The Kenana handbook of Sudan / / edited by Peter Gwynvay Hopkins ; preface by Dr Galal Y. El Degair ; foreword by Osman A. El Nazir

• Pubblicazione: Oxfordshire, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1596 p.)
• Disciplina: 962.4
• Soggetto geografico: Sudan Civilization; Sudan Description and travel; Sudan Economic conditions 1983-; Sudan History
• Persona (resp. second.): El DegairDr Galal Y.; El NazirOsman A.; HopkinsPeter Gwynvay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgements; I. Prehistory; 1. Sudan, Land of Cultures: The Prehistoric Period (100000 BCE-3500 CE); The A-group culture 3800 BCE; The C-group culture 2150-2240 BCE; The Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2000-1750 BCE); Kerma culture (2000-1580 BCE); The Egyptian New Kingdom (1580-1100 BCE); Napatan Period (750-592 BCE); Meroitic Period (592 BCE-CE 350); The X- group culture (CE 300-600); Christian period (CE 543-1504); Funj kingdom (CE 1504-1821) ; 2. Wadi Howar: Climate Change and Human Occupation in the Sudanese Desert During the Past Eleven Thousand YearsThe Upper Wadi Howar; The Middle Wadi Howar; Zolat el Hammad; The West Nubian Palaeolake; The Darbel Arba'in; Jebel Rahib and Jebel Tageru; The Lower Wadi Howar; Animal and plant remains; The Neolithic dune habitats; The fortress; A trend towards increasing rainfall?; Occupation history of the Sudanese Sahara; Wadi Howar National Park; Acknowledgements; References; II. Archaeology; 3. The Archaeology of Sudan; The Development of Archaeology in the Middle Nile ; Long-Term Perspectives on Sudan's PastChanging Environments?; Changing Lifeways; Urban Origins?; Human Beginnings; The Neolithic - the beginning of herding and farming; Kerma and Kush; Napata and Meroe; The End of Meroe and the Creation of the Nubian Kingdoms; The End of the Medieval Kingdoms and Post-Medieval Sudan; 4. The State and the Plains: History and Culture of the Nubian-Sudanese Nile Valley in Antiquity; Chronological overview; African roots; Fifth and Fourth Millennia BCE; Southern Province of Egypt; 3000-1500 BCE; The Kingdom of Kerma; 2500-1550 BCE; Pharaoh: The Conqueror ; 1550-1000 BCEBlack Pharaohs; 900-656 BCE; The Kingdom of Napata; 656-270 BCE; The Kingdom of Meroe; 270 BC-350 AD; 5. The Ancient Eastern Desert Dwellers: A Sixth-Century Tribe and Its Pottery; Eastern Desert Ware; III. History; 6. A Cultural History of Nubia and the Nilotic Sudan: AD 580 - AD 1600; Conversion of Nubia to Christianity; The Baqt Treaty; Architectural Development: Houses; Sacred Architecture: Nubian Churches; Mural Art; Domestic Arts; Literature and Languages; The Decline of Nubian Civilisation; The Arabisation and Islamisation of the Sudanese People ; The Abdallab Kingdom and the Funj SultanateAcknowledgements; Bibliography; 7. Three Empires on the Nile: Ismael Pasha, General Gordon, The Mahdi, and Lord Kitchener; 8. The Shaping of Modern Sudan: The Ottoman-Turkish Empire and the Republic of Sudan; CE 1517-85; 1820-1914; The Egyptian Turkiyya (1820-84); The Mahdiyya (1884-98); The British Turkiyya (1898-1914); Epilogue (1922-47); 9. Sudan Engraved, 1860-1890; 10. Life Under the Anglo-Egyptian Mandate in Historical Photographs: The Sudan Archive, University of Durham; Collections; Subject content; Photographs, films, maps and artefacts ; Books on Sudan
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Kenana handbook of Sudan
• ISBN: 1-136-77525-0; 0-203-82387-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822017403321
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