SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Brennan, James (2012) Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. (New African Histories)

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Reid, Richard (2012) A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the present. Revised 2nd edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Reid, Richard (2012) Warfare in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (New Approaches to African History)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Gerteis, Christopher, ed. (2012) Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 vols). Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Janku, Andrea, Schenk, Gerrit J. and Mauelshagen, Franz, eds. (2012) Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. New York: Routledge. (Routledge studies in cultural history, 15)

Bernheimer, Teresa and Silverstein, Adam, eds. (2012) Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives. Oxford: Gibb Memorial Trust.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Clarence-Smith, William, eds. (2012) Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950. London, New York: Routledge.

Chang, Bi-Yu and Klöter, Henning, eds. (2012) Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz. (Studia Formosiana, series 8)

Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy S., eds. (2012) Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. London and New York: Bloomsbury.

Book Chapters

Bernheimer, Teresa (2012) 'Genealogy, Marriage, and the Drawing of Boundaries among the ‘Alids (8th-12th centuries).' In: Morimoto, Kazuo, (ed.), The Role and Position of sayyids and sharifs in Muslim Societies. Farnham: IB Tauris.

Chang, Bi-Yu (2012) 'Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan.' In: Chang, Bi-Yu and Klöter, Henning, (eds.), Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden, pp. 149-169. (Studia Formosiana, series 8)

Charney, Michael W. (2012) 'Iberier und Südostasiaten im Krieg: Die Eroberung von Melaka 1511 und ihre Folgen.' In: Walter, Dierk and Kundrus, Birthe, (eds.), Waffen Wissen Wandel: Anpassung und Lernen in transkulturellen Erstkonflikten. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition.

Clarence-Smith, William (2012) 'Female circumcision in Southeast Asia since the coming of Islam.' In: Raghavan, Chitra and Levine, James P., (eds.), Self-determination and women’s rights in Muslim societies. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, pp. 124-146.

Clarence-Smith, William (2012) 'The Hadhrami sada and the evolution of an Islamic religious international, c.1750s to 1930s.' In: Green, Abigail and Viaene, Vincent, (eds.), Religious internationals in the modern world: globalization and faith communities since 1750. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-251.

Clarence-Smith, William (2012) 'Same-sex relations and transgender identities in Islamic Southeast Asia from the fifteenth century.' In: Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Sexual diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950. London: Routledge, pp. 67-85.

Clarence-Smith, William (2012) 'The expansion of cotton textile production in the western Indian Ocean, c1500-c1850.' In: Smith, Stefan Halikowski, (ed.), Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds: essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 84-106.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2012) 'La risposta di Giacomo di Nisibi ad Aristace.' In: Lenzi, G, (ed.), Afraate, Le esposizioni. Brescia: Paideia, pp. 65-66. (Testi del Vicino Oriente antico)

Elling, Rasmus C. (2012) 'Matters of Authenticity: Nationalism in Post-Khomeini Iran.' In: Nabavi, Negin, (ed.), Iran: From theocracy to the Green Movement. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Gerteis, Christopher (2012) 'Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Japanese Labor Movement.' In: Gerteis, Christopher, (ed.), Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 1155-1172.

Gerteis, Christopher (2012) 'Marketing History as Social Responsibility.' In: Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy S., (eds.), Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. London and New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 223-241.

Gerteis, Christopher (2012) 'The Nexus of Economic and Social Change in Modern Japan.' In: Gerteis, Christopher, (ed.), Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 vols). Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 3-17.

Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy S. (2012) 'Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan.' In: Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy S., (eds.), Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 1-9, 67-68, 141-143, 205-207.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries.' In: Foot, Sarah and Robinson, Chase, (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 2: 400-1400. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 267-286.

Janku, Andrea (2012) 'From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930.' In: Janku, Andrea, Schenk, Gerrit J. and Mauelshagen, Franz, (eds.), Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. New York: Routledge, pp. 227-260. (Routledge studies in cultural history, 15)

Kumar, Sunil (2012) 'Delhi.' In: Böwering, Gerhard, (ed.), Princeton encyclopedia of Islamic political thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 126-127.

Lane, George (2012) 'Chinggis Khan, World Conqueror.' In: Matheson, Lister M., (ed.), Icons of the Middle Ages. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, pp. 134-140.

Lane, George (2012) 'The Mongols in Iran.' In: Daryaee, Touraj, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mancini-Lander, Derek (2012) 'Dreaming the Elixir of Knowledge: How a seventeenth-century poet from Herat got his name and fame.' In: Felek, Özgen and Knysh, Alexander D., (eds.), Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 77-97.

Osella, Caroline and Osella, Filippo (2012) 'Migration, Networks and Connectedness Across the Indian Ocean.' In: Kamrava, Mehran and Babar, Zahra, (eds.), Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2012) 'Introduction.' In: Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Sexual Diversity in Asia, c.600-1950. London, New York: Routledge.

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2012) 'Sodomy in Seventeenth Century Manila: The luck of a Mandarin from Taiwan.' In: Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950. London, New York: Routledge.

Rodet, Marie (2012) '"Under the Guise of Guardianship and Marriage": Mobilizing Juvenile and Female labor in the Aftermath of Slavery in Kayes, French Soudan, 1900-1939.' In: Roberts, Richard L. and Lawrance, Benjamin N., (eds.), Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Sadan, Mandy (2012) 'Cords and Connections: The Ritual Integration of Space in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone.' In: Blackburn, Stuart H. and Huber, T., (eds.), Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas. Leiden: Brill, pp. 253-274. (Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas)

Journal Article

Clarence-Smith, William (2012) 'Grands et petits planteurs de caoutchouc en Afrique, 1934-1973.' Économie Rurale: Agricultures, Alimentations, Territoires, 330-31. pp. 88-102.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2012) 'Studies of Armenian Christian Tradition in the Twentieth Century.' Annual of Medieval Studies at Central European University, 18. pp. 137-152.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) ''Catching the Eel' – Documentary Evidence for Concepts of the Arabic Book in the Middle Period.' Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 12. pp. 224-234.

Kark, Ruth and Fischel, Roy S. (2012) 'Palestinian Women in the Public Domain during the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods, 1831–1948.' Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 10. pp. 77-96.

Mazza, Roberto and Ouhes, Idir (2012) 'For God and La Patrie: Antonin Jaussen, Dominican Priest and and French Intelligence Agent in the Middle East.' First World War Studies, 3 (2). pp. 145-164.

Reid, Richard (2012) 'Violent Development: toward an economic history of African warfare and military organisation.' Economic Research Southern Africa Working Papers (310).

Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2012) 'Modernizing the Manileña: Technologies of conspicuous consumption for the well-to-do woman, circa 1880s–1930s.' Modern Asian Studies, 46 (1). pp. 193-220.

Webb, Peter (2012) 'The Familiar and the Fantastic in Narratives of Muhammad's Ascension to the Heavenly Spheres.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 15 (3). pp. 240-256.

Webb, Peter (2012) ''Foreign books' in Arabic literature: discourses on books, knowledge and ethnicity in the writings of al-Jāḥiẓ.' Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 12 (2). pp. 16-55.

Conference or Workshop Items

Charney, Michael W. (2012) "Keeping the Gun and Nothing Else: Pre-existing “Military” Organization in Kandy and Burma and the Introduction of Firearms". In: 7th Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on Social History of Military Technology, 10-14 July 2012, Barcelona. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2012) The Portuguese, Guns, and Indigenous Warfare: the Channels and Limits of Western Influence in South and Southeast Asia's Early Modern Warfare. In: World History Symposium: Southeast Asia in World History, 2-4 January 2012, Pannasasrta University of Cambodia (PUC), Siem Reap, Cambodia. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2012) "Taking Religion out of Indigenous Warfare : The British Pacification Campaign in Upper Burma, 1885-1888". In: KITLV Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar, 16 October 2012, Leiden. (Unpublished)

Charney, Michael W. (2012) "Village Warfare: The British Pacification Campaign in Upper Burma, 1885-1888". In: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo Seminars, 1 November 2012, University of Tokyo. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of 'The Persian Gulf in History' by Lawrence G. Potter.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (2). pp. 395-396.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein.' Middle Eastern Studies, 48 (3). pp. 483-485.

Gerteis, Christopher (2012) 'Review of The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010.' American Historical Review, 117 (5). pp. 1569-1570.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Review of Die Chronik des ibn Wasil. Gamāl ad-Dīn Muhammad ibn Wasil. Mufarrig al-Kurūb fī Ahbār Banī Ayyūb by M. Rahim.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 107 (4-5). pp. 285-286.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Review of The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period by D. Behrens-Abouseif.' Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 102 . pp. 414-416.

Janku, Andrea (2012) 'Review of R. Kent Guy, 'Qing Governors and Their Provinces: the Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (1). pp. 205-207.

Laamann, Lars (2012) 'Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History. Author: Joseph Esherick.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (1). pp. 201-203.

Laamann, Lars (2012) 'Review of: Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China by Eugenio Menegon. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 69. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.' History of Religions, 52 (1). pp. 83-85.

Laamann, Lars (2012) 'Review of: Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 by Carol Benedict. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.' Social History of Medicine, 25 (2). pp. 567-568.

Laamann, Lars (2012) 'Review of: L’opium: une passion chinoise (1750-1950) by Xavier Paules.' T'oung Pao, 98 (4-5). pp. 606-607.

Reid, Richard (2012) 'The End of the Beginning: new syntheses on modern war in Africa.' H-Net Reviews .

Webb, Peter (2012) '“Islam’s Real Origins?” Review of Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword.' Evening Standard .

Theses

Bauhng, Victor Jongjin (2012) Early Sīra material and the Battle Of Badr. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00013187

Mancini-Lander, Derek (2012) Memory on the Boundaries of Empire: Narrating Place in the Early Modern Local Historiography of Yazd. PhD thesis. University of Michigan.