History – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2015|History|

Comparative and thematic The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism / edited by Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope In the museum of man: race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin The global transformation of time: 1870-1950 / Vanessa Ogle The past is a foreign country – revisited / David Lowenthal Africa Pan-African themes Hunting Africa: British sport, African knowledge, and the nature of empire / Angela

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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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History – August 2015

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

Comparative and thematic Essaying the past: how to read, write, and think about history / Jim Cullen. –[2 edn]  [also available as an e-book] Using film as a source / Sian Barber Controversial history education in Asian contexts / edited by Mark Baildon, Loh Kah Seng, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar– China and Tibet Japanese Taiwan: colonial rule and its contested legacy / edited by Andrew D.

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History – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative A history of market performance: from ancient Babylonia to the modern world / [edited by] R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen. A global conceptual history of Asia, 1860-1940 / edited by Hagen Schulz-Forberg.  Historians debate the rise of the West / Jonathan Daly. Africa Berber government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria / Hugh Roberts.   The politics of chieftaincy: authority and

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South Asia – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Metallic modern: everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe. The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya / by R. Visvanathan P. J. K. Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight. Anglicanism and South India / by Leonard Hodgson. Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana / edited by Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

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History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 21, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Les deux routes syrienne et égyptienne de pèlerinage au nord-ouest de l’Arabie Saoudite / Alî Ibrâhîm al-Ghabbân. Maṭāliʻ al-nūr al-sanī al-munbiʼ ʻan ṭahāraẗ nasab al-Nabiyy al-ʻarabī / ʻan ʻAbdī Afandī al-Būsnawī taḥqīq Josef Dreher.;”مطالع النو السنّي المنبيء عن طهارة نسب النب العربي / عن عبدي أفندي البوسنوي تحقيق يوسف دريهر” Family planning in the legacy of Islam / Abdel Rahim Omran Rock the Casbah : rage and rebellion across the

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History – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 9, 2013|History|0 comments

e-books The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500-1914 / edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O’Brien ; with Franciso Comín Comín. [e-book from Dawsonera] Akbar / André Wink [e-book fro Dawsonera] The Crusades: a very short introduction / Christopher Tyerman [e-book from ebrary] Western imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958 / D.K. Fieldhouse. [e-book from ebrary] Books Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Homer’s Turk: how classics

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South Asia – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 22, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

E- Book Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 / Munis D. Faruqui. Available from Dawsonera The tiger vanquished : LTTE’s story / M.R. Narayan Swamy. Available from ebrary Print Journal The International Journal of Jaina Studies Books Nartanam. vol. 12, no. 2. –  Special issue of the journal ‘Narantam’ on Tagore’s vision of dance. Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien / textes réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2012

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

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The arrows of the sun: armed forces in Sippar in the first millennium BC / by John MacGinnnis ; with copies of the cuneiform texts by Cornelia Wunsch New inscriptions and seals relating to the Biblical world / by Meir Lubetski Ancient Aramaic documents from Bactria / edited by Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked  Jewish Studies Shoshannat Yaaqov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of

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