Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2013
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Benjamin L. Carp
Evocative and enthralling, this is the broadest account yet of a defining event in American history, which forged the American character and continues to shape its politics today.
Paper 2011 328 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17812-8 $20.00 Cloth 2010 328 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11705-9 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16845-7
Catherine A. Brekus
A charismatic leader among eighteenthcentury American evangelical Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the details of her life and spiritual quest for more than thirty years. Her eloquent writings open a new window on the roots of the evangelical movement.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2013 448 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18290-3 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18832-5
Michael I. Meyerson
Rejecting the extreme arguments of todays debates, this book examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom and how it can inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.
Cloth 2012 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16632-3 $32.50
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Edward Bancroft
Scientist, Author, Spy
Thomas J. Schaeper
The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution.
Paper 2012 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18745-8 $23.00 Cloth 2011 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11842-1 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17171-6
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Jeffersons Shadow
The Story of His Science
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Keith Thomson
Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, but this book is the first to focus on his passion for science, the influence of science on his vision for America, his scientific experiments and inventions, and his lasting contributions to paleontology, geography, climatology, archaeology, and more.
Cloth 2012 336 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18403-7 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18740-3
Brycchan Carey
This book shows how Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and how the Society of Friends became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade.
Cloth 2012 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18077-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18227-9
Graced with nearly 200 full-color illustrations, A Rich Spot of Earth is the first book devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden. The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens.
Cloth 2012 280 pp. 201 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17114-3 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18340-5
New Worlds
John Lynch
J. H. Elliott
In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic civilizations, providing rich insights into both while revealing aspects of their dual history that influence the Americas to this day.
Winner of the 2007 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians Paper 2007 608 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12399-9 $32.00 Cloth 2006 560 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11431-7 $55.00
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The Zong
James Walvin
In 1781, the captain of a British ship running short of drinking water ordered 132 African slaves thrown overboard. This book is the first full account of the horrifying event, the later trial, and the moral and political debates that followed.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12555-9 $32.50
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Domestic Subjects
Beth H. Piatote
William G. Thomas
This groundbreaking book offers new perspectives on the central role of the railroads in the decades leading up to the Civil War, during the bloody war years, and traveling forward into the early years of modern America.
Paper 2013 352 pp. 56 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18746-5 $20.00 Cloth 2011 296 pp. 56 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14107-8 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17168-6
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Black Gotham
American Zion
The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War
Carla L. Peterson
Black Gotham is a fascinating look at a little-known segment of American history: African-American elites in New York City in the nineteenth century, told through Carla Petersons intriguing account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her ancestors.
Winner of the 2011 New York City Book Awards sponsored by the New York Society Library Paper 2012 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18174-6 $20.00 Cloth 2011 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16409-1
Eran Shalev
This original book examines the widespread notion in Americas early decades that the United States was a second or new Israel, an idea that powerfully influenced nationalism, politics, and culture.
Cloth 2013 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18692-5 $40.00
Frederick Douglass
Edited by John R. McKivigan
This volume revisits the events of Douglasss earlier autobiographies while placing them in the context of his later years and accomplishments.
The Frederick Douglass Papers Series Cloth 2012 1,200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17634-6 $150.00
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David Schorr
David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the appropriation doctrine, a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West.
Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference Cloth 2012 256 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13447-6 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18904-9
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Geronimo
Robert M. Utley
This fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time strips away the myths that have obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of the ferocious and elusive Apache fighter for the first time.
Cloth 2012 376 pp. 27 b/w illus. + 13 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12638-9 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18900-1
Murder in Tombstone
Steven Lubet
David J. Weber
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Natures Noblemen
Frontiers
Monica Rico
Exploring the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by roughing it in the wilderness, Monica Rico reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context.
Cloth 2013 288 pp. 5 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13606-7 $40.00
This compact synthesis of Webers prizewinning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spains 300-year tenure on the continent. From the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spains gradual retreat, Weber offers a balanced assessment of the impact of each civilization upon the other.
Paper 2009 320 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 16 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15621-8
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Hank Greenberg
Mark Kurlansky
Alexander J. Field
This careful study of U.S. growth data reveals that the innovation and infrastructure development of the 1930snot the industrial response to WWIIset the stage for the economic boom of the following decades.
Winner of the 2012 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize, sponsored by the Economic History Association
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Paper 2012 400 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18816-5 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16875-4
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High Life
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Peter Mandler
Margaret Mead was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could assess not only primitives but also the most complex modern societies in ways useful for waging war. This fascinating book weighs up her successes and failures.
