History – December 2013 and January 2014

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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: historical perspectives in India and South Africa / edited by Poonam Bala.
• The power to name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell
• Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa: studies in cultural exchange (NINO symposium, Leiden, 11-12 December 2009) / edited by J. van der Vliet and J.L. Hagen ; with the assistance of C.H. van Zoest and L.E. van de Peut

Central Asia

• Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st century: essays on culture, history and politics in a dynamic context / edited by Françoise Companjen, László Marácz, Lia Versteegh.

China & Tibet

• Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China / by Jung Chang.
• Tang China in multi-polar Asia: a history of diplomacy and war / Wang Zhenping.
• Tibet in the earliest photographs by Russian travelers, 1900-1901 / edited by Alexandre Andreyev.
• Documentary, world history, and national power in the PRC: global rise in Chinese eyes / Gotelind Müller.

India & Indian Ocean Region

• The poetry of British India / editor, Máire ní Fhlathúin
• Crossing the Bay of Bengal: the furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants / Sunil S. Amrith.

Japan & Korea

• The nature of the beasts: empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo / Ian Jared Miller; foreword by Harriet Ritvo.
• A Korean war captive in Japan, 1597-1600: the writings of Kang Hang / edited and translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush and Kenneth R. Robinson.
• Meiji restoration losers: memory and Tokugawa supporters in modern Japan / Michael Wert.

Near & Middle East

• Tourists, travellers and hotels in 19th-century Jerusalem: on Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel / by Rupert L. Chapman III, Shimon Gibson & Yoni Shapira.
• Memory and ethnicity: ethnic museums in Israel and the Diaspora / edited by Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Dario Miccoli and Tudor Parfitt
• Ferdowsi, the Mongols and Iranian history: art, literature and culture from early Islam to Qajar Persia / Robert Hillenbrand, A.C.S. Peacock, Firiuza Abdullaeva, editors.
• History and identity in the late antique Near East / edited by Philip Wood
• Biography of an empire: governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / Christine M. Philliou.
• The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the 14th century / Ross E. Dunn. [updated edition]
• Handbuch der Iranistik / Ludwig Paul (Hg.).
• A Cairo anthology: two hundred years of travel writing / edited by Deborah Manley
• Women travelers in Egypt: from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Deborah Manley

Southeast Asia

• Losing Vietnam: how America abandoned Southeast Asia / Major General Ira A. Hunt Jr., USA (Ret.).

E-books

• African history: a very short introduction / John Parker and Richard Rathbone.
• Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort.
• Colonialism – Postcolonialism / Loomba, Ania 
• On the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.
• Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
• Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) / Marcia Yonemoto.
• The Mughals of India / Harbans Mukhia.