This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.
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Tells fascinating stories from across the c.7000-year history of the Nile Delta from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century.
1. Introduction: the Nile Delta, real and imagined Katherine Blouin;
2.
Call me by my names: naming the Delta through time and space Katherine
Blouin;
3. The Nile Delta before the Pharaohs Frédéric Guyot;
4. The
khetem-border-posts in the Delta during the New Kingdom Claire Somaglino;
5.
New land amongst new rivers? Reconstructing the ancient waterscape and
settlement history in the Central Northwestern Delta Robert Schiestl;
6. The
Mareotis area: integration of a marginal territory into Egypt through wine
production Marie-Franēoise Boussac and Bérangčre Redon;
7. From Memphis to
Alexandria: the Delta within the Persian and Macedonian Empires (end of the
sixth to the first century BCE) Damien Agut-Labordčre;
8. Growing with the
empire? From village to town: Kom Abou Bellou and its urban development
Sylvain Dhennin;
9. Mapping the cult of Christian saints in the Nile Delta
from the fifth to the ninth century CE Ramez Boutros;
10. Alexandria: a brief
overview of the major hydraulics of the city, from its foundation to the Arab
Conquest Isabelle Hairy;
11. Imperial power, tribal settlement and fiscal
revolts in the early Islamic Delta (seventh to ninth century CE) Sobhi
Bourderbala;
12. The Nile as nexus: the nilometer at al-Rawda Island between
veneration and mediation in medieval Islamic Egypt Heba Mostafa;
13. Water
and prices: a view of the Nile from the Cairo Genizah Ben Outhwaite;
14.
Water development in the medieval Western Delta Wakako Kumamura;
15. The Nile
Delta in European cartography, 1200-1800 Lucile Haguet;
16. Just passing
through? The Nile Delta, colonial modernity and the Egyptian tourist economy
(ca. 1870-1914) Rachel Mairs;
17. Reclaiming the archive: the contribution of
Egyptian women to the archaeologies of the Delta (1880-1924) Heba Abd el
Gawad;
18. Short commentary on accounting documents from a vanishing cotton
estate ('izba) in the Nile Delta Mona Abaza.
Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Le conflit judéo-alexandrin de 38-41 (2005), Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory (forthcoming, with Ben Akrigg).
