General and thematic The true history of tea / Victor H. Mair & Erling Hoh Trophies, relics and curios? : Missionary heritage from Africa and the Pacific / edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles, Chris Wingfield Guantánamo diary / Mohamedou Ould Slahi ; introduction by Larry Siems ; edited by Larry Siems Case studies in transmission / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ilkka Lindstedt, Robert Rollinger und Raija Mattila (Hgg.) The British industrial
General and thematic Echoes of empire: memory, identity and the legacy of imperialism / Kalypso S. Nicolaidis, Berny Sebe & Gabrielle Maas The rise of the West: a history of the human community: with a retrospective essay / by William H. McNeill; drawings by Béla Petheö. Europe and the Islamic world: a history / John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens translated by Jane Marie Todd with a foreword by
Comparative and thematic studies Death and the Afterlife / edited by Jacob Neusner. – Cannibal metaphysics: for a post-structural anthropology / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro translated and edited by Peter Skafish – The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe / Chris Hann and the Civil Religion Group – The hip hop and religion reader / edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn
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
Toshihiko Izutsu and the philosophy of word : in search of the spiritual Orient / by Eisuke Wakamatsu translated by Jean Connell Hoff. Gender, nation and state in modern Japan / edited by Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie and Ulrike Wöhr. Japanese women and the transnational feminist movement before World War II / Taeko Shibahara. Claims to territory between Japan and Korea in international law / Pilkyu Kim. Lessons in sustainable
Comparative and thematic Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward. Religion in development: rewriting the
General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade. Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for
General and comparative A history of market performance: from ancient Babylonia to the modern world / [edited by] R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen. A global conceptual history of Asia, 1860-1940 / edited by Hagen Schulz-Forberg. Historians debate the rise of the West / Jonathan Daly. Africa Berber government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria / Hugh Roberts. The politics of chieftaincy: authority and
General & comparative Visualizing knowledge and creating meaning in ancient writing systems / edited by Shai Gordin State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands / Frederick F. Anscombe Africa Contesting Caprivi: a history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia Africa (4th edn) / edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, and Patrick O’Meara Dead was everything / Keith Smith The death penalty in Africa: foundations and
Women and democracy in Cold War Japan / Jan Bardsley. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown : Yokohama, 1894-1972 Interpreting Japan : approaches and applications for the classroom / Brian J. McVeigh. The greatest problem : religion and state formation in Meiji Japan / Trent E. Maxey. Brewed in Japan : the evolution of the Japanese beer industry / Jeffrey W. Alexander. National police reserve : the origin of Japan’s self
