History: new acquisitions in SOAS Library, June & July 2018

By Mary Fisk|July 31, 2018|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Korea, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during June and July  2018 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 Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire / Akala. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286134 Unfabling the East:

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History – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 31, 2015|History|0 comments

General and thematic Echoes of empire: memory, identity and the legacy of imperialism / Kalypso S. Nicolaidis, Berny Sebe & Gabrielle Maas The rise of the West: a history of the human community: with a retrospective essay / by William H. McNeill; drawings by Béla Petheö. Europe and the Islamic world: a history / John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens   translated by Jane Marie Todd with a foreword by

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Ancient Near East, Semitics And Judaica – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Poetic heroes: literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early Biblical world / Mark S. Smith. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Hittitology : Warsaw, 5-9 September 2011 / edited by Piotr Taracha with the assistance of Magdalena Kepelus. Entre les fleuves – II : D’Assur à Mari et au-delà / [edited by] Nele Ziegler and Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum The sacrificial economy: assessors, contractors,

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Try out the BRILL Classic Arabic Texts Online (Part 1)

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 17, 2014|History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

For one month (till 12th December 2014) SOAS Students and staff can try out the Classic Arabic Texts Online (CATO) published by Brill. CATO  offers approx. 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text searchable format and accessible from one single point of entry. The following titles are included in CATO-1: •  Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (with indices and glossaries) edited by M.J. de Goeje and J.H. Kramers [Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī’s

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 30, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Interpreting Avicenna : critical essays / edited by Peter Adamson. In the age of Averroes : Arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century / edited by Peter Adamson. Islamic thought in the dialogue of cultures : a historical and bibliographical survey / By Hans Daiber. Tales of God’s friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard. Striving in the path of God : Jihād and Martyrdom in

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History – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2013|History|0 comments

e-book Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. [Available from ebrary] Books The Alexander romance in Persia and the East / edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton. Violence and colonial order: police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 / Martin Thomas. The Cambridge companion to Deleuze / edited by Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall  The political

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – September 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Apocalypse dans l’islam. English = “Apocalypse in Islam/ Jean-Pierre Filiu translated by M.B. DeBevoise.” Apart : alienated and engaged Muslims in the West / Justin Gest. Islam in the West : key issues in multiculturalism / edited by Max Farrar … [et al.]. Allah, liberty and love : the courage to reconcile faith and freedom / Irshad Manji. Jihad and genocide / Richard L. Rubenstein. al-Thamarah al-murḍīyah fī baʻḍ

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Africa – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

e-books Africa Yearbook Online [Available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff/students only off-campus] Books A.B.Xuma : autobiography and selected works / ed. by Peter Limb. Africa since independence : a comparative history. Bolya : nomade cosmopolite mais sédentaire de l’éthique / sous la direction de Françoise Naudillon. Economic development of Africa, 1880-1939 / general editor, David Sunderland ; advisory editor, Godfrey N. Uzoigwe. Les fantômes de Jérusalem :

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