Cloth 2013 352 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18785-4 $40.00
Susan Dunn
This spellbinding story of the RooseveltWillkie election season explores the deep divisions in the United States on the eve of World War II, the pull of Lindberghs staunch isolationism, and the courageous candidates and politicians who forged crucial agreements across the aisle.
Cloth 2013 512 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19086-1 $32.50
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Eslanda
David Margolick
The iconic image of Elizabeth and Hazel at age fifteen showed us the terrible burden that nine young Americans had to shoulder to claim our nations promise of equal opportunity. . . . David Margolick now tells us the amazing story of how Elizabeth and Hazel, as adults, struggled to find each other across the racial divide and in so doing, end their pain and find a measure of peace. We all need to know about Elizabeth and Hazel.President Bill Clinton
Cloth 2011 320 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14193-1 $26.00 Paper 2012 320 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18792-2 $15.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17835-7
Trita Parsi
No one in the United States knows more about Iran, or can speak more authoritatively about the complex historical relationship between Iran and the US, than Trita Parsi. A Single Roll of the Dice is a must-read.Reza Aslan, author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Paper 2013 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19236-0 $17.00 Cloth 2012 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16936-2 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18377-1
Barbara Ransby
This compelling biography tells Essie Robesons own story for the first time from her unconventional marriage, to her influence on her husbands early career, to her tireless efforts against racism and injustice around the globe.
Cloth 2013 424 pp. 64 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12434-7 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18907-0
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Modernist America
Richard Pells
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Time No Longer
Patrick Smith
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig
This book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today, beginning with a 1925 court case and showing how our society has yet come to terms with interracial marriage.
Cloth 2013 320 pp. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16682-8 $38.00
American Overview
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Ambition, A History
From Vice to Virtue
Arcadian America
The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Aaron Sachs
The garden cemetery, a popular but largely forgotten tradition of the pre-Civil War era, has much to teach us about the history of Americas communal landscapes and todays environmental ideas, says the author of this thought-provoking book.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2013 496 pp. 54 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17640-7 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18905-6
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What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures
Lucianne Lavin
with a contribution to the Introduction by Paul Grant-Costa; Edited by Rosemary Volpe
This volume draws on exciting recent archaeological and ethnographic findings to provide a full account of Connecticuts indigenous peoples throughout their 10,000-year history.
Published in association with the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Cloth 2013 416 pp. 37 color + 235 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18664-2 $45.00
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American Georgics
Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land Edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue
A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the modern organic movement.
Yale Agrarian Studies Series Paper 2012 432 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18804-2 $27.50 Cloth 2011 432 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13709-5 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17184-6
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Matthew Wittmann
A compelling look at the American circus in New York City, featuring archival photography, circus ephemera, and costumes, as well as offering broad history of the circus business.
Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, NY Paper over Board 2012 208 pp. 250 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18747-2 $40.00
American Lynching
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history, Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed, from its origins in colonial-era Virginia to the present.
Cloth 2012 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18138-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18474-7
Military History
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Perilous Glory
The Rise of Western Military Power
John France
This major new history encompasses warfare around the world from 3100 B.C. to the Gulf War and challenges accepted ideas about the development of military strength, the impact of culture on war, the future of Western dominance, and much more.
Cloth 2011 456 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12074-5 $35.00
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Wellingtons Wars
Huw J. Davies
Military History
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Gallipoli
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December 1941
Evan Mawdsley
Robin Prior
A full account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of WWI, this book sets aside the many myths about the Allied operation and arrives at the devastating conclusion that nearly 390,000 troops died in vain.
Paper 2010 304 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16894-5 $22.00 Cloth 2009 288 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14995-1 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15991-2
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Marlboroughs America
Stephen Saunders Webb
Marching through the Duke of Marlboroughs ten triumphant campaigns, 17021722, and analyzing the administrations of his former staff officers in America and the West Indies, Marlboroughs America demonstrates that the dukes victory in Europe created Great Britain, that it won the united kingdom preeminence in the Atlantic world, and that the dukes delegates in America transformed autonomous and underdeveloped colonies into prosperous and aggressive provinces of empire.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 608 pp. 11 color + 25 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17859-3 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18260-6
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Malcolm Wanklyn
In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British warsfrom Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figuresmilitary historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11308-2 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16841-9
British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
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Caesars Druids
An Ancient Priesthood
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.not just as priests but as judges, healers, scientists, and power brokers Aldhouse-Green argues that they were a highly complex, intellectual, and sophisticated group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics.
