History – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 30, 2013|History|0 comments

“Socialism is great!”: a worker’s memoir of the new China / by Lijia Zhang. Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Maghreb-Italie : des passeurs médiévaux à l’orientalisme moderne, XIIIe-milieu XXe siècle / études réunies par Benoît Grévin.  Journeys to empire: enlightenment, imperialism, and the British encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 / Gordon T. Stewart. The Enlightenment / Roy Porter. (2nd edition) Intercultural transmission in

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

 Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Pilgrimage and household in the ancient near East / Joy McCorriston “With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains”: historical and literary studies on ancient Mesopotamia and Israel / Hayim Tadmor ; edited by Mordechai Cogan Stories from ancient Canaan / edited and translated by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith The monuments of Syria: a guide / Ross Burns

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Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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Book review: The Black Hole of Empire … / Partha Chatterjee

By Mary Fisk|August 24, 2012|History, South Asia|0 comments

In 1756, Siraj-ud-daulah, ruler of Bengal, captured Calcutta (Kolkata) and allegedly imprisoned 146 Europeans overnight in a cramped room, where 123 of them subsequently died of suffocation.  The story of “The Black Hole of Calcutta” was crucial to the “founding myth of the British Empire in India”. In The Black Hole of Empire: history of a global practice of power, Chatterjee examines the changing representations of the event in the history and political ideology of imperial and modern India

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Art and Archaeology – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century : theory, education and practice / edited by Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga. Damien Hirst / edited by Ann Gallagher with contributions by Ann Gallagher … [et al.]. Ancient interactions : east and west in Eurasia / edited by Katie Boyle, Colin Renfrew & Marsha Levine. The search for immortality : tomb treasures of Han China / [edited by] James C.S. Lin. Chinese architecture

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History – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 4, 2012|History|0 comments

Empire and education under the Ottomans: politics, reform and resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks / Emine O. Evered The global history of childhood reader / edited by Heidi Morrison Infectious disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy making and the perception of risk / Sandhya L. Polu. Making British Indian fictions: 1772-1823 / Ashok Malhotra. Qatar: a modern history / Allen Fromherz. An empire of facts: colonial power, cultural

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Religions – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 14, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Routledge companion to religion and film / edited by John Lyden. [Dawsonera] [Also available in print] Theology and social theory: beyond secular reason / John Milbank. [Dawsonera] Spiritual marketplace: baby boomers and the remaking of American religion / Wade Clark Roof. [Dawsonera] After God / Mark C. Taylor. [Dawsonera] Books The cult of emptiness : the Western discovery of Buddhist thought and the invention of Oriental philosophy / Urs App. Catalogue

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