SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Charney, Michael W. (2006) Powerful Learning. Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Clarence-Smith, William (2006) Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. London: Hurst and Co..

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors. London: Routledge.

Laamann, Lars (2006) Christian heretics in late imperial China : Christian inculturation and state control, 1720-1850. Abingdon/Oxon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia; 41)

Lane, George (2006) Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. Westport: Greenwood Press.

McDougall, James (2006) History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Middle East studies, 23)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Messner, A. and Hirschler, Konrad, eds. (2006) Heilige Orte in Asien. Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung (Sacred Places in Asia). Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag.

Book Chapters

Ali, Daud (2006) 'War, servitude and the Imperial Household: A study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire.' In: Chatterjee, Indrani and Eaton, Richard M., (eds.), Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 44-62.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2006) 'The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the conception of Orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed Mŕut (882).' In: Louth, A. and Casiday, A., (eds.), Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 179-198. (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Hawting, Gerald (2006) 'Eavesdropping on the Heavenly Assembly and the Protection of the Revelation from Demonic Corruption.' In: Wild, Stefan, (ed.), Self-Referentiality in the Qur'an. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 25-37.

Hawting, Gerald (2006) 'The Tawwabun, Atonement and 'Ashura'.' In: Hawting, Gerald, (ed.), The Development of Islamic Ritual. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 173-188.

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) 'Umstrittene heilige Orte im sunnitischen Islam: Syrien und Ägypten im späten Mittelalter (Disputed Holy Places in Sunni Islam: Syria and Egypt during the Late Medieval Ages).' In: Messner, A. and Hirschler, Konrad, (eds.), Heilige Orte in Asien und Afrika : Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung. Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag, pp. 113-137.

Janku, Andrea (2006) 'Ironie, Spott und Kritik: Zeitgenössische Ansichten über den Rebellen Kang Youwei (Irony, Mockery and Critique: Contemporary Views on the Rebel Kang Youwei).' In: Roetz, Heiner, (ed.), Kritik im alten und modernen China=Critique in ancient and modern China. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 207-223. (Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung fuer Chinastudien ; 2)

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Mongols and Nomadic Empires, 13th-14th Centuries.' In: Gupta, Narayani, (ed.), NCERT Class XI, Text-book on World History. Delhi: NCERT.

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Service, Status and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.' In: Eaton, Richard M. and Chatterjee, Indrani, (eds.), Slavery and South Asian history. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 83-114.

McCaskie, Tom (2006) 'Writing, Reading, and Printing Death: Obituaries and Commemoration in Asante.' In: Barber, Karin, (ed.), Africa's Hidden Histories. Everyday Literacy and Making the Self. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 341-84.

McDougall, James (2006) 'Martyrdom and destiny: the inscription and imagination of Algerian history.' In: Makdisi, Ussama and Silverstein, Paul, (eds.), Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Powell, Avril (2006) 'Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam.' In: Chatterjee, Indrani and Eaton, Richard M., (eds.), Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 262-86.

Powell, Avril (2006) 'Islamic Modernism and Women's Status. The Influence of Syed Ameer Ali.' In: Powell, Avril and Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan, (eds.), Rhetoric and Reality. Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 282-317.

Powell, Avril (2006) 'Scholar Manqué or Mere Munshi? Maulawi Karimu'd-Din's Career in the Anglo-Oriental Education Service.' In: Pernau, Margrit, (ed.), The Delhi College. Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education before 1857. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203-231.

Tomlinson, Tom (2006) 'Niju Seiki Minami Ajia ni okeru Teikoku to Hegemon. [Empire and Hegemon in Twentieth-Century South Asia].' In: Shoichi, W., (ed.), Teikoku no Shuen to Amerika: Ajia Kokusai Chitsujo no Saihen [The End of Empires and the United States of America: The Reconstruction of the International Order in Asia]. Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha, pp. 22-45.

Walcher, Heidi (2006) 'Isfahan - viii. Qajar Period.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume 13. Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, pp. 657-675.

Journal Article

Ahuja, Ravi (2006) 'Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c.1900-1960.' International Review of Social History, 51 (s14). pp. 111-41.

