History: New book acquisitions September 2016
This is a selection of books acquired for the History collections in SOAS Library during September 2016.
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Comparative and thematic
The power of place: rulers and their palaces, landscapes, cities, and holy places / David Rollason – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045578
The white man’s world / Bill Schwarz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045701
The information: a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045943
Gateways of Asia: port cities of Asia in the 13th-20th centuries / edited by Frank Broeze – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045897
Central Asia
A rock between hard places: Afghanistan as an arena of regional insecurity / Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045572
Near and Middle East
World War 1: impact on Palestine, a hundred year legacy / foreward by Richard Falk, edited by Sophia Akram – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046502
Memories of a Bygone Age Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853-1902. / Edited and Tranlated by Michael Noël-Clarke – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045241
The Ottoman cities of Lebanon: historical legacy and identity in the modern Middle East / James A. Reilly – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045620
In search of kings and conquerors: Gertrude Bell and the archaeology of the Middle East / Lisa Cooper – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045724
The poisoned well: empire and its legacy in the Middle East / Roger Hardy- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046223
South Asia
A rock between hard places: Afghanistan as an arena of regional insecurity / Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045572
Vicereine : the Indian journal of Mary Minto / edited by Anabel Loyd – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045588
A short history of the Mughal Empire / Michael H. Fisher- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045727
Constructing Islam on the Indus: the material history of the Suhrawardi Sufi order, 1200-1500 AD / Hasan Ali Khan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046773
Southeast Asia
Contesting Indochina: French remembrance between decolonization and Cold War, / M. Kathryn Edwards – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045580
The site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore: entwined histories of a colonial convent and a nation, 1854-2015 / Sandra Hudd – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045582
Conflict and conversion: Catholicism in southeast Asia, 1500-1700 / Tara Alberts – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045850
South Vietnamese soldiers: memories of the Vietnam War and after / Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015653
E-books: comparative and thematic
The global lives of things [electronic resource] : the material culture of connections in the early modern world / edited by Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047344
Oral history and digital humanities: voice, access, and engagement / edited by Douglas A. Boyd and Mary A. Larson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046322
What is history now? / edited by David Cannadine – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046395
The rise and propagation of historical professionalism / by Rolf Torstendahl – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046396
A concise history of the world [electronic resource] / Merry Wiesner-Hanks – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046531
The theft of history / Jack Goody – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046516
Doing History [electronic resource] / Mark Donnelly and Claire Norton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046554
Orality and literacy [electronic resource]: the technologizing of the word / Walter J. Ong ; with additional chapters by John Hartley.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046561
Big data in history [electronic resource] / Patrick Manning – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046971
Cosmopolitanism and empire: universal rulers, local elites, and cultural integration in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Myles Lavan, Richard E. Payne, John Weisweiler – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047221
E-books: regional histories
Central Asia in world history / Peter B. Golden – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046468
Witnesses to a world crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century / James Howard-Johnston. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046469
The Arabic book [electronic resource] / Johannes Pedersen; translated by Geoffrey French ; edited with an introduction by Robert Hillenbrand. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046579
Chinese circulations: capital, commodities, and networks in Southeast Asia / Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, eds. ; foreword by Wang Gungwu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046663
Autobiography, travel and postnational identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal / Javed Majeed – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046802
The Boxer Codex [electronic resource] : transcription and translation of an illustrated late sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript concerning the geography, ethnography and history of the Pacific, South-East Asia and East Asia / edited by George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey S. Turley ; transcribed and translated by Jeffrey S. Turley – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046846
Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843 / Matthew H. Edney – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047495
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: a history / Nira Wickramasinghe – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047517
The domination of strangers: modern governance in eastern India, 1780-1835 / Jon E. Wilson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047479