History – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic

• The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism / edited by Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope
• In the museum of man: race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin
• The global transformation of time: 1870-1950 / Vanessa Ogle
• The past is a foreign country – revisited / David Lowenthal
  

Africa

Pan-African themes

• Hunting Africa: British sport, African knowledge, and the nature of empire / Angela Thompsell
• The state of Africa: a history of the continent since independence / Martin Meredith

Southern Africa

• The level playing field: how the Aurora Cricket Club stumped apartheid / Christopher Nicholson and Mike Hickson 
  

Japan and Korea

• Japan and the Great War / Oliviero Frattolillo, Assistant Professor, University of Napoli, Italy and Antony Best, Associate Professor, London School of Economics, UK
  

Middle East

• Turkish language, literature, and history travelers’ tales, sultans, and scholars since the eighth century / edited by Bill Hickman, Gary Leiser
• The book of the jihad of ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106): text, translation and commentary / by Niall Christie
  

Southeast Asia

• Early modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800 / editors, Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan –  [also available as an e-book]
• The evacuation of civilians from Burma: analysing the 1942 colonial disaster / Michael D. Leigh
• British Burma in the new century, 1895-1918 / Stephen L. Keck
  

E-books

• Sufism, Mahdism and nationalism: Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal / Douglas Thomas –  [also available in print]
  
• Arabic historical tradition and the early Islamic conquests: folklore, tribal lore, holy war / Boaz Shoshan
• Early modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800 / editors, Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan –  [also available in print]