Cloth 2010 352 pp. 80 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12442-2 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16588-3
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Ancient Greece
Thomas R. Martin
Barry Cunliffe
What was going on in Europe (a relatively minor peninsula in world terms) that enabled it by 1000 A.D. to become a driving global force? This sensational interdisciplinary work by a leading archaeologist reorients our understanding of Old Europes success, uncovering a set of complex factors that have gone unrecognized until now.
Paper 2011 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17086-3 $30.00
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Ancient Rome
Thomas R. Martin
Brian Campbell
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ancient sources and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization.
Cloth 2012 288 pp. 42 b/w illus. +10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11795-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17215-07
Ronald Hutton
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh history.
Paper 2011 492 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17085-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15979-0
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Richard Stoneman
This colorful book traces the entire thousand-year history of Greek oracles and examines why they continued to be consulted by Greek men and women at every level of society until the Christian abolition of paganism in A.D. 395.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. 45 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14042-2 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17213-3
Richard Stoneman
This engaging book is the first to gather together the hundreds of colorful legends told in cultures across the globe about Alexander the Great, conqueror of the ancient world. Richard Stoneman shows how the mythical exploits of Alexander have resonated for Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and in eastern and western cultures, for more than 2000 years.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16401-5 $23.00
Ramsay MacMullen
How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In this book, MacMullen examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiasticalviewpoint.
Paper 1986 184 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-03642-8 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15932-5
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David Crouch
This groundbreaking book offers the first close examination of the fate of English aristocrats following William the Conquerors victory. A radical transformation ensued, the author shows, as society redefined itself around the principle of nobility.
Cloth 2011 352 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11455-3 $55.00
Savonarola
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Donald Weinstein
This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet.
Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00
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Glyn Parry
Based on primary documents, this new biography of John Dee, the great magus of the Elizabethan world, challenges many of our beliefs about his occult, religious, and political involvements.
Paper 2013 352 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19409-8 $35.00 Cloth 2012 384 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11719-6 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18370-2
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
Ralph V. Turner
Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this definitive biography gives us the real Eleanor of Aquitaine wife of two kings, mother of two kings, a tenacious and ambitious twelfth-century queen who carved a unique position for herself in a society hostile to the idea of a woman in power.
Paper 2011 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17820-3 $25.00 Cloth 2009 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11911-4 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15989-9
Francis Oakley
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume, exploring kingship and related themes from the tenth to the fourteenth century.
The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages Cloth 2012 344 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17633-9 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18350-4
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Anders Winroth
Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.
Cloth 2012 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17026-9 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17809-8
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Anne Boleyn
Fatal Attractions
Calvin
Bruce Gordon
This brilliant new portrait of Protestant reformer John Calvin reveals his human complexity, the sources of his convictions, and how he inspired and transformed the sixteenth-century world. The book captures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.
Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17084-9 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15981-3
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G. W. Bernard
Drawing on a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of Englands most captivating queens.
Paper 2011 256 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17089-4 $22.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16245-5 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16585-2
Rebranding Rule
Kevin Sharpe
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Household Politics
Don Herzog
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Garry Wills
In this many-faceted examination of Shakespeares Julius Caesar, a prominent historian unearths the plays classical sources and shows how the Rome we carry in our minds today is the Rome Shakespeare rhetorically created for us.
The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series Paper 2013 200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18800-4 $15.00 Cloth 2011 200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15218-0 $25.00
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Utopia
Second Edition
Citizen Portrait
Thomas More
Translated and Introduced by Clarence H. Miller; With a New Afterword by Jerry Harp Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of Mores rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes Mores life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance.
Paper 2013 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18610-9 $8.95
Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
Tarnya Cooper
Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of Tudor- and Jacobean-era portraiture, focusing on how the middle class adopted and found new uses for this classic art form.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2012 264 pp. 100 color + 115 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16279-0 $85.00
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Henry V
Christopher Allmand
In this sweepingly majestic book, Christopher Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated foreword which takes stock of more recent publications in the field.
Paper 2011 480 pp. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07370-6 $26.00
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Edward II
Seymour Phillips
This definitive biography, the fruit of a lifetimes study, does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. But Seymour Phillips scrutiny of the multitude of available sources shows that a richer picture emerges, in line with the complexity of events and of the man himself.
Paper 2012 704 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17802-9 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18457-0
thelstan
Sarah Foot
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King Stephen
Edmund King
This compelling biography provides the most complete picture yet of King Stephen, the unfortunate monarch whose twelfth-century reign descended into long years of civil war as his family and allies struggled to save his throne.
