (Routledge, 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Dedication Preface Roadmap Prologue: The Urban Life of a River Chapter 1. Finding the Source of the Nile: Centuries of Discovery Chapter 2. Birth of the Nile: Water Carves a Path through Rugged Land Chapter 3. The Nile of Lower Egypt: Memphis, the First Capital City Chapter 4. Thebes of the Pharaohs: The Nile of Upper Egypt Chapter 5. Avaris and Akhetaten: Temporary Capitals on the Nile Chapter 6. Nubia on the Nile: The Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs in Napata and Meroe Chapter 7. Alexandria: Greeks and Romans on the Western Edge of the Nile Delta Chapter 8. A Nile Oasis in the Sahara: Fayoum of the Ptolemies Chapter 9. Cairo: The Thousand Years Capital on the Nile Chapter 10. Crusaders on the Nile: Damietta and Mansoura Chapter 11. Cities of the Blue Nile: Lake Tana and the Ethiopian Empires Chapter 12. Rosetta and the Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Where the Nile Meets the Sea Chapter 13. Khartoum and Omdurman: An Islamic State on the Nile in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Chapter 14. A Pyramid for the Living: The Nile at Aswan Epilogue: On the Possible Death of the Nile and the Life of Its Cities
Dedication Preface Roadmap Prologue: The Urban Life of a River Chapter 1. Finding the Source of the Nile: Centuries of Discovery Chapter 2. Birth of the Nile: Water Carves a Path through Rugged Land Chapter 3. The Nile of Lower Egypt: Memphis, the First Capital City Chapter 4. Thebes of the Pharaohs: The Nile of Upper Egypt Chapter 5. Avaris and Akhetaten: Temporary Capitals on the Nile Chapter 6. Nubia on the Nile: The Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs in Napata and Meroe Chapter 7. Alexandria: Greeks and Romans on the Western Edge of the Nile Delta Chapter 8. A Nile Oasis in the Sahara: Fayoum of the Ptolemies Chapter 9. Cairo: The Thousand Years Capital on the Nile Chapter 10. Crusaders on the Nile: Damietta and Mansoura Chapter 11. Cities of the Blue Nile: Lake Tana and the Ethiopian Empires Chapter 12. Rosetta and the Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Where the Nile Meets the Sea Chapter 13. Khartoum and Omdurman: An Islamic State on the Nile in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Chapter 14. A Pyramid for the Living: The Nile at Aswan Epilogue: On the Possible Death of the Nile and the Life of Its Cities
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