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Author Redford, Donald B., author.

Title From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / Donald B. Redford.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations, maps
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Note 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Blacks -- Egypt -- History.
Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C.
Nubia -- History.
Egypt -- Relations -- Sudan.
Sudan -- Relations -- Egypt.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Redford, Donald B. From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 x, 218 pages ; 24 cm 9780801885440
ISBN 0801878144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801885440
9781421404097 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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