History – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|History|0 comments

• Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi. 
• Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George.
  [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera]
• Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle.
• Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the art of playfulness / Ruby Lal.
• Global modernity: modernity in the age of global capitalism / Arif Dirlik.
• In 1926: living at the edge of time / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
• Visions of community in the post-Roman world: the West, Byzantium and the Islamic world, 300-1100 / edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, and Richard Payne. 
• The promise of power: the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan / Maya Tudor. 
• Ancient Central China: centers and peripheries along the Yangzi River / Rowan K. Flad,Pochan Chen
• Appropriating the past: philosophical perspectives on the practice of archaeology / edited by Geoffrey Scarre [and] Robin Coningham.
• Mondes parallèles dans les espaces coloniaux : XVIe-XXIe siècles ; regards croisés dans le monde indiano-océanique: histoire, patrimoine, fiction  / textes réunis par Amélie Adde, Norbert Dodille et Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin.
• The young Atatürk: from Ottoman soldier to statesman of Turkey / George W. Gawrych.
• The Oxford handbook of cities in world history / edited by Peter Clark.
• World cities in a world-system / edited by Paul L. Knox and Peter J. Taylor.
  [Also available as an e-book via Cambridge Books Online]
• Cities in the world-system / edited by Reşat Kasaba.
• Global networks, linked cities / edited by Saskia Sassen.
• Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash. [e-book from Dawsonera]