History: new acquisitions December 2016 and January 2017

By Mary Fisk|January 31, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during December 2016 and January 2017. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in Comparative and thematic Books as History: the importance of books beyond their texts / David Pearson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045935

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History – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative A history of market performance: from ancient Babylonia to the modern world / [edited by] R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen. A global conceptual history of Asia, 1860-1940 / edited by Hagen Schulz-Forberg.  Historians debate the rise of the West / Jonathan Daly. Africa Berber government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria / Hugh Roberts.   The politics of chieftaincy: authority and

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