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Authored Books

Dikötter, Frank (2007) Things Modern. Material Culture and Everyday Life in China. London: Hurst and Co..

Dooling, Wayne (2007) Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286. Delhi: Permanent Black.

Parker, John and Rathbone, Richard (2007) African History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reid, Richard (2007) War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa. The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the Nineteenth Century. London: The British Institute in Eastern Africa and James Currey.

Robb, Peter (2007) Liberalism, Modernity, and the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (2007) Peasants, Political Economy, and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Walcher, Heidi (2007) In the Shadow of the King. London: I.B. Tauris.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, eds. (2007) Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Kumar, Sunil and Chakrabarti, Kunal, eds. (2007) Our Pasts II: Social Science Text Book in History for Class VII. Delhi: NCERT.

Sadan, Mandy and Robinne, Francois, eds. (2007) Social Dynamics in the Highlands of South East Asia: Reconsidering 'Political Systems of Highland Burma' by E. R. Leach. Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia; 18)

Book Chapters

Brennan, James (2007) 'Between segregation and gentrification: Africans, Indians, and the struggle for housing in Dar es Salaam, 1920-1950.' In: Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, (eds.), Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa, pp. 118-135.

Brennan, James and Burton, Andrew (2007) 'The emerging metropolis: a short history of Dar es Salaam, circa 1862-2005.' In: Brennan, James, Burton, Andrew and Lawi, Yusuf, (eds.), Dar es Salaam: Histories from an emerging African metropolis. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa, pp. 13-75.

Brown, Ian (2007) 'South East Asia: Reform and the Colonial Prison.' In: Dikötter, Frank and Brown, Ian, (eds.), Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. New York, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 221-68.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'British Intervention in Burma.' In: World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, pp. 620-622.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'Burma in the Colonial Period.' In: World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, pp. 620-622.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'Demographic Growth, Agricultural Expansion, and Livestock in the Lower Chindwin in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.' In: Bankoff, Greg and Boomgaard, Peter, (eds.), A History of Natural Resources in Asia: The Wealth of Nature. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'War and Independence.' In: World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, pp. 620-622.

Clarence-Smith, William (2007) 'Scientific and technological interchanges between the Islamic world and Europe, c. 1450-c. 1800.' In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta, (ed.), Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico, secc. XIII-XVIII [Europe's economic relations with the Islamic world, 13th-18th centuries], vol. 2. Prato: Le Monnier, pp. 719-737.

Clarence-Smith, William (2007) 'Southeast Asia and Southern Africa in the maritime horse trade of the Indian Ocean, c. 1800-1914.' In: Bankoff, Greg and Swart, Sandra, (eds.), Breeds of empire; the 'invention' of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, pp. 21-32.

Dikötter, Frank (2007) 'The Promise of Repentance: The Prison in Modern China.' In: Dikötter, Frank and Brown, Ian, (eds.), Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 269-303.

Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Emphasizing the Islamic: Modifying the Curriculum of Late Ottoman State Schools.' In: Kreiser, Klaus and Georgeon, François, (eds.), Enfance et jeunesse dans l'islam – Chilhood and Youth in the Muslim World. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, pp. 193-209.

Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' In: Chalcraft, J. and Noorani, Y., (eds.), Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-54.

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) 'Riten der Gewalt: Protest und Aufruhr in Kairo und Damaskus (7./13. bis 10./16. Jahrhundert) (Rites of Violence: Violent Protests in Mamluk Cairo and Damascus).' In: Conermann, Stephan and von Hees, S., (eds.), Islamwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft; 1: Historische Anthropologie. Ansätze und Möglichkeiten. Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag, pp. 205-233.

