SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Barrett, T. H. (2008) The Woman Who Discovered Printing. London: Yale University Press.

Jacobsen, Trudy (2008) Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History. Copenhagen S., Denmark: NIAS Press. (Gendering Asia, no. 4)

Reid, Richard (2008) A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World)

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) Love, Passion and Patriotism: sexuality and the Philippine propaganda movement, 1882-1892. Seattle, Washington; Singapore: NUS Press Singapore in association with University of Washington Press. (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

Tejani, Shabnum (2008) Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History 1890-1950. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Kumar, Sunil, ed. (2008) Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? Readings on History and Temple Desecration in Medieval India. Delhi: Three Essays Press.

Book Chapters

Ali, Daud (2008) 'Aristocratic Body Techniques in Early Medieval India.' In: Datta, Rajat, (ed.), Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century: Essays for Harbans Mukhia. New Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 25-56.

Ali, Daud (2008) 'Cosmos, Realm and Property in Early Medieval Kingdoms.' In: Peterson, Indira and Selby, Martha Ann, (eds.), Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India. Albany, New York: State University Press of New York, pp. 117-141.

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Anglo-Burmese Wars.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1750 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Burma.' In: van Dijk, Ruud, (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War; Vol.1. New York: Routledge, pp. 106-108.

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Esculent bird’s nest, tin and fish: the overseas Chinese and their trade in the Eastern Bay of Bengal (Coastal Burma) during the first half of the nineteenth century.' In: Wade, Geoff, (ed.), China and Southeast Asia. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 207-221. (Routledge Library on Southeast Asia)

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Indonesia.' In: van Dijk, Ruud, (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Vol.1. New York: Routledge, pp. 437-440.

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Myanmar.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1750 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clarence-Smith, William (2008) 'Église, nation et esclavage: Angola et Mozambique portugais, 1878-1913.' In: Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier, (ed.), Abolir l’esclavage: un réformisme à l’épreuve, France, Portugal, Suisse, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 149-167.

Clarence-Smith, William (2008) 'The global consumption of hot beverages, c. 1500 to c. 1900.' In: Nützenadel, Alexander and Trentmann, Frank, (eds.), Food and globalization: consumption, markets and politics in the modern world. Oxford: Berg, pp. 37-55.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2008) 'Nazionalismo e religione nella dinamica del Genocidio degli armeni (1915-1916).' In: Berti, F. and Cortese, F., (eds.), Il crimine dei crimini. Stermini di massa nel Novecento. Milan: Franco Angeli, pp. 64-84.

Fortna, Benjamin (2008) 'The reign of Abdülhamid II.' In: Kasaba, Resat, (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 38-61.

Franzén, Johan (2008) '“Communism: The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia”.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-276.

Franzén, Johan (2008) '“Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque”.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 541-542.

Franzén, Johan (2008) '“Falluja, Iraq”.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 245.

Franzén, Johan (2008) '“London Conference”.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 538.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2008) 'Between imara, empire and oil: Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf.' In: Al-Rasheed, Madawi, (ed.), Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Frontiers. London: Hurst, pp. 39-64.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Labor Unions in Japan.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 406-407.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Labor and the Labor Movement: Labor Relations in Japan.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 383-385.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan.' In: Stromquist, Shelton, (ed.), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context. Urbana, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press, pp. 258-290. (The working class in American history)

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Konformität und Randständigkeit: Bettler im vormodernen Nahen Osten (Conformity and Marginality: Beggars in the Pre-Modern Middle East).' In: Pistor-Hatam, Anja and Richter, Antje, (eds.), Bettler, Prostituierte, Paria: Randgruppen in asiatischen Gesellschaften. Hamburg: EB-Verlag, pp. 67-105. (Asien und Afrika (ZAAS) Kiel)

Hirschler, Konrad, Eilers, Kea and Clara, Seitz (2008) 'Religiousness Among Young Muslims in Germany.' In: al-Hamarneh, Ala and Thielmann, Jörn, (eds.), Islam and Muslims in Germany. Leiden: Brill, pp. 83-115. (Muslim Minorities, Volume: 7)

Janku, Andrea (2008) 'Kulturelle Spurensuche in den Hungergebieten Henans: ein Reisetagebuch (Searching for the Cultural Traces of the Past in the Famine Districts of Henan Province: a Travel Diary).' In: Leutner, Mechthild and Mühlhahn, Klaus, (eds.), Reisen in chinesischer Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 71-94. (Jahrbuch der deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien ; 4)

Janku, Andrea (2008) 'Zhongguo ziran zaihai shi zhi tansuo: Linfen-xian ge'an yanjiu [中國自然災害史之探索：臨汾縣個案研究] Towards a History of Disasters in China: the Case of Linfen County.' In: Liu, Ts'ui-jung, (ed.), Ziran yu renwei hudong: huanjingshi yanjiu de shijiao [自然與人為互動：環境史研究的視角]. Interactions of Nature and Humans: Perspectives of Environmental History. Taibei: Zhongyang yanjiuyuan, Lianjing chuban gongsi, pp. 165-190.

