History – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 11, 2015|History|0 comments

General and thematic

• The true history of tea / Victor H. Mair & Erling Hoh
• Trophies, relics and curios? : Missionary heritage from Africa and the Pacific / edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles, Chris Wingfield
• Guantánamo diary / Mohamedou Ould Slahi ; introduction by Larry Siems ; edited by Larry Siems
• Case studies in transmission / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ilkka Lindstedt, Robert Rollinger und Raija Mattila (Hgg.)
• The British industrial revolution in global perspective / Robert C. Allen
• The pre-Columbian discovery of the American continent by Muslim seafarers / Fuat Sezgin
• Writing history in the global era / Lynn Hunt
• The power of feasts: from prehistory to the present / Brian Hayden
• Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives / Natalie Zemon Davis
• The Palgrave handbook of contemporary heritage research / [edited by] Emma Waterton (senior lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Australia) and Steve Watson (associate professor, York St. John University, UK)
• Revolutionary empire: the rise of the English-speaking empires from the fifteenth century to the 1780s / Angus Calder
• Eco-cultural networks and the British Empire: new views on environmental history / edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O’Gorman.
• Natural enemy, natural ally: toward an environmental history of warfare / edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell
• A UN chronicle: 1988-1998 / Razali Ismail with Sharifah Shifa al-Attas.
  

Pan-Asian themes

• Environmental history in East Asia: interdisciplinary perspectives / Edited by Ts’ui-jung Liu 
• The crisis of global modernity: Asian traditions and a sustainable future / Prasenjit Duara
• Asia inside out: changing times / edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue

Africa

North Africa

• The White Nile diaries / John Hopkins
• The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib / edited by Amira K. Bennison

Central Africa

• Death in the Congo: murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick

West Africa

• When sex threatened the state: illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto

Southern Africa

• Magnificent and beggar land: Angola since the Civil War / Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

China and Inner Asia

• Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world / Jack Weatherford
• China’s early empires: a re-appraisal / edited by Michael Nylan and Michael Loewe
• Astrology and cosmology in early China: conforming earth to heaven / David W. Pankenier, Lehigh University
• The empress and Mrs. Conger: the uncommon friendship of two women and two worlds / Grant Hayter-Menzies
• China since Tiananmen: from Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao / Joseph Fewsmith
• These bones shall rise again: selected writings on early China / David N. Keightley   edited and with an introduction by Henry Rosemont Jr.
• China’s second capital: Nanjing under the Ming, 1368-1644 / Jun Fang
• Trade and society: the Amoy network on the China Coast, 1683-1735 [2^nd edn.] / Ng Chin-keong
• Maiden voyage: the Senzaimaru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations / Joshua A. Fogel

Japan

• Maiden voyage: the Senzaimaru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations / Joshua A. Fogel
• Lords of the sea: pirates, violence, and commerce in late medieval Japan / Peter D. Shapinsky
• Kyoto: an urban history of Japan’s premodern capital / Matthew Stavros
• Inventing the way of the samurai: nationalism, internationalism, and bushidō in modern Japan / by Oleg Benesch
• The decade of the Great War: Japan and the wider world in the 1910s / edited by Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon, Evan Dawley
• The quest for civilization: encounters with Dutch jurisprudence, political economy, and statistics at the dawn of modern Japan / by Okubo Takeharu   translated by David Noble.

Korea

• Above the Line: people and places in the DPRK (North Korea) / [photographs by Nick Danziger]

Near and Middle East

• White city, black city: architecture and war in Tel Aviv and Jaffa / Sharon Rotbard.
• Zionism in Damascus: ideology and activity in the Jewish community at the beginning of the twentieth century / Yaron Harel.
• When Greeks and Turks meet: interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship since 1923 / edited by Vally Lytra, Goldsmiths, University of London and King’s College, London
• Kervan : kervandan demiryollarına kadar yol ve yolculuk : (kervanlar, tüccarlar, hacılar, yolcular ve eşkıyalar) / Murat Gökhan Dalyan
• Diplomacy in the early Islamic world: a tenth-century treatise on Arab-Byzantine relations / Maria Vaiou
• Render unto the Sultan: power, authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the early Ottoman centuries / Tom Papademetriou
• The saint and the sultan: the Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s mission of peace / Paul Moses
• Wir gaben viele Märtyrer  : Widerstand und kollektive Identitätsbildung in Irakisch-Kurdistan / Andrea Fischer-Tahir

South Asia

• Networks of trade, polity, and societal integration in Chola-era South India, c. 875-1279 / Kenneth R. Hall
• Caricaturing culture in India: cartoons and history in the modern world / Ritu Gairola Khanduri
• New Delhi: the last imperial city / David A. Johnson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
• Ramparts of empire: British imperialism and India’s Afghan frontier, 1918-1948 / Brandon Marsh (assistant professor of history, Bridgewater College, USA
• At the edges of empire: essays in social and intellectual history of India / Rosalind O’Hanlon
• Decolonisation, development and disease: a social history of malaria in Sri Lanka / Kalinga Tudor Silva
• Total destruction of the Tamil Tigers: the rare victory of Sri Lanka’s long war / Paul Moorcraft

Southeast Asia

• The wheel-turner and his house: kingship in a Buddhist ecumene / Geok Yian Goh
• Reminiscences of insurrection: Malaysia’s battle against terrorism, 1960-1990 / Lt. Col. Mohd. Azzam bin Hanif Ghows (Rtd.)
• Sources on the Manila Galleon from the Archivo General de la Nación of Mexico / compiled by Kristyl N. Obispado, Kristoffer R. Esquejo
• History of Hacienda de Imus, 1590-1910 / Rene R. Escalante
• Cesar Virata: life and times through four decades of Philippine economic history / Gerardo P. Sicat
• Allegories of the Vietnamese past: unification and the production of a modern historical identity / Wynn Wilcox

E-books

• History, trauma, and healing in postcolonial narratives [electronic resource] : re-constructing identities / Ogaga Ifowod