New acquisitions for SOAS Library: History (November 2018 – January 2019)
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections between November 2018 and January 2019
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Please note that some e-book content (notably eBook Central and Dawsonera) is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in
Comparative and thematic
The regional cold wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: crucial periods and turning points / edited by Lorenz M. Lüthi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300559
What is medieval history? / John H. Arnold. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301131
Must we divide history into periods? / Jacques Le Goff; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301179
The textual condition / Jerome J. McGann – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301306
Committed to memory: the art of the slave ship icon / Cheryl Finley. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300808
Telling the truth about history / Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301256
Le spécimen et le collecteur : savoirs naturalistes, pouvoirs et altérités : XVIIIe-XXe siècles / Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304073
The Islamic world: a history in objects / Ladan Akbarnia [and five others]. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303128
The glorious art of peace: paths to peace in a new age of war / John Gittings. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304198
European history
The fascination with Inner Eurasian languages in the 17th century : the Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen and his collection of ‘Tartarian’ glossaries and scripts / editors Bruno Naarden, Tom van Brederode, Tjeerd de Graaf, Wim Honselaar, Janine Jager, Cecilia Odé, Lisa van Schaik, Nicoline van der Sijs. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303968
Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 / Tony Judt – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304184
Africa
The golden rhinoceros: histories of the African middle ages / François-Xavier Fauvelle ; translated by Troy Tice.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303139
East Africa
Pressing interests: the agenda and influence of a colonial East African newspaper sector / Phoebe Musandu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294979
West Africa
Surviving Biafra: a Nigerwife’s story / S. Elizabeth Bird and Rosina Umelo – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301288
Central Asia
Anniversaries, feasts and celebrations in the Altaic world: proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Bloomington, Indiana USA July 10-15, 2011 / edited by Alicia Campi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294393
China and Tibet
The Muslim merchants of premodern China: the history of a maritime Asian trade diaspora, 750-1400 / John W. Chaffee. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303224
The population of Shanghai (1865-1953): a sourcebook / Edited by Christian Henriot, Shi Lu, Charlotte Aubrun. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309284
Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song: the father of history in pre-modern China / by Esther Sunkyung Klein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302993
Near and Middle East
Recording village life: a Coptic scribe in early Islamic Egypt / Jennifer A. Cromwell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303062
South Asia
Cult of a dark hero: Nicholson of Delhi / Stuart Flinders; foreword by Sir Mark Tully. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301440
India, empire, and First World War culture: writings, images, and songs / Santanu Das. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302733
The nonviolent struggle for Indian freedom, 1905-19 / David Hardiman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294224
Southeast Asia
Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway: narratives of history and memory / Lizzie Oliver. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303725
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education / Tyson Retz. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302582
After the map: cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303154
The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television / Chris Horrocks – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303661
Bringing war to book: writing and producing the military memoir / Rachel Woodward – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304223
Imperial defence: the old world order 1856-1956 / edited by Greg Kennedy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304320
Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s). -/ Amal Ghazal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303996
Conceptualizing the world: an exploration across disciplines / Edited by Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308678
Bombing the city: civilian accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 / Aaron William Moore. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308938
A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ Histories. / Sean Sheehan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309100
American & Canadian history
From windfall to curse? : oil and industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the present / Jonathan Di John. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303980
Chinese porcelain in colonial Mexico: the material worlds of an early modern trade / Meha Priyadarshini. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309098
Regional histories
Africa
A history of African popular culture / Karin Barber. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303086
China and Tibet
After the post-cold war: the future of Chinese history / Dai Junha ; edited and with an introduction by Lisa Rofel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304224
The Qing Dynasty and traditional Chinese culture / Richard J. Smith. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308616
Chinese porcelain in colonial Mexico: the material worlds of an early modern trade / Meha Priyadarshini. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309098
Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy in the 1826 Sea-Transport Experiment. / Jane Kate Leonard – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309101
The cosmopolitan dream: transnational Chinese masculinities in a global age / edited by Derek Hird and Geng Song. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309311
Animals through Chinese history: earliest times to 1911 / edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309339 [Open access]
Qing travellers to the Far West: diplomacy and the information order in late imperial China / Jenny Huangfu Day. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309340
Indian Ocean region
Abraham’s luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian Ocean world / Elizabeth A. Lambourn – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303676
Japan and Korea
The tales of the Heike / translated by Burton Watson; edited, with an introduction, by Haruo Shirane. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303068
Near and Middle East
The Holy See and the emergence of the modern Middle East: Benedict XV’s diplomacy in Greater Syria (1914-1922) / Agnes de Dreuzy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302931
South Asia
India, empire, and First World War culture: writings, images, and songs / Santanu Das – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302838
Europe’s India: words, people, empires, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303136
The Hindu family and the emergence of modern India: law, citizenship and community / Eleanor Newbigin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303887