History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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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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History – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 6, 2013|History|0 comments

Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not

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History – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 14, 2013|History|0 comments

Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden.  The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope.   Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /

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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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History – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2013|History|0 comments

An intellectual history for India / edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly. The monetary history of Iran: from the Safavids to the Qajars / Rudi Mathhe, Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson. The politics of reproduction in Ottoman society, 1838-1900 / by Gülhan Balsoy African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources / edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A.

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History – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 28, 2013|History|0 comments

The left in Iran, 1941-1957 / edition editor: Cosroe Chaqueri. China’s left-behind wives: families of migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s / Huifen Shen with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Empire and power in the reign of Süleyman : narrating the sixteenth-century Ottoman world / Kaya Şahin Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash. [also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] The Crusader

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History – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|History|0 comments

Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi.  Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle. Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the

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Religions – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 4, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700 / Jimmy Yu Mamluks and animals: veterinary medicine in medieval Islam / by Housni Alkhateeb Shehada. On old age: approaching death in antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio. Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire / Selim Deringil