2911, 2017

History: new acquisitions in SOAS Library: November 2017

By Mary Fisk|November 29, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, 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 November 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 The wars for Asia, 1911-1949 / S.C.M. Paine – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240496 Against the grain: a deep history of the

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2705, 2013

Politics – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 27, 2013|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Empires and boundaries : race, class, and gender in colonial settings / edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann. The Sunshine Policy : in defense of engagement as a path to peace in Korea / Chung-in Moon.  Days of God : the Revolution in Iran and its consequences / by James Buchan. Negotiating censorship in modern Japan / edited by Rachael Hutchinson. Mao’s Last Revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals

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0607, 2012

Japan – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Buddhist fire ritual in Japan / Madhavi Kolhatkar, Musashi Tachikawa. Housewives of Japan : an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni. Why economic slumps following economic crises turn out to be long and arduous : Japan’s experience of the lost decades / Tetsurō Sugiura. Hedge fund activism in Japan : the limits of shareholder primacy / John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, Simon Deakin. Continuous improvement strategies

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