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From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / Donald B. Redford.

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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004.

Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Purdy-Kresge Library	DT 83 .R4 2004	CHECKED IN

Description	x, 218 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-207) and index.
Contents	Egyptians and Nubians -- The problem of frontiers -- Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence -- "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen -- From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush -- The Egyptian empire in Kush -- The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata -- The Sudan invades Egypt -- The invasion of Piankhy -- The twenty-fourth dynasty -- The resistance to Assyrian expansion -- "Taharqa the conqueror" -- Egypt of the "black pharaohs" -- Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty -- The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.
Subject	Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C.
	Nubia -- History.
	Egypt -- Relations -- Sudan.
	Sudan -- Relations -- Egypt.
	Black people -- Egypt -- History.
ISBN	0801878144 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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