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Print Price: $100.95

Format:
Paperback
448 pp.
6 colour plates, 9 in-text maps, & 29 in-text illustrations, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199286195

Publication date:
July 2014

Imprint: OUP UK


Ancient Egypt

State and Society

Alan B. Lloyd

In Ancient Egypt: State and Society, Alan B. Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilizations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia.

The volume adopts the premise that all societies are the product of a continuous dialogue with their physical context - understood in the broadest sense - and that, in order to achieve a successful symbiosis with this context, they develop an interlocking set of systems, defined by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists as culture. Culture, therefore, can be described as the sum total of the methods employed by a group of human beings to achieve some measure of control over their environment.

Covering the entirety of the civilization, and featuring a large number of up-to-date translations of original Egyptian texts, Ancient Egypt focuses on the main aspects of Egyptian culture which gave the society its particular character, and endeavours to establish what allowed the Egyptians to maintain that character for an extraordinary length of time, despite enduring cultural shock of many different kinds.

Readership : A key text for graduate students and scholars interested in Egyptology, Archaeology, and Ancient History.

List of colour plates
List of maps
List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Chronological table
Introduction
1. The Historical Context
2. Genesis of a Society
3. Kingship
4. Violence and the State
5. Government of the Kingdom
6. The Dialogue with Environment
7. The Conceptualized Environment
8. Affirmation of a Concept
9. Dialogue and Transition
Bibliography
Index

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Alan B. Lloyd is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University, and President of the Egypt Exploration Society.

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Special Features

  • Beautifully illustrated account of a key period in ancient history.
  • Covers the whole of Egyptian civilization.
  • Features a large number of up-to-date translations of original Egyptian texts.