History – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|History|0 comments

Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi.  Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle. Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 10, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam & Islamic philosophy The essentials of Ibāḍī Islam / Valerie J. Hoffman. Muslims and the new media : historical and contemporary debates / Göran Larsson. Walking a tightrope : women and veiling in the United Kingdom / Ayesha Salma Kariapper. Difference and disability in the medieval islamic world : blighted bodies / Kristina L. Richardson. Whatever happened to the islamists : salafis, heavy metal muslims, and the lure of

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