{"id":1408,"date":"2017-12-20T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:15:11","slug":"new-library-books-history-classics-archaeology-dec2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2017\/12\/20\/new-library-books-history-classics-archaeology-dec2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0recommendations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from members of staff and requests via\u00a0RAB<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small number of the books that have been added to the Library\u2019s collections in semester one, 2017\/18<\/strong> for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology <\/strong><\/a>and these demonstrate the wide range of subjects being taught, studied and researched within School.<\/p>\n

\u2013> Find these and more via\u00a0DiscoverEd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Early Greek portraiture: monuments and histories<\/em> by Catherine M. Keesling (shelfmark: NB1296.3 Kee. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The crusade in the fifteenth century: converging and competing cultures<\/em> edited by Norman Housley (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

The long aftermath: cultural legacies of Europe at war, 1936-2016<\/em> edited by Manuel Braganca and Peter Tame (shelfmark: D744.7.E8 Lon. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Race relations at the margins: slaves and poor whites in the antebellum Southern countryside<\/em> by Jeff Forret (shelfmark: F220.A1 For.)<\/p>\n

Beyond conflicts: cultural and religious cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th century CE<\/em> edited by Luca Arcar (shelfmark: BR127 Bey.)<\/p>\n

Drawing Lithic artefacts<\/em> by Yannick Raczynski-Henk (shelfmark: GN799.T6 Rac.)<\/p>\n

Tabloid century: the popular press in Britain, 1896 to the present<\/em> by Adrian Bingham and Martin Conboy (e-book). <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The classical debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity<\/em> by Johanna Hanink (shelfmark: DF77 Han.)<\/p>\n

Forging the kingdom: power in English society, 973-1189<\/em> by Judith A. Green (shelfmark: DA130 Gre. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Messengers of the Right: conservative media and the transformation of American politics <\/a><\/em>by Nicole Hemmer (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: a transnational history<\/em> edited by Jeffrey D. Burson and Ulrich L. Lehner (shelfmark: BX1361 Enl.)<\/p>\n

Fragments of empire: capital, slavery, and Indian indentured labor migration in the British Caribbean<\/em> by Madhavi Kale (shelfmark: HD4875.C27 Kal. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

British foreign policy during the Curzon period, 1919-24<\/em> by G.H. Bennett (shelfmark: DA578 Ben. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The heroic rulers of archaic and classical Greece<\/em> by Lynette Mitchell (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The English conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s bid for empire<\/em> by Carla Gardina Pestana (shelfmark: DA425 Pes. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Byzantine culture in translation<\/em> edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Dead reckoning: memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War<\/em> by Sarmila Bose (shelfmark: DS395.7.A2 Bos.)<\/p>\n

Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world<\/em> by Londa Schiebinger (shelfmark: R853.H8 Sch. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Neolithisation of northeastern Africa<\/em> edited by Noriyuki Shirai (shelfmark: Folio GN776.42.A3553 Neo.)<\/p>\n

For the Motherland! For Stalin! : a Red Army officer’s memoir of the Eastern Front<\/em> by Boris Bogachev ; translated by Maria Bogacheva (e-book). <\/a><\/p>\n

Militant Protestantism and British identity, 1603-1642<\/em> by Jason White (shelfmark: DA390 Whi.)<\/p>\n

\"\"Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: a contribution to the study of the Egyptian sense of history<\/em> by Donald B. Redford (shelfmark: DT83 Red.)<\/p>\n

UK monetary policy from devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-82<\/em> by Duncan Needham (e-book).<\/a><\/p>\n

Women in the military orders of the crusades<\/em> by Myra Miranda Bom (shelfmark: CR4725 Bom. Also available as e-book<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Immigration and American diversity: a social and cultural history<\/em> by Donna R. Gabaccia (shelfmark: JV6450 Gab.)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Early Christian attitudes to war, violence and military service<\/em> by Despina Iosif (shelfmark: BT736.2 Ios.)<\/p>\n

You can find all of these books and the many more that are available for supporting teaching, learning and research in History, Classics and Archaeology via DiscoverEd<\/strong><\/a>. E-books are only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for School of History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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