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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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sole della Mesopotamia: considerazioni incomplete / Claudio Saporetti 4th century Karia : defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids / edited by Olivier Henry. Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in neo-Assyrian society / by Sherry Lou Macgregor. The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East / John Curtis ; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor

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