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 – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 25, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative The Oxford history of historical writing [Vol.2: 400-1400]/ Daniel Woolf, general editor. The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson.  Africa An African in Paris / Bernard Binlin Dadié ; translated by Karen C. Hatch. Blue dahlia, black gold: a journey into Angola / Daniel Metcalfe Lost and found in Johannesburg, a memoir / Mark Gevisser. Good morning, Mr Mandela / by

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Development Studies – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

E-books Development and Democracy : What Have We Learned and How? / Ole Elgstrom and Goran Hyden Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / Alexander Betts International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice / Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe. Reducing urban poverty in the global South / David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin. Child security in Asia the impact of armed conflict in

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History – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 28, 2013|History|0 comments

The left in Iran, 1941-1957 / edition editor: Cosroe Chaqueri. China’s left-behind wives: families of migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s / Huifen Shen with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Empire and power in the reign of Süleyman : narrating the sixteenth-century Ottoman world / Kaya Şahin Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash. [also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] The Crusader

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Politics – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2013|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

The making of terrorism in Pakistan : historical and social roots of extremism / Eamon Murphy. Deconstructing international politics / by Michael Dillon. Peacebuilding : from concept to commission / by Robert Jenkins. Turkey since 1989 : angry nation / Kerem Oktem. Dancing in the glory of monsters : the collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa / Jason K. Stearns. Partisan histories : the past in

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Religion – January to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2012|Religion|0 comments

Journals Fieldwork in Religion [Equinox Journals] Volume 1(2005) onwards. Books Sectarian conflict in Egypt : Coptic media, identity, and representation / Elizabeth Iskander. Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion / edited by Michael Stausberg. [Also available as an e-book via Dawsonera, Available to SOAS staff & students only] Miaphysite Christology : an Ethiopian perspective / by Mebratu Kiros Gebru. Approaching the Holy Mountain : art and liturgy at St.

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Religions – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 4, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-Journals Journal of Religion in Japan Vol.1 (2012) onwards [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Journal of Hindu Studies. Volume 1 (2008) onwards. [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Books The Almohad revolution: politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries / Maribel Fierro Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China / edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig. Citizens

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Anthropology and Sociology – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropological practice : fieldwork and the ethnographic method. / Judith Okely From global poverty to global equality : a philosophical exploration / Pablo Gilabert. Connected, or, What it means to live in the network society / Steven Shaviro. The inside text : social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS / ed. by R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor. The rise of anthropological theory : a history of theories of

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