Janku, Andrea (2007) 'Wei Huabei jihuang zuo zheng: jiedu Xiangling xianzhi ‘zhenwu’ juan [为华北饥荒作证：解读《襄陵县志》“赈务”卷 = Documenting the North-China Famine: the Chapter on Relief Affairs in the Xiangling xianzhi].' In: Li, Wenhai and Xia, Mingfang, (eds.), Tian you xiongnian: Qingdai zaihuang yu Zhongguo shehui = 天有凶年：清代灾荒与中国社会 (Years of Disaster: Natural Calamities and Chinese Society during the Qing Dynasty). Beijing: Sanlian shudian, pp. 479-508.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Balancing Autonomy with Service: Frontier Military Commanders and their Relations with the Delhi Sultans in the 13th and 14th centuries.' In: Singh, Navtej, (ed.), Punjab History Conference, Thirty-ninth session, March 16-18, 2007 : proceedings. Patiala: Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, pp. 86-100.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Raziyya, Sultan.' In: Smith, Bonnie G., (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 585-586.

Lane, George (2007) ''Ata Malik Joveini' and 'Pur Baha.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Columbia, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press.

McDougall, James (2007) 'The Fetishism of Identity: Empire, Nation and the Politics of Subjectivity in Algeria.' In: Chalcraft, J. and Noorani, Y., (eds.), Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-71.

Reid, Richard (2007) 'Human Booty: some observations on the seizure of people in war, Buganda c.1700-1890.' In: Médard, Henri and Doyle, Shane, (eds.), Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Oxford: James Currey, pp. 145-160.

Reid, Richard (2007) 'Warfare and Militarism in Pre-Colonial Buganda.' In: Lamphear, John, (ed.), African Military History. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 425-440.

Rodet, Marie (2007) 'Disrupting Masculinist Discourse on African Migration: The Study of Neglected Forms of Female Migration.' In: Baker, Charlotte and Norridge, Zoë, (eds.), Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 28-38.

Sadan, Mandy (2007) 'Decolonizing Kachin: Ethnic Diversity and the Making of an Ethnic Category.' In: Gravers, Mikael, (ed.), Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, pp. 34-76.

Sadan, Mandy (2007) 'Translating Gumlao: History, the ‘Kachin’ and Edmund Leach.' In: Sadan, Mandy and Robinne, Francois, (eds.), Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia: Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma by E. R. Leach. Leiden: Brill, pp. 67-87.

Sadan, Mandy and Robinne, Francois (2007) 'Reconsidering the dynamics of ethnicity through Foucault’s concept of ‘Spaces of Dispersion'.' In: Sadan, Mandy and Robinne, Francois, (eds.), Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia: Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma by E. R. Leach. Leiden: Brill, pp. 299-308.

Tejani, Shabnum (2007) 'Reflections on the Category of Secularism in India: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the Ethics of Communal Representation, c. 1931.' In: Needham, A.D. and Rajan, R.S., (eds.), The Crisis of Secularism in India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 45-65.

Journal Article

Ali, Daud (2007) 'The Service Retinues of the Chola Court: A Study of the term velam in Tamil Inscriptions.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (3). pp. 487-509.

Ali, Daud (2007) 'Violence, Courtly Manners and Lineage Formation in Early Medieval India.' Social Scientist, 35 (9/10). pp. 3-21.

Boretti, Valentina (2007) 'Purposeful Leisure: Aspects of Toy Discourse in Republican China.' Princeton University Library Chronicle, 68 (3). pp. 881-908.

Brown, Ian (2007) 'A Commissioner Calls: Alexander Paterson and Colonial Burma's Prisons.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 38 (2). pp. 293-308.

Clarence-Smith, William (2007) 'Eunuchs and concubines in the history of Islamic Southeast Asia.' Manusya, Journal of Humanities. Special issue on ‘Sexuality in Southeast Asian history', 10 (4). pp. 8-19.

Clarence-Smith, William (2007) 'Islam and the abolition of slavery.' Centre for Islamic Studies Newsletter (London School of Theology) (16). pp. 3-4.

Franzén, Johan (2007) 'Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 36 (2). pp. 6-24.

