Yale University Press History 2012 Catalog

HISTORY
2012
Study of these documents will enrich, if not revolutionize, our understanding of the Soviet Union. J. Arch Getty, professor of history, UCLA
Stalin Digital Archive

The Stalin Digital Archive provides unprecedented access to historically significant content and robust online capabilities for research and teaching The result of years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to materials from Stalins personal archive and monographs on the history of Soviet and international communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and to collaborate. The SDA collections include a wealth of material: RGASPI documents from Stalins personal papers will eventually number over 400,000 pages. Highlights include: foreign policy before and during World War II; communications during the Great Purges; information on relations with Western intellectuals and leaders; and marginal notes on the books from Stalins library. The Annals of Communism series contains 25 volumes of documents from Russian state and party archives concerning the history of Soviet and international communism, with scholarly commentary and annotation, selected and edited by teams of Western and Russian editors.
From advanced search and browse functionality to personalized workspaces, the Stalin Digital Archive uses technology to enhance the process and impact of scholarship. The SDA allows users to compare documents, save searches and documents, and define tags. Users can also engage in discussions and share annotations and tags with others.
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Atlantic History
Empires of the Atlantic World

J. H. Elliott
Britain and Spain in America 14921830

In this account, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott 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 $29.00 Cloth 2006 560 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11431-7 $55.00
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

David Eltis and David Richardson
Foreword by David Brion Davis; Afterword by David W. Blight
A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade.
Winner of the 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence; Winner of the 2011 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic history, given by the American Historical Association The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps; 5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00
New
New Worlds
John Lynch
A Religious History of Latin America

John Lynch presents a brilliant capstone work encompassing the Latin American peoples reception of Christianity from the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of evangelists to the dictators and repressive regimes of the twentieth century.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 384 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16680-4 $35.00
All Can Be Saved

Stuart B. Schwartz
Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

This groundbreaking book is the first to investigate the idea of religious tolerance in Spain, Portugal, and their New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition.
Winner of the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History; Winner of the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize, the 2009 Leo Gershoy Award, and the 2009 George L. Mosse Prize, all given by the American Historical Association Paper 2009 352 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15854-0 $25.00 Cloth 2008 352 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12580-1 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15053-7
Spain, Europe and the Wider World 15001800 Extending the Frontiers J.H. Elliott
This extraordinarily wide-ranging volume gathers together historian J. H. Elliotts recent writings on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds from 1500 to 1800.
Cloth 2009 352 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14537-3 $38.00
Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Edited by David Eltis and David Richardson

Drawing on an enormous amount of recent research, the contributors to this volume explore fundamental questions about the history of the transatlantic trade in slaves.
Cloth 2008 400 pp. 17 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13436-0 $90.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15174-9
Oceans of Wine
David Hancock
Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste

This innovative book examines the Portuguese-American Madeira wine trade from 1640 to 1815, demonstrating how the trade helped shape the Atlantic world and American society.
Winner of the 2009-2010 Louis Gottschalk Prize sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2009 680 pp. 57 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13605-0 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15581-5
Colour of Paradise
The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires
New
The Zong
James Walvin
Kris Lane
Lane tracks the extraordinary odyssey of Columbian emeralds from the period of the time of the Conquistadors to the age of Napoleon and Bolvar, and from the jungle mines to princely courts.
Cloth 2010 320 pp. 16 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16131-1 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16470-1
A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery

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.
1-800-405-1619 Yale University Press YaleBooks.com
Colonial & Early American History
New in paper
New in paper
New
What Clothes Reveal

The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Defiance of the Patriots

Benjamin L. Carp
Linda Baumgarten
This stunning book, illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, features a rich array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century garments from the premiere collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Paper 2012 280 pp. 355 color + 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18107-4 $45.00
The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

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
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

Volume 40: May 16 through September 15, 1783
Ellen R. Cohn, Editor
Jonathan R. Dull, Senior Associate Editor; Karen Duval and Kate M. Ohno, Associate Editors; Alicia K. Anderson, Adrina M. Garbooshian, Michael Sletcher, and Philipp Ziesche, Assistant Editors; Alysia M. Cain, Editorial Assistant The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Cloth 2011 784 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16546-3 $100.00
The Puritan Origins of the American Self

