An intellectual history for India / edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly. The monetary history of Iran: from the Safavids to the Qajars / Rudi Mathhe, Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson. The politics of reproduction in Ottoman society, 1838-1900 / by Gülhan Balsoy African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources / edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A.
Prince Edward, photograph take between 1860 and 1865 Image from WikiMedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Edward_1860.jpg Also public domain in the US (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-1923) In 1862, “Bertie”, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII), was sent on an “improving” 4-and-a-half month tour of the Middle East, visiting Egypt, the Holy Land and Constantinople. Accompanying him was the photographer, Francis Bedford, who took over 190 prints of the region – one of the earliest photographic records
Professor Dr. Markham Geller is a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin, and Director of UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies. His recent monograph, Ancient Babylonian medicine : theory and practice (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) has been reviewed by John Steele (Professor of Egyptology and Ancient West Asian Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) in the online journal Aestimatio (Vol.10, 2013) (Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science) Professor Steele concludes
The left in Iran, 1941-1957 / edition editor: Cosroe Chaqueri. China’s left-behind wives: families of migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s / Huifen Shen with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Empire and power in the reign of Süleyman : narrating the sixteenth-century Ottoman world / Kaya Şahin Noir urbanisms: dystopic images of the modern city / edited by Gyan Prakash. [also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] The Crusader
Boat on the Euphrates By Christiaan Briggs (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARI) has just launched a blog aimed at “institutions, scholars and other individuals” interested in the history and culture of Iraq from ancient times until the present. The blog includes a thread where current TAARI research fellows share reports from the field and
Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi. Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle. Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the
Return of a king: the battle for Afghanistan / William Dalrymple. The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad / Peter Brown Orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski, editors Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history / Alan Mikhail The colours of the empire: racialized representations during Portuguese colonialism / Patricia Ferraz de Matos ; translated by ; Mark Ayton. Heritage under siege:
The French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) collections serves the advancement of knowledge on the Middle East in general and Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq in particular, in all the disciplines of humanities and social sciences, from Antiquity to our times. From its three firmly grounded scientific departments (Contemporary Studies, Medieval and Modern Arab Studies and Archaeology and Ancient History), Ifpo has developed a large academic spectrum,
Books on the lives two individuals who played significant roles in the 20th century history of Africa – Margery Perham (1895-1982) and Hakim Warqenah (Dr. Charles Martin) (1864/65 – 1952) – have recently been reviewed in the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History . Margery Perham was “a towering authority on colonial Africa, a pioneer of the subfield of imperial history, and a central figure in the reform of the British colonial
The second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan. Fighting the Mau Mau: the British army and counterinsurgency in the Kenya Emergency India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present / Tirthankar Roy. Indigo plantations and science in colonial India / Prakash Kumar. Writing the history of the global: challenges for the twenty-first century / edited by Maxine Berg. Seleucid dissolution:
