Title: Egyptianization and elite emulation in Ramesside Palestine : governance and accommodation on the imperial periphery /
Authors: Higginbotham, Carolyn R.
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Palestine History; Palestine Antiquities; Egypt History; Egypt History; Egypt History; Egypt History
Abstract: "A strong Egyptian presence and governance of thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. Palestine has since long become clear from both textual and archaeological evidence. How this Egyptianization came about in Ramesside Palestine forms the focus of the present study. Carolyn Higginbotham convincingly attends to internal factors affecting the region's cultural and political development. Two models are carefully considered. The prevailing theory, that Egyptian policy shifted from economic and political domination to military occupation, is contrasted with a new, convincing model, elite emulation, derived from modern core-periphery studies.