The Nile Delta

Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period

Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto)

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Cambridge University Press
18 September 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Middle Eastern history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Prehistoric archaeology

This 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 practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.

Edited by: Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009175159
ISBN 10: 1009175157
Pages: 673
Publication Date: 18 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Le conflit judéo-alexandrin de 38-41 (2005), Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory (forthcoming, with Ben Akrigg).