Africa – June 2013 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 8, 2014|Africa|0 comments

States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration / Donald Martin Carter. Al-Shabaab in Somalia : the history and ideology of a militant Islamist group, 2005-2012 / Stig Jarle Hansen. Historia ya Kiswahili : 50 BK hadi 1500 BK / David P.B. Massamba. Healing a nation : a testimony : waging and winning a peaceful revolution to unite and heal a broken Rwanda / Dr Theogene

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Understanding the Qur’an today / Mahmoud Hussein translated from the French by David Bond. The terrorist in search of humanity : militant Islam and global politics / Faisal Devji. Parcours de féministes musulmanes belges. De l’engagement dans l’islam aux droits des femmes? Ghaliya Djelloul. Islamic banking and finance : what it is and what it could be / editor, Tarek El Diwany Made with : the emerging alternative to

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History – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 9, 2013|History|0 comments

e-books The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500-1914 / edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O’Brien ; with Franciso Comín Comín. [e-book from Dawsonera] Akbar / André Wink [e-book fro Dawsonera] The Crusades: a very short introduction / Christopher Tyerman [e-book from ebrary] Western imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958 / D.K. Fieldhouse. [e-book from ebrary] Books Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Homer’s Turk: how classics

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 11, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas, Barbara Roggema and Alexander Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala … [et al.]. Studies in medieval Shi’ism / Wilferd Madelung edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Studies on Sufism in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese. The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media / edited by Brigitte Maréchal and Sami Zemni. Hizbullah’s identity construction / Joseph

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Development Studies – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 15, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches. Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. [e-book from ebrary] Pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century : new challenges and emerging paradigms / edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta. Water governance in OECD countries : a multi-level approach. Water, democracy and neoliberalism in india :

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Africa – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 13, 2013|Africa|0 comments

Conflict and social transformation in Eastern DR Congo / [edited by] Koen Vlassenroot, Timothy Raeymaekers. Dialektologie des Komorischen : quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen zur internen Gliederung der östlichsten Bantusprache / Wolfram Full. Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius / Richard B. Allen. Economic policies and the irrigated agriculture in Sudan : lessons from the Gezira scheme / Amel M. Mubarak, Ali A. Salih, Khalid H. A. Siddig. Rwanda

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South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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South Asia – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 24, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri hills. Parts 1 & 2 / edited by Paul Hockings. More than real : a history of the imagination in south India / David Shulman. Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan / by Jason Freitag. Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Leaders on leadership : insights from corporate India / edited by All

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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