Nezar Alsayyad

Nile (eBook, PDF)

Urban Histories on the Banks of a River

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Produktbeschreibung

The Nile, the world's longest river system, has figured prominently in historic events over millennia. This book views the Nile as both the stage on which these events occurred and as an actor in its unfolding history. It explores the intersection of natural forces and human intervention to take readers on a series of historical journeys along the river, from its sources to the Mediterranean Sea. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical period and the cities, events, important figures and the encounters between groups and cultures that shaped it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474458627
• Artikelnr.: 72431490

Autorenporträt

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