History – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism / edited by Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope In the museum of man: race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin The global transformation of time: 1870-1950 / Vanessa Ogle The past is a foreign country – revisited / David Lowenthal Africa Pan-African themes Hunting Africa: British sport, African knowledge, and the nature of empire / Angela

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War and Colonies – rare photos available online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 20, 2014|History, South Asia|0 comments

Image courtesy of War and Colonies 1914-1918 Project In February this year the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh was the host for a conference and exhibition organized by the Alliance Française de Dhaka focusing on War and Colonies 1914-1918. The exhibition which showed 35 rare photographs of colonial troops in the Great War, (from the collections of the French Ministry of Defence and the German Historical Museum), is now available to

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History – October 2012 to November 2013

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

Enduring Western civilization : the construction of the concept of Western civilization and its “others” / edited by Silvia Federici. Dark side of the light : slavery and the French Enlightenment / Louis Sala-Molins ; translated and with an introduction by John Conteh-Morgan. A history of the breast / Marilyn Yalom. Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker. A cultural history of

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History – June 2012

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

Empire and education under the Ottomans: politics, reform and resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks / Emine O. Evered The global history of childhood reader / edited by Heidi Morrison Infectious disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy making and the perception of risk / Sandhya L. Polu. Making British Indian fictions: 1772-1823 / Ashok Malhotra. Qatar: a modern history / Allen Fromherz. An empire of facts: colonial power, cultural

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South Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Indo-Muslim cultures in transition / edited by Alka Patel, Karen Leonard. Delhi 360⁰ : Mazhar Ali Khan’s view from the Lahore Gate / J.P. Losty ; concept, Pramod Kapoor. Delhi : Red Fort to Raisina / edited by J.P. Losty … [et al.] ; concept, Pramod Kapoor. Architecture of the Newars : a history of building typologies and details in Nepal / by Niels Gutschow ; documentation drawings by Bijay

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Japan – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Japan|0 comments

The face of Jizō : image and cult in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Hank Glassman. Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Mark Michael Rowe Japan’s shrinking regions in the 21st century / Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group. Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls’ culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon. The Okinawan diaspora in

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