History – August 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic Essaying the past: how to read, write, and think about history / Jim Cullen. –[2 edn]  [also available as an e-book] Using film as a source / Sian Barber Controversial history education in Asian contexts / edited by Mark Baildon, Loh Kah Seng, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar– China and Tibet Japanese Taiwan: colonial rule and its contested legacy / edited by Andrew D.

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Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa Business & Industry The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield Film & Media Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu. Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher. Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy. History Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson. Literature Mysteries of Africa

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 5, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Imagining the past: historical fiction in New Kingdom Egypt / Colleen Manassa. Als die Götter auch noch Mensch waren : eine Anthologie altorientalischer Literatur / Sabina Franke (Hrsg.) New results and new questions on the reign of Suppiluliuma I / edited by Stefano de Martino, Jared L. Miller. Byzantium Arab-Byzantine coins and history: papers presented at the 13th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at

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History – October 2012 to November 2013

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

Enduring Western civilization : the construction of the concept of Western civilization and its “others” / edited by Silvia Federici. Dark side of the light : slavery and the French Enlightenment / Louis Sala-Molins ; translated and with an introduction by John Conteh-Morgan. A history of the breast / Marilyn Yalom. Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker. A cultural history of

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Anthropology and Sociology – June 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan … [et al.]. The global farms race : land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security / edited by Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein. Darker than blue : on the moral economies of Black Atlantic culture / Paul Gilroy. Gender, war, and militarism : feminist perspectives /

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Politics and Economics – Jan-May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 14, 2012|Economics, Politics|0 comments

States’ gains, labor’s losses : China, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980-2000 / Dorothy J. Solinger. Partisan histories : the past in contemporary global politics / Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney. The postcolonial Gramsci / edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik Bhattacharya. Jan-May 2012