History – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg The great sea: a human history of the Mediterranean [updated edition] / David Abulafia. Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history

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History – April 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 14, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative and thematic histories Mapping the end of empire: American and British strategic visions in the postwar world / Aiyaz Husain. History and popular memory: the power of story in moments of crisis / Paul A. Cohen. The lifeblood of war: logistics in armed conflict / Julian Thompson. Empires of vision: a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds. The Princeton companion to Atlantic history / editor, Joseph C.

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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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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Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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Religions – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward. Religion in development: rewriting the

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Religions – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade.  Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for

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History – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative A history of market performance: from ancient Babylonia to the modern world / [edited by] R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen. A global conceptual history of Asia, 1860-1940 / edited by Hagen Schulz-Forberg.  Historians debate the rise of the West / Jonathan Daly. Africa Berber government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria / Hugh Roberts.   The politics of chieftaincy: authority and

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History – June 2014

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

General & comparative Connecting histories of education: transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-) colonial education / edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere. Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. China & Tibet The capital of the Yuan Dynasty / by Gaohua Chen. Lost colony: the untold story of China’s first great victory over the West / Tonio Andrade. Japan

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Religions – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 6, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The Oxford handbook of religion and the arts / edited by Frank Burch Brown. Buddhism From birch bark to digital data: recent advances in Buddhist manuscript research: papers presented at the Conference Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: the state of the field, Stanford, June 15-19 2009 / edited by Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann. The Buddhist schools of the Small Vehicle / André Bareau ; translated from the French

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