History – September and October 2015

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

Comparative and thematic

• The origins of the modern world: a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century [3rd edition] / Robert B. Marks.-[also available in print]
• The Silk Roads: a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan
• Goods from the East, 1600-1800: trading Eurasia / [edited by] Maxine Berg ; with Felicia Gottman Hanna Hodacs, & Chris Nierstrasz 
• Subverting empire: deviance and disorder in the British colonial world / edited by Will Jackson and Emily J. Manktelow 
• Asiatic Russia: imperial power in regional and international contexts / edited by Uyama Tomohiko  
• The new journalism, the new imperialism and the fiction of empire, 1870-1900 / Andrew Griffiths 
• Empire of tea: the Asian leaf that conquered the world / Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger. 
• Conquerors: how Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first global empire / by Roger Crowley
• Advances in comparative-historical analysis / edited by James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen 
• In pursuit of the past: decoding the archaeological record: with a new afterword / Lewis R. Binford, with the editorial collaboration of Joyn F. Cherry and Robin Torrence
• Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world / edited by Antony Eastmond (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
• How history works: the reconstitution of a human science / Martin L. Davies
• Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history: a study in the philosophic foundation of the science of culture / by Muhsin Mahdi [2015 reprint of 1957 classic] 

Africa

East Africa

• Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940: the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala
• The forgotten front: the East African campaign 1914-1918 / Ross Anderson
• Lost opportunities in the Horn of Africa: how conflicts connect and peace agreements unravel: a Horn of Africa group report / by Sally Healy.

Central Asia

• The Turkic peoples in medieval Arabic writings / Yehoshua Frenkel
• Afghan modern: the history of a global nation / Robert D. Crews

China and Tibet

• China’s foreign places: the foreign presence in China in the treaty port era, 1840-1943 / Robert Nield  
• Life and death in the garden: sex, drugs, cops, and robbers in wartime China / Kathryn Meyer
• A Chinese economic revolution: rural entrepreneurship in the twentieth century / Linda Grove

Near and Middle East

• Intrigue and revolution: chief rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad, and Damascus, 1744-1914 / Yaron Harel ; translated by Yehonatan Chipman 
• Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict / John B. Judis
• Writing the Ottomans: Turkish history in early modern England / Anders Ingram
• Geographical knowledge and imperial culture in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Pinar Emiralioglu 
• Xerxes: a Persian life / Richard Stoneman 
• Iraq: a history / John Robertson
• A woman in Arabia: the writings of the Queen of the Desert / Gertrude Bell; edited by Georgina Howell
• Rabbis, sorcerers, kings, and priests: the culture of the Talmud in ancient Iran / Jason Sion Mokhtarian  
  

South Asia

• Ashoka in ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri
  

E-books

• The Indian Army in the two World Wars / edited by Kaushik Roy –  [also available in print]
• Muslim fortresses in the Levant : between Crusaders and Mongols / Kate Raphael –  [also available in print]