Table of Contents

Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan: Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times
Christopher J. Eyre: The Village Economy in Pharaonic Egypt
Sally L. D. Katary: Land Tenure in the New Kingdom: the Role of Women Smallholders and the Military
J. G. Manning: Land Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper Egypt
Dorothy J. Thompson: Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum
Dorothy J. Thompson: New and Old in the Ptolemaic Fayyum
Jane Rowlandson: Agricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman Egypt
Michael Sharp: The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century
Jairus Banaji: Agrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large Estates
Terry G. Wilfong: Agriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and Theory
Gladys Frantz-Murphy: Land Tenure in Egypt in the First Six Centuries of Islamic Rule (7th-12th Centuries C. E.)
A. L. Udovitch: International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian Countryside
James G. Keenan: Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey
Kenneth M. Cuno: A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s
Ghislaine Alleaume: An Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth Century
Roger Owen: A Long Look at nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple Cotton
Nicholas S. Hopkins: Irrigation in Contemporary Egypt
Reem Saad: State, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt

Reviews

Bowman and Rogan, representing Graeco-Roman Egypt and Islamic Egypt, have brought together in this volume an excellent group of studies on the management of land in Egypt T.G.H. James, Times Literary Supplement, 02/07/99 For anyone who has had reason to study the life of an Egyptian small farmer ... the picture evoked by this ancient text will resonate strongly ... T.G.H. James, Times Literaty Supplement, 02/07/99