0407, 2016

Selected new acquisitions for History: June 2016

By Mary Fisk|July 4, 2016|Africa, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

The following is a selective list of new titles received for the History collections in SOAS Library during June 2016 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the SOAS Library catalogue Comparative and thematic The triumph of numbers: how counting shaped modern life / I. Bernard Cohen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10011055 Sex and control: venereal disease, colonial physicians, and indigenous agency in German colonialism, 1884-1914 / Daniel J. Walther – .

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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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0701, 2014

China and Inner Asia – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /

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