Title: Agriculture in Egypt :
Authors: Rogan, Eugene L.; Bowman, Alan K.; Bowman, Alan K.,; Rogan, Eugene L.,; British Academy.; British Academy,
Date: 1999
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxvii, 427 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: "From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organisation. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and compare the patterns of agricultural exploitation across historical periods (including Ptolemaic, Roman and Ottoman times)."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Agriculture in Egypt from pharaonic to modern times / Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan -- The village economy in pharaonic Egypt / Christopher J. Eyre -- Land tenure in the New Kingdom: the role of women smallholders and the military / Sally L.D. Katary -- Land tenure regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt / J.G. Manning -- Irrigation and drainage in the early Ptolemaic Fayyum / Dorothy J. Thompson -- New and old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Agricultural tenancy and village society in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson -- The village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: land and population in the second century / Michael Sharp -- Agrarian history and the labour organisation of Byzantine large estates / Jairus Banaji -- Agriculture among the Christian population of early Islamic Egypt: practice and theory / Terry G. Wilfong -- Land tenure in Egypt in the first six centuries of Islamic rule (7th-12th centuries C.E.) / Gladys Frantz-Murphy -- International trade and the medieval Egyptian countryside / A.L. Udovitch -- Fayyum agriculture at the end of the Ayyubid era: Nabulsi's survey / James G. Keenan -- A tale of two villages: family, property and economic activity in rural Egypt in the 1840s / Kenneth M. Cuno -- An industrial revolution in agriculture? Some observations on the evolution of rural Egypt in the nineteenth century / Ghislaine Alleaume -- A long look at nearly two centuries of long staple cotton / Roger Owen -- Irrigation in contemporary Egypt / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- State, landlord, parliament and peasant: the story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt / Reem Saad.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agriculture--Egypt--History.