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This is a list of books I might like to read. Then again, I might not like to read them, but in any case I thought it might be worthwhile to try to remember them. I’m not at all sure that this will be particularly up-to-date when you look at it, but I will try to keep it current.

Ritual

Melissa Dowling. Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Valerio Valeri. Kingship and Sacrifices: ritual and society in ancient Hawaii. Chicago, 1985.

Urban Planning

Johnson, Dictionary of Human Geography (1999)
Paul Knox. Urbanization (1994).
Understanding Cities (1999)

Cyprus

Sir George Hill. A History of Cyprus. Cambridge: CUP, 1940–1952.
W. Hepworth Dixon. British Cyprus. London, 1887.
H. C. Luke. Cyprus under the Turks. London, 1921.
Mrs. Lewis. A Lady’s Impressions of Cyprus. 1893.
C. D. Cobham. Excerpta Cypria. Cambridge, 1908.
Sir Ronald Storrs, & B. J. O’Brien. The Handbook of Cyprus. London, 1930.
Feroz Ahmed. The Making of Modern Turkey. Routledge, 1993.
Alexandris Alexis. The Greek Minority of Istanbul and Greek-Turkish Relations, 1918–74. Athens, 1983.
Rolandos Katsiaounis. Labour, Society, and Politics in Cyprus during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Nicosia, 1996.
William Roger Louis. The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–51. Arab Nationalism, the United States and Post-war Imperialism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1984.
Stephen Xydis. Cyprus: Reluctant Republic & Cyprus: Conflict and Conciliation, 1954–1958..
George McGhee. The US-Turkish-NATO Middle East Connection. London, 1990.
Theodore Couloumbis & Sally Hicks, eds. US Foreign Policy Toward Greece and Cyprus. Washington DC: Center for Mediterranean Studies & American Hellenic Institute, 1975.
C.M. Woodhouse. Something Ventured. London: Granada, 1982.

Central Asia

Craig Murray. Strife in Samarkand, 2006.
Robert Rand. Tamerlane’s Children, 2006.

Social History

Felicity Heal & Clive Holmes. The Gentry in England and Wales 1500 – 1700. Stanford, 1994.
Charles Duff. A Handbook of Hanging.
Raoul Vaneigem. The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Carole Straw. Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection.

ego hoc feci mm–mmviii
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