The last pharaohs
Subtitle: Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
By: J.G. Manning.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691142623
Subjects: Ptolemaic dynasty, -- 305-30 B.C; Pharaohs -- History; State, The -- History; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 332 B.C.-30 B.C; Egypt -- Economic conditions -- 332 B.C.-640 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Egypt in the first millennium BC; title: The historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state; title: Moving beyond despotism, economic planning, and state banditry : Ptolemaic Egypt as a premodern state; title: Shaping a new state : the political economy of the Ptolemies; title: Creating a new economic order : economic life and economic policy under the Ptolemies; title: Order and law shaping the law in a new state; title: Conclusions; title: 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.