History – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 6, 2013|History|0 comments

Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not

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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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Book Review: Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill

By Mary Fisk|March 1, 2013|Africa, History|0 comments

Recently acquired by SOAS Library, Bronwen Everill’s Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) has just been featured in Reviews in History (posted by the Institute of Historical Research). The book “takes a comparative approach to the colonisation schemes of the 19th–century British and American abolition movements” and looks at the foundation and settling of the two countries during that century and their relationship with each other.

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South Asia – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 22, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

E- Book Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 / Munis D. Faruqui. Available from Dawsonera The tiger vanquished : LTTE’s story / M.R. Narayan Swamy. Available from ebrary Print Journal The International Journal of Jaina Studies Books Nartanam. vol. 12, no. 2. –  Special issue of the journal ‘Narantam’ on Tagore’s vision of dance. Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien / textes réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean

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History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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Korea – April 2012

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

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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