Religions – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 10, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & comparative Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. Scriptural polemics: the Qur’an and other religions / Mun’im Sirry. Feeding the dead: ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers. Street shrines of Kirtipur, Nepal: as long as the sun and moon endure / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy, Sukra Sagar Shreshta. Buddhism Women in early Indian Buddhism: comparative textual

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History – June 2014

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

General & comparative Connecting histories of education: transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-) colonial education / edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere. Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. China & Tibet The capital of the Yuan Dynasty / by Gaohua Chen. Lost colony: the untold story of China’s first great victory over the West / Tonio Andrade. Japan

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History – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2013|History|0 comments

An intellectual history for India / edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly. The monetary history of Iran: from the Safavids to the Qajars / Rudi Mathhe, Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson. The politics of reproduction in Ottoman society, 1838-1900 / by Gülhan Balsoy African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources / edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A.

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