The Nile Delta Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period Blouin Paperback

The Nile Delta\n\nHistories from Antiquity to the Modern Period\n\nTells fascinating stories from across the c.7000-year history of the Nile Delta from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century.\n\nKatherine Blouin (Edited by)\n\n9781009175159, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 18 September 2025\n\n674 pages\n24.4 x 17 x 3.4 cm, 1.282 kg\n\nThis is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual pr.