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The State in Ancient Egypt - Power, Challenges and Dynamics (Hardcover)
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The State in Ancient Egypt - Power, Challenges and Dynamics (Hardcover)
Series: Debates in Archaeology
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This book presents a new analysis of the organization, structure
and changes of the pharaonic state through three millennia of its
history. Moreno Garcia sheds new light on this topic by bringing to
bear recent developments in state theory and archaeology,
especially comparative study of the structure of ancient states and
empires. The role played by pharaonic Egypt in new studies often
reiterates old views about the stability, conservatism and
'exceptionalism' of Egyptian kingship, which supposedly remained
the same across the Bronze and Iron Ages. Ancient Egypt shared many
parallels with other Bronze and Iron Age societies as can be shown
by an analysis of the structure of the state, of the limits of
royal power, of the authority of local but neglected micro-powers
(such as provincial potentates and wealthy non-elite), and of the
circulation and control of wealth. Furthermore, Egypt experienced
deep changes in its social, economic, political and territorial
organization during its history, thus making the land of the
pharaohs an ideal arena in which to test applications of models of
governments and to define the dynamics that rule societies on the
longue duree. When seen through these new perspectives, the
pharaonic monarchies appear less exceptional than previously
thought, and more dependent on the balance of power, on their
capacity to control the kingdom's resources and on the changing
geopolitical conditions of their time.
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