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Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta Under Roman Rule by Katherine Blouin (Hardback, 2014)

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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 it happen? How did human action contribute to the phemen? Why did it start around the Roman period? And how did it impact on ancient Deltaic communities? This volume reflects on these questions by focusing on a district of the rth-eastern Delta called the Mendesian Nome. The Mendesian Nome is one of the very few Deltaic zones documented by a significant number of papyri. To date, this documentation has never been subject to a comprehensive study. Yet it provides us with a wealth of information on the region's landscape, administrative geography, and agrarian ecomy. Starting from these papyri and from all available evidence, this volume investigates the complex networks of relationships between Mendesian environments, socio-ecomic dynamics, and agro-fiscal policies. Ultimately, it poses the question of the 'otherness' of the Nile Delta, within Egypt and, more broadly, the Roman Empire. Section I sets the broader hydrological, documentary, and historical contexts from which the Roman-period Mendesian evidence stem. Section II is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Mendesian landscape, while section III examines the strategies of diversification and the modes of valorization of marginal land attested in the me. Finally, section IV analyses the socio-environmental crisis that affected the me in the second half of the second century AD.

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Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0199688729
ISBN-13
9780199688722
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209236194

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Author
Katherine Blouin
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Ancient History
Type
Textbook

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686g
Height
221mm
Width
157mm

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Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
33mm
Series Title
Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
Content Note
Five Figures, Five Maps, 28 Tables, and 14 Halftones
Author Biography
Katherine Blouin Is Associate Professor in Greek and Roman History at the University of Toronto.
Date of Publication
31/07/2014
Genre
Ancient History
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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