Book review: Sovereignty and social reform in India

Dr Andrea Major's "Sovereignty and social reform in India : British colonialism and the campaign against sati, 1830-1860" is reviewed by Daniel Grey in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History 

Andrea Major lecturers in the School of History at the University of Leeds
Dr Daniel Grey is a Junior Research Fellow in World History at Wolfson College (Oxford)

Read the book in SOAS Library at JA954.03 / 736856


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Women and trade-unionism in post-war Japan: book review

Dr. Christopher Gerteis' book Gender struggles: wage-earning women and male-dominated unions in post-war Japan was published by Harvard University Asia Center in 2009 as one of their East Asian Monographs series

Read the latest review (in Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.37(2) 2011)

Dr Gerteis lectures on the history of contemporary Japan here at SOAS
The reviewer, Professor Robin LeBlanc, lectures on politics and law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington (Virginia)

There are two copies available in SOAS Library at D331.478 / 987419.
 Link to the catalogue entry from HERE

Chocolate, women and Empire: book review

"In the mythology of chocolate, the power relations of production and consumption are subsumed by a more attractive narrative of exotic peoples and their surroundings… chocolate seems to generate a particular type of history writing … one which delves into the realms of fantasy and romance 

(pp. 85–6)."

Dr. Emma Robertson's "Chocolate, women and Empire: a social and cultural history" is reviewed by  Professor Barbara Bush (History Department, Sheffield Hallam University" in the Institute of Historical Research's "Reviews in History"

Dr Robertson is Senior Lecturer in History, also at Sheffield Hallam

If you want to read more on the imperial history of chocolate, the book is in SOAS Library at A338.17374 / 987393