Paper 2012 384 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18195-1 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17010-8
Henry VIII
J. J. Scarisbrick
First published in 1968, J. J. Scarisbricks Henry VIII remains the standard account, a thorough exploration of the documentary sources, stylishly written and highly readable. In an updated foreword, Professor Scarisbrick takes stock of subsequent research and places his classic account within the context of recent publications.
Paper 2011 560 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07158-0 $27.00
Mary I
Edward III
W. Mark Ormrod
An enlightening biography that takes a deeper look at the personality of this celebrated warrior king, emphasising the importance of Edwards familial relationships and his achievement of a cohesive stable nation.
Paper 2013 752 pp. 28 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19408-1 $30.00 Cloth 2012 720 pp. 28 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11910-7 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17805-9
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George II
John Edwards
This authoritative biography of the first Tudor queen reveals in new detail Marys connections with Spain, her fraught relationships with her father King Henry VIII and half-sister Elizabeth, her religious fervor and how it led to horrible violence, and much more.
Paper 2013 408 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19416-6 $25.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00
Andrew C. Thompson
This landmark biography of Britains last foreign-born monarch presents a richly detailed portrait of the king as a vital part of the governing process and as a dynastic patriarch, patron of the arts, and political survivor. The book reassesses George IIs achievements and the enduring impact of his reign.
Paper 2013 328 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18777-9 $32.50 Cloth 2011 315 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11892-6 $40.00
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Aristocratic Vice
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Enlightenments Frontier
Donna T. Andrew
Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century Englandduelling, suicide, adultery, and gamblingand the subsequent emergence of the middle class.
Cloth 2013 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18433-4 $50.00
Britons
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William Beckford
Perry Gauci
Linda Colley
This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author.
Paper 2009 469 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15280-7 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17720-6
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Kathleen Kete
Examining the lives and works of Germaine de Stael, Stendahl, and Georges Cuvier, historian Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary Napoleonic and Restoration France.
Cloth 2012 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17482-3 $38.00
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Captain Cook
Master of the Seas
Frank McLynn
Bestselling biographer Frank McLynn presents a vivid, remarkable reappraisal of Captain James Cook, illuminating an aspect of the legendary explorers life that has been largely overlooked by recent writers: his identity as a brilliant seaman.
Paper 2012 512 pp. 45 color illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18431-0 $20.00 Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11421-8 $35.00
Jane Ohlmeyer
This groundbreaking book explores the remaking of Irelands aristocracy during the tumultuous seventeenth century and offers a major new interpretation of the role of aristocrats in establishing English control over Ireland.
Cloth 2012 680 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11834-6 $65.00
Paul Monod
This illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult.
Cloth 2013 412 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12358-6 $45.00
Robespierre
Peter McPhee
A Revolutionary Life
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? This book combines new research and a deep understanding of the French Revolution to provide a fresh and nuanced portrait of one of historys most controversial figures.
Cloth 2012 352 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11811-7 $40.00
The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
Larry Neal
A distinguished economic historian explores two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time and the outsized personalities involved with them: the Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble of the early eighteenth century.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 232 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15316-3 $50.00
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On Historical Distance
Mark Salber Phillips
Examining the work of historians from Machiavelli to the present, Mark Salber Phillips examines the concept of historical distance and its role in historiography.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 320 pp. 10 color + 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14037-8 $50.00
Steve Pincus
An important, fresh, and imaginative work of scholarship. . . . It will have recast the origins of modern England as well as the history of the revolution of 1688.Bernard Bailyn, New York Review of Books
Winner of the 2010 Morris D. Forkosch Prize given by the American Historical Association The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2011 664 pp. 72 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17143-3 $27.50
The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
Francesca Trivellato
This groundbreaking book takes a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, blending archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis.
Co-winner of the 2010 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, awarded by the Association of Jewish Studies; Winner of the 2010 Leo Gershoy Award, awarded by the American Historical Association Paper 2012 488 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18749-6 $35.00
David Hume
Nicholas Phillipson
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this booka new and revised edition of his 1989 classic Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics.
Paper 2012 168 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18166-1 $16.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18486-0
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John B. Radner
In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship experienced by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental Life of Johnson.
Cloth 2013 432 pp. 5 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17875-3 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18908-7
Richard Whatmore
A fascinating intellectual history of a group of prominent Genevans struggle to infiltrate and reform the governments of Britain and France in order to promote free trade policies.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2012 416 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17557-8 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18357-3
Adam Smith
An Enlightened Life
Nicholas Phillipson
This book shows the extent to which Smiths other great works were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand Science of Man, one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, encompassing law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2012 352 pp. 4 b/w + 29 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17767-1 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17443-4
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Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers
A vivid account of the crime wave and subsequent moral panic that gripped the streets of London after the demobilization of thousands of soldiers and sailors following the end of the War of Austrian Succession.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 272 pp. 12 b/w illus., 3 graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16962-1 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18906-3
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Tim Jeal
Victorian Bloomsbury
Rosemary Ashton
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her earlytwentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health for all.