Franzén, Johan (2007) 'Le Yishouv et le ‘yishouvisme’ avant la création de l'Etat d'Israël: comment le Parti communiste de Palestine est devenu sioniste.' Revue d'études palestiniennes (104). pp. 46-61.

Gerteis, Christopher (2007) 'The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan.' Critical Asian Studies, 39 (1). pp. 3-34.

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) '"He is a child and this land is a borderland of Islam": Under-Age Rule and the Quest for Political Stability in the Ayyubid Period.' al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 19 (1). pp. 29-46.

Janku, Andrea (2007) 'Towards a History of Natural Disasters in China: The Case of Linfen County.' The Medieval History Journal, 10 (1-2). pp. 267-301.

Lockyer, Angus (2007) 'The Logic of Spectacle c. 1970.' Art History, 30 (4). pp. 571-589.

McCaskie, Tom (2007) 'Asante History: A Personal Impression of Forty Years.' Ghana Studies, 10. pp. 145-161.

McCaskie, Tom (2007) 'Denkyira in the Making of Asante c. 1660-1720.' The Journal of African History, 48 (1). pp. 1-25.

McCaskie, Tom (2007) 'The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 77 (2). pp. 151-179.

McDougall, James (2007) 'After the war: Algeria’s transition to uncertainty.' Middle East Report (MERIP) (245). pp. 34-41.

McDougall, James (2007) 'Islam(s) and politics: Post-traumatic states in Algeria.' openDemocracy.

McDougall, James (2007) 'Sarkozy and Africa: Big white chief’s bad memory.' openDemocracy.

Reid, Richard (2007) 'Defining Frontiers: violence and identity in nineteenth-century Eritrea.' Eritrean Studies Review, 5 (1). pp. 1-31.

Reid, Richard (2007) 'Revisiting Primitive War: perceptions of violence and race in history.' War and Society, 26 (2). pp. 1-25.

Reid, Richard (2007) 'The Trans-Mereb Experience: perceptions of the historical relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 1 (2). pp. 238-255.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2007) 'Rizal, Sex, and Civilisation.' Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 10 (4). pp. 56-66.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Rato, Montira (2007) 'Introduction: Gender and Sexuality in modernising Southeast Asia, 16th-20th centuries.' Manusya: Journal of Humanities (14).

Robb, Peter (2007) 'On the Rebellion of 1857. A Brief History of an Idea.' Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (19). pp. 1696-1702.

Rodet, Marie (2007) 'Genre, coutumes et droit colonial au Soudan français (1918-1939).' Cahiers d’Études Africaines (187-188). pp. 583-602.

Rodet, Marie, Vince, Natalya and Goerg, Odile (2007) 'Introduction: Shifting Gendered and Colonial Spaces in Africa.' Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 12. pp. 1-11.

Sadan, Mandy (2007) 'Historical Photography in Kachin State: An Update on the James Green Collection of Photographs.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 30 (3). pp. 457-477.

Tejani, Shabnum (2007) 'Music, Mosques and Custom: Local Conflict and 'Communalism' in a Maharashtrian Weaving Town, 1893-1894.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 30 (2). pp. 223-40.

Tejani, Shabnum (2007) 'Re-Considering Chronologies of Nationalism and Communalism: The Khilafat Movement in Sind and its Aftermath, 1919-1927.' South Asia Research, 27 (3). pp. 249-269.

