History – August 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic

• Essaying the past: how to read, write, and think about history / Jim Cullen. –[2 edn]  [also available as an e-book]
• Using film as a source / Sian Barber
• Controversial history education in Asian contexts / edited by Mark Baildon, Loh Kah Seng, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar–

China and Tibet

• Japanese Taiwan: colonial rule and its contested legacy / edited by Andrew D. Morris
• The destruction of the medieval Chinese aristocracy / Nicolas Tackett

Indian Ocean

• Sailors, slaves, and immigrants: bondage in the Indian Ocean world, 1750-1914 / Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS and CNRS, Paris)

Near and Middle East

• The Great Seljuk Empire / A. C. S. Peacock  [also available as an e-book]
• Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century: scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb / Khaled El-Rouayheb.
• The Routledge handbook of the history of the Middle East mandates / edited by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan
• Arabs and Empire before Islam / edited by Greg Fisher

South Asia

• Knowledge, mediation and empire: James Tod’s journeys among the Rajputs / Florence d’Souza
• Midnight’s furies: the deadly legacy of India’s partition / Nisid Hajari
• The Raj at war: a people’s history of India’s Second World War / Yasmin Khan

Southeast Asia

• To my dear Pieternelletje. Grandfather and granddaughter in VOC time, 1710-1720. Bea Brommer

E-books

• The origins of the modern world: a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century [3rd edition] / Robert B. Marks
• The limits of history / Constantin Fasolt. – [also available in print]
• War & conflict in Africa / Paul D. Williams – [also available in print]
• Asian migrants in Europe: transcultural connections: with 4 figures / Sylvia Hahn / Stan Nadel (eds.). –
• From the East India Company to the Suez Canal [electronic resource] / edited by Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow – [also available in print – Archives of Empire 1]
• The Scramble for Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Barbara Harlow & Mia Carter. –  [also available in print – Archives of Empire 2]