History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books

• Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
  [Available from Cambridge Books Online].
• Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort
  [Available from ebrary]
• South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5^th edition)
  [Available from Dawsonera]

Books

• Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein
• In search of a peace settlement: Egypt and Israel between the wars, 1967-1973 / by Moshe Gat
• Comparing empires: encounters and transfers in the long nineteenth century / edited by Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen
• China’s rise in historical perspective / edited by Brantly Womack
• China: a modern history / Michael Dillon
• Lords of the land, lords of the sea: conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800 / Hans Hägerdal
• Hiroshima Nagasaki / by Paul Ham
• Writing history: theory and practice (2^nd edition) / edited by Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner, and Kevin Passmore
• Gender and history / Susan Kingsley Kent
• The collapse of the eastern Mediterranean: climate change and the decline of the East, 950-1072 / Ronnie Ellenblum
• Tibet unconquered: an epic struggle for freedom / Diane Wolff
• Chinese communists and Hong Kong capitalists: 1937-1997 / Cindy Yik-yi Chu.
• The meaning of white: race, class, and the ‘domiciled community’ in British India 1858-1930 / Satoshi Mizutani
• Universal empire: a comparative approach to imperial culture and representation in Eurasian history / edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
• The Cambridge history of South Africa. Vol. 2, 1885-1994 / cedited by Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager, and Bill Nasson
  [Also available as an e-book from Cambridge Histories Online]
• Sojourners in a strange land: Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China / Florence C. Hsia
• European empires from conquest to collapse, 1815-1960 / V.G. Kiernan
• The origins of the modern world: fate and fortune in the rise of the West / Robert B. Marks