Author: Carl F. Petry File Type: pdf The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the worlds oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into current controversies. As todays Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab and Afro-Asian worlds, the project stands as testimony to its complex and vibrant past. Volume 1 addresses the period from the Arab invasion in 640 to the Ottoman conquest in 1517. It opens with a discussion of the preceding centuries to illustrate the legacy of ancient Egypt, and then progresses chronologically according to the major dynastic episodes. Authors have been encouraged to address their topics in the light of new research. The combination of political history and contemporary theory will ensure its value as a reference and research tool. **Review It is a pleasure to crack the pages of The Cambridge History of Egypt, a new, long-overdue enterprise in a venerable series. The Historian ...the editor of this volume has delivered a work to which readers can turn with some confidence for the narrative backbone of Egyption history from the Arab conquest in the seventh century to the Ottoman conquest in the sixteenth... Journal of Interdisciplinary History All in all, the two volumes of The Cambridge History of Egypt are well edited, thoroughly documented, handsomely presented, and dignified by the research and writing of always a competent and in several instances brilliant scholars. Both volumes are aimed at a readership, whether general or specialized, that will hopefully take advantage of this ambitious and even quite monumental undertaking to deepen its appreciation of Egypts historical grandeur. International Journal of African Historical Studies The scope of this book, its content, and the information provided by the authors will make it an indispensable resource for students and teachers. And because of the inclusion of significant issues and controversies in the history of Egypt and its society and in providing a rich bibliography of primary sources and modern studies, this book will also become a valuable springboard for those who want to do research on Islamic Egypt...this volume is an impressive achievement...this book should have a lasting value. American Historical Review ...will stand as a basic resource on Egypt for at least a generation. Choice The Cambridge History of Egypt is an excellent work, indispensable for research specialists and survey lectures alike. My hat is off to editorauthor Petry and the other seventeen author for their accomplishment. Mesa Bulletin Book Description The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest through thirteen centuries. The two-volume survey considers its political, socio-economic and cultural history, summarising the debates and providing insight into current controversies. Volume 1 addresses the period from the Arab invasion to the Ottoman conquest. It opens with a discussion of ancient Egypt, and then progresses according to the major dynastic episodes. The combination of political history and contemporary theory will ensure its value as a reference and research tool.

Author: Ellen Meiksins Wood File Type: epub Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of bourgeois society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a modern state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a modern state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the NairnAnderson theses to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics the development of British capitalism and French absolutism the state, the nation and their symbolic representations revolution and tradition the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress. This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.

Author: James Corner File Type: pdf Over the past two decades, James Corner has reinvented the field of landscape architecture. His highly influential writings of the 1990sincluded in our bestselling Recovering Landscapetogether with a post-millennial series of built projects, such as New Yorks celebrated High Line, prove that the best way to address the problems facing our cities is to embrace their industrial past. Collecting Corners written scholarship from the early 1990s through 2010, The Landscape Imagination addresses critical issues in landscape architecture and reflects on how his writings have informed the built work of his thriving New York based practice, Field Operations. **

Author: Keith Gregor File Type: pdf Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeares presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Duciss Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best and known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century there have been more productions of Shakespeare than of all of Spains major Golden Age dramatists put together. This book explores and explains this spectacular rise to prominence and offers a timely overview of Shakespeares place in Spains complex and vibrant culture.**