With a New Preface
New in paper
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Second Edition
Sacvan Bercovitch
With a New Preface by the Author
Bercovitchs subject is the development of the concept of American identity and he explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.
Paper 2011 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00
Notes from the Ground

Benjamin R. Cohen
Benjamin Franklin
Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside

Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.
Yale Agrarian Studies Series Paper 2011 288 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17770-1 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15492-4
Edited by Leonard W. Labaree, Ralph L. Ketcham, Helen C. Boatfield, and Helene H. Fineman. With a new foreword by Edmund S. Morgan
Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklins autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer.
Paper 2003 364 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09858-7 $9.95 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15955-4
Foul Bodies
Cleanliness in Early America
Kathleen M. Brown
This unusual history examines how practices and attitudes toward cleanliness and dirt evolved in America from the arrival of the first Europeans to the mid-1800s.
Winner of the 2010 Lawrence W. Levine Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians; Winner of the 2009 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Award Society and the Sexes in the Modern World Paper 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17155-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16027-7
The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Shapiro
This authoritative edition of the complete texts of the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Articles of Confederation is accompanied by essays in which leading scholars provide historical context and thematic background.
Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2009 608 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16104-5
Jonathan Edwardss Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

A Casebook
Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb J. D. Maskell, and Kenneth P. Minkema

Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of Sinners, accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon.
Paper 2010 224 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14038-5 $14.00
Colonial & Early American History
New
New
New
A Rich Spot of Earth Endowed by Our Thomas Jeffersons Revolutionary Creator Garden at Monticello
Peter J. Hatch
Foreword by Alice Waters
This gorgeous volume describes Jeffersons unique vegetable garden at Monticello and uncovers his lasting influence on American culinary, garden, and landscape history.
Available in April 2012 Cloth 2012 288 pp. 201 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17114-3 $35.00
Edward Bancroft
Scientist, Author, Spy
The Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Thomas J. Schaeper
The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution.
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
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.
Available in May 2012 Cloth 2012 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16632-3 $32.50
Defying Empire
Thomas M. Truxes
The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah

J. William Harris
Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

This enthralling book uncovers the story of New York City merchants illicit trade with the enemy during the French and Indian War, and how British reactions to this treacherous behavior hastened the colonies march toward revolution.
Paper 2010 304 pp. 20 b/w maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16425-1 $22.00 Cloth 2008 304 pp. 20 b/w maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11840-7 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15043-8
A Free Black Mans Encounter with Liberty

This book tells for the first time the tragic story of Thomas Jeremiah, a black man caught up in the turmoil of revolution in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1775.
Winner of the Silver Medal in the History category for the 2009 Book of the Year Award, presented by ForeWord magazine Paper 2011 240 pp. 22 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17132-7 $20.00 Cloth 2009 240 pp. 22 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15214-2 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15569-3
Peters War
A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
Joyce Lee Malcolm

This riveting biography of a Massachusetts slave boy who fought in the Revolutionary War illuminates race relations in the northern colonies, early battles of the revolution, and the experiences of black soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
Paper 2010 272 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16806-8 $20.00 Cloth 2009 272 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11930-5 $28.00
Young Men and the Sea

Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh

This book focuses on two centuries of early American maritime history, years when the Atlantic Ocean beckoned as the great frontier.
Paper 2007 352 pp. 25 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12366-1 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15026-1
The Great Awakening

The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America
Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
This brilliant biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of Americas most extraordinary patriot.
Winner of the 2002 Colonial Dames of America Annual Book Award; Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Paper 2003 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10162-1 $16.00 Cloth 2002 352 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09532-6 $28.00
Thomas S. Kidd
In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of religious revivals shook American colonial society. This book provides a definitive history of these revivals, called the First Great Awakening.
Early American History/Nineteenth-Century America
Inventing a Nation
Gore Vidal
New
Washington, Adams, Jefferson

One of the master stylists of American literature, Gore Vidal provides us with his uniquely irreverent take on Americas founding fathers.
Icons of America Paper 2004 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10592-6 $14.00
The Statue of Liberty

A Transatlantic Story
Edward Berenson
In this stirring history of Lady Liberty, cultural historian Edward Berenson explores the statues creation in France, its changing meaning for each generation of Americans, and its significance as a symbol in the post-9/11 years.
Available in May 2012 Icons of America Cloth 2012 240 pp. 37 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14950-0 $25.00
Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouris Civil War, 18611865

