From Slave to Pharaoh
Subtitle: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801878145
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Egypt; History - General History; Ancient Egypt; Nubia; Africa - North; Ancient - Egypt; Blacks; History; Relations; To 332 B.C
First sentence: Human interaction between communities operates on many levels.
Description: "Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world."--BOOK JACKET.