Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-207) and index.
Contents
Egyptians and Nubians -- The problem of frontiers -- Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence -- "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen -- From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush -- The Egyptian empire in Kush -- The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata -- The Sudan invades Egypt -- The invasion of Piankhy -- The twenty-fourth dynasty -- The resistance to Assyrian expansion -- "Taharqa the conqueror" -- Egypt of the "black pharaohs" -- Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty -- The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.
