History – August 2013

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

Afghanistan: graveyard of empires: a new history of the borderlands / David Isby Playing the great game: Britain, war and politics in Afghanistan since 1839 / Edmund Yorke ; [foreword by Ed Butler]. Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello. The undivided past: history beyond our differences / David Cannadine.  Crisis and continuity at the Abbasid court : formal and informal politics in the caliphate of

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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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History – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 4, 2013|History|0 comments

Return of a king: the battle for Afghanistan / William Dalrymple. The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad / Peter Brown Orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski, editors Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history / Alan Mikhail The colours of the empire: racialized representations during Portuguese colonialism / Patricia Ferraz de Matos ; translated by ; Mark Ayton. Heritage under siege:

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History – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|History|0 comments

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:

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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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History – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 4, 2012|History|0 comments

A search for sovereignty: law and geography in European empires, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton Tidings from Zion: Helen Bentwich’s letters from Jerusalem, 1919-1931 / edited by Jenifer Glynn. Pacific worlds: a history of seas, peoples, and cultures / Matt K. Matsuda  Victorian visions of global order: empire and international relations in nineteenth-century political thought / edited by Duncan Bell. The imperial security state: British colonial knowledge and empire-building in Asia

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History – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 4, 2012|History|0 comments

Arming the periphery: the arms trade in the Indian Ocean during the age of global empire / by Emrys Chew Posing for posterity: royal Indian portraits / Pramod Kumar K.G. ; foreword by H.R.H. Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur. (isbn 9781780762494) The company-state: corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India / Philip J. Stern. Best of enemies: a history of US and Middle

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Politics and International Relations – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 26, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Empires and indigenes : intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the early modern world / edited by Wayne E. Lee. International history & international relations / Andrew Williams, Amelia Hadfield, Simon Rofe. Adskillelsens politik. English. The democratic contradictions of multiculturalism / Jens-Martin Eriksen & Frederik Stjernfelt. The politics of coalition : how the Conservative – Lib Dem government works. Postcolonial migrants and identity politics / edited by Ulbe Bosma,

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History – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 4, 2012|History|0 comments

Empire and education under the Ottomans: politics, reform and resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks / Emine O. Evered The global history of childhood reader / edited by Heidi Morrison Infectious disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy making and the perception of risk / Sandhya L. Polu. Making British Indian fictions: 1772-1823 / Ashok Malhotra. Qatar: a modern history / Allen Fromherz. An empire of facts: colonial power, cultural

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Politics and International Relations – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 13, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Lenin and philosophy, and other essays / Louis Althusser introd. by Fredric Jameson translated from the French by Ben Brewster.  Foreign ministries : change and adaptation / edited by Brian Hocking, foreword by Jacques Bilodeau. Humane migration : establishing legitimacy and rights for displaced people / Christine G. T. Ho and James Loucky.  Peacebuilding and local ownership : post-conflict consensus-building / Timothy Donais.  Empire as a way of life :

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