Mark W. Geiger
This highly original work explores the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouris guerrilla conflict, and for the states anomalous experience in Reconstruction.
Winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Prize awarded by the Society of Civil War Historians Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2010 320 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15151-0 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15152-7
A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith

Lauren F. Winner
Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of EighteenthCentury Virginia

This book examines an array of physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners lives and religious practices.
Dominion from Sea to Sea

Bruce Cumings
Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

In this bold history, Bruce Cumings upends the dominant Atlanticist approach to American history and offers a Pacific perspective on Americas ascendency over the past 150 years.
Paper 2010 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16800-6 $24.00 Cloth 2009 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11188-0 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15497-9
Fighting for American Manhood

Kristin L. Hoganson
Blending the insights of gender studies with foreign-policy studies, this groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of American imperialism during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars.
Yale Historical Publications Series Paper 2000 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08554-9 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14787-2
How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and PhilippineAmerican Wars
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Written by Himself
Frederick Douglass
New in paper
Edited by John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks
Fruitlands
This classic autobiography includes a chronology of Douglasss life, a thorough introduction, historical notes, and reader responses to the 1845 edition.
The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
Richard Francis
This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of historys most unsuccessfulbut most significantutopian experiments, established in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May was among the members).
Tocqueville and His America

A Darker Horizon
Arthur Kaledin
This groundbreaking study of Tocquevilles life, thought, and writings yields new insights into his views on democratic culture and politics.
Cloth 2011 440 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11931-2 $45.00
Nineteenth-Century America
The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan

Gerard N. Magliocca
New in paper
New in paper
Black Gotham
Carla L. Peterson
Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

Populist William Jennings Bryan failed three times to win the White House. This book explores the powerful backlash that he inspired during the 1890s, the resulting transformation of constitutional law, and the lessons for those who advocate sweeping change in our own divisive times.
A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

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.
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
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Edited by Steven B. Smith
Bringing an assortment of Abraham Lincolns speeches, letters, and private meditations together with four interpretive essays, Steven Smith demonstrates Lincolns strength as a political philosopher.
Paper available in April 2012 Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2012 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18123-4 $18.00 Cloth 2012 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16510-4 $55.00
Hellfire Nation
James A. Morone
New in paper
The Politics of Sin in American History

This insightful new conceptualization of American political history demonstrates thatdespite the clear separation of church and statereligion lies at the heart of American politics.
Delias Tears
Molly Rogers
Letters from America

Alexis de Tocqueville
Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Frederick Brown
This book presents for the first time the complete translated correspondence of Tocqueville on his first journey to America in 1831. These remarkable letters contain the seeds of his later masterful account of American democracy.
Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

Foreword by David W. Blight
In the first narrative history of the photographs of South Carolina slaves made for the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz, Molly Rogers tells the story of the photographs, the people they depict, and the men who made and used them.
The Fate of the Corps

Larry E. Morris
What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition
This engaging book is the first to trace the fascinating histories of the remarkable menand one womanwho were members of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In later years, some of these individuals became public officials, others continued to be adventurers, and two were even murder suspects: this book tells their stories in colorful detail.
Mrs. Mattinglys Miracle
New
The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City
The Iron Way
Nancy Lusignan Schultz

The miraculous cure of a Washington D.C. widows ravaging cancer in 1824, purportedly through the intervention of a charismatic German prince, ignited political, social, and religious controversy. This gripping book captures the drama of the miracle and its repercussions.
Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America
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.
The Lamar Series in Western History
Furs and Frontiers in the Far North

The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
Sugar Creek
Life on the Illinois Prairie
John Mack Faragher

The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War.
Paper 1988 285 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-04263-4 $22.50
The Bourgeois Frontier

Jay Gitlin
French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

This important work of revisionist history tells the story of the Bourgeois Frontierthe French merchants and families from Mid-America who shaped the course of western expansion.
Winner of the 2010 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize given by the French Colonial Historical Society Paper 2010 290 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16803-7 $29.00 Cloth 2009 288 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10118-8 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15576-1
John R. Bockstoce
With expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska.
New in paper
Defying the Odds
The Tule River Tribes Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries
Vicious
Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg

