Garden of Egypt : Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum,...

Description: Garden of Egypt : Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum, Hardcover by Haug, Brendan, ISBN 0472133527, ISBN-13 9780472133529, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyåum is the first environmental history of Egypt's Fayyåum depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth centuryCE. Until the arrival of modern perennial irrigation in the nineteenth century, the Fayyåum was the only region of premodern Egypt to be irrigated by a network of artificial canals. By linking large numbers of rural communities together in shared dependence on this public irrigation infrastructure, canalization introduced to Egypt a radically new way of interacting both with the water of the Nile and with fellow farmers. Drawing upon ancient Greek papyri, medieval Arabic literature, and modern comparative evidence, this book explores the ways in which the Nile's water, local farmers, and state power together continually reshaped this irrigated landscape over more than thirteen centuries. Following human/water relationships through both space and time further helps to erode disciplinary boundaries and bring multiple periods of Egyptian history into contact with one another,

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