Garden of Egypt
Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum
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2024
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-13352-9 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-13352-9 (ISBN)
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Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt’s Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. Until the arrival of modern perennial irrigation in the nineteenth century, the Fayyūm was the only region of premodern Egypt to be irrigated by a network of artificial canals. By linking large numbers of rural communities together in shared dependence on this public irrigation infrastructure, canalization introduced to Egypt a radically new way of interacting both with the water of the Nile and with fellow farmers. Drawing upon ancient Greek papyri, medieval Arabic literature, and modern comparative evidence, this book explores the ways in which the Nile’s water, local farmers, and state power together continually reshaped this irrigated landscape over more than thirteen centuries. Following human/water relationships through both space and time further helps to erode disciplinary boundaries and bring multiple periods of Egyptian history into contact with one another.
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt’s Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. Until the arrival of modern perennial irrigation in the nineteenth century, the Fayyūm was the only region of premodern Egypt to be irrigated by a network of artificial canals. By linking large numbers of rural communities together in shared dependence on this public irrigation infrastructure, canalization introduced to Egypt a radically new way of interacting both with the water of the Nile and with fellow farmers. Drawing upon ancient Greek papyri, medieval Arabic literature, and modern comparative evidence, this book explores the ways in which the Nile’s water, local farmers, and state power together continually reshaped this irrigated landscape over more than thirteen centuries. Following human/water relationships through both space and time further helps to erode disciplinary boundaries and bring multiple periods of Egyptian history into contact with one another.
Brendan Haug is Archivist of the Papyrology Collection, University of Michigan, and Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan.
Preface
List of maps and figures
List of tables
Aids for reader
Note on the transliteration of greek and arabic
Introduction: from water, everything
1. Capturing the flood
2. Hybrid landscapes
3. Governing flow
4. Communities of flow
5. The tail end
Conclusion: not static but flowing
Appendix: english translation of al-maqrīzī (1364-1442 ce) on the fayyūm, containing an epitome of abū isḥāq’s schedule of regulations (dustūr) of the canal system (1031 ce)
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Texts from Ancient Cultures |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 Figures, 6 Maps, 11 Tables |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-13352-7 / 0472133527 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-13352-9 / 9780472133529 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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