2101, 2014

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – Dec 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén. Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Mongol rule in Seljuk Anatolia. The politics of conquest and history-writing 1243-1282. Sara ur Yildiz. The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M.

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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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