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The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC

Title: The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC / J.G. Manning.
Author: Manning, Joseph Gilbert.
Publication: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.

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Description

xvi, 264 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

The contents of this book cover Egypt in the first millennium BC, the historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state, moving beyond despotism, economic planning and state banditry, shaping a new state, and much more.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Egypt in the first millennium BC -- The historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state -- Moving beyond despotism, economic planning, and state banditry : Ptolemaic Egypt as a premodern state -- Shaping a new state : the political economy of the Ptolemies -- Creating a new economic order : economic life and economic policy under the Ptolemies -- Order and law : shaping the law in a new state -- Conclusions -- Appendix: The trial record of the property dispute held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC, before the local laokritai-judges.

ISBN

9780691142623
0691142629
9780691156385
0691156387

LCCN

2009013223

OCLC

ocn318585610
318585610
SCSB-8917799

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library