Bernheimer, Teresa (2006) 'The Revolt of ‘Abdallah b. Mu‘awiya, A. H. 127– 130: A Reconsideration through the Coinage.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (3).

Brennan, James (2006) 'Blood Enemies: Exploitation and Urban Citizenship in the Nationalist Political Thought of Tanzania, 1958-1975.' The Journal of African History, 47 (3). pp. 1-25.

Brennan, James (2006) 'Realizing Civilization through Patrilineal Descent: The Intellectual Making of an African Racial Nationalism in Tanzania, 1920-1950.' Social Identities, 12 (4). pp. 405-423.

Brennan, James (2006) 'Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1925-1973.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (2). pp. 221-246.

Brennan, James and Barnes, Cedric (2006) 'Political Genealogy, Race and Territory in Eastern Africa.' Social Identities, 12 (4). pp. 401-404.

Dooling, Wayne (2006) 'In Search of Profitability: Wheat and Wine Production in the Post-Emancipation Western Cape.' South African Historical Journal, 55. pp. 88-105.

Parker, John (2006) 'Northern Gothic: Witches, Ghosts and Werewolves in the Savanna Hinterland of the Gold Coast, 1900s-1950s.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (3). pp. 352-80.

Reid, Richard (2006) 'War and Remembrance: orality, literacy and conflict in the Horn of Africa.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 18 (1). pp. 89-103.

Robb, Peter (2006) 'Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790-1822).' Modern Asian Studies, 40 (1). pp. 175-201.

Rodet, Marie (2006) 'C’est le regard qui fait l’histoire. Comment utiliser des archives coloniales qui nous renseignent malgré elles sur l’histoire des femmes africaines.' Terrains et Travaux, 10. pp. 18-35.

Conference or Workshop Items

Charney, Michael W. (2006) Buddhist Literati and New Information Technology in Nineteenth-century Burma. In: South East Asia Seminar Series. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2006) Frontier Monks and the Royal Center: the Role of Buddhist Literati and Regionalism in the Reshaping of Pre-colonial Burma. In: Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2006) Pre-modern History: Competing Approaches. In: Michigan Seminar, September 21, 2006, 6:30pm, Ann Arbor, 2609 SSWB. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Review of Geoffrey Parker (ed.), 'The Cambridge History of Warfare'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (3). pp. 506-507.

Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Review of Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig (eds), 'Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia'.' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 34 (4). pp. 625-626.

Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Review of Michael Aung-Thwin, 'Mists of Ramanna: the legend that was lower Burma'.' H-Net Reviews .

Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Review of Robert E. Herzstein, 'Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (3). pp. 504-506.

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) 'Review of Das Paradigma der „islamischen Zivilisation“ – oder die Begründung der deutschen Islamwissenschaft durch Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) by A. Haridi.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (2). pp. 321-322.

Laamann, Lars (2006) 'Opium, soldiers and evangelicals. England's 1840-42 war with China, and its aftermath by Harry Gelber.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 57 (1). pp. 183-185.

Laamann, Lars (2006) 'Review of: Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion by Eric Reinders.' Victorian Studies, 48 (2). pp. 335-336.

Laamann, Lars (2006) 'Review of: China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation by Carl Gerth.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (02). pp. 339-341.

Lane, George (2006) 'Review of Istvan Vasary, 'Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (1). pp. 154-157.

Lane, George (2006) 'Review of M. Ismail Marcinkowski, 'From Isfahan to Ayutthaya'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (2). pp. 327-329.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2006) 'Review of Benedict Anderson, 'Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the anti-colonial imagination' (London: Verso, 2005).' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16 (3). pp. 339-341.

Other

Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Miscellaneous Notes on the Word "Talaing", edited by Michael W. Charney.' SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4(2), pp. 91-97.

Gerteis, Christopher and Anderson, Jennifer E. (2006) 'Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to accompany Rhoads Murphey East Asia: A New History Fourth Edition.' New York: Pearson/Longman.

Hamilton, Alexander and Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'Account of Pegu and the Voyage to Cambodia and Siam in 1718 by Alexander Hamilton, edited by Michael W. Charney.' SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4(2), pp. 98-122.

Symes, Michael and Charney, Michael W. (2006) 'An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795 by Michael Symes, edited by Michael W. Charney.' SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4(1), pp. 59-208.