Governmental Reforms on Old Kingdom Egypt

A very hard-to-find book.

The author is right to reject the old concept that the provinces were becoming more and more independent from the central government during the sixth dynasty, causing a slow decline that led to the eventual collapse of the Old Kingdom. He sees the motivation for these reforms as economic, but some changes do not easily conform to this idea, as the government seemingly felt it necessary to restrict periodically the power given to provincial officials. He has done a great service to the study of the Old Kingdom by attempting to locate and quantify these changes." JEA