New acquisitions for SOAS Library: History (November 2018 – January 2019)

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2019|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections between November 2018 and January 2019 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that some e-book content (notably eBook Central and Dawsonera) is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in  Comparative and thematic The regional cold wars in Europe, East Asia, and

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U.S. Intelligence on Asia: new digital document collection now available

By Mary Fisk|July 27, 2017|Archival collections, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, Korea, Politics and International Relations, South East Asia|

SOAS Library has recently subscribed to the archival document collection U.S. Intelligence on Asia (1945-1991)  from Brill Online Primary Resources. This resource is available to all Library users on-site. SOAS staff and students can also access this off-site via their institutional login. The resource can be accessed through the Library’s A-Z databases. Click here to go to the appropriate page of the index, and then scroll through the list of

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South Asia – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 11, 2015|South Asia|

Art, Archaeology and Architecture Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati), Taluk Chitapur, Dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka / K.P. Poonacha. The hermit’s hut : architecture and asceticism in India / Kazi K. Ashraf. Late temple architecture in India 15th to 19th centuries : continuities, revivals, appropriations, and innovations / George Michell. Nalanda : situating the great monastery / Frederick M. Asher. No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia /

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History – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 14, 2013|History|0 comments

Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden.  The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope.   Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /

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South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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South East Asia and Pacific – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 1, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

A history of Sino-Malaysian interactions / by Zhou Weimin, Tang Lingling ; adapted & ed. by See Hoon Peow ; translated by Tan Yau Chong. Belgian tourists in Burma, Siam, Vietnam and Cambodia (1897 & 1900) / Captain Georges ‘Puck’ Chaudoir, Mr. and Mrs. Émile Jottrand ; translated and with introductions by Walter E. J. Tips. Borneo transformed : agricultural expansion on the Southeast Asian frontier / edited by Rodolphe

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Middle East and Central Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Palestinian village histories : geographies of the displaced / Rochelle A. Davis. Imperial citizen : marriage and citizenship in the Ottoman frontier provinces of Iraq / Karen M. Kern Streets of memory : landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul / Amy Mills. Romanschauplatz Saudi-Arabien : Transformationen, Konfrontationen, Lebensläufe / Elga Martinez-Weinberger. The spaces between the teeth : a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier / Asa Eger. The

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Korea – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Transnational sport : gender, media, and global Korea / Rachael Miyung Joo. Making and faking kinship : marriage and labor migration between China and South Korea / Caren Freeman. The domestic politics of Korean unification : debates on the North in the South, 1948-2008 / Kim Hakjoon. North Korea : beyond charismatic politics / Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung. Navigating turbulence in Northeast Asia : the future of the U.S.-ROK

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Middle East and Central Asia – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Journals Arabica  – Volume 1(1954) onwards. Books International migration and development in the Arab region : challenges and opportunities / Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Sources for the history of Sasanian and post-Sasanian Iran / edendum curavit Rika Gyselen. Islam, the state, and political authority : medieval issues and modern concerns / edited by Asma Afsaruddin. Angels in Islam : Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī’s al-Hạbāʼik fī akhbār al-malāʼik /

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