Cloth 2012 400 pp. 44 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15447-4 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15448-1
Libertys Dawn
Emma Griffin
Palmerston
A Biography
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David Brown
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (17841865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesmans personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerstons foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerstons contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Paper 2012 584 pp. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17796-1 $35.00 Cloth 2011 584 pp. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11898-8 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16844-0
Livingstone
Tim Jeal
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Judith R. Walkowitz
In this lively book Judith Walkowitz shows how Londons sophisticated and subversive Soho district became a showcase for a new twentieth-century cosmopolitan identity.
Cloth 2012 432 pp. 37 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15194-7 $40.00
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Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
This masterly biography uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But his core focus is Dickens career as a writer and professional authornot only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of letters, journalism, shorter fiction, and other writings.
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 in the Biography category, Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World Paper 2011 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17093-1 $25.00 Cloth 2009 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11207-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16552-4
Linda Stratmann
The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. Linda Stratmanns biography paints a riveting, complex picture of this man.
Cloth 2013 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17380-2 $35.00
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John Marriott
In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. He explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area.
Paper 2012 440 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18775-5 $35.00 Cloth 2011 384 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14880-0 $45.00
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Hitlers Berlin
Abused City
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Thomas Friedrich
In this entirely new account of Hitlers relationship with Berlin, the author explores how Germanys capital captivated Hitlers imagination and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions.
Cloth 2012 480 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16670-5 $40.00
Forbidden Music
Michael Haas
Charlotte Delbo
Translated by Rosette C. Lamont; With a New Introduction by Lawrence L. Langer
Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes.
Paper 2013 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19077-9 $25.00
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Hitlers Hangman
The Life of Heydrich
Robert Gerwarth
R. M. Douglas
Why did the Allied nations violently expel many millions of German-speaking civilians from their homes across Europe in the wake of WWII? This book reveals for the first time the story of an unparalleled episode of mass human rights abuse.
Cloth 2012 504 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16660-6 $38.00
This chilling biography tells the full story of the Butcher of Prague for the first time. One of the most dangerous men in the Third Reich, Heydrich commanded the SS Security Service, the Gestapo, and the Nazi Criminal Police; organized the SS killing squads; and helped plan the Final Solution.
Paper 2012 416 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18772-4 $18.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11575-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17746-6
Jeffrey Herf
This groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germanys Arabic language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since.
Recipient of 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Prize; Winner of the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton Prize as given by the German Studies Association Paper 2010 368 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16805-1 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15583-9
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A German Generation
An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century
Robert Gottlieb
Brilliantly, Gottliebs Sarah tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate and scandalousdaughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.
Jewish Lives Paper 2013 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19259-9 $16.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16879-2
Thomas A. Kohut
Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.
Paper 2013 352 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19245-2 $25.00 Cloth 2012 352 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17003-0 $38.00
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Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in TwentiethCentury Europe
The Genius
Eliyahu Stern
Jan-Werner Mller
This brilliant guide to European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century. With special focus on Fascism and Stalinism and their legacies, the author illuminates both the centurys ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century.
Paper 2013 304 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19412-8 $30.00
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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the ways in which their work has been shaped by shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust.
Cloth 2011 448 pp. 25 color + 150 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16914-0 $50.00
Walther Rathenau
Shulamit Volkov
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Hitlers Philosophers
Many Yale University Press titles are also available from most major e-Book stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&Ns nook store, Google Editions, Kobo, and Sony. Yvonne Sherratt
Astonishingly, Hitler gained the backing of many intellectuals of his time. This book is the first to uncover the chilling story of the philosophers who supported the Nazis, and those whose lives were destroyed by them.
Cloth 2013 336 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15193-0 $35.00
The first full biography of Walther Rathenau to be published in English in many years, this sensitive portrait explores Rathenaus life, assassination, and the complex dynamic between Jews and Germans in the Weimar Republic.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2012 256 pp. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14431-4 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17847-0
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Gulag Voices
Edited by Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum brings together a unique collection of Gulag survivors memoirs.
Annals of Communism Series Paper 2012 216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17783-1 $18.00 Cloth 2011 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15320-0 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16012-3
Spies
Based on new archival research, this book presents a comprehensive account of the German siege of Leningrad in 194143, during which close to one million Leningraders perished.
