History: recent acquisitions for SOAS Library, April & May 2018

By Mary Fisk|May 25, 2018|Africa, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Pacific Islands, Religion, Research methods, South Asia, South East Asia|

 This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during April and May 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 Manuscripts and archives: comparative views on record-keeping / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich,

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Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa Business & Industry The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield Film & Media Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu. Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher. Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy. History Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson. Literature Mysteries of Africa

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History – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg The great sea: a human history of the Mediterranean [updated edition] / David Abulafia. Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history

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Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 2, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Towards an Islamic enlightenment : the Gülen movement / M. Hakan Yavuz. Les Maîtres Soufis et leurs disciples, IIIe – Ve siècles de l’hégire (IXe – XIe s.) : enseignement, formation et transmission / sous la direction de Geneviève Gobillot et Jean-Jacques Thibon. Women of Sufism : a hidden treasure / selected and edited by Camille Adams Helminski. Law and piety in medieval Islam / Megan H. Reid. The

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History – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2013|History|0 comments

e-book Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. [Available from ebrary] Books The Alexander romance in Persia and the East / edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton. Violence and colonial order: police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 / Martin Thomas. The Cambridge companion to Deleuze / edited by Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall  The political

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – September 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Apocalypse dans l’islam. English = “Apocalypse in Islam/ Jean-Pierre Filiu translated by M.B. DeBevoise.” Apart : alienated and engaged Muslims in the West / Justin Gest. Islam in the West : key issues in multiculturalism / edited by Max Farrar … [et al.]. Allah, liberty and love : the courage to reconcile faith and freedom / Irshad Manji. Jihad and genocide / Richard L. Rubenstein. al-Thamarah al-murḍīyah fī baʻḍ

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Middle East and Central Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 28, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islamica Islam, security and television news / Christopher Flood … [et al.]. Islam in media, Security, Terrorism, Religious anthropology, Islam , Interfaith relations, Koran, Koranic studies Jews, Christians, and the abode of Islam : modern scholarship, medieval realities / Jacob Lassner. A new anthropology of Islam / John R. Bowen. Which Koran ? : variants, manuscripts, & the influence of pre-Islamic poetry / edited by Ibn Warraq. Les traditions sur

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Africa – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

e-books Africa Yearbook Online [Available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff/students only off-campus] Books A.B.Xuma : autobiography and selected works / ed. by Peter Limb. Africa since independence : a comparative history. Bolya : nomade cosmopolite mais sédentaire de l’éthique / sous la direction de Françoise Naudillon. Economic development of Africa, 1880-1939 / general editor, David Sunderland ; advisory editor, Godfrey N. Uzoigwe. Les fantômes de Jérusalem :

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