Conference or Workshop Items

Charney, Michael W. (2007) Ecological Constraints on the Development of Pre-colonial Mon Warfare, c. 1500-c. 1826. In: Discovery of Ramanya Desa: History, Identity, Culture, Language and Performing Arts, 10-13 October 2007, Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2007) European and indigenous learning in eighteenth-century Burma. In: St Antony's College Southeast Asian Studies Seminar, Oxford University. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2007) Sangha and Dhammaraja: the Politics of Religious Reform in Burma Under King Mindon, 1853-1878. In: Cambridge University, Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2007) U Nu and Ludu Aung Than: Playwriting and the Civil War. In: Grappling with Independence: Burmese Culture, Media, and Daily Life in the U Nu Period, 1948-1962, September 2007, SOAS, University of London. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2007) U Nu, China, and the Burmese Cold War: Propaganda and Historical Revisionism. in Burma in 1950s-1960s. In: The Cold War in Asia: Beyond Geopolitics and Diplomacy, 1-2 November 2007, Guanzhou, PRC. (Unpublished)

Chatterton, Jocelyn (2007) Cooperation or Collaboration? Medical Missionaries in China 1937 - 45. In: China Postgraduate Network Workshop, March 2008, Oxford University. (Unpublished)

Chatterton, Jocelyn (2007) Protestant Medical Missionaries in China 1937 - 1945; archival work in progress. In: Researching Modern Chinese History, February 2007, Bristol University. (Unpublished)

Sadan, Mandy (2007) Decolonizing Identities in Burma. In: Special Lecture, University of Aarhus, Denmark. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'Review of Emma Larkin, 'Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop'.' Journal of the Siam Society, 95 . pp. 279-281.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'Review of Judith L. Richell, 'Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma'.' Journal of the Siam Society, 95 . pp. 276-279.

Charney, Michael W. (2007) 'Review of L. E. Bagshawe, 'The Kinwun Min-gyi's London Diary: The First Mission of a Burmese Minister to Britain, 1872'.' Journal of the Siam Society, 95 . pp. 268-271.

Clarence-Smith, William (2007) 'Review Essay: Continental European Views of the Slave Trade.' Slavery and Abolition, 28 (1). pp. 127-131.

Gerteis, Christopher (2007) 'Review of 'Cooperation over Conflict: The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan' by Miriam Murase.' Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (3). pp. 848-849.

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) 'Review of Certificats de pèlerinage d’époque Ayyoubide. Contribution à l’histoire de l’idéologie de l’Islam au temps des Croisades by D. Sourdel/J. Sourdel-Thomine.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (3). pp. 613-615.

Laamann, Lars (2007) 'The Chinese and Opium under the Republic: Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts by Alan Baumler. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.' The China Quarterly (191). pp. 784-785.

Lane, George (2007) 'Review of 'Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan', edited by Linda Komaroff.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17 (4). pp. 473-479.

Lane, George (2007) 'Review of 'Genghis Khan's Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant' by Richard A. Gabriel.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17 (4). pp. 471-473.

Lane, George (2007) 'Review of 'History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods.' by Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17 (2). pp. 214-218.

Lane, George (2007) 'Review of Peter Jackson, 'The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410'.' English Historical Review, 122 (495). pp. 163-165.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2007) 'Review of Vicente L. Rafael, 'The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society .

Rodet, Marie (2007) 'Review of Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn and Richard L. Roberts eds, 'Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks. African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa'.' Cahiers d’Études Africaines (187-188). pp. 789-792.

Rodet, Marie (2007) 'Review of Bernard Durand and Martine Fabre, eds. (2005) 'Le Juge et l’Outre-mer. Vol. 1: Phinée le devin ou les leçons du passé'.' Cahiers d’Études Africaines (187-188). pp. 781-783.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Charney, Michael W. (2007) Buddha's Irresistible Monsoon Army. Times (London) [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Charney, Michael W. (2007) Burma: The History Behind the Protests. New Statesman [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Chatterton, Jocelyn (2007) 'Protestant Medical Missionaries in China 1937 - 1945.' Central China Normal University, Research Center for East-West Cultural Exchanges, Wuhan and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan. (Unpublished)

Edwards, Elizabeth, Harris, Clare E., Blurton, Richard, Sadan, Mandy, Shakya, Tsering, Cech, Krystyna, Harris, David, Hanganu, Gabriel and Wilkinson, Toby (2007) 'The Tibet Album – British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-50.' Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. (Unpublished)