An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from first contact through the current Indian gaming era.
Wolves and Men in America
Jon T. Coleman
In this provocative history of wolves in America, Jon Coleman investigates the sometimes violent and always controversial relationship between the two species.
Winner of the 2005 John H. Dunning Prize sponsored by the American Historical Association Paper 2006 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11972-5 $18.50 Cloth 2004 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10390-8 $30.00
The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hmlinen
This groundbreaking book uncovers the lost story of the Comanche Indians and the vast and powerful empire they built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Winner of the 2009 Bancroft Prize, given by Columbia University; Co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians Paper 2009 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15117-6 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14513-7
New
Subverting Exclusion
Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 18851928
War of a Thousand Deserts

Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
Hell on the Range

Daniel Justin Herman
Andrea Geiger
In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of immigrants descended from Japans outcaste communities in the North American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion.
A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

In this lively account of Arizonas Rim Country War of the 1880s, the author uncovers surprising truths about the complex interplay of honor and conscience, violence and identity, in the history of the American West.
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Cloth 2010 400 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13736-1 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16854-9
Brian DeLay
In this radically new account, Brian DeLay uncovers the forgotten role of the Comanches and their native allies.
Winner of the 2009 Robert M. Utley Award and of the 2009 W. Turrentine Jackson Award given by the Western History Association Paper 2009 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15837-3 $25.00 Cloth 2008 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11932-9 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15042-1
The Lamar Series in Western History
The American West

A New Interpretive History
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

This grand survey of the history of the American West presents a panoramic view of events and characters from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans through the 1990s and is llustrated with more than 150 contemporary drawings, posters, and photographs.
Winner of the 2001 Caughey Western History Association Prize Paper 2000 632 pp. 150 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07835-0 $29.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16059-8
The Jeffersons at Shadwell

Susan Kern
An original study of Shadwell, Thomas Jeffersons boyhood home, providing new insights into the founding fathers formative years.
Winner of the 2011 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum; Winner of the 2011 Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginian Biography, sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society Cloth 2010 384 pp. 56 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15390-3 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15570-9
Sun Chief
The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
Edited by Leo W. Simmons

Don Sun Chief Talayesva; With a new foreword by Robert V. Hine
Don C. Talayesva of Oraibi, Arizona, the Sun Chief, was an individual caught between the crosscurrents of two cultures. For Leo Simmons, a white man who was adopted as a clan brother, he finally wrote the story of his life in all its extraordinary detail.
Paper 1963 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00227-0 $22.50
Frontiers
Murder in Tombstone
Steven Lubet
Fugitive Landscapes
The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
A Short History of the American West
The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp

The gunfight at the OK Corral is legendarybut what happened once the shooting ended? This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the gunfight and shows how a talented defense attorney saved them from the gallows.
Samuel Truett
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, U.S. and Mexican elites sought to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of economic development. This book explores how efforts to tame this fugitive landscape ran aground, telling a forgotten story of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for contemporary border relations.
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

This concise and freshly updated edition provides a grand survey of our colorful frontier history, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Paper 2008 288 pp. 32 pp. illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13620-3 $19.00
The American Far William Clarks World West in the Twentieth Describing America in an Age of Century Unknowns
Peter J. Kastor
Focusing on maps, surveys, journals and other objects William Clark created to help describe Americas West for those who had not yet seen it, this book casts new light on how the West took shape in the national imagination.
The Spanish Frontier in North America

The Brief Edition
Earl Pomeroy
Edited by Richard W. Etulain; Foreword by Howard R. Lamar
In this monumental history, the most respected western scholar of our time draws a nuanced and highly original portrait of the American West in the twentieth century.
Paper 2009 600 pp. 62 b/w photos + maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15852-6 $25.00 Cloth 2008 600 pp. 62 b/w photos + maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12073-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14267-9
David J. Weber
This compact synthesis of David J. Webers prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spains 300year 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 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15621-8
Twentieth-Century America
For All the World to See

Maurice Berger
Foreword by Thulani Davis
New in paper
New
Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Joe DiMaggio
The Long Vigil
Jerome Charyn
This riveting study of Joe DiMaggio offers a more sympathetic look at his life beyond the baseball field, a reversal of how the legendary sports icon has been portrayed in recent years.
Icons of America Paper 2012 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18147-0 $15.00 Cloth 2011 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12328-9 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17266-9
Eighteen-Day Running Mate

