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Twelve Desert Floods: A Structural History of Egypt in Twelve Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781972788035
Publisher: Pressure System Press
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twelve Desert Floods: A Structural History of Egypt in Twelve Poems presents ancient Egyptian civilization through a sequence of twelve concise, structured poems, each modeling a system that sustained long-term stability.
Rather than recounting historical events, this work focuses on recurring processes-flooding, cultivation, record keeping, governance, trade, and environmental change. Each poem isolates a system and presents it through observable conditions, transformations, and outcomes. Taken together, the poems form a structural account of how Egyptian civilization persisted over time.
Readers are guided to examine what is happening within each poem: what condition is present, what changes, and what remains consistent. This approach emphasizes pattern recognition and systems thinking, encouraging readers to understand history as a set of interacting processes rather than a linear narrative.
Accessible and concise, the text is well suited for secondary and introductory postsecondary courses in world history, ancient civilizations, and interdisciplinary studies. It may also be used alongside traditional historical materials to support analysis of continuity, environmental interaction, and long-term development.
Part of The Twelve Series, this volume focuses on Egypt as a model of stability, demonstrating how repeated systems sustain a civilization across time.
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