2608, 2015

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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2302, 2015

History – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 23, 2015|History|0 comments

General & thematic Into new territory: American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology / edited by Peter C. Mancall   Thinking history globally / Diego Olstein Hinterlands and commodities: place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza and Dennis O’Flynn Chinese and

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1209, 2013

Essential research…. Why Szechuan Peppers Make Your Lips Go Numb

By David Pearson|September 12, 2013|China and Inner Asia, Unknown|0 comments

Photo by Flickr user diwineanddine (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I don’t usually post science research, but as these pepper corns are so emblematic of Szechuan cuisine, I thought I would this time. While we don’t have a subscription to the most recent copies of Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which this research was published, you can read about it here on the Smithsonian’s blog.

2811, 2012

Development Studies – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

 e-books Coming climate crisis?  : consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson. Available from Dawsonera. Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics / edited by Andrea Whittaker. Available from Dawsonera. United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Available from Dawsonera. e-book and print Ethics for disaster / Naomi Zack. [Also available as an e-book from

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2905, 2012

Middle East and Central Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Palestinian village histories : geographies of the displaced / Rochelle A. Davis. Imperial citizen : marriage and citizenship in the Ottoman frontier provinces of Iraq / Karen M. Kern Streets of memory : landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul / Amy Mills. Romanschauplatz Saudi-Arabien : Transformationen, Konfrontationen, Lebensläufe / Elga Martinez-Weinberger. The spaces between the teeth : a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier / Asa Eger. The

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