History – May 2013

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

Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi.  Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle. Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 25, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Cyrus cylinder: the great Persian edict from Babylon / edited by I.L. Finkel The archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, son of Kiribtu and descendant of Sîn-nāṣir : a landowner and property developer at Uruk in the seventh century BC / Grant Frame. Commerce and colonization in the Mediterranean Bronze Age / Maria Eugenia Aubet. The Philistines and other “sea peoples” in text and archaeology / edited by

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History – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2012|History|0 comments

La faute et sa punition dans les sociétés orientales : colloque Collège de France, CNRS, Société Asiatique de juin 2010 / J.-M. Durand, Th. Römer et J.-P. Mahé (eds.) Dark side of the light: slavery and the French Enlightenment / Louis Sala-Molins ; translated and with an introduction by John Conteh-Morgan Transforming history: the making of a modern academic discipline in twentieth-century China / edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter

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