2901, 2019

New acquisitions for SOAS Library: History (November 2018 – January 2019)

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2019|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections between November 2018 and January 2019 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that some e-book content (notably eBook Central and Dawsonera) is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in  Comparative and thematic The regional cold wars in Europe, East Asia, and

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2910, 2018

New acquisitions for SOAS Library August – October 2018: History (regional collections)

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Regional History collections between August and October 2018 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in Print Books European history The Russian Revolution: a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; edited

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0311, 2015

History – September and October 2015

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

Comparative and thematic The origins of the modern world: a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century [3rd edition] / Robert B. Marks.-[also available in print] The Silk Roads: a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan Goods from the East, 1600-1800: trading Eurasia / [edited by] Maxine Berg ; with Felicia Gottman Hanna Hodacs, & Chris Nierstrasz  Subverting empire: deviance and disorder in the

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0309, 2015

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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2002, 2015

Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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0612, 2013

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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3005, 2013

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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0408, 2012

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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