Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times

by Bowman, Alan K.; Rogan, Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780197261835
• ISBN10: 0197261833
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-24
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and compare the patterns ofagricultural exploitation across historical periods (including Ptolemaic, Roman, and Ottoman times). Among important themes discussed are: the changing composition of agrarian elites, relationships between state, landholders and peasants, the impact of commercialization on the rural economy, technology, irrigation and water control, and changes in crop patterns and production. This volume's comparativist approach to the subject is crucial in crossing the linguistic and historical barriers between the different eras in Egypt's agrarian history.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Figures and Tables	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Note on Conventions	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xiv
Glossary	xvii
Chronological table	xxi
Maps	xxvi
Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times	1	(32)
Alan K. Bowman
Eugene Rogan
The Village Economy in Pharaonic Egypt	33	(28)
Christopher J. Eyre
Land-Tenure in the New Kingdom: The Role of Women Smallholders and the Military	61	(22)
Sally L. D. Katary
The Land-Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt	83	(24)
J. G. Manning
Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum	107	(16)
Dorothy J. Thompson
New and Old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum	123	(16)
Dorothy J. Thompson
Agricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman Egypt	139	(20)
Jane Rowlandson
The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century	159	(34)
Michael Sharp
Agrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large Estates	193	(24)
Jairus Banaji
Agriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and Theory	217	(20)
Terry G. Wilfong
Land-Tenure in Egypt in the First Five Centuries of Islamic Rule (Seventh---Twelfth centuries AD)	237	(30)
Gladys Frantz-Murphy
International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian Countryside	267	(20)
A. L. Udovitch
Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey	287	(14)
James G. Keenan
A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property, and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s	301	(30)
Kenneth M. Cuno
An Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth Century	331	(16)
Ghislaine Alleaume
A Long Look at Nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple Cotton	347	(20)
Roger Owen
Irrigation in Contemporary Egypt	367	(20)
Nicholas S. Hopkins
State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: The Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt	387	(18)
Reem Saad
Index	405