The mind of Egypt : history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs
by
 
Assmann, Jan.

Title
: 
The mind of Egypt : history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs

Author
: 
Assmann, Jan.

ISBN
: 
9780674012110

Personal Author
: 
Assmann, Jan.

Uniform Title
: 
Ägypten. English

Publication Information
: 
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Physical Description
: 
ix, 513 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Contents
: 
Introduction: The Meaningful Form of History -- Pt. 1. The Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom -- Pt. 2. The First Intermediate Period -- Pt. 3. The Middle Kingdom -- Pt. 4. The New Kingdom -- Pt. 5. Theocracy, Polyarchy, Archaism -- Pt. 6. Egypt under the Persians and Greeks -- Conclusion: Egypt as Trace, Message, and Memory.

Abstract
: 
"The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideas, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, the renowed historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Historiography -- Egypt.

Geographic Term
: 
Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D.


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