Triangular landscapes : environment, society, and the state in the Nile Delta under Roman rule /
Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale, it is a rather fast one. How did human action...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The Mendesian Nome in context
- The Mendesian landscape under Roman rule
- 'Le beau risque': society, the state, and the land
- Autopsy of a region in crisis.