Annals of Communism Series Cloth 2012 552 pp. 76 b/w illus, 5 maps, 3 tables ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11029-6 $75.00
Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 19871991
Leon Aron
A compelling new history of the collapse of the Soviet Union that explores the intellectual and ideological impulses that propelled the revolution.
Cloth 2012 496 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11844-5 $40.00
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David Brandenberger
Although the Soviet Union is often considered to have been the worlds first propaganda state, communist officials under Stalin were repeatedly frustrated in their attempts to promote a coherent sense of Soviet social identity. An expos of systemic failure within USSRs ideological establishment, this book rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Paper 2012 376 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15537-2 $55.00
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Restless Valley
Philip Shishkin
Leon Trotsky
A Revolutionarys Life
Joshua Rubenstein
Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotskys own political oblivion.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2011 240 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13724-8 $25.00
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David Satter
This compelling book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons of its tragic Communist experience and shows how a deep-rooted lack of respect for the individual blocks the nations way to a stable and democratic future.
Paper 2013 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19237-7 $23.00 Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11145-3 $29.95
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Religious History
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Christopher A. Beeley
Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathersamong them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandriaand reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity.
Cloth 2012 408 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00
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Conversions
Craig Harline
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Calvinism
A History
D. G. Hart
This brisk single-volume history explores Calvinism from its origins in the sixteenth century through today, assessing political and social dynamics as the church grew and evolved. The book also raises important questions about the relation of church and state in our own times.
Cloth 2013 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14879-4 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-19563-1
Many Yale University Press titles are also available from most major e-Book stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&Ns nook store, Google Editions, Kobo, and Sony.
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Before Religion
Brent Nongbri
Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
Denys Turner
Leaving few traces of his personal life behind, Thomas Aquinas has long stymied the efforts of biographers. Undeterred, master teacher Denys Turner uncovers revealing details about the elusive saint and achieves an illuminating new portrait.
Cloth 2013 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18855-4 $28.00
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Transient Apostle
Christian Beginnings
From Nazareth to Nicaea
Geza Vermes
In this deeply learned and beautifully written book, Geza Vermes tells the enthralling story of how a revolutionary, anticonformist Jewish subsect became the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
Cloth 2013 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19160-8 $30.00
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Cultures in Contact
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Kenya
Southern Africa
Stephen Chan
Yasmin Khan
One of the first events of decolonization in the twentieth century, the Great Partition of 1947 was also one of the most bloody. In this sweeping reappraisal of Indias liberation from British rule and the emergence of Pakistan, Yasmin Khan uncovers the recklessness of the Partition plan, its catastrophic human toll, and the unshakable animosity left in its wake.
Paper 2008 272 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14333-1 $16.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17639-1
Daniel Branch
In this illuminating account of Kenyas first fifty years of independence, an authority on African history analyzes how ethnic violence, government corruption, inequality, and other difficult issues hinder national prosperity and justice.
Paper 2013 392 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19414-2 $23.00 Cloth 2011 352 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14876-3 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18064-0
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Syria
Craig Daigle
Craig Daigle shows how the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.
Cloth 2012 448 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16713-9 $55.00
David W. Lesch
The author, who knows Assad better than any other Westerner, analyzes the Syrian presidents failed leadership, his transformation from bearer of hope to reactionary tyrant, and his regimes violent response to Arab Spring-inspired protests.
Cloth 2012 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18651-2 $28.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18916-2
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Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
Avi Raz
This penetrating book explores newly opened archives to uncover how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed in the crucial years after the Six Day War. The authors conclusions are both controversial and illuminating.
Cloth 2012 480 pp. 7 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17194-5 $35.00
Behll zkan
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey.
Paper 2012 288 pp. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17201-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18351-1
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Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Menachem Begin
A Life
Islanders
Avi Shilon
Translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett
One of the most importantand enigmaticleaders in Israeli history, Begin was revered but also despised. This biography offers the first complete portrait of the private man, his public contributions, and the mystery of his final years in seclusion.
Cloth 2012 584 pp. 48 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16235-6 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18903-2
Nicholas Thomas
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook.
Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize given by the Wolfson Foundation Paper 2012 352 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18056-5 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17499-1
Trita Parsi
With a New Preface by the Author
Trita Parsi untangles the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present and spells out how American policies can avert catastrophe and lead the region toward peace.
Winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Paper 2008 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14311-9 $19.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-13806-1
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Israel
An Introduction
Tibet
A History
Barry Rubin
In this uniquely wide-ranging portrait of Israel, students and general readers will find accurate information on such important topics as its history, land and people, politics, society, economics, and culture.
