New history titles received in June

Go to the Library's "New and Notable" acquisitions blog to see titles on History received in June

The link is http://blogs.soas.ac.uk/libraryacquisitions/2012/06/04/history-june-2012/

Jerusalem: the biography (book review)

Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Jerusalem : the biography" was  published in the U.K earlier this year. The book examines the history of the city from the earliest times to the present day.

Read the latest review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review 


Find the book in SOAS Library at QJ956.944 / 734184

Click here to view the Library catalogue

Cambridge Histories Online: new online resource

SOAS Library now has access to the complete Cambridge Histories Online containing over 270 volumes published since 1960, covering over 15 different academic subjects. Users can search and browse content, personalise the interface including, saved & most recent searches, workspaces and bookmarks and export citations.

Includes: The Cambridge History of Music, The Cambridge History of Islam & The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Cambridge History of Judaism, The Cambridge History of Political Thought, The Cambridge History of Africa, The Cambridge History of Ancient China, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, The Cambridge History of Egypt, The Cambridge History of Iran, The Cambridge History of Japan, The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, The New Cambridge History of India and many more...

http://histories.cambridge.org/ [On-campus]
http://bit.ly/CHOnline [Off-campus]

From Hellenism to Islam: book review

Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009, "From Hellenism to Islam: cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East" (edited by Hannah Cotton)  explores the "constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East" in the 800 years between the Roman and Islamic conquests.

Read a review by Christian Hogel (University of Southern Denmark) in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review ("an impressive and very readable publication")

Find the book in SOAS Library at NB417 / 732888