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 in SOAS Library: Religions (August – October 2018)

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Africa, Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions 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 Comparative and thematic Seeking out the land: land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan

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2910, 2018

New acquisitions in SOAS Library August-October 2018: History (comparative and thematic subjects)

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|History|

This is a selection of titles on comparative and thematic historical topics received by SOAS Library for the 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 In print Empires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and

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0806, 2017

History: new acquisitions April & May 2017

By Mary Fisk|June 8, 2017|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during April and May 2017. 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 Comparative and thematic Artist and empire: (en)countering colonial legacies / editor, Low Sze Wee. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052741 A history of

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0407, 2016

Selected new acquisitions for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica: June 2016

By Mary Fisk|July 4, 2016|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The following is a selective list of new titles received for the Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica section of SOAS Library during June 2016. Please note that modern Israeli and Palestinian studies falls within this subject area Click on the hyperlink following each entry to go through to the SOAS Library catalogue Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations From the Mari archives: an anthology of Old Babylonian letters / Jack M.

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0412, 2014

Religions – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2014|Religions|0 comments

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

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0606, 2014

Religions – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 6, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The Oxford handbook of religion and the arts / edited by Frank Burch Brown. Buddhism From birch bark to digital data: recent advances in Buddhist manuscript research: papers presented at the Conference Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: the state of the field, Stanford, June 15-19 2009 / edited by Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann. The Buddhist schools of the Small Vehicle / André Bareau ; translated from the French

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2702, 2014

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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2905, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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2102, 2013

China and Inner Asia – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 21, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Is China a responsible developing country? : climate change diplomacy and national image building / Sanna Kopra. Modalities of change : the interface of tradition and modernity in East Asia / James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin, editors. [Also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] Cybercrime in the Greater China Region : regulatory responses and crime prevention across the Taiwan Strait / Yao-Chung Chang. 二十世紀中國文學圖志 / 楊義, 中井政喜, 張中良著. 經濟史、都市文化與物質文化 :

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