History – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 11, 2015|History|0 comments

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

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History – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 31, 2015|History|0 comments

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

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History – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 9, 2014|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic Thinking, recording, and writing history in the ancient world / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Activating the past: history and memory in the Black Atlantic world / ed. by Andrew Apter and Lauren Derby. The Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson. The monks of Kublai Khan, emperor of China: medieval travels from China through Central Asia to Persia and the

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History – March 2014.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 15, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert

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History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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History – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 6, 2013|History|0 comments

Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not

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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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China and Inner Asia – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 11, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

e-books from Chinamaxx 穆斯林的葬礼 / 霍达著. 红尘 / 霍达著 囯殇 / 霍達著 搏浪天涯 / [霍达著]. 秦皇父子 / 霍达著 补天裂 / 霍达著. 未穿的红嫁衣 ; 沉浮 / 霍达著. Books 古兰经与伊斯兰文化 / 王新生著  Walmart in China / edited by Anita Chan. Poverty and exclusion of minorities in China and India /A.S. Bhalla and Dan Luo. Women and gender in twentieth-century China /Paul J. Bailey. Ruling, resources and religion in China : managing the multiethnic

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China and Inner Asia – October 2012.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 16, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14, Old Tibetan studies / edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Revisiting rituals in a changing Tibetan context / edited by Katia Buffetrille. Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining / edited by Julian Dierkes. Truths and half truths : China’s socio-economic reforms (1978-2010) / Ferdinand A. Gul and Haitian Lu. Migration, prostitution, and human trafficking :

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China and Inner Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 1, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

全唐賦 / 逢甲大學唐代研究中心 中國人民大學編校;簡宗梧  張愛玲的文學史意義 / 許子東著. 電影文化意象 = The cultural images of films / 王文正著. 光影的長河 : 影史百大經典華語電影 = The river of shadow and light : 100 greatest Chinese-language films / [撰稿小野 … et al.]. 明詩 : 朱洪武到萬曆帝的明朝詩文 / 安毓淼編著. 徐光啓全集 / 朱維錚 李天綱主編. 明代宫廷典制史 / 赵中男等著. 故宫退食录 / [朱家溍著]. 西域歷史語言研究集刊. 清末报刊评论与中国外交观念近代化 / 任云仙著. 红墙摄影师 : 历史瞬间永恒记忆 / 海天 日藏中國戲曲文獻綜錄 = Ricang Zhongguo xiqu wenxian zonglu / 黄仕忠著. 穆克登碑问题研究

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