History – May 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & thematic

• Sapiens: a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari.
• The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century / Jurgen Osterhammel. [also available as an e-book]

Africa

North Africa

• Dividing the Nile: Egypt’s ‘economic’ nationalists in the Sudan, 1918-1956 / David E. Mills

China & Tibet

• Fateful ties: a history of America’s preoccupation with China / Gordon H. Chang.
• Writing, publishing, and reading local gazetteers in imperial China, 1100-1700 / Joseph Dennis
• The open empire: a history of China to 1800 [2^nd edition] / Valerie Hansen

Japan & Korea

• A concise history of Japan / Brett L. Walker, Montana State University

Near & Middle East

• Gallipoli: the Turkish defence / Harvey Broadbent
• The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East / Eugene Rogan
• Italian perceptions of the Ottomans: conflict and politics through pontifical and Venetian sources / Mustafa Soykut
• The Georgian chronicles of Kʻartʻlis Cʻxovreba (A History of Georgia): translated and with commentary / Foreword by Roin Metreveli
• The Crusades: a history [3^rd edition] / Jonathan Riley-Smith

South Asia

• Secularism, Islam and education in India, 1830-1910 / Robert Ivermee