History – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 14, 2013|History|0 comments

Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden.  The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope.   Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /

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Korea – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 16, 2013|Korea|0 comments

Engraving virtue : the printing history of a premodern Korean moral primer / by Young Kyun Oh. Koreans in North America : their twenty-first century experiences / Pyong Gap Min. Korea’s retirement predicament : the ageing tiger / edited by Thomas R. Klassen and Yunjeong Yang. Environmental governance for sustainable development : East Asian perspectives / edited by Akihisa Mori. Korean political and economic development : crisis, security, and institutional

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History – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 9, 2013|History|0 comments

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

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Korea – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 12, 2013|Korea|0 comments

Status of women’s rights in the context of socio-economic changes in the DPRK / author, Joanna Hosaniak editor, Lilian Lee. Income inequality in Korea : an analysis of trends, causes, and answers / [Chong-Bum An, Barry P. Bosworth]. The last days of Kim Jong-il : the North Korean threat in a changing era / Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. Meeting once more : the Korean side of transnational adoption / Elise

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Korea – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 3, 2013|Korea|0 comments

Empire of the Dharma : Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 / Hwansoo Ilmee Kim Korean art : the power of now / edited by Hossein Amirsedeghi and Marcelle Joseph Invited International Exhibition of Korea Craft Designer Association, 2012 / ed. Shin Jung-hei … [et al.]. Colonial rule and social change in Korea, 1910-1945 / edited by Hong Yung Lee, Yung Chool Ha, and Clark W. Sorensen On the margins of

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History – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 28, 2013|History|0 comments

The left in Iran, 1941-1957 / edition editor: Cosroe Chaqueri. China’s left-behind wives: families of migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s / Huifen Shen with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Empire and power in the reign of Süleyman : narrating the sixteenth-century Ottoman world / Kaya Şahin Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash. [also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] The Crusader

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Japan and Korea – June 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 21, 2013|Japan, Korea|0 comments

朝鮮通信使の足跡 : 日朝関係史論 / 仲尾宏著. Women of the Yi dynasty / [edited by Park Young-hai ; translated by Choi Jin-young et al.]. 평화 를 사랑 하는 세계인 으로 / 문 선명. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the single non-transferable vote : the comparative study of an embedded institution / edited by Bernard Grofman … [et al.]. A slow walk through Jeong-dong / written by Michael Gib, illustrated by

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Korea – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2013|Korea|0 comments

Empire of the Dharma : Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 / Hwansoo Ilmee Kim Inherited responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asia / edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Melissa Noble The Sunshine Policy : in defense of engagement as a path to peace in Korea / Chung-in Moon The second term Obama administration’s policy towards the Korean Peninsula / Jangho Kim [et al.] [editor, Center for International Relations Studies]  Financial

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Politics – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 27, 2013|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Empires and boundaries : race, class, and gender in colonial settings / edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann. The Sunshine Policy : in defense of engagement as a path to peace in Korea / Chung-in Moon.  Days of God : the Revolution in Iran and its consequences / by James Buchan. Negotiating censorship in modern Japan / edited by Rachael Hutchinson. Mao’s Last Revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals

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Politics and International Relations – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 27, 2013|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Paths toward the modern fiscal state : England, Japan, and China / Wenkai He. Battleground Telangana : chronicle of an agitation / Kingshuk Nag. Chinese foreign policy : an introduction / Marc Lanteigne. Peacemaker : twenty years of inter-Korean relations and the North Korean nuclear issue : a memoir / by Lim Dong-won. North Korea in transition : politics, economy, and society / edited by Kyung-Ae Park and Scott Snyder.