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 – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 24, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri hills. Parts 1 & 2 / edited by Paul Hockings. More than real : a history of the imagination in south India / David Shulman. Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan / by Jason Freitag. Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Leaders on leadership : insights from corporate India / edited by All

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Linguistics – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Meaning and relevance / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers.  Linguistic universals and language variation / edited by Peter Siemund. Language : the cultural tool / Daniel Everett.  [a.k.a “Cognitive fire” possibly US title] Minority languages in the linguistic landscape / ed. by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel. Reciprocals and

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