History: new acquisitions April & May 2017

By Mary Fisk|June 8, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during April and May 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 Artist and empire: (en)countering colonial legacies / editor, Low Sze Wee. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052741 A history of

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History – August 2013

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

Afghanistan: graveyard of empires: a new history of the borderlands / David Isby Playing the great game: Britain, war and politics in Afghanistan since 1839 / Edmund Yorke ; [foreword by Ed Butler]. Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello. The undivided past: history beyond our differences / David Cannadine.  Crisis and continuity at the Abbasid court : formal and informal politics in the caliphate of

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