New acquisitions for SOAS Library August – October 2018: History (regional collections)
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Regional History collections between August and October 2018
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Print Books
European history
The Russian Revolution: a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; edited and with an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin ; foreword by Vijay Prashad. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294107
Africa
Le Maghreb en guerre: 1939-1945 / Chantal Metzger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290846
First raise a flag: how South Sudan won the longest war but lost the peace / Peter Martell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294475
Central Asia
The coming of the Mongols / edited by David O. Morgan and Sarah Stewart; in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290980
Statehood in the Altaic World : proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Ardahan, Turkey, June 26-July 1, 2016 / edited by Hartmut Walravens, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Oliver Corff. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293307
Unknown treasures of the Altaic world in libraries, archives and museums: 53rd annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS, St. Petersburg, July 25-30, 2010 / Tatiana Pang, Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Gerd Winkelhane (eds.) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294524
Man and nature in the Altaic world : proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006 / Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Elena V. Boykova, Brigitte Heuer (editions.). – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294527
Altaica Budapestinensia MMII: proceedings of the 45th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Budapest, Hungary, June 23-28, 2002 / edited by Alice Sárközi and Attila Rákos. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294586
China and Tibet
The private side of the Canton trade, 1700-1840: beyond the companies / edited by Paul A. Van Dyke and Susan E. Schopp. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269661
The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of medieval Hangzhou / George Lane – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290854
Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950 / edited by Minghui Hu and Johan Elverskog. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292695
Sold people: traffickers and family life in North China / Johanna S. Ransmeier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292713
China: visions through the ages / edited by Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken, and Gary M. Feinman ; assisted by Thomas A. Skwerski. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292716
Home is not here / Wang Gungwu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292718
L’opium : une passion chinoise, 1750-1950 / Xavier Paulès ; préface de Timothy Brook. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294106
The Cold War and the origin of diplomacy of People’s Republic of China: knowledge, thought, and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth century / Niu Jun ; translated by Zhong Yijing. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294701
Dear China: emigrant letters and remittances, 1820-1980 / Gregor Benton and Hong Liu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300253
In the wake of the Mongols: the making of a new social order in North China, 1200-1600 / Jinping Wang. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300809
Near and Middle East
The Ghaznavids: their empire in Afghanistan and eastern Iran, 994-1040 / Clifford Edmund Bosworth. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290816
The immense failure: British rulers of Iraq, 1914-1933 / C. W. R. Long – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292560
Styles of leadership of 6 political leaders in 20th-century Iran: Sheikh Mohammad Khiabani, Colonel Mohammad Taghi Pesian, Reza Shah, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Mohammad Reza Shah, and Ayattollah Rouhollah Khomeini / Farshid Moghimi – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292860
Cold War in the Islamic world: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the struggle for supremacy / Dilip Hiro – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10295252
South Asia
Empress: the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan / Ruby Lal. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292720
Imperial disaster: the Bengal cyclone of 1876 / Benjamin Kingsbury – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292956
Southeast Asia
Vietnam: an epic tragedy,1945-1975 / Max Hastings – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294728
E-books
American & Canadian history
American Holocaust: the conquest of the New World / David E. Stannard – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300248
The power elite / C. Wright Mills; with a new afterword by Alan Wolfe – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294989
Reconciling the solitudes: essays on Canadian federalism and nationalism / Charles Taylor ; edited by Guy Laforest. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300362
Working in women’s archives [electronic resource]: researching women’s private literature and archival documents / Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar, editors – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301389
Pan-Asian history
Disease, colonialism, and the state: malaria in modern East Asian history / edited by Ka-che Yip. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292673
Regional histories
Africa
Africanizing knowledge: African studies across the disciplines / Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301612
The Prophet’s camel bell: a memoir of Somaliland / Margaret Laurence – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292098
China and Tibet
Comic China: representing common ground, 1890-1945 / Wendy Gan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292807
Heritage-led urban regeneration in China / Jing Xie and Tim Heath. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292930
China’s transition from communism: new perspectives / edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292658
Writing and the ancient state: early China in comparative perspective / Wang Haicheng – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294578
The Peking Gazette: a reader in nineteenth-century Chinese history / by Lane J. Harris – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294796
Die Volksrepublik China / Klaus Mühlhahn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301078
Li Hung-chang and China’s early modernization / edited by Samuel C. Chu and Kwang-Ching Liu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301423
Indian Ocean region
Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 / K.N. Chaudhuri. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293015
Near and Middle East
The empress Nurbanu and Ottoman politics in the 16th century: building the Atik Valide / Pinar Kayaalp. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292564
The orientalist Karl Süssheim meets the young Turk officer İsma’il Hakkı Bey : two unexplored sources from the last decade in the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II / by Jan Schmidt. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292689
The age of the crusades: the Near East from the eleventh century to 1517 / P.M. Holt. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291757
The Middle East: a physical, social and regional geography / W.B. Fisher. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291779
The Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals / Stephen Frederic Dale. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293026
Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the Nile / Toby Wilkinson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294363
The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land / edited by Robert G. Hoyland, H. G. M. Williamson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300938
The Gulf in World History: Arabian, Persian and Global Connections / Allen James Fromherz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294988
South Asia
A history of India [6th edn] / Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293798
A history of India [2nd edn] / Peter Robb – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293775
Ideology and empire in eighteenth century India: the British in Bengal / Robert Travers. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293470
Sex and the family in colonial India: the making of empire / Durba Ghosh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293469
The peasant and the Raj: studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India / Eric Stokes. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293770
Provincial politics and Indian nationalism: Bombay and the Indian National Congress, 1880 to 1915 / by Gordon Johnson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293769
Gandhi / David Arnold – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293774
Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 / Joya Chatterji. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293773
A history of Bangladesh / Willem van Schendel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293772
Forging a region: sultans, traders, and pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500 / Samira Sheikh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294572