The First Colonial Empire
Egypt in Nubia, 3200-1200 B.C
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Y Adams (University of Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-71 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500010768 |
| OpenAlex | W1996900905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 20 |
A century ago the phrases 'darkest Africa' and 'the dark continent' were encountered often in European and American literature. The darkness, one would suppose, was in the minds of the writers, signifying their general ignorance of African geography and ethnography. Yet I doubt if many who spoke of darkest Africa thought of it in quite those terms. For most of them, the darkness was in the minds of the Africans themselves; a metaphor for their moral backwardness and for their ignorance of the higher arts of civilization. African darkness thus contrasted with European and American enlighten-ment-and the contrast provided moral justification for Europe's mission civilisatrice
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Backwardness · Civilization · Colonialism · Criticism · Empire · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Ethnology · Ignorance · Literature · Metaphor · Political science · The arts · Theology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The Archaeology of Sudan and Nubia
Illuminating the Nubian ‘Dark Age’
Revising Egypto-Nubian Relations in New Kingdom Lower Nubia
Evaluating Nubian Population Structure from Cranial Nonmetric Traits
Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity
The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age
Imperialismo, Estado e Hierarquização Social na Baixa Núbia durante o Reino Novo egípcio (1550-1070 a.C.)
The ASGM sector in Africa – A child of misery and desperation
Tombos during the Napatan period (∼750–660 BC)
Migration in the Nile Valley during the New Kingdom period
Establishing a dialogue – settlement and funerary archaeology in northern Sudan
Core, peripheries, and regional realities in Middle Horizon Peru
Health of the non‐elites at Tombos
Colonialism, genocide, and Tibet
Object metamorphosis in colonial contexts
Expansionary Dynamics of Some Early Pristine States
Ancient Egyptian materials and industries
The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825
A short history of Africa
The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia
The Viceroys of Ethiopia
Egypt of the Pharaohs
The Viceroys of Ethiopia
Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. I
An Ostracon Depicting a Red Jungle-Fowl
The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia
Languages of Africa
Imperialism in the Ancient World
Apport de sept homélies pascales des Ve et VIe siècles (Sources chrétiennes n° 187) au trésor de la langue grecque
Social and Cultural Dynamics
A Study of History
Egypt in Nubia
Imperialism in the Ancient World
History and Settlement in Lower Nubia
History, Civilization and Culture
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |