New acquisitions in SOAS Library August-October 2018: History (comparative and thematic subjects)
This is a selection of titles on comparative and thematic historical topics received by SOAS Library for the History collections between August and October 2018
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In print
Empires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the steppe, ca. 250-750 / edited by Nicola Di Cosmo & Michael Maas – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291399
Milk of Paradise: a history of opium / Lucy Inglis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292631
An intimate history of humanity / Theodore Zeldin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294111
Sword and scimitar: fourteen centuries of war between Islam and the West / Raymond Ibrahim ; with a foreword by Victor Davis Hanson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294112
The Homeric epics and the Chinese “Book of songs”: foundational texts compared / edited by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294474
The encyclopedia of empire (4 volumes) / editor-in-chief John M. MacKenzie ; assistant editor Nigel R. Dalziel ; associate editors Nicholas Doumanis, Michael W. Charney. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294753
Why learn history (when it’s already on your phone) / Sam Wineburg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294756
E-books
This fleeting world: a short history of humanity / David Christian – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291995
Universal history and the making of the global / edited by Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim and Anne Régent-Susini. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292426
(Dis)placing empire : renegotiating British colonial geographies / edited by Lindsay J. Proudfoot, Michael M. Roche – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292440
Self-determination and history in the third world / David C. Gordon. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292923
From sight to light: the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292671
Italian colonialism and resistances to empire, 1930-1970 / Neelam Srivastava. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291962
A companion to global historical thought / edited by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, and Andrew Sartori. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291960
Liberating Histories / Claire Norton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292121
Postcolonial transitions in Europe: contexts, practices and politics / edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani ; [foreword, Paul Gilroy ; introduction, Gianmaria Colpani and Sandra Ponzanesi ; contributors, Anca Parvulescu [and others] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293281
Postcolonial intellectuals in Europe: critics, artists, movements, and their publics / edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293280
History: why it matters / Lynn Hunt. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10293264
The invention of tradition / edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10289027
Writing imperial histories / edited by Andrew S. Thompson.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294660
The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294659
The British End of the British Empire / Sarah Stockwell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294929
Remaking the modern world 1900-2015: global connections and comparisons / C. A. Bayly. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300360
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem / Carol Delaney – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300361
The development century: a global history / edited by Stephen J. Macekura & Erez Manela – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301513
Citizens without nations: urban citizenship in Europe and the world, c.1000-1789 / Maarten Prak – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301514
Global trade and the transformation of consumer cultures: the material world remade, c. 1500-1820 / Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301518
Globalization in prehistory: contact, exchange, and the “people without history” / edited by Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Frachetti. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301520
Trade and civilisation: economic networks and cultural ties, from prehistory to the early modern era / edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindkvist, & Janken Myrdal- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301516
Informal empire and the rise of one world culture / Gregory A. Barton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300939
History and Material Culture: a student’s guide to approaching alternative sources [2nd edn.] / edited by Karen Harvey – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301079
Authoring the past [electronic resource]: writing and rethinking history / edited by Alun Munslow. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301390
The politics of method in the human sciences [electronic resource]: positivism and its epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301215
Nations and their histories: constructions and representations / edited by Susana Carvalho and François Gemenne. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301484
Siting translation: history, post-structuralism, and the colonial context / Tejaswini Niranjana. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301326