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From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Donald B. Redford
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Description for From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Paperback. Examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to its south. This book reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through texts and artifacts, providing an account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world. Num Pages: 232 pages, 54, 38 black & white halftones, 16 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. by an invading Assyrian army. Redford traces the development of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural construction of spatial and spiritual boundaries between Egypt and other African peoples. Redford focuses on ... Read more
In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. by an invading Assyrian army. Redford traces the development of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural construction of spatial and spiritual boundaries between Egypt and other African peoples. Redford focuses on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801885440
SKU
V9780801885440
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About Donald B. Redford
Donald B. Redford is a professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Among his many books are (as editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt and The Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology, and (as author) Akhenaten, the Heretic King and Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.
Reviews for From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
The first full-scale study in English of relations between Egypt and Nubia in antiquity... Trenchant and illuminating observations abound. Choice 2005 A welcome addition... Professor Redford has demonstrated that more obscure material can be presented in a way that is fresh, exciting and accessible.
Chris Naunton Egyptian Archaeology 2005 A detailed but spirited account of a theme that has ... Read more
Chris Naunton Egyptian Archaeology 2005 A detailed but spirited account of a theme that has ... Read more