Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University, 2005, under the title Policing the chora: law enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt.

This book investigates the law enforcement system of Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BC).

The first detailed description of when and how the police may use force under the international law of law enforcement.

This book is the first economic history of ancient Egypt covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE, and employing a New Institutional Economics approa

An analysis of the legal reasoning of the Jews who petitioned the leaders of a Jewish πολίτευμα in Hellenistic Egypt, this study reveals that the petit