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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788504003321

Autore

Redford Donald B.

Titolo

From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / / Donald B. Redford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-4214-0409-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

932/.015

Soggetti

Black people - Egypt - History

Egypt History To 332 B.C

Nubia History

Egypt Relations Sudan

Sudan Relations Egypt

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Egyptians and Nubians -- The problem of frontiers -- Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence -- "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen -- From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush -- The Egyptian empire in Kush -- The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata -- The Sudan invades Egypt -- The invasion of Piankhy -- The twenty-fourth dynasty -- The resistance to Assyrian expansion -- "Taharqa the conqueror" -- Egypt of the "black pharaohs" -- Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty -- The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.