Trial access to SCC Online database of full text case law, legislation and law journal articles from Asia & Africa

By Bob Burns|April 20, 2015|Africa, Law, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

From today until 16 May 2015 we have trial access to SCC Online, a full text database of case law, legislation and journal articles from a variety of Asian & African jurisdictions. The main focus of the database is on case law, legislation and journal articles (15 titles) from India. It also has comprehensive coverage of case law from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and more limited coverage of case

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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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Africa – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 13, 2013|Africa|0 comments

Conflict and social transformation in Eastern DR Congo / [edited by] Koen Vlassenroot, Timothy Raeymaekers. Dialektologie des Komorischen : quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen zur internen Gliederung der östlichsten Bantusprache / Wolfram Full. Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius / Richard B. Allen. Economic policies and the irrigated agriculture in Sudan : lessons from the Gezira scheme / Amel M. Mubarak, Ali A. Salih, Khalid H. A. Siddig. Rwanda

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Africa – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

African literature : gender discourse, religious values, and the African worldview / Safoura Salami-Boukari. AMAL : shelter for the poor in Khartoum, Sudan / [research, Ding Wowo ; editors, Ding Wowo, Carol McEowen, Zhao Chen.] Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 : a selected bibliography / Harold E. Raugh, Jr. Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya : an ambivalent modernism / by Brian L. McLaren.  Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 / Guy

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Africa – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 15, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Civil society as a conflictual sphere in post-liberalization Tanzania : the roles of NGOs and trade unions / Mark McQuinn. Les fantômes de Jérusalem : roman / Waciny Laredj ; traduit de l’arabe (Algérie) par Marcel Bois ; en collaboration avec l’auteur. Les Balcons de la mer du Nord / Waciny Laredj ; roman traduit de l’arabe (Algérie) par Catherine Charruau avec la collaboration de l’auteur. Les ailes de la

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Africa – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

e-books Africa Yearbook Online [Available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff/students only off-campus] Books A.B.Xuma : autobiography and selected works / ed. by Peter Limb. Africa since independence : a comparative history. Bolya : nomade cosmopolite mais sédentaire de l’éthique / sous la direction de Françoise Naudillon. Economic development of Africa, 1880-1939 / general editor, David Sunderland ; advisory editor, Godfrey N. Uzoigwe. Les fantômes de Jérusalem :

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Africa – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 12, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Canadian foreign policy in Africa : regional approaches to peace, security, and development / Edward Ansah Akuffo. A double-edged sword : a quest for a place in the African sun : archival records on the formation and missions of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa / Nkosi S.P. Holomisa Slave emancipation and racial attitudes in nineteenth-century South Africa / R.L. Watson. Africa, the lost decades / by Samuel

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Development Studies – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 10, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

Coping with disasters : mitigation strategy, preventive action and recovery / editors, Mamata Desai, Sandip Halder. Joint ventures in agriculture : lessons from land reform projects in South Africa / Edward Lahiff, Nerhene Davis and Tshililo Manenzhe. Making health financing work for poor people in Tanzania / Dominic Haazen. A philosophy of education for African nations : recovering from the negative effects of colonial education / Emefiena Ezeani.