History – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 9, 2014|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic Thinking, recording, and writing history in the ancient world / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Activating the past: history and memory in the Black Atlantic world / ed. by Andrew Apter and Lauren Derby. The Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson. The monks of Kublai Khan, emperor of China: medieval travels from China through Central Asia to Persia and the

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History – March 2014.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 15, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert

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Development Studies – January and February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 12, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

Alternatives to neoliberal globalization : studies in the political economy of institutions and late development by Dic Lo. The global challenge of encouraging sustainable living : opportunities, barriers, policy and practice / edited by Shane Fudge, Michael A. Peters, Steven M. Hoffman, Walter Wehrmeyer. The domestic politics of foreign aid / Erik Lundsgaarde. The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity / Jörg

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Politics and International Relations – Dec 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 11, 2013|Politics|0 comments

Peripheralization : the making of spatial dependencies and social injustice / Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Matthias Naumann (Eds.). Nonviolent revolutions : civil resistance in the late 20th century / Sharon Erickson Nepstad. Developmental politics in transition : the neoliberal era and beyond / edited by Chang Kyung-Sup, Ben Fine and Linda Weiss. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] The politics of belonging: intersectional contestations / Nira Yuval-Davis. [ebrary e-book] Rethinking political obligation

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South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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Economics – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 1, 2013|Economics|0 comments

In the shadow of violence : politics, economics, and the problems of development / edited by Douglass C. North … [et al.]. China’s post-reform economy : achieving harmony, sustaining growth / edited by Richard Sanders and Chen Yang. India today : economy, politics and society / Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey.  Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius / Richard B. Allen.  Arbitraging Japan : dreams of capitalism

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Politics and International Relations – September to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 20, 2012|Politics|0 comments

Great games, local rules : the new power contest in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley. Chaos, violence, dynasty : politics and Islam in Central Asia / Eric McGlinchey. Understanding Central Asia : politics and contested transformations / Sally Cummings. Movement, power and place in Central Asia and beyond : contested trajectories / edited by Madeleine Reeves. Extremists in our midst: confronting terror [electronic resource] / Abdul Haqq Baker. [Available as

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Economics – September to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 19, 2012|Economics|0 comments

Microeconometrics using Stata / A. Colin Cameron, Pravin K. Trivedi. The market system : what it is, how it works, and what to make of it / Charles E. Lindblom. The nature and logic of capitalism / Robert L. Heilbroner. Regaining Europe : an economic agenda for the 21st century / George Irvin International capital markets: systems in transition / edited by John Eatwell and Lance Taylor. [Available as an

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History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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