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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1405, 2015

History – April 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 14, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative and thematic histories Mapping the end of empire: American and British strategic visions in the postwar world / Aiyaz Husain. History and popular memory: the power of story in moments of crisis / Paul A. Cohen. The lifeblood of war: logistics in armed conflict / Julian Thompson. Empires of vision: a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds. The Princeton companion to Atlantic history / editor, Joseph C.

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1105, 2015

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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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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2101, 2014

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – Dec 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén. Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Mongol rule in Seljuk Anatolia. The politics of conquest and history-writing 1243-1282. Sara ur Yildiz. The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M.

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0612, 2013

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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2407, 2013

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 24, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Middle East Brokers of deceit : how the US has undermined peace in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi. Everyday Arab identity : the daily reproduction of the Arab world / Christopher Phillips. Regional economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa : beyond trade reform / Mustapha Rouis and Steven R. Tabor. Atlas of the Gulf states / by Phillip Cadene and Bridgette Dumortier. The Seljuks of Anatolia

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1012, 2012

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 10, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam & Islamic philosophy The essentials of Ibāḍī Islam / Valerie J. Hoffman. Muslims and the new media : historical and contemporary debates / Göran Larsson. Walking a tightrope : women and veiling in the United Kingdom / Ayesha Salma Kariapper. Difference and disability in the medieval islamic world : blighted bodies / Kristina L. Richardson. Whatever happened to the islamists : salafis, heavy metal muslims, and the lure of

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