Historia Lectures 2023

Reading List

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2012 - 4th edition) – an introduction to the History of Science

Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution – a good but slightly outdate introduction to the field of the History and Philosophy of Science

Hossein Nasar, Science and Civilisation in Islam – Important text in the field of the history and philosophy of science in the Islamic world

Hossein Nasar, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance – another important text in the field of the history and philosophy of science in the Islamic world

Alain George, The Umayyad Mosque – on the archaeological and art history of the mosque 

Simon Schaffer and Steve Shapin, Leviathan and the Air Pump – A general and very good book on the broader history of science

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Reading List

Christine Burns (ed.), Trans Britain (2018)

Susan Stryker, Transgender History (2017)

Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue (2021)

Jen Manion, Female Husbands (2020)

*Digital Transgender Archive, www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net

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Reading List

David Abulafia, A Mediterranean Emporium: the Catalan Kingdom of Majorca (1994)

David Abulafia, The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean (2011)

Robert Bartlett, Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950- 1350 (1993)

Stephen P. Bensch, Barcelona and its Rulers, 1096–1291 (1995)

Robert I. Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250- 1350 (1996)

Steven A. Epstein, ‘Secrecy and Genoese commercial practices’, Journal of Medieval History, (vol 20, 1994, pp. 313-325)

Geoffrey Hosking, Trust: A History (2014)

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Reading List

Bagnall, R. S. (ed.) Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700. (2011) Cambridge University Press. (482 pages, collection of essays by different researchers on different topics)

Cannuyer, C. Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile. (2001) Thames & Hudson.

Rousseau, P. (ed.) A Companion to Late Antiquity. (2012) Wiley-Blackwell. (736 pages, collection of essays by different researchers on different topics)

Watterson, B., Coptic Egypt. (1988) Scottish Academic Press.

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Reading List

Eve Worth, The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart, 2nd Ed (Berkley: University of California Press, 2012)

Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, eds, The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s (London: UCL Press, 2021)

Nancy Folbre and Julie A. Nelson, “For Love or Money—or Both?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, no 4 (2000): 123-140. 

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Reading List

Kate Cooper, Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women (2013)

Barbara K. Gold, Perpetua: Athlete of God (2018)

Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of 
Martyrdom (2013)

'The Martyrs: Perpetua and Felicitas', What'sHerName Podcast (2018)

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Reading List

Ruth Ahnert, The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 2013)

Stephen Alford, The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I (London, 2012)

Susan Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 (London, 2001)

Robert Hutchinson, House of Treason: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Dynasty (London, 2009)

A. N. Wilson, The Elizabethans (New York, 2011)

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Reading List

Hilda Bernstein, The Rift: Exile Experience of South Africans, 1st edition. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. (1994) 

Gillian Slovo, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. London: Little, Brown and Co. (1997) 

Glenn Frankel, Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Price of Freedom in South Africa. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (1999) 

Mark Israel, ‘Living with ‘A World Apart’: Second Generation South Africans in the United Kingdom and the Ideologies of Exile’, Paper presented at AFSAAP Conference, p. 1- 19. (1996)

Sisonke Msimang, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home. London: World Editions. (2017)

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