General & thematic Into new territory: American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology / edited by Peter C. Mancall Thinking history globally / Diego Olstein Hinterlands and commodities: place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza and Dennis O’Flynn Chinese and
General and comparative The Oxford history of historical writing [Vol.2: 400-1400]/ Daniel Woolf, general editor. The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson. Africa An African in Paris / Bernard Binlin Dadié ; translated by Karen C. Hatch. Blue dahlia, black gold: a journey into Angola / Daniel Metcalfe Lost and found in Johannesburg, a memoir / Mark Gevisser. Good morning, Mr Mandela / by
General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert
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
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
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
Books on the lives two individuals who played significant roles in the 20th century history of Africa – Margery Perham (1895-1982) and Hakim Warqenah (Dr. Charles Martin) (1864/65 – 1952) – have recently been reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History . Margery Perham was “a towering authority on colonial Africa, a pioneer of the subfield of imperial history, and a central figure in the reform of the British colonial
The second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan. Fighting the Mau Mau: the British army and counterinsurgency in the Kenya Emergency India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present / Tirthankar Roy. Indigo plantations and science in colonial India / Prakash Kumar. Writing the history of the global: challenges for the twenty-first century / edited by Maxine Berg. Seleucid dissolution:
“Socialism is great!”: a worker’s memoir of the new China / by Lijia Zhang. Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Maghreb-Italie : des passeurs médiévaux à l’orientalisme moderne, XIIIe-milieu XXe siècle / études réunies par Benoît Grévin. Journeys to empire: enlightenment, imperialism, and the British encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 / Gordon T. Stewart. The Enlightenment / Roy Porter. (2nd edition) Intercultural transmission in
e-book Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. [Available from ebrary] Books The Alexander romance in Persia and the East / edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton. Violence and colonial order: police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 / Martin Thomas. The Cambridge companion to Deleuze / edited by Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall The political
