A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present

In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation.

No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. However, it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras--prehistoric, pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern--that are not often studied in relation to one another. In this daringly ambitious project, drawing on the most current scholarship as well as his own research, Thompson makes the case that few if any other countries have as many threads of continuity running through their entire historical experience. With its unprecedented scope and lively and readable style, A History of Egypt offers students, travelers, and general readers alike an engaging narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile.

Author: Jason Thompson
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.30w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780307473523
ISBN10: 030747352X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | Egypt (see also Ancient | Egypt)
- History | Ancient | Egypt
- History | Civilization

About the Author
Jason Thompson is a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Colby College.