3008, 2013

History – August 2013

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

Afghanistan: graveyard of empires: a new history of the borderlands / David Isby Playing the great game: Britain, war and politics in Afghanistan since 1839 / Edmund Yorke ; [foreword by Ed Butler]. Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello. The undivided past: history beyond our differences / David Cannadine.  Crisis and continuity at the Abbasid court : formal and informal politics in the caliphate of

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1206, 2013

Economics – December 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 12, 2013|Economics|0 comments

Globalization and economic nationalism in Asia / ed. by Anthony P. D’Costa. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Market threads : how cotton farmers and traders create a global commodity / Koray Çalışkan. [Also available as an e-book from ebrary]  End this depression now! / Paul Krugman. Frontiers of commodity chain research / edited by Jennifer Bair.