Paper 2012 352 pp. 86 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16230-1 $30.00
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Witness to History
Victoria Schofield
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E. H. Gombrich
This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of Gombrichs narrative with the images that may well have been in his minds eye as he wrote the book.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 200 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17614-8 $29.95
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Global Crisis
Geoffrey Parker
A master historian uncovers the disturbing connection between the worldwide tumult of the mid-seventeenth century and weather changes during the same period. The inevitable question arises: are we prepared to deal with the repercussions of climate change in our own time?
Winner of one of the 2012 Heineken Prizes Cloth 2013 850 pp. 100 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15323-1 $40.00
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 19732005
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz
This ambitious anthology documents the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes around the world since 1973. From literature to visual arts, from popular culture to spiritual works, the volume encompasses the full diversity of Jewish civilization.
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Cloth 2012 1,232 pp. 169 color + 58 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13553-4 $150.00
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Opium
Mark Harrison
In this book, the author uncovers disturbing weaknesses in regulatory systems that have failed to protect public health or facilitate global commerce in the past, and continue to fall far short.
Cloth 2013 400 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12357-9 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18930-8
Thomas Dormandy
This extraordinary book explores the entire history of the worlds most fascinating drug, revealing opiums power to relieve suffering, inspire great art, and promote medical advances but also to destroy individuals, families, and even nations.
Cloth 2012 376 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17532-5 $40.00
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Ginkgo
Peter Crane
Foreword by Peter Raven
A renowned botanist recounts the eventful 250-million-year history of the ginkgo tree, its near demise during the ice ages, its surprising reprieve from extinction through human intervention, and its honored place in cities around the globe.
Cloth 2013 400 pp. 61 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18751-9 $40.00
William C. Summers
A fascinating case history of how plague was used by various entities for different purposes, illustrating the interplay among technology, culture, and disease.
Cloth 2012 216 pp. 13 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18319-1 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18476-1
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Humanity
An Empire of Ice
Edward J. Larson
Jonathan Glover
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-9/11 era and into our own time.
Paper 2012 496 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18640-6 $17.00
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Love
A History
Simon May
A radically new exploration of the ways we think about love; how it has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over nearly three millennia; and how we might more accurately and successfullyconceive it.
Paper 2013 312 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18774-8 $16.00 Cloth 2011 294 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11830-8 $27.50
This original book explores how great seafaring captains like Columbus and Magellan not only quelled mutinies but also built upon such incidents to strengthen their enterprises. Todays organizational leaders have much to learn about leadership and tactics from these earlier masters.
Cloth 2013 304 pp. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17028-3 $26.00
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Odd Couple
Michael Huberman
Contrary to common belief, argues a prominent economic historian, globalization does not destroy labor standards and workers quality of life: globalization and labor have worked in tandem to improve living standards.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 256 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15870-0 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15876-2
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Death
Shelly Kagan
What am I to make of the fact that I am going to die? In this thought-provoking book, philosopher Shelly Kagan confronts myriad questions relating to our mortality and invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about death.
Paper 2012 392 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18084-8 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18342-9
Theory of Literature
Paul H. Fry
In this brilliant tour of twentieth-century literary theory, Professor Paul Fry explores important movements and themes that illuminate what literature is, how it is produced, and the many ways it can be understood.
Paper 2012 400 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18083-1 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18336-8
Political Philosophy
Steven B. Smith
This engaging book explores the wide terrain of political philosophy through classic texts by Plato, Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and others who confront enduring problems: who ought to govern? why should I obey the law? how should conflict be controlled?