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Juzjani, Minhaj-i Siraj.' In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Politics, the Muslim Community and Hindu-Muslim Relations Reconsidered: North India in the early Thirteenth century.' In: Datta, Rajat, (ed.), Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth century: Essays for Harbans Mukhia. Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 139-167.

Lockyer, Angus (2008) 'National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan.' In: Sherman, Daniel J., (ed.), Museums and Difference. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 97-123.

Lockyer, Angus (2008) 'Peopling landscapes, ethnographic and otherwise: European images of Asians from the 15th to the 19th centuries.' In: Yoshida, Kenji and Durrans, Brian, (eds.), Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe. Osaka: The Asahi Shimbun, pp. 282-290.

Robb, Peter (2008) 'From Law to Rights: the Impact of the Colonial State on Peasant Protest in Bihar.' In: Pinch, William R., (ed.), Speaking of Peasants: Essays on Indian History and Politics in Honor of Walter Hauser. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 29-56.

Rodet, Marie (2008) 'Migrants in French Sudan: Gender Biases in the Historiography.' In: Afolabi, Niyi and Falola, Toyin, (eds.), Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Paradoxes of Exile. New York: Routledge, pp. 165-181.

Rodet, Marie (2008) 'Missing Migrants: The Absence of Women in the History of Rural-Rural Migrations from French Sudan to Senegambia (1900-1932).' In: Zack-Williams, Alfred B. and Udogu, Emmanuel I., (eds.), African Mosaic: Political, Social, Economic and Information Technologies Issues in the New Millennium. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 152-166.

Rodet, Marie (2008) 'Réglementation et contrôle de la circulation des personnes en Afrique occidentale française (1900- 1945): les femmes seraient-elles passées entre les mailles du filet?' In: Green, Nancy L. and Poinsot, Marie, (eds.), Histoire de l’immigration et question coloniale en France. Paris: La Documentation française, pp. 233-238.

Sadan, Mandy (2008) 'Kachin Textiles in the Denison University Collections: Documenting Social Change.' In: Green, Alexandra, (ed.), Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum. Singapore: Singapore University Press, pp. 75-96.

Journal Article

Boretti, Valentina (2008) 'Playing for the nation: Kindergarten toys in republican China.' Revista de estudos chineses/Zhongguo yanjiu, 4. pp. 167-180.

Brennan, James (2008) 'Destroying Mumiani: Cause, Context, and Violence in Late Colonial Dar es Salaam.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2 (1). p. 95.

Brennan, James (2008) 'Lowering the Sultan's Flag: Sovereignty and Decolonization in Coastal Kenya.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50 (4). pp. 831-861.

Chatterton, Jocelyn and Bultitude, Matthew (2008) 'Castration; The eunuchs of Qing dynasty China; A Medical and Historical Review.' De historia urologiae Europaeae, 15. pp. 39-47.

Clarence-Smith, William (2008) 'Eunuques et concubines dans le Sud-est asiatique musulman.' Le Banian (6). pp. 56-66.

Clarence-Smith, William (2008) 'Islam and female genital cutting in Southeast Asia: the weight of the past.' Finnish journal of ethnicity and migration, 3 (2). pp. 14-22.

Elling, Rasmus C. (2008) 'State of Mind, State of Order: Reactions to Ethnic Unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.' Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 8 (3). pp. 481-501.

Fischel, Roy S. and Kark, Ruth (2008) 'Sultan Abdülhamid II and Palestine: Private Lands and Imperial Policy.' New Perspectives on Turkey, 39. pp. 129-166.

Franzén, Johan (2008) 'Education and the radicalization of Iraqi politics: Britain, the Iraqi Communist Party, and the "Russian link", 1941-49.' International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2 (1). pp. 99-113.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) '「大原社研アーカイブと社会史研究」.' 大原社会問題研究所雑誌=Journal of Ōhara Institute for Social Research (591). pp. 10-14.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Religious Terrorism and Popular Culture: The Uses and Abuses of Aum Shinrikyō.' Journal of Religion and Society (10). pp. 1-6.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Review Essay and Selected Bibliography on Labor in Japan.' Labor History, 49 (2). pp. 253-255.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Erdbebenberichte und Diskurse der Kontinuität in der postformativen Periode (Reports on Earthquakes and Discourses of Continuity in the Postformative Period).' Der Islam, 84 (1). pp. 103-139.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'The Formation of the Civilian Elite in the Syrian Province: The Case of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Hamah.' Mamluk Studies Review, 12 (2). pp. 95-132.

Mazza, Roberto (2008) 'Le Chiese Cristiane di Gerusalemme nella guerra mondiale, 1914-1920.' Contemporanea (4). pp. 613-638.

McCaskie, Tom (2008) 'Akwantemfi - In Mid-Journey: an Asante shrine today and its clients.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 38 (1). pp. 57-80.

McCaskie, Tom (2008) 'Gun Culture in Kumasi.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 78 (3). pp. 433-454.

McCaskie, Tom (2008) 'The United States, Ghana and Oil: global and local perspectives.' African Affairs, 107 (428). pp. 313-332.

McDougall, James (2008) 'La mosquée et le cimetière: Espaces du sacré et pouvoir symbolique à Constantine en 1936.' Insaniyat. Revue algérienne d’anthropologie et de sciences sociales, 39-40. pp. 79-96.

Conference or Workshop Items

Chatterton, Jocelyn (2008) The Evacuation Question: Why did Medical Missionaries Remain at their posts? In: China Research Workshop, April 22 - 23 2008, Cambridge University. (Unpublished)

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) History of Medicine in the Philippines: a survey of the field. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on History of Medicine in the Philippines edited by Angel Aparicio.

Sadan, Mandy (2008) Jinghpaw Models of Origins and Migrations and Contemporary Ethnic Discourse in Burma. In: International Conference on the Origins and Migrations of Tibeto-Burman Speakers of the Extended Eastern Himalaya, May 2008, Humboldt University Institute for Asian and African Studies, Berlin. (Unpublished)

Monographs and Working Papers

Sadan, Mandy (2008) A Guide to Colonial Sources on Burma. Ethnic and Minority Histories of Burma in the India Office Records, British Library. Bangkok: Orchid Press.

Sadan, Mandy (2008) Learning to Listen: a Manual for Oral History Projects. Chiang Mai: Wanida Press.

Book Reviews

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Review of Penny Edwards, 'Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation 1860–1945'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (2). pp. 391-393.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Review of 'A Sociology of Work in Japan' by Ross Mouer and Hirosuke Kawanishi.' Labor History, 49 (2). pp. 260-261.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Review of 'Gendering Modern Japanese History' edited by Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno.' Journal of Asian Studies, 67 (1). pp. 326-328.

Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Review of 'War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005' by Franziska Seraphim.' Journal of Asian Studies, 67 (3). pp. 1098-1100.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of In laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, edited by I. Shagrir/R. Ellenblum/J. Riley-Smith.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (3). pp. 572-573.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of Salah al-Din: al-Qa’id wa-‘asruhu by M. al-Hiyari, and Manhaj Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi fi al-hukm wa-al-qiyada by N. al-T. Sulayman.' al-Usur al-Wusta = العصور الوسطى = al-ʻUṣūr al-Wusṭá, 20 (1). pp. 31-32.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World by D. G. Tor.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (2). pp. 371-372.

Laamann, Lars (2008) 'Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective edited by Peter Chen-Main Wang (Collectania Serica).' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (3). pp. 593-595.

Laamann, Lars (2008) 'Review of: Historisk Tidskrift no. 127, 4 'Historical Journal' Swedish Historical Society, Stockholm. ISSN 0345-469X.' Journal of Global History, 3 (3). pp. 480-481.

Lane, George (2008) 'Review of 'The Turks in the Early Islamic World', edited by Clifford Edmund Bosworth.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18 (1). pp. 105-107.

Lane, George (2008) 'Review of Ed Husain, 'The Islamist'.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18 (3). pp. 389-391.

Lane, George (2008) 'Review of Michal Biran, 'Chinggis Khan'.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18 (2). pp. 230-233.

Lane, George (2008) 'Review of Stephen G. Haw, 'Marco Polo's China: A venetian in the realm of Khubilal Khan'.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18 (3). pp. 378-381.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) 'Review of Mark M. Smith, 'Sensory History' (Berg Publishers, 2007).' Times Higher Education Supplement .

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) 'Review of Warwick Anderson, 'Colonial Pathologies: American tropical medicine, race and hygiene in the Philippines' (Duke University Press, 2006).' Medical History, 52 (3). pp. 424-426.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Charney, Michael W. (2008) China is an attractive model for Myanmar's generals. The Independent [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Mandalay.' In Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1750 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Charney, Michael W. (2008) 'Yangon.' In Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1750 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.