Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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South Asia – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 23, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

e-books Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka : Caught in the Peace Trap?  / Goodhand, Jonathan, Spencer, Jonathan & Korf, Benedikt South Asia Across the Disciplines : Document Raj : Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India  / Raman, Bhavani Islamic Civilization in South Asia : A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics

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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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Development Studies – July 2012

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

‘Good health at low cost’ 25 years on : what makes a successful health care system? / editors: Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Anne Mills. Environmental impact / editors, C.A. Brebbia, T.-S. Chon. Provocations for Development / Robert Chambers Representations of global poverty : aid, development and international NGOs / Nandita Dogra.