Garden of Egypt : Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm is the first environmental history of Egypt's Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. Until the arrival of modern perennial irrig...
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University of Michigan Press
2024
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