History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative

• A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum].
• The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness.

Africa

• Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero. 
• Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks.
• The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis and the Eritrean coastal region: previous investigations and museum collections / Chiara Zazzaro. 

China & Tibet

• China: how the empire fell / Joseph W. Esherick and C.X. George Wei.
• Forgotten voices of Mao’s great famine, 1958-1962: an oral history / Zhou Xun.

India & Indian Ocean Region

• Calendar of Persian correspondence: being letters, referring mainly to affairs in Bengal, which passed between some of the company’s servants and Indian rulers and notables / Imperial Record Department ; with an introduction by Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
• Document Raj: writing and scribes in early colonial south India / Bhavani Raman.
• Pelagic passageways: the northern Bay of Bengal before colonialism / edited by Rila Mukherjee. 
• Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight.

Near & Middle East

• The ethics of representation in literature, art, and journalism: transnational responses to the Siege of Beirut / edited by Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr.
• Trade and institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza merchants and their business world / Jessica L. Goldberg.
• Petitioning the Sultan: protests and justice in late Ottoman Palestine / Yuval Ben-Bassat
• Inscription from the southern highlands of Yemen: the epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynun and Dhamar / Alessia Prioletta
• Medicine in Iran: profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925 / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.
• The archaeology of Jerusalem: from the origins to the Ottomans / Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn.
• La correspondance entre souverains, princes et cités-états : approches croisées entre l’Orient musulman, l’Occident latin et Byzance (XIIIe – début XVIe siècle) / sous la dir. de Denise Aigle et Stéphane Péquignot.

E-books

• The voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas, 1604-1606 / edited by William Foster
• A concise history of Korea: from the Neolithic period through the nineteenth century / Michael J. Seth. 
• The Atlantic slave trade: effects on economies, societies and peoples in Africa, the Americas and Europe / edited by Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman
• History on film/film on history / Robert A. Rosenstone.[2nd edition] 
• English lessons: the pedagogy of imperialism in nineteenth-century China / James L. Hevia.
• The new Japanese woman: modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato.
• Imperialisms: historical and literary investigations, 1500-1900 / edited by Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. 
• Libertine’s Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China / Vitiello, Giovanni 
• Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China / Cuncun, Wu
• Sinica Leidensia, Volume 100 : Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print : China, 900-1400 / Iwabuchi, Koichi
• Armies of the Caliphs : Military and Society in the Early Islamic State / Kennedy, Hugh
• Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor
• Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee : Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century / Sajdi, Dana
• Document Raj: writing and scribes in early colonial south India / Bhavani Raman.