Joshua M. Glasser
McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis

This riveting story of the 1972 election uncovers how vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagletons secrets were revealed, why he withdrew from the race, and how George McGoverns campaign dealt with the staggering blow.
Available in July 2012 Cloth 2012 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17629-2 $26.00
This stunning book is the first comprehensive examination of the ways that visual images mattered in the American civil rights struggle, from photography, television, and film to magazines, newspapers, and advertising.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. 53 b/w + 37 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12131-5 $39.95 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16331-5
New
A Great Leap Forward

1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

Emily Bernard
New
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.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2011 400 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15109-1 $45.00
Emma Goldman
Vivian Gornick
Revolution as a Way of Life

Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. This book is a vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2011 160 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13726-2 $25.00
A Portrait in Black and White

This groundbreaking book is the first to focus on the flamboyant Carl Van Vechten, his notoriety as a white man with a passion for black people and culture, and his still-debated contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.
From Ellis Island to JFK

New Yorks Two Great Waves of Immigration
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The Hollywood Sign

Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon
Nancy Foner
Two great waves of immigrationone at the start of the twentieth century and another in its final decadestransformed the history and personality of New York City. This book is the first in-depth comparison of New Yorks two immigration eras.
Winner of the 2000 Theodore Saloutos Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation Paper 2002 352 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09321-6 $22.00
Leo Braudy
The first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Sign, which was erected in 1923 as a temporary real estate advertisement and has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage.
Icons of America Paper 2012 224 pp. 17 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18145-6 $15.00 Cloth 2011 224 pp. 17 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15660-7 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15878-6
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American Caesars
Nigel Hamilton
Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

From the acclaimed author of Monty, JFK: Reckless Youth, and Bill Clinton comes a new, vivid portrait of the last twelve U.S. presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
Instituting Reform
The Social Museum of Harvard University, 19031931
Elizabeth and Hazel

Two Women of Little Rock
Edited by Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunire

In this generously illustrated volume, leading scholars examine the history of a unique institution whose pedagogical goals and exhibition style reflect the Progressive Eras scientific approach to understanding social change.
Published by Harvard Art Museums/ Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2012 288 pp. 211 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17106-8 $55.00
David Margolick
Who were the two fifteen-year-old girls from Little Rockone black, one whitein one of the most unforgettable photographs of the civil rights era? From what worlds did they come? What happened to them? How did the picture affect their lives?
The Myth of American Hank Greenberg The Hero Who Didnt Want to Exceptionalism
Godfrey Hodgson
The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns an eminent British commentator in this provocative book.
Paper 2010 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16419-0 $18.00 Cloth 2009 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12570-2 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14268-6
From the New Deal to the New Right

Joseph E. Lowndes
Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

The Souths transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in this book, this rightward shift was not necessarily a natural response by alienated whites, but rather the result of the long-term development of an alliance between Southern segregationists and Northern conservatives, two groups who initially shared little beyond opposition to specific New Deal imperatives.
Be One
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky delivers the compelling life story of Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish player elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2011 192 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13660-9 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17514-1
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The Invisible Harry Gold

Allen M. Hornblum
Unwarranted Influence
James Ledbetter
The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

The first account of one of the most important and enigmatic spies in U.S. history: the man who delivered the plans for the atom bomb to the Soviets.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex

A fascinating analysis of one of the most important political and economic ideas of our time: the ties between Americas military and its economy.
Icons of America Paper 2011 280 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17762-6 $17.00 Cloth 2011 280 pp. 1 b/w ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15305-7 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16882-2
Our e-Book editions are available from most major eBook stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&Ns nook store, Google Editions, Kobo, and Sony.
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Superpower Illusions
Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
How Myths and False Ideologies Led America AstrayAnd How to Return to Reality
Former U.S. ambassador to the USSR Jack F. Matlock demolishes central myths behind Americas present foreign policyincluding the idea that the U.S. destroyed Communism and ended the Cold Warand makes bold recommendations for the Obama administration.
Joe Louis
A Complicated Man
Michael Takiff
Hard Times Man
Randy Roberts
This is the definitive biography of the most famous African American of the mid-twentieth century: his life, the complex cast of characters around him, and his importance to civil rights.
The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him

The life and times of Bill Clinton as told by 169 of the friends, colleagues, and rivals who know him best, revealing the most complete and unexpected portrait of our forty-second president published to date.
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Woodrow Wilson
W. Barksdale Maynard
Pivotal Decade
Judith Stein
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Princeton to the Presidency

