2608, 2015

Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa Business & Industry The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield Film & Media Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu. Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher. Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy. History Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson. Literature Mysteries of Africa

1908, 2015

Anthropology and Sociology – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|

Anthropomorphism Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism / edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. Art & Artefacts Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold. Australasia The Black pacific : anti-colonial struggles and oceanic connections / Robbie Shilliam. Community Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport. East Asia Seeing transnationally :

0805, 2015

Free Trial to the FO Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan- 1947-1980

By Farzana Whitfield|May 8, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, Economics, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, South Asia|0 comments

We have an exciting offer of a free trial to the FO Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for the period 1947-1980! Many departments, students and researchers will find this digital archive relevant and resourceful for a number of subject disciplines, including History, Politics, Development Studies, Economics, Near Middle Eastern Studies (Afghanistan), South East Asian Studies (Burma) and South Asian Studies. Access is from this link: www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/FO_India. When off site please

2301, 2015

Trial Access to Armed Conflict Database from the International Institute of Strategic Studies

By Bob Burns|January 23, 2015|Africa, Development Studies, History, Law, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

We currently have trial access (until 20 Feb 2015) to the Armed Conflict Database (ACD) from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Armed Conflict Database monitors armed conflicts worldwide, focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether they are local rebellions, long-term insurgencies, civil wars or inter-state conflicts. In addition to the comprehensive historical background for each conflict, the weekly timelines and the monthly updates, the

2005, 2014

War and Colonies – rare photos available online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 20, 2014|History, South Asia|0 comments

Image courtesy of War and Colonies 1914-1918 Project In February this year the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh was the host for a conference and exhibition organized by the Alliance Française de Dhaka focusing on War and Colonies 1914-1918. The exhibition which showed 35 rare photographs of colonial troops in the Great War, (from the collections of the French Ministry of Defence and the German Historical Museum), is now available to

1305, 2014

South Asia – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 13, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

E-Books South Asian Feminisms / Ania Loomba, & Ritty A. Lukose. Public administration in South Asia : India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan / edited by Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman. Books Reform and productivity growth in India : issues and trends in the labour markets / Dibyendu Maiti. Development and public health in the Himalaya / edited by Ian Harper. Participolis : consent and contention in neoliberal urban India /

0805, 2014

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

0701, 2014

Anthropology and Sociology – June 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan … [et al.]. The global farms race : land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security / edited by Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein. Darker than blue : on the moral economies of Black Atlantic culture / Paul Gilroy. Gender, war, and militarism : feminist perspectives /

0808, 2013

Development Studies – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 8, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding : Peace In Between : Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding / Mats Berdal, Astri Suhrke [e-book from ebrary] Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty. Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn ; with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe. Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey

2304, 2013

Development Studies – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 23, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Benevolent benefactor or insensitive regulator? : tracing the role of government policies in the development of India’s automobile industry / Rajnish, Tiwari, Cornelius Herstatt, and Mahipat Ranawat. [Also available online from East-West Center] Economic reforms, regionalism, and exports : comparing China and India / Ganeshan Wignaraja. [Also available online from East-West Center] Global values in a changing world / Sonja Zweegers and Afke de Groot, editors. A new geography of

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