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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South Asia – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Metallic modern: everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe. The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya / by R. Visvanathan P. J. K. Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight. Anglicanism and South India / by Leonard Hodgson. Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana / edited by Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Approaching rituals in ancient cultures: Questioni di Rito: Rituali come Fonte di Conoscenza delle Religioni e delle Concezioni del Mondo nelle Culture Antiche, proceedings of the conference, November 28-30, 2011, Roma / edited by Claus Ambos and Lorenzo Verderame.  Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien / Eva Andrea Braun-Holzinger Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient : Zeichen des Himmels und der Erde / Stefan M. Maul Etudes Ougaritiques III

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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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Development Studies – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige The art of coercion : the primitive accumulation and management of coercive power / Antonio Giustozzi. The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states / James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors. Understanding economic growth in China and India : a comparative study of selected issues / Yanrui Wu.

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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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Politics and International Relations – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 14, 2012|Politics|0 comments

The Eurocentric conception of world politics : western international theory, 1760-2010 / John M. Hobson. Contesting citizenship : irregular migrants and new frontiers of the political / Anne McNevin. Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy / Snow, Nancy Taylor, Philip M. Available from as an e-book from ebrary [Available to SOAS staff and students only]. International political theory after Hobbes : analysis, interpretation and orientation / edited by Raia Prokhovnik and Gabriella

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Politics and International Relations – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 13, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Lenin and philosophy, and other essays / Louis Althusser introd. by Fredric Jameson translated from the French by Ben Brewster.  Foreign ministries : change and adaptation / edited by Brian Hocking, foreword by Jacques Bilodeau. Humane migration : establishing legitimacy and rights for displaced people / Christine G. T. Ho and James Loucky.  Peacebuilding and local ownership : post-conflict consensus-building / Timothy Donais.  Empire as a way of life :

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