History – May 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & thematic Sapiens: a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari. The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century / Jurgen Osterhammel. [also available as an e-book] Africa North Africa Dividing the Nile: Egypt’s ‘economic’ nationalists in the Sudan, 1918-1956 / David E. Mills China & Tibet Fateful ties: a history of America’s preoccupation with China / Gordon H. Chang. Writing, publishing, and reading

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History – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 27, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative Farewell to Salonika: city at the crossroads / Leon Sciaky. Transatlantic slavery: an introduction / [text by Richard Benjamin … and David Fleming]. Borders: a very short introduction / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.  Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia / edited by Sarah Turner Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen. Medicine and colonialism:

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – Dec 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén. Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Mongol rule in Seljuk Anatolia. The politics of conquest and history-writing 1243-1282. Sara ur Yildiz. The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M.

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 30, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Interpreting Avicenna : critical essays / edited by Peter Adamson. In the age of Averroes : Arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century / edited by Peter Adamson. Islamic thought in the dialogue of cultures : a historical and bibliographical survey / By Hans Daiber. Tales of God’s friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard. Striving in the path of God : Jihād and Martyrdom in

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Middle East and Central Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Palestinian village histories : geographies of the displaced / Rochelle A. Davis. Imperial citizen : marriage and citizenship in the Ottoman frontier provinces of Iraq / Karen M. Kern Streets of memory : landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul / Amy Mills. Romanschauplatz Saudi-Arabien : Transformationen, Konfrontationen, Lebensläufe / Elga Martinez-Weinberger. The spaces between the teeth : a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier / Asa Eger. The

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis : the Berlin years / Klaus Gensicke ; translated by Alexander Fraser Gunn. The origins of Israeli mythology : neither Canaanites nor crusaders / David Ohana ; translated by David Maisel. Walking Palestine : 25 journeys into the West Bank / by Stefan Szepesi. Babylonian prayers to Marduk / Takayoshi Oshima The Ahhiyawa texts / by Gary M. Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H.

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