Paper 2012 296 pp. 11 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18180-7 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18913-1
Index
Aldhouse-Green, 11 Allmand, 16 Andrew, 17 Applebaum, 24 Aron, 24 Aruz, Graff & Rakic, 28 Ashton, 20 Barber, 13 Barlow, 16 Beckett, 9 Beeley, 26 Bell, 9 Belova & Lazarev, 24 Berebitsky, 8 Bernard, E., 6 Bernard, G.W., 13, 15 Bidlack & Lomagin, 24 Blair, 15 Branch, 28 Brandenberger, 24 Brekus, 2 Bremer, 2 Brody, 28 Brown, 20 Brunner, 31 Bynum, 30 Campbell, B., 11 Campbell, T., 6 Carey, 2 Carlyle, 30 Carp, 2 Chan, 28 Colley, 17 Cooper, 15 Cowan, 17 Crane, 31 Crouch, 13 Crystal, 30 Cunliffe, 11 Daigle, 28 Dalton, 28 Dalzell, Jr., 8 Davies, 9 de Tocqueville, 4 DeLay, 5 Delbo, 22 Dormandy, 31 Douglas, 22 Douglass, 4 Duffy, 26 Dunn, 6 Eagleton, 31 Edwards, 16 Elliott, J.H., 3, 30 Eltis & Richardson, 3 Faulkner, 11 Field, 6 Findley, 22 Flavell, 17 Foot, 16 France, 9 Freeman, 26 Friedrich, 22 Frieze, 22 Fry, 33 Gauci, 17 Gerwarth, 22 Glasser, 6 Glover, 32 Gombrich, 30 Gordon, 15 Gottlieb, 22 Griffin, 20 Haas, 22 HaCohen, 13 Hagenstein, Gregg, & Donahue, 8 Hall, 20 Hmlinen, 5 Hamilton et al., 2 Harline, 26 Harris, 13 Harrison, 31 Hart, 26 Harvey, 9 Haslam, 24 Hatch, 2 Hayes, 33 Haynes, Klehr, & Vassiliev, 24 Herf, 22 Herzog, 15 Hicks, 13 Higham & Ryan, 14 Hine & Faragher, 5 Hobsbawm, 32 Huberman, 32 Hutton, 11 Isaac, 23 Jacoby, 6 Jeal, 20 Jonsson, 17 Kadane, 17 Kagan, 33 Kern, 5 Kete, 17 Khan, 28 King, E., 16 King, W., 8 Kohut, 22 Krentz, 9 Kurlansky, 6 Lane, 26 Larson, 32 Lasner, 6 Lavin, 8 Lawrence-Mathers, 14 Lemert, 26 Lesch, 28 Levack, 27 Lubet, 4, 5 Lukacs, 9, 30 Lynch, 3 MacMullen, 12 Mandler, 6 Margolick, 7 Margulies, 7 Marquis, 27 Marriott, 21 Marshall, 21 Martin, T., 11 Martin, D., 33 Mawdsley, 10 May, 32 McGilchrist, 32 McLynn, 10, 18 McPhee, 18 Meddelaar, 23 Meyerson, 2 Miller & Mundy, 3 Mokyr, 18 Monod, 18 Monter, 14 Moore & Gertz, 31 More, 15 Moss, 27 Mller, 23 Murphy & Coye, 32 Neal, 18 Nongbri, 27 OShaughnessy, 10 Oakley, 14 Ohlmeyer, 18 Onwuachi-Willig, 7 Ormrod, 16 zkan, 29 Ozment, 27 Paas, 18 Parker, 31 Parry, 13 Parsi, 7, 29 Pells, 7 Peterson, 4 Pettegree, 14 Phillips, S., 16 Phillips, M. S., 19 Phillipson, 19 Piatote, 4 Pincus, 19 Plamper, 25 Plater, 7 Prior, 10 Radner, 19 Ransby, 7 Raz, 29 Rico, 5 Rogers, G., 11 Rogers, N., 19 Rohrbough, 5 Rosenfeld, 23 Rosenheim, 10 Rubenstein, 25 Rubin, 29 Rushdy, 8 Sachs, 8 Sanders, 21 Satter, 25 Scarisbrick, 16 Schaeper, 2 Schofield, 30 Schorr, 4 Schwartz, P. & M., 7 Schwartz, S., 3 Shalev, 4 Shapiro, 33 Sharpe, 15 Sherratt, 23 Shilon, 29 Shishkin, 25 Slater, 21 Sluyter, 3 Smith, P., 7 Smith, S., 33 Soyinka, 29 Stalin Digital Archive, 25 Steinberg, 25 Stern, 23 Stoneman, 12 Storella & Sokolov, 25 Stratmann, 21 Summers, 31 Tanner, 13 Taylor, 14 Thomas, W., 4 Thomas, N., 29 Thompson, 16 Thomson, 2 Trivellato, 19 Tsutsiev, 25 Tucker, Michels, & Zelt, 10 Turner, R., 14 Turner, D., 27 Utley, 5 van Schaik, 29 Vermes, 27 Volkov, 23 Walkowitz, 21 Walvin, 3 Wanklyn, 10 Warburton, 30 Webb, 10 Weber, 5 Weber, Ames, & Wittman, 8 Weinstein, 13 Wellman, 14 Whatmore, 19 Wilken, 27 Wills, 15 Winroth, 14 Winter & Teitelbaum, 31 Wittman, 8 Zhou Xun, 29
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Front cover image: The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782, John Singleton Copley, 1783. Guildhall Art Gallery, London