Inscriptions from Lisht : Texts from Burial Chambers /
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The inscribed objects found in or associated with the burial chambers of Middle Kingdom officials and other individuals provide an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of ancient Egyptian funerary culture. These include the coffins and sarcophagi as well as canopic chests and jars, mummy masks, ivory wands, miniature coffins, and shawabtis. This volume incorporates all such inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and graves found at Lisht North and Lisht South, two sites excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1907 until 1934 and from 1984 to 1991. Two kings, several members of the royal family, and many elite persons, as well as a community of middle-class people found their resting place in and around the royal pyramids at Lisht, which served as the principal cemetery for Egypt's capital during the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 B.C.). The material in the corpus published here represents a sequence of seven chronological phases at Lisht that range from the reigns of the kings Amenemhat I and Senwosret I through the late Dynasty XIII and the Second Intermediate Period. The inscribed texts presented in this corpus are transliterated and translated, and are accompanied by extensive drawings that meticulously detail these texts, as well as annotations to some previously published material. The lavishly illustrated volume includes heretofore unpublished photographs from the Department of Egyptian Art's archives. Each object described in Inscriptions from Lisht has been assigned a code referring to the primary individual associated with it, and its description includes transliterations of the deceased's name(s) and title(s). Because the location of an inscription on a coffin or sarcophagus is usually significant and because some of these include multiple texts, the author has designed a system of references that reflects the location on the object. Further, the catalogue of objects draws on Museum archives and also provides information concerning the findspot and current location of the object as well as relevant archival material and bibliography." --Provided by publisher
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xi +74 pages; 251 black and white and color illustrations : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm. :
Includes Director's Foreword. :
9781588397164
The organization of the pyramid texts : typology and disposition /
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The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest sizable body of religious texts in the world. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, they had been inscribed on the interior stone walls of the pyramid tombs of third-millennium kings and queens. From their content it is clear that they were concerned with the afterlife state of the tomb owner, but the historical meaning of their emergence has been poorly understood. This book weds traditional philological approaches to linguistic anthropology in order to associate them with two spheres of human action: mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife. Monumentalized as hieroglyphs in the tomb, their function was now one step removed from the human events that had motivated their original production.
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1 online resource (2 volumes in 1 (xxxiv, 712 pages)) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004227491 :
0169-9601 ; :
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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities...
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Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book, first published in 1823, provides a summary of Young's hieroglyphic research, which he believed Champollion had used without acknowledgement in his important 1822 translations.
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xv, 160 pages ; 24 cm. :
9781108017169
An analytical concordance of the verb, the negation, and the syntax in Egyptian coffin texts /
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The present volume is the long-awaited concordance of the Egyptian coffin texts. It forms the sequel to A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts by the same author. In 1961 A. de Buck published his important seven-volume corpus Egyptian Coffin Texts . The importance of these texts is considerable for a variety of reasons; they are one of the most important literary texts of classical Egypt; the many variants greatly enlarge our understanding of grammar and linguistic structures; the coffin texts are magical texts, the effectiveness of which depended upon the exact reproductions of the original spells . In this concordance the various readings of each lemma are provided in transliteration into the Latin alphabet, which makes the concordance easily accessible for those unable to read hieroglyphs. The material is divided into the morphological categories of the verb; within each category the verbs are treated in alphabetical order.
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1 online resource (2 volumes (xv, 1,940 pages)) :
9789047414872 :
0169-9423 ; :
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The great dedicatory inscription of Ramesses II : a Solar-Osirian Tractate at Abydos /
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This volume covers, for the first time, the interaction of a major historical event with the development of the Egyptian Solar-Osirian theology. Pharaoh Ramesses II visited the sacred area of Abydos soon after his recognition of power at Luxor in Thebes. With him were many high officials, one of whom would be soon appointed to be the high Priest of Amun at Thebes, Nebwenenef. During his visit, the king stressed his personal relationship with his father, Seti I as well as ordering the completion of his temple. By analyzing certain passages within Ramesses' official acccount, the Dedicatory Inscription, with others of Seti, a more nuanced appreciation of the growing theological system of Osirus plus Re, the sun god, comes to the fore. This significance of this is heightened when we remember that the king's account was exhibited in the portico of Seti I's temple. \'Anthony Spalinger's new monograph discusses the Great Dedicatory Inscription and these processes anew by means of perspicuous, accurate, translations of the surviving texts, enlivened by equally stimulating commentaries. These are accompanied likewise by meticulously researched footnotes, which have been marshaled with a diligence for which the author is rightly renowned...All of this is done here with exemplary skill and a fine eye for detail, and our libraries are far the richer for it.\' A.J. Peden
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]) and index. :
9789047442578 :
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El Arábah : a cemetery of the middle kingdom : survey of the old kingdom Temenos : graffiti from the temple of Sety /
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Arábah is the modern representative of ancient Abydos, one of the chief centres of religious and funeral rites in Egypt. cf. Introduction.
