Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill. African democracy and development : challenges for post-conflict African nations / edited by Cassandra R. Veney and Dick Simpson. African politics in comparative perspective / Göran Hydén The children of salvation : ritual struggle in a Liberian Aladura church / Samuel Irving Britt. Emotional and ethical challenges for field research in Africa : the story behind the findings / edited
This is a digital index to Die Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PbmZ) currently being complied by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy with the aim of documenting the lives of individuals active in the Byzantine World. Part 1 (641-867 AD) is now completely indexed and searchable (some 11,500 articles) Although copyright restrictions mean the full-text cannot be viewed, you can see an opening extract and obtain the page references for the print volume. Part 2
Image taken from the ELDIS Website, “Get the data” page: http://www.eldis.org/go/get-the-data#.UQknT2Fu2so ELDIS started out as one of the very first online development resources way back in 1995. It is an online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues. It has had a new make-over, with the intention of making its information and resources more accessible. Eldis includes over 30,000 summaries and links to
“Socialism is great!”: a worker’s memoir of the new China / by Lijia Zhang. Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Maghreb-Italie : des passeurs médiévaux à l’orientalisme moderne, XIIIe-milieu XXe siècle / études réunies par Benoît Grévin. Journeys to empire: enlightenment, imperialism, and the British encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 / Gordon T. Stewart. The Enlightenment / Roy Porter. (2nd edition) Intercultural transmission in
Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism: social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts. Conversion and narrative: reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech. Vie et spiritualité des
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Tracing the earliest recorded concepts of international law: the ancient Near East (2500-330 BCE) / by Amnon Altman. Byzantium Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Jewish Studies The Miriam
Image taken from the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival Website: http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events-2013/Saturday-23/the-return-of-a-king-the-battle-for-afghanistan Author and Historian, WIlliam Dalrymple will be discussing and signing copies of his new book Return of a King. It is a history which resonates with contemporary politics and reads like a richly drawn novel. Using previously undiscovered Afghan sources, here for the first time is the full picture of Britain’s disastrous adventure in Afghanistan, which asks: have we learnt
(By Dbachmann at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Orient.png) The journal Vicino Oriente (published by the Oriental Studies Section of Rome “La Sapienza” University”) is back on open access – although you will have to download a whole issue rather than browse and view individual articles on screen. The open-access content is currently from Vol.8 (1989) to Vol.15 (2011). Vicino Oriente covers Near Eastern archaeology, history and epigraphy and also takes
New on GlobaLex A new research guide to the legal system of the Kingdom of Nepal has recently been published on GlobaLex, a website from New York University which offers a range of scholarly guides to international, comparative and foreign law. Recently updated guides on GlobalLex include ones for Singapore and Namibia.
BookSG <www.sgebooks.nl.sg> is an online collection of digitised books and other printed materials (including rare and historical imprints) held in the National Library Singapore, selected works from the British Library’s Oriental & India Office Collection and works published in Singapore. The collection features materials related to Singapore and Southeast Asia. Features of this online collection include: Rare and special collections from the National Library and the British Library The Youth
