We now have access to two additional major international law e-resources. Hague Academy Collected Courses Searchable full text of all volumes from the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Coverage back to 1923 with several new volumes added each year. Please note this database is not yet configured for use on tablets or smartphones. To view full documents, save and print use a PC, laptop or Mac.
General & Comparative Farewell to Salonika: city at the crossroads / Leon Sciaky. Transatlantic slavery: an introduction / [text by Richard Benjamin … and David Fleming]. Borders: a very short introduction / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen. Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia / edited by Sarah Turner Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen. Medicine and colonialism:
[this posting is forwarded from LIS-HISTORYRESEARCHLIBS@jiscmail.ac.uk] In Summer 2013 we [The British Library] hosted an exhibition, ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion‘, examining the communication of power, and attempts to persuade, through the use of visually striking material and the objects of everyday life. Examples of these can be found across the Library’s collections, and this webinar will describe the types of material that we used, how we used the Library to research
Rana Mitter’s most recent book China’s war with Japan, 1937 – 1945 : the struggle for survival (Allen Lane, 2013) is featured in the Institute of Historical Research’s latest Reviews in History The reviewer is Dr Aaron Moore from the University of Manchester, who writes “This book … is therefore one of the best contributions to our current understanding of the war, particularly at the level of elite political actors such
To mark the 10th anniversary of Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE), Cambridge University Press are making an online anniversary collection of papers freely available. This online only collection of papers features prominent articles from across the 10 volumes of the journal, including: What is an institution? John R. Searle Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis Elinor Ostrom Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history Ha-Joon Chang
Publishers de Gruyter have made the inaugural issue of their new Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History available on open-access (articles can be downloaded and viewed as PDFs) Content of the first issue includes Intellectual history and Assyriology by Niek Veldhuis, and The history of science and ancient Mesopotamia by Francesca Rochberg Click here to go to Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History Vol.1, no.1 (2014)
SEA / Pacific General Innovation in Southeast Asia / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Energizing green cities in Southeast Asia : applying sustainable urban energy and emissions planning / Dejan Ostojic, Ranjan K. Bose, Holly Krambeck, Jeanette Lim and Yabei Zhang. Resilient states from a comparative regional perspective : Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia / François Bafoil, Sciences Po Paris, France. Southeast Asia and the civil society
The UN Report containing the findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was published yesterday. The report documents in great detail the wide-ranging array of crimes against humanity allegedly being committed in the country. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” it states. The Commission will formally
Struggling with locating and utilising the data for your PhD? Stumped by missing values? Unbalanced by attempts to weight your data? Help is available. On 6-7 March, UK Data Service are running two day-long workshops looking at secondary data analysis. They are charging £30 per UK student, £60 for UK Academic staff (including research centres), and ESRC researchers. Day 1: Finding and evaluating data for your research, where the focus will
LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES 2014 Dr Ranka Primorac Africa’s Literary