This book offers a vivid account of Wilsons stormy tenure as president of Princeton University. Focusing for the first time on this period of Wilsons life, the book provides insights into his difficult personality, motivations, and ruthless political tactics.
Cloth 2008 416 pp. 40 scattered b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13604-3 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14270-9
How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factorythe era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality.
Savages and Scoundrels

Paul VanDevelder
This book demolishes myths about Americas westward expansion and uncovers a shocking historical pattern of governmental deception and malfeasance in treaties signedand just as often breachedwith Native Americans. The book explores how millions of square miles of Native lands and resources were fraudulently acquired, who participated, why, and the lingering consequences of that shameful history.
The Untold Story of Americas Road to Empire through Indian Territory
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Modernist America
Richard Pells
Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

This revelatory look at the popular belief that the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been one-sided reveals how foreign influences absorbed by American artists during the Modernist movement actually created a global culture.
Paper available in June 2012 Paper 2012 512 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18173-9 $23.00 Cloth 2011 512 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11504-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17173-0
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The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair

America on Trial
Moshik Temkin
This book is the first to reveal the full international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, tracing its enduring implications for America at home and abroad.
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American HistoryGeneral
The Conservatives
Patrick Allitt
Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

This persuasive account of American conservatism covers the entire span of U.S. history and introduces major conservative thinkers from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol.
American Georgics
Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
The Liberty Bell

Gary B. Nash
The distinguished historian Gary B. Nash recasts the legacy of one of Americas most enduring icons of freedom.
Icons of America Paper 2011 256 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17142-6 $14.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13936-5 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16314-8
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 Cloth 2011 432 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13709-5 $35.00
Wilderness and the American Mind

Fourth Edition
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Washington Crossing the Delaware
The Encyclopedia of New York City

Second Edition
Roderick Nash
Roderick Nashs classic study of Americas changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. Now a fourth edition of this highly regarded work is available, with a new preface and epilogue in which Nash explores the future of wilderness and reflects on its ethical and biocentric relevance.
Paper 2001 432 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09122-9 $18.00
Restoring an American Masterpiece
Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson

Everything youve ever wanted to know about the nations most fascinating city is in this new edition of this acclaimed, authoritative, and entertaining onevolume encyclopedia.
Cloth 2010 1,584 pp. 752 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11465-2 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18257-6
Carrie Rebora Barratt, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, Suzanne Smeaton, and Eli Wilner
This fascinating book recounts the acquisition and display of a beloved masterpiece as well as its recent restoration and reframing.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper 2011 48 pp. 55 color + 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17642-1 $14.95
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The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

Alice Wexler
Foreword by Nancy S. Wexler
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Sex and the Office

Julie Berebitsky
Creating the Administrative Constitution

Jerry L. Mashaw
Huntingtons and the Making of a Genetic Disease
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

In this engaging book, Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the present.
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World Cloth 2012 376 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11899-5 $38.00
The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic, beginning with the creation of the first U.S. Patent Board in 1793 and the federal governments regulation of steamboat commerce early in the nineteenth century.
Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
This groundbreaking book is the first to trace the history of Huntingtons disease in America, from a despairing victim who committed suicide in 1806 to the genetic discoveries of our own times. Weaving together social, medical, and scientific insights, the book illuminates attitudes toward disease, heredity, eugenics, genetic testing, and more.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17230-0 $75.00
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Military History
Twelve Turning Points Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power of the Second World John France War
P. M. H. Bell
A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the direction and outcome of the conflict.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. 20 b/w illus. + 5 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14885-5 $28.00
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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.
The Battle of Marathon

Peter Krentz
Drawing on early travelers, archaeologists, geologists, reenactors, and soldiers, Peter Krentz tells a compelling story that defends Herodotus account of how the Athenians won their most famous victory.
Yale Library of Military History Paper 2011 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17766-4 $17.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12085-1 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16880-8
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This Seat of Mars

War and the British Isles, 14851746
War Without Fronts

The USA in Vietnam
Bernd Greiner
Translated from the German by Anne Wyburd with Victoria Fern
Published to considerable controversy in Germany, this astonishing book draws on new archival material to reveal the existence of a systematic U.S. policy during the Vietnam War to exterminate Vietnamese civilians whenever and wherever possible.
Charