Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Michael A. Reynolds: Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918. xx, 303 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 521 14916 7.
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Benjamin C. Fortna: Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. xiv, 247 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 0 230 23296 9.
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Lawrence G. Potter (ed): The Persian Gulf in History. viii, 326 pp. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £19. ISBN 978 0 230 61282 2.
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S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil (eds): Thinking through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives. x, 319 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2010. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 85065 990 7. - Chris Allen: Islamophobia. vii, 210 pp: Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7546 5140 6.
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Reviews: South Asia
Danièle Masset: Stances des Thera (Theragāthā). (Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 55.) 488 pp. Bristol: Pali Text Society, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 086013 486 2.
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Oskar von Hinüber: A Critical Pali Dictionary. Begun by Vilhelm Trenckner. Vol. III: Fascicle 8 kāmadhātu–kāreti. Bristol and Copenhagen: The Pali Text Society and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. xv–xxxvii, 15–37, 387–474 pp. ISBN 978 086013 483 1.
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Naomi Appleton: Jātaka Stories in Theravāda Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path. ix, 176 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. £45. ISBN 978 140941092 8.
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Margaret Cone and Richard F. Gombrich (eds): The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara. xxxviii, 106 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2011. ISBN 978 0 86013 488 6.
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Cezary Galewicz: A Commentator in Service of the Empire: Sāyaṇa and the Royal Project of Commenting on the Whole of the Veda. (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library.) 327 pp. Vienna: The De Nobili Research Library, 2009. €39. ISBN 978 3 900271 41 1.
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Purnima Dhavan: When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699–1799. x, 253 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. ISBN 978 0 19 975655 1.
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Rachel Fell McDermott: Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals. xviii, 372 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. £20.50. ISBN 978 0 231 12919 0.
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Michael Collins: Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society. (Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series.) 212 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £85. ISBN 978 0 415 59939 5.
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Ramnarayan S. Rawat: Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India. (Contemporary Indian Studies.) xix, 272 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 253 22262 6.
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Reviews: Central Asia
Johan Elverskog: Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. vii, 340 pp. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. £45. ISBN 978 0 8122 4237 9.
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Reviews: East Asia
Lukas Nickel: Gräber der Han-Zeit in Luoyang. (Münchner Ostasiatische Studien.) 325 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. €58. ISBN 978 3 515 09698 0.
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Michael Loewe: Bing: From Farmer's Son to Magistrate in Han China. xvi, 186 pp. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 2011. £9.95. ISBN 978 1 60384 622 6.
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Axel Schuessler: Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa. (ABC Chinese Dictionary Series.) xxiv, 421 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. ISBN 978 0 8248 3264 3.
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S.J Thierry Meynard. (ed.): Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687). The First Translation of the Confucian Classics. viii, 449 pp. (Nova Series 6.) Rome: Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 2011. ISBN 978 88 7041 206 2.
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Linda Cooke Johnson: Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China. xxxiii, 251 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. $52. ISBN 978 0 8248 3404 3.
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David M. Robinson: Empire's Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xvi, 439 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. £36.95. ISBN 978 0 674 03608 6.
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