New acquisitions: History, February & March 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during February and March 2018
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Comparative and thematic
Non-Muslim provinces under early Islam: Islamic rule and Iranian legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania / Alison Vacca. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254412
Tamed: ten species that changed our world / Alice Roberts – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241161
In the shadows of glories past: the rise of science in Islam and the West / by John W. Livingston – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244472
The republic of Arabic letters: Islam and the European enlightenment / Alexander Bevilacqua.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257455
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: a history of enmity and engagement / Martyn Frampton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257456
The postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Gyan Prakash, Nikhil Menon [and] Michael Laffan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257546
Imperial subjects: citizenship in an age of crisis and empire / Colin Mooers. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257834
Labor on the fringes of empire: voice, exit and the law / Alessandro Stanziani. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254864
Evidence and Meaning: a Theory of Historical Studies / Jörn Rüsen ; translated from the German by Diane Kerns and Katie Digan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258038
Ancient worlds: an epic history of east and west / Michael Scott. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258177
Explaining the East Asian peace: a research story / Stein Tønnesson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258343
Debating the East Asian peace: what it is, how it came about, will it last? / edited by Elin Bjarnegård and Joakim Kreutz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258345
The Palgrave handbook of state-sponsored history after 1945 / edited by Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258392
European history
Spain, 1808-1975 / by Raymond Carr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257702
Africa
The Palgrave handbook of African colonial and postcolonial history / [edited by] Martin Shanguhyia [and] Martin, Toyin Falola. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255443
West Africa
Africa, empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine / by Jonathan Derrick – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255309
Al-Andalus
La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la péninsule Ibérique : du Tage à la Sierra Morena (fin XIe-milieu XIIIe siècle) / Pascal Buresi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257494
China and Tibet
War and occupation in China: the letters of an American missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938 / edited by Charles Bright, Joseph W. Ho. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243826
Shaping modern Shanghai: colonialism in China’s global city / Isabella Jackson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244657
Near and Middle East
The future of Iran’s past: Nizam al-Mulk remembered / Neguin Yavari. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253957
Identifying with nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria / Will Hanley. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254663
Princely authority in the early Marwānid state: the life of ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Marwān / Joshua Mabra. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243433
Ibn Khaldun: an intellectual biography / Robert Irwin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257965
South Asia
India conquered: Britain’s Raj and the chaos of empire / Jon Wilson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257735
Southeast Asia
Warring societies of pre-colonial Southeast Asia: local cultures of conflict within a regional context / edited by Michael W. Charney and Kathryn Wellen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244621
Mapping cultural nationalism: the scholars of the Burma Research Society, 1910-1935 / Carol Ann Boshier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244622
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Disability in antiquity / edited by Christian Laes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258021
Global history, globally: research and practice around the World / Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258184
History after Hobsbawm : writing the past for the twenty-first century / edited by John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258526
The imperial history wars: debating the British Empire / Dane Kennedy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258528
Russia and its northeast Asian neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858-1945 / edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263899
European history
The cultural origins of the French Revolution / Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257175
The civilization of the renaissance in Italy / Jacob Burckhardt. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257523
Modern Italy, 1871 to the present / Martin Clark. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257495
Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415-1580 / by Bailey W. Diffie and George D. Winius. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10071971
The Soviet colossus: history and aftermath / Michael Kort – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257855
The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction / S. A. Smith – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258361
Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and after / R.J. Crampton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258363
The Russian revolution [4th edn] / Sheila Fitzpatrick. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258681
Ten days that shook the world / John Reed. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258679
Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 / Meylaerts – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264252
Regional histories
Al-Andalus
The formation of al-Andalus / edited by Manuela Marin, Julio Samsó. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263975
China and Tibet
State-sponsored inequality: the banner system and social stratification in northeast China / Shuang Chen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257234
Empire and the meaning of religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900-1945 / Thomas David DuBois – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258342
Force and contention in contemporary China: memory and resistance in the long shadow of the catastrophic past / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258396
The river, the plain, and the state: an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Ling Zhang, Boston College – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258070
Migration in post-colonial Hong Kong / edited by Susanne Y.P. Choi and Eric Fong. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258244
A companion to Chinese history / edited by Michael Szonyi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258304
Public health and the modernization of China, 1910-2015 / Liping Bu. -https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258305
The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood / Chris Courtney. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258378
Mao and the Sino-Soviet partnership, 1945-1959: a new history / Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263894
Near and Middle East
Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide./ Taner Akcam – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257524