Ancient Egypt : state and society / Alan B. Lloyd.

9780191804328 (ebook) :

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

1 online resource (xxiv, 363 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white)

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Alan Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilisations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia. The book adopts the premise that all societies are the product of a continuous dialogue with their physical context - understood in the broadest sense - and that, in order to achieve a successful symbiosis with this context, they develop an interlocking set of systems, defined by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists as culture.

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September 03, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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