FBA D.Litt. Camden Professor of Ancient History Emeritus, former Principal of Brasenose College, University of Oxford, former Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy, former President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

• Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern TimesThe Village Economy in Pharaonic EgyptLand Tenure in the New Kingdom: the Role of Women Smallholders and the MilitaryLand Tenure Regime in Ptolemaic Upper EgyptIrrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic FayyumNew and Old in the Ptolemaic FayyumAgricultural Tenancy and Village Society in Roman EgyptThe Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second CenturyAgrarian History and the Labour Organisation of Byzantine Large EstatesAgriculture among the Christian Population of Early Islamic Egypt: Practice and TheoryLand Tenure in Egypt in the First Six Centuries of Islamic Rule (7th-12th Centuries C. E.)International Trade and the Medieval Egyptian CountrysideFayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's SurveyA Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840sAn Industrial Revolution in Agriculture? Some Observations on the Evolution of Rural Egypt in the Nineteenth CenturyA Long Look at nearly Two Centuries of Long Staple CottonIrrigation in Contemporary EgyptState, Landlord, Parliament and Peasant: the Story of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Egypt

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