History – February 2015
General and thematic
- Echoes of empire: memory, identity and the legacy of imperialism / Kalypso S. Nicolaidis, Berny Sebe & Gabrielle Maas
- The rise of the West: a history of the human community: with a retrospective essay / by William H. McNeill; drawings by Béla Petheö.
- Europe and the Islamic world: a history / John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens translated by Jane Marie Todd with a foreword by John L. Esposito
- Merchant communities in Asia, 1600-1980 / edited by Yuju Lin and Madeleine Zelin.
- The romance between Greece and the East / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson
Africa
Pan-African themes
- Leadership in colonial Africa: disruption of traditional frameworks and patterns / edited by Baba G. Jallow.
- Unreasonable histories: nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa / Christopher J. Lee
North Africa
- Christianity in Roman Africa : the development of its practices and beliefs / J. Patout Burns, Jr. & Robin M. Jensen ; in collaboration with Graeme W. Clarke, Susan T. Stevens, William Tabbernee, Maureen A. Tilley.
- The Libyan Revolution and its aftermath / Peter Cole (lead editor), Brian McQuinn (editor)
- Les Mhadja d’El Gaada et leur identité face au colonialisme français : 1830-1962 : douars et localités, repères historiques, origine ethnique, période coloniale, personnalités, martyrs de la Révolution, harka et biya’a (collaborateurs du colonialisme) / Mokhtar Lakehal
- Civil uprisings in modern Sudan: the ‘Khartoum Springs’ of 1964 and 1985 / W. J. Berridge.
- Sudan and South Sudan: from one to two / Bona Malwal
East Africa
- Emperor Haile Selassie / Bereket Habte Selassie
- The life and times of Lïj Iyasu of Ethiopia: new insights / edited by Éloi Ficquet and Wolbert G.C. Smidt.
West Africa
- Counting the tiger’s teeth: an African teenager’s story / Toyin Falola
- Discours et contre-discours sur le Togo sous l’empire allemand / Kuassi Amétowoyona Akakpo
- Elem Kalabari of the Niger Delta: the transition from slave to produce trading under British imperialism / Waibinte Wariboko
- Slavery, abolition and the transition to colonialism in Sierra Leone / edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and Suzanne Schwarz
Southern Africa
- A history of South Africa: from the distant past to the present day / editor, Fransjohan Pretorius.
- Collective violence and the agrarian origins of South African apartheid, 1900-1948 / John Higginson
- Migration, space and transnational identities: the British in South Africa / Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard
- Prisoners of Rhodesia: inmates and detainees in the struggle for Zimbabwean liberation, 1960-1980 / Munyaradzi B. Munochiveyi
China and Tibet
- The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 (4th edn.) / D.E. Mungello
- Men to devils, devils to men: Japanese war crimes and Chinese justice / Barak Kushner
- The pragmatic dragon: China’s grand strategy and boundary settlements / Eric Hyer
Japan and Korea
- Japanese and Russian politics: polar opposites or something in common? / edited by Takashi Inoguchi
- Why the Japanese lost: the red sun’s setting / Bryan Perrett.
- Yoshiwara: geishas, courtesans, and the pleasure quarters of old Tokyo / by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet
- Men to devils, devils to men: Japanese war crimes and Chinese justice / Barak Kushner
Near and Middle East
- The secret Anglo-French war in the Middle East: intelligence and decolonization, 1940-1948 / Meir Zamir.
- Darius in the shadow of Alexander / Pierre Briant ; translated by Jane Marie Todd
- Logistics of warfare in the Age of the Crusades / edited by John H. Pryor
- Les Mamelouks : XIIIe-XVIe siècle : une expérience du pouvoir dans l’Islam médiéval / Julien Loiseau.
- Medieval and early modern performance in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz
- La mer et les Musulmans d’Occident au Moyen âge: VIIIe-XIIIe siècle / Christophe Picard
- People from the desert: pre-Islamic Arabs in history and culture: selected essays / edited by Nader Al Jallad
- The Persian Gulf in modern times: people, ports, and history / edited by Lawrence G. Potter
- Foreign sailors on Socotra: the inscriptions and drawings from the cave Hoq / herausgegeben von Ingo Strauch.
- Rayy: from its origins to the Mongol invasion: an archaeological and historiographical study / by Rocco Rante with a contribution of Ghadir Afround
- Turks across empires: marketing Muslim identity in the Russian-Ottoman borderlands, 1856-1914 / James H. Meyer.
South Asia
- Gandhi and nationalism: the path to Indian independence / Simone Panter-Brick ; foreword by W.M. Roger Louis.
- A concise history of South India: issues and interpretations / Noboru Karashima.
- Punjab: a history from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten / Rajmohan Gandhi
E-Books
- A history of India / Burton Stein
- The end of conceit: western rationality after postcolonialism / Patrick Chabal
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