2911, 2017

History: new acquisitions in SOAS Library: November 2017

By Mary Fisk|November 29, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during November 2017. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in Comparative and thematic The wars for Asia, 1911-1949 / S.C.M. Paine – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240496 Against the grain: a deep history of the

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3101, 2017

History: new acquisitions December 2016 and January 2017

By Mary Fisk|January 31, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during December 2016 and January 2017. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in Comparative and thematic Books as History: the importance of books beyond their texts / David Pearson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045935

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0112, 2016

History: new book acquisitions in October / November 2016

By Mary Fisk|December 1, 2016|Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

This is a selection of new titles, both print and electronic, acquired by SOAS Library for the History collections in October / November 2016. Please note that only SOAS staff and students will have access to e-books Comparative and thematic The Silk Road: a new history with documents / Valerie Hansen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046376 A global history of modern historiography / Georg G. Iggers, Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee –

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2302, 2015

History – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 23, 2015|History|0 comments

General & thematic Into new territory: American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology / edited by Peter C. Mancall   Thinking history globally / Diego Olstein Hinterlands and commodities: place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza and Dennis O’Flynn Chinese and

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2509, 2014

History – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 25, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative The Oxford history of historical writing [Vol.2: 400-1400]/ Daniel Woolf, general editor. The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson.  Africa An African in Paris / Bernard Binlin Dadié ; translated by Karen C. Hatch. Blue dahlia, black gold: a journey into Angola / Daniel Metcalfe Lost and found in Johannesburg, a memoir / Mark Gevisser. Good morning, Mr Mandela / by

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2304, 2014

South Asia – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 23, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

e-books Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka : Caught in the Peace Trap?  / Goodhand, Jonathan, Spencer, Jonathan & Korf, Benedikt South Asia Across the Disciplines : Document Raj : Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India  / Raman, Bhavani Islamic Civilization in South Asia : A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics

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0703, 2014

South Asia – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Metallic modern: everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe. The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya / by R. Visvanathan P. J. K. Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight. Anglicanism and South India / by Leonard Hodgson. Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana / edited by Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

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0603, 2014

History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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0404, 2013

History – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 4, 2013|History|0 comments

Return of a king: the battle for Afghanistan / William Dalrymple. The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad / Peter Brown Orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski, editors Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history / Alan Mikhail The colours of the empire: racialized representations during Portuguese colonialism / Patricia Ferraz de Matos ; translated by ; Mark Ayton. Heritage under siege:

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2408, 2012

Book review: The Black Hole of Empire … / Partha Chatterjee

By Mary Fisk|August 24, 2012|History, South Asia|0 comments

In 1756, Siraj-ud-daulah, ruler of Bengal, captured Calcutta (Kolkata) and allegedly imprisoned 146 Europeans overnight in a cramped room, where 123 of them subsequently died of suffocation.  The story of “The Black Hole of Calcutta” was crucial to the “founding myth of the British Empire in India”. In The Black Hole of Empire: history of a global practice of power, Chatterjee examines the changing representations of the event in the history and political ideology of imperial and modern India

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