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Title: The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw ISBN: 0-19-280293-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fine overview of various aspects of Egypt throughout time
Comment: If you are a general reader interested in getting an overview of the history of Egypt from pre-historic through Roman times, you would be hard pressed to do better than this book. It has fifteen chapters. Each is devoted to a range of history or change in culture. This segmentation is quite useful in keeping aspects of the history straight in one's mind.
While I knew that Egypt wasn't a single culture through time, I never had a clear sense of who was doing what where and when. This book provides a wonderful cure for that problem. Obviously, there are lifetimes to be spent by specialists in the endless aspects of these cultures. However, there is a lot to be gained by having a better overview and some understanding of these things by generalists. I am glad to have this book on my shelf.
Each chapter is loaded with interesting pictures, drawings, color plates, and maps. Each chapter has a section for further reading in the back of the book. There is also a glossary, a chronology, a list of sources for the illustrations, and an index.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible.
Comment: Incredible book. Great for beginning to learn the basics of egyptian history.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you read one book about Ancient Egypt, read this one.
Comment: As a quote expresses on the back of this book, "If you only want to read one book on Egypt, then read this one." Ian Shaw's history of ancient Egypt is a beautifully constructed volume that is at once densely packed with information and high in its level of scholarship, and aesthetically appealing and fairly accessible. The book surveys Egyptian history from 700,000 years before the present through the Roman period (ending in AD 395). This is an enormous task, and one might assume that the book could only be very summary and superficial in its treatment of each period. However, every member of Shaw's team of scholars manages to describe his or her period of expertise in a good amount of detail, discussing not only historical events but also art, religion, economics, and material culture. The book thus very successfully follows current trends in history of approaching periods from myriad points of view. Equally importantly, each author discusses the current problems and debates in the scholarship of his or her field. The multi-author approach allows the reader insight into the nature of research for each stage of Egyptian history: the reader gets a sense of the way in which research is conducted, the modes of analysis applied, and the style and terms of discussion. This book serves as an introduction to Egyptian historiography and to the nature of the study of ancient history almost as much as it serves as an introduction to ancient Egypt itself. Thus, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt manages a high level of scholarship while remaining a useful survey of a huge span of time and culture. Readers who are unfamiliar with archaeological language might find some of the articles in this volume slightly more difficult than others, but there is a decent glossary in the back, and it is more the scholarly tone than the actual material that needs getting used to. Any reader who is genuinely interested in the topic will be able to read through this entire book without much trouble. My only reservation is this: the highly dense nature of the text means that it is occasionally a bit of a slow read. I read the book for a graduate class with Egyptologist David O'Connor (excavator of Abydos; you will see him mentioned several times in the book) and it took me about a week of constant focus. On the whole, though, this is a remarkable book and probably the best existing introduction to ancient Egypt. With a publication date of 2002, it is also the most up-to-date.
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Title: Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Cultural Altas Series) by John Baines, Jaromir Malek ISBN: 0816040362 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt With 350 Illustrations 130 in Color by Peter A. Clayton ISBN: 0500050740 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Ancient Egypt by David P. Silverman, David J. Silverman ISBN: 0195212703 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition by Mark Collier, Bill Manley ISBN: 0520239490 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson ISBN: 0500051208 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 26 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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