Title Triangular landscapes : environment, society, and the state in the Nile Delta under Roman rule / Katherine Blouin

Published Oxford [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps Series Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Contents The Mendesian Nome in context -- The Mendesian landscape under Roman rule -- 'Le beau risque': society, the state, and the land -- Autopsy of a region in crisis Summary Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale, it is a rather fast one. How did human action contribute to this phenomenon? How did it happen? Why did it start around the Roman period? And how did it impact on ancient Deltaic communities? This book reflects on these questions by focusing on a district of the north-eastern Delta called the Mendesian Nome. The Mendesian Nome is one of the very few Deltaic zones documented by a significant number of papyri. To date, this documentation has never been subject to a comprehensive study. Yet it provides us with a wealth of information on the region's landscape, administrative geography, and agrarian economy. Starting from these papyri and from all available evidence, this book investigates the complex networks of relationships between Mendesian environments, socio-economic dynamics, and agro-fiscal policies. Ultimately, it poses the question of the 'otherness' of the Nile Delta, within Egypt and, more broadly, the Roman Empire. Section I sets the broader hydrological, documentary, and historical contexts from which the Roman-period Mendesian evidence stem. Section II is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Mendesian landscape, while section III examines the strategies of diversification and the modes of valorization of marginal land attested in the nome. Finally, section IV analyses the socio-environmental crisis that affected the nome in the second half of the second century AD Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Land use -- Egypt -- History Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Egypt HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt. Agriculture -- Economic aspects Civilization Ecology Land use Römerzeit Landschaft Wirtschaft History & Archaeology. Regions & Countries - Africa. SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041289 Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041267 Egypt -- Environmental conditions -- History Subject Egypt Ägypten Altertum Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191002397 0191002399 0199688729 9780199688722 132202331X 9781322023311 9780191767876 0191767875

Other Titles Environment, society, and the state in the Nile Delta under Roman rule

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