Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Cyrus the Great: an ancient Iranian king / edited by Touraj Daryaee  “Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period / edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad. Models of Mesopotamian landscapes: how small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations / edited by T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson and Magnus Widell  Literature as politics, politics as

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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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