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Nubia, corridor to Africa

William Yewdale Adams
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (page xi)
  • LIST OF PLATES (page xiii)
  • LIST OF FIGURES (page xvii)
  • LIST OF TABLES (page xxi)
  • PREFACE (page xxiii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • PROLOGUE
    • 1 THE NUBIAN CORRIDOR (page 13)
    • 2 THE PEOPLE OF THE CORRIDOR (page 44)
    • 3 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN NUBIA (page 65)
  • PART ONE: TRIBAL BEGINNINGS
    • 4 THE STONE AGES (page 101)
    • 5 THE SHADOW OF CIVILIZATION: THE NUBIAN A HORIZON (page 118)
    • 6 THE PASTORAL IDEAL: THE NUBIAN C HORIZON (page 142)
    • 7 THE RISING TIDE OF IMPERIALISM: EGYPT IN NUBIA, 3200-1800 BC (page 163)
  • PART TWO: DYNASTIES AND EMPIRES
    • 8 TRANSITION TO EMPIRE: THE NUBIAN KINGDOM OF KERMA (page 195)
    • 9 THE VICEROYALTY OF KUSH: NUBIA UNDER THE EGYPTIAN NEW KINGDOM (page 217)
    • 10 THE HEROIC AGE: THE NUBIAN EMPIRE OF NAPATA (page 246)
    • 11 THE SOUTHWARD COURSE OF EMPIRE: THE MERIOTIC CIVILIZATION OF THE STEPPELANDS (page 294)
    • 12 RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH: PTOLEMAIC, ROMAN, AND MERIOTIC RESETTLEMENT IN LOWER NUBIA (page 333)
    • 13 EPILOGUE TO EMPIRE: THE NUBIAN X HORIZON (page 382)
  • PART THREE: MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS
    • 14 A NEW BEGINNING: THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF NUBIA (page 433)
    • 15 THE CROWN AND THE CROSS: THE CIVILIZATION OF CHRISTIAN NUBIA (page 459)
    • 16 THE FEUDAL AGE: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CHRISTIAN MONARCHIES (page 508)
    • 17 THE ANVIL OF ISLAM: THE ARAB MIGRATIONS AND THE ARABIZATION OF THE NUBIANS (page 547)
    • 18 RETURN TO VASSALAGE: THE SUDAN UNDER FUNJ, TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN RULE (page 592)
  • EPILOGUE
    • 19 THE LEGACY OF THE WEST: NUBIA AND THE SUDAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (page 639)
    • 20 THE LESSONS OF NUBIA (page 665)
  • NOTES (page 681)
  • INDEX (page 773)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SC 200.4342 (May 1978): 661-663 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1746959
JAFH 19.3 (1978): 457-459 http://www.jstor.org/stable/181954
GJ 144.3 (Nov. 1978): 501 http://www.jstor.org/stable/634839
IJAHS 11.2 (1978): 348-352 http://www.jstor.org/stable/217469
JAOS 101.2 (Apr.-Jun. 1981): 251-253 http://www.jstor.org/stable/601789
AANTH 81.1 (Mar. 1979): 150-151 http://www.jstor.org/stable/677256
AHR 83.5 (Dec. 1978): 1233-1234 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1854707
JNES 38.4 (Oct. 1979): 299-302 http://www.jstor.org/stable/545107
AT 27.3 (3rd Qtr. 1980): 66 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4185952
AFA 27.4 (Autumn 1994): 78-79 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337323
CSSH 22.2 (Apr. 1998): 222-226 http://www.jstor.org/stable/178406
HZ 229.3 (Dec. 1979): 641-644 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27621408
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Published: 1977
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691093703 (hardcover)
  • 9781400847945 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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