1410, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Tribe and state: the dynamics of international politics and the reign of Zimri-Lim / by Adam E. Miglio. “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld” and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle / by Alhena Gadotti. Karkemish : an ancient capital on the Euphrates / edited by Nicolò Marchetti Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine / by JoAnn Scurlock. Byzantium From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: religion, identity and politics after the

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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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0503, 2013

History – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|History|0 comments

The second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan. Fighting the Mau Mau: the British army and counterinsurgency in the Kenya Emergency India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present / Tirthankar Roy. Indigo plantations and science in colonial India / Prakash Kumar. Writing the history of the global: challenges for the twenty-first century / edited by Maxine Berg. Seleucid dissolution:

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