Louis Allday

Cultural Propaganda in Britain’s Informal Empire: The British Council in the Persian Gulf c. 1939 - 1971.
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Cultural Propaganda in Britain’s Informal Empire: The British Council in the Persian Gulf c. 1939 - 1971.
A Comparative Study towards the Three Frontiers of Siam: Constructing Thai National Character and Its Reactions, c.1892-1910
The Politics of Spiritual Tourism: Kinship Romanticism and Correspondence with Imagined Homeland (Working title)
The Transmission of Islamicate texts across the Western Indian Ocean, 1400-1700
Ottoman and North African Émigré Intellectuals in Paris, 1890-1914
Nationalism, Christianity and Feminism: Missionary Education for Girls in East China, 1923-1949
The Poro: Society, Community and Perception in Liberian and Sierra Leone during the 19th Century
The Nature of the Turkish Autoritarianism, 1930-1945
Gender and family in postwar Japan
War and Postal Communication in Republican China, 1916-1949
The Conclusion of the Ritual: a Critical Edition of Y. 62-72, with Translation, Commentary and Ritual Notices
Study of the training of priests in the Zoroastrian tradition; and a text-critical edition of Yasna chapters 12-13
19th Century Protestant Missionary Perceptions of Chinese Islam
Makings of a Warrior Race in Iraq: The Case of the Assyrians
Resistance and Integration in the Ethiopian Empire: the case of Macca Oromo of Qellem (1880s-1974)
Religion and Economy: Zoroastrian Priests and Fire Temples in the Economy of Sasanian Iran
Ilm-e-Khshnoom, an occult Zoroastrian movement: History and Beliefs.
Domestic Work in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, A Focus on Durban and Ixopo From 1920-1960
Lake Tanganyika: Commercial Frontier in the Era of Long-Distance Commerce, East and Central Africa, c.1830-1890
Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
The Idea of the Refugee in the Discourse and Practices of NGOs in the Ottoman Empire (1915-1926): The Near East Relief
The Treatment of Deportees and Prisoners-of-War in Hittite Texts
The Qing Perspective of ‘Europeans’, 1644-1858
Political Authority among the Alans of the North Caucasus, 800-1300
Negotiating Colonialism: British enterprises and the making of working class culture in Shanghai, 1927-1949 [working title]
Archival practices in the medieval Arabic lands. Documents and archives at the centre and periphery in Egypt and Syria: institutional, communal, and private practices in a diverse literate society.
Discontent and Decolonisation after World War II: The Case of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Cultures of Consumption: Popular Responses to Intoxicants in Colonial Bengal
The Wind that Dries Up the Land. War, Power, and Slavery on the Southern African Highveld, c.1500-c.1800
Looking like a state: Materiality and Aesthetics in British Mandate Palestine
Smallholder Involvement in Tree Crops, with Special Reference to Oil and Coconut Palms in Johor, c. 1929-1962
Water technocracy: Dams, Public Works, and Development in Colonial South India
A Social History of Food and Cooking in Ghana in the 19th Century
Environment, Commerce and Imperial Politics in South-Eastern Mongolia (1644–1912)
History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945
Mutsu Munemitsu and British Influence on Japanese Modern Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century
The Military Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Siam: Changes and Continuities
Working title: From “Ancestral Home” to “China’s North-East” The Transition of Manchuria into an integral part of “China” in early twentieth century
Japan in the Establishment of Public Health in China, 1901-1937
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