At head of title : Egyptian research account. 1900.
Originally published : London : B. Quaritch, 1901.
Includes index. :
viii, 49 pages, xl leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm. :
1854170384
Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová /
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The publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.
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1 online resource (xl, 518 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004312616 :
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Les stèles de l'an 3 d'Aspelta /
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"A new stele dated Year III of Aspelta was discovered one fragment after another between 1999 and 2007 on the site of Dukki Gel (Pnubs), one kilometre north of Kerma. What started as archaeological research turned into a police investigation when the largest fragment was confiscated from a Sudanese man who had sent a copy of the text to the Museum of Khartoum to enquire about the potential commercial value of the object in his possession. Five fragments constituting the main part of the upper and median sections of the stele could thus be reassembled, along with two fragments of the lower rim. The scarce number of Napatean inscribed monuments known to us makes every new discover likely to shed entirely new light on this very specific period when the Kushite kings ceased to rule over Egypt but kept close cultural relationships with it beyond the now interrupted political links. The date of the stele - Year III, 1st month of Winter, the 12th - places it twenty days after the stele from Sanam, downstream of the 4th cataract, now in the Louvre Museum (C 250 = E 6209) which is dated Year III, 3rd month of the akhet season, the 22nd day. The latter commemorated the visit to the temple of Amun-Ra Bull of Nubia by a delegation sent by the king to replace the sistrum player of the temple. Reading the inscription of stele from Dukki Gel shows that most members of the delegation of the Sanam stele are still mentioned here, although important redactional discrepancies are to found between the two texts. A comparison of the two inscriptions lets us establish certain orthographic rules followed by the scribe of each stele, one with an Egyptian training while the other one seems to have been influenced by a specific local culture, which the Dukki Gel stele contributes to reveal." -- Page 4 of cover.
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vi, 117 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-97) and indexes. :
9782724706185 :
0259-3823 ;
154.
The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign /
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This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The essays address cross-cultural issues such as: Why does grammar serve as a template in these cultures? How are such templates culturally contoured? To what end are they applied - id est, what can one do with grammar - , and how does it work upon the world? The book is divided into three sections that deal with the metaphysics of linguistic creation; practices of encoding and decoding as a means of deciphering reality; and language in the widest sense as a medium for self- and cultural transformation. Contributors include: Jan Assman, Sara Sviri, Michael Stone, M. Finkelberg, Yigal Bronner, Martin Kern, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Dan Martin, Jonathan Garb, Tom Hunter, David Shulman, and Sergio La Porta.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047421658 :
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Offerings to the discerning eye : an Egyptological medley in honor of Jack A. Josephson /
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Egyptologist Jack A. Josephson, a writer and researcher in the tradition of the "gentleman scholar," has achieved broad recognition as an authority in Egyptian art history. His lucid investigative analyses have probed and redefined the limits of inquiry, expanded research parameters, and broadened perspectives, emphasizing the undeniable contributions of art history in an intra-disciplinary framework. This volume of collected essays is dedicated to Josephson by distinguished friends and colleagues, a select roster including eminent, established scholars in the field of Egyptology and rising stars of the younger generation. Josephson views Egyptian art history as a critical but neglected area of study, and is a strong proponent of its reinstatement in the academic curriculum as an essential component in the formation of new cadres. The quality of the articles in this Egyptological medley is a tribute to the honoree and an affirmation of the esteem of his peers, while the range of subjects and variety of themes addressed reflect the degree to which he has, in his own scholarship, undertaken to implement his ideal.
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"Bibliography of Jack A. Josephson": pages [xv]. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047441090 :
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The debate between a man and his soul : a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian literature /
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This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul ). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature. It is also one of the most difficult and continually debated, as well as being the subject of more than one hundred books and articles. The present study offers new readings and translations, along with an analysis of the text's grammar and versification, and a complete philological apparatus.
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Includes a transliteration of the original text with English translation. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004193062 :
1566-2055 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Ramesside Hieratic Stela of the Sandal Maker Penone in the Egyptian Museum Cairo (TR. 27.6.24.3) /
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The hieratic stela (TR. 27.6.24.3) in the Egyptian Museum Cairo represents an interesting deposition which belongs to the sandal maker, Penone, and a woman named Ta‘at. This stela represents one of the earliest known incised hieratic examples from the Ramesside Period. The article presents a full transcription and translation with commentary on the text. Particular attention is paid to the palaeography of the text. It also shows the purpose of writing this kind of subject on this stela instead of an ostracon or papyrus. The choice of the hieratic rather than the hieroglyphic script for this stela is examined as well.
Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums /
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Each section (initially called "Band," after 1905 "Abteilung") was to comprise one or more volumes of 4 fascicles each. That plan later changed: section 1 comprises 4 fasc.; section 3, 2 fasc; section 4, 22 fasc.; section 5, 3 fasc.
Includes earlier editions of some volumes.
Includes transcription of hieroglyphic texts and German translations.
Issued in parts.
Parts published after World War II have imprint : Berlin, Akademie-Verlag.
Title from cover of section 1, fasc. 1. :
8 volumes ; 30 cm. :
3050001933 (set)
Cult and Ritual in Persian Period Egypt : An Analysis of the Decoration of the Cult Chapels of the Temple of Hibis at Kharga Oasis /
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"Ancient Egyptian temple walls expressed royal and political ideologies, reflected the ancient Egyptian secular and spiritual world order, supplied a medium for the reenactments of assorted myths, and implied a metaphor for the universe. The Temple of Hibis is one of the most important temples from Late Period Egypt. Despite the conventional overall architecture plan of the temple, it exhibits numerous particularities. While the more prominent parts of the temple, such as the sanctuary, have been studied by numerous scholars, in other areas the decoration schemes remain largely unexplained. This book focuses on the decorative schemes of several chapels in the earlier part of the temple, chapels that were either established and/or were decorated during the first Persian Period (525-404 BCE). These chapels were located around the main sanctuary A, but have rarely been the subject of scholarly discussions. It concentrates on a few chapels of the Temple of Hibis: chapels F and G to the south of sanctuary A on the first level of the temple and all the decorated chapels, E1, E2, H1, and H2, on the second level of the temple. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the scenes and their basic layout and a complete translation of the accompanying texts. A more in-depth analysis regarding both text and image follows in the commentary. It includes the analysis of the different aspects of the gods, their origins, and the development of their cults that are significant to the scenes and to each other. Also discussed are their coherence, any aspects that are especially emphasized, and any other information that could be gleaned from the whole scene. The analysis tries to detail the specific composition that makes up the mosaic of the picture, wall, or room. Attention is paid to both the scenic arrangement and the hieroglyphic inscriptions, as the interpretation of one would be meaningless without the other. Attention is given to investigating the general function of the different rooms by means of their decoration and by identifying the patterns or important themes generated by the layout of the scenes. The results are summarized in the last chapter. A number of line drawings have been inserted into the text beside a described scene as an aid to the reader"--
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xv, 294 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-264) and index. :
9781950343096
Les <<Magasins nord>> de Thoutmosis III à Karnak : relevés épigraphique et photographique (MNs, nos 1-72) /
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Les << Magasins nord >> de Thoutmosis III sont un ensemble de huit salles accessibles par le couloir périmétral de l'enceinte en grès du temple d'Amon-Rê à Karnak. Bâties par Thoutmosis III pendant son règne autonome après la disparition de la reine Hatchepsout, ces salles forment un complexe à l'accès restreint qui a subi plusieurs transformations architecturales dont les plus remarquables sont la modification de son accès ouest au cours du règne même de Thoutmosis III et la décoration d'une des salles du complexe par Ptolémée XI Sôter II près de quatorze siècles après sa construction. Cet ensemble entretient des liens étroits avec les autres structures du règne de Thoutmosis III dont l'Akh-menou, nouveau cœur cultuel du temple d'Amon-Rê, mais aussi avec les zones d'accès et le centre du temple de Karnak. Ce volume livre pour la première fois l'ensemble de la matière épigraphique, en grande partie inédite, de ce secteur (fac-similés, textes hiéroglyphiques en ligne et traduction commentée) ainsi qu'une couverture photographique complète, réalisée après l'achèvement, en 2016, d'un important programme de restauration et de conservation.
The "Northern Storerooms" of Thutmosis III are a set of eight chambers accessible through the corridor within the sandstone enclosure of the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. Built by Thutmosis III during his autonomous reign after the death of Queen Hatshepsut, these chambers form a complex with restricted access that underwent several architectural transformations. Among the most remarkable are the modification of its western entrance during Thutmosis III's own reign and the decoration of one of the chambers by Ptolemy XI Soter II, nearly fourteen centuries after its construction. This complex maintains close connections with other structures from the reign of Thutmosis III, including the Akh-menu, the new cultic center of the Temple of Amun-Re, as well as the access areas and the central part of the Karnak Temple. This volume presents, for the first time, all of the epigraphic material, largely unpublished, from this sector (including facsimiles, hieroglyphic texts, and translations), along with complete photographic coverage, undertaken after the completion of a major restoration and conservation programme in 2016.
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Sommaire en ligne.
Texte en français et en égyptien ancien. Résumés en français et en anglais sur la 4e de couverture.
BiGen = Bibliothèque générale. :
x, 364 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-364) and Index. :
9782724709919 :
1110-8533.
1110-2470 ;
Hrozný and Hittite : the first hundred years : proceedings of the International Conference held at Charles University, Prague, 11-14 November 2015 /
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This volume collects 33 papers that were presented at the international conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in November 2015 to celebrate the centenary of Bedřich Hrozný's identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, "Hrozný and His Discoveries," "Hittite and Indo-European," and "The Hittites and Their Neighbors," and span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion. The authors hail from 15 countries and include leading figures as well as emerging scholars in the fields of Hittitology, Indo-European, and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004413122
A master of secrets in the chamber of darkness
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The Master of Secrets: Robert K. Ritner / Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
Publications of Robert K. Ritner / Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
The Ritner Stela / Megaera Lorenz and Mary Szabady
Black Magic (Woman) / Solange Ashby, University of California, Los Angeles
An Additional Layer of Complexity: Northern and Southern Warets in Middle Kingdom Administration / Kathryn E. Bandy, University of Chicago
Hieroglyphs of Value across the Great Green /Karen Polinger Foster, Yale University
Seth the Gleaming One / François Gaudard, University of Warsaw and University of Chicago
“Destructive Flame,” “Dazzling Beauty,” and “Source of Enlightenment” : Royal Light : Terminology and Metaphor from the New Kingdom to the Late Period / Katja Goebs, University of Toronto
The “Libyan Family” at Kawa: Fashion as a Political Statement of Taharqo / Aleksandra Hallmann, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
A Version of Book of the Dead Spell 99 in Demotic (P. Dem. MAIL 1) / Richard Jasnow, Johns Hopkins University
Three Demotic Silver Accounts from the ISAC Museum Collection / Jacqueline E. Jay, Eastern Kentucky University, and Foy D. Scalf, University of Chicago
Assorted Observations on Inheritance in Ancient Egypt / Janet H. Johnson, University of Chicago
Akhenaten and the Opening of the Mouth Ritual? An Enigmatic Karnak Talatat Block Found at Luxor Temple / W. Raymond Johnson, University of Chicago
A Portal for Isis of Djeme / J. Brett McClain, University of Chicago
Sur quelques passages de la Stèle de la tempête d’Ahmosis / Pierre Meyrat, University of Geneva
A Group of Three Human Figurines from Tell Edfu / Nadine Moeller, Yale University
A Note on the Meeting Places of Egyptian Associations / Ian S. Moyer, University of Michigan
Alterity, Amalgamation, and Royal Identity in Early Egypt / Hratch Papazian, University of Cambridge
Once Again the Boatmen’s Joust: A Study in Ritual and Symbolic Action / Peter A. Piccione, University of Charleston
Syntactic and Modal Markers (“Particles”) in the Texts of the Shabaqo Stone / Joshua A. Roberson, University of Memphis
The Transmission of Magical Texts at Deir el-Medina: A Hieratic Copy of a Horus Cippi Text on Ostracon ISACM E17008 / Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs, University of Chicago
Spells on the Interior of the Headboard of the Coffin of Ahanakht and Connections with Chapters from the Book of the Dead / David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania
Merenptah’s Israel, His Shasu Militiamen, His Copper Caravan Route, and the Watering Stations / Bearing His Name at Kadesh-barnea and Me-nephtoah: Part One / Richard C. Steiner, Yeshiva University
The Inscribed Clay Cobra Figurines of Abydos: Protecting the Reawakening of Osiris / Kasia Szpakowska, Swansea University
Three Demotic Ostraca from Dakhla Oasis (Mut 30/2, 30/15, and 42/12) / Günter Vittmann, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
The Twenty-Second Dynasty Coffin of a Chantress in the Pure Foundation of Ptah: A Glimpse into Priestly Society in Libyan-Period Memphis / Jennifer Houser Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
New Light on the Mayors and Ruling Family of Wah-Sut / Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
“I Interrogated the Arabs of the Desert”: Local Interlocutors in the Egyptological Research of Claude Sicard, 1712–1726
Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville
The Last Buchis Bull(s) of Armant: Notes on the End of an Indigenous Animal Cult in Late Roman Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong, University of Michigan
New Observations on the Cryptographic Text of Pinudjem I at Medinet Habu / Jonathan Winnerman, University of California, Los Angeles
Old Kingdom, new perspectives : Egyptian art and archaeology 2750-2150 BC /
: "Proceedings of the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, held May 20-23, 2009 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge". : 319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781842174302
