0112, 2016

History: new book acquisitions in October / November 2016

By Mary Fisk|December 1, 2016|Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Japan, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

This is a selection of new titles, both print and electronic, acquired by SOAS Library for the History collections in October / November 2016. Please note that only SOAS staff and students will have access to e-books Comparative and thematic The Silk Road: a new history with documents / Valerie Hansen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046376 A global history of modern historiography / Georg G. Iggers, Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee –

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0311, 2015

History – September and October 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 3, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic The origins of the modern world: a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century [3rd edition] / Robert B. Marks.-[also available in print] The Silk Roads: a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan Goods from the East, 1600-1800: trading Eurasia / [edited by] Maxine Berg ; with Felicia Gottman Hanna Hodacs, & Chris Nierstrasz  Subverting empire: deviance and disorder in the

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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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0901, 2014

Art and Archaeology – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

A great court painter of 18th-century Korean : the art of Kim Hong-do / Oh Ju-seok ; [translated by Lim Seon-young, Yang Ji-hyun ; revised by Mark S. Turnoy]. Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / [edited] by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz. Archaeological theory today / edited by Ian Hodder. Embellished reality : Indian painted photographs : towards a transcultural history of photography /

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2811, 2013

The UNESCO Silk Road Online Platform

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|November 28, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

Following its ten years project entitled The integral study of the Silk Roads, Roads of Dialogue and following its consultation with member states, UNESCO has worked at establishing an online platform on the Silk Road in order to promote the outcomes of that former project. The UNESCO Silk Road Platform for Dialogue, Diversity and Development has been recently released. It is to be UNESCO’s unique platform for global exchange about

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2005, 2013

Art and Archaeology – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 20, 2013|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

The migrant’s time : rethinking art history and diaspora / edited by Saloni Mathur. Appropriating the past : philosophical perspectives on the practice of archaeology / edited by Geoffrey Scarre [and] Robin Coningham. The arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas : at the Dallas Museum of Art / Anne R. Bromberg with contributions by Catherine B. Asher, Frederick M. Asher, Robert Warren Clark, Nancy Tingley. Xiongnu archaeology :

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0308, 2012

Middle East and Central Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Middle East Raising capital on Arab equity markets : legal and juridical aspects of Arab securities regulation / Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi. Peace, propaganda, & the promised land [videorecording] : U.S. media & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Media Education Foundation directors, Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff producer, Bathsheba Ratzkoff writers, Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Sut Jhally. Psalms [sound recording] / Khaled Jubran. Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans

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0308, 2012

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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0308, 2012

Make your own Mesopotamian bread!

By Mary Fisk|August 3, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

The Silk Road Gourmet is a blog from food writer Laura Kelley looking at “the cuisines, histories and cultures of the more than thirty countries that traded goods along … the Silk Road” This post looks at bread-making in ancient Mesopotamia and suggests recipes to create your own sourdough spelt loaves (perhaps flavoured with onion seeds, sumac or saffron ) Click here to go to The Silk Road Gourmet

0907, 2012

China – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Books Tibet : hitting the high roads / by Jia Lin Quick access to the People’s Republic of China : the first sixty years (1949-2009) / [Zhang Haixing, Qi Pengfei bian zhu]. Chinese literature : great tradition since the Book of songs / Yao Dan … [et al.] ; translated [from the Chinese] by Li Ziliang … [et al.]. Chinese food / Liu Junru ; [translated from the original Chinese

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