Prologue. The Nubian corridor ; The people of the corridor ; History and archaeology in Nubia -- pt. 1. Tribal beginnings. The stone ages ; The shadow of civilization: the Nubian A horizon ; The pastoral ideal: the Nubian C horizon ; The rising tide of imperialism: Egypt in Nubia, 3200-1800 B.C. -- pt. 2. Dynasties and empires. Transition to empire: the Nubian kingdom of Kerma ; The Viceroyalty of Kush: Nubia under the Egyptian New Kingdom ; The heroic age: the Nubian empire of Napata ; The southward course of empire: the Meroitic civilization of the Steppelands ; Renaissance in the North: Ptolemaic, Roman, and Meroitic resettlement in Lower Nubia ; Epilogue to empire: the Nubian X horizon -- pt. 3. Medieval civilizations. A new beginning: the christianization of Nubia ; The crown and the cross: the civilization of Christian Nubia ; The feudal age: the decline and fall of the Christian monarchies ; The anvil of Islam: the Arab migrations and the arabization of the Nubians ; Return to vassalage: the Sudan under Funj, Turkish and Egyptian rule -- Epilogue. The legacy of the West: Nubia and the Sudan in the twentieth century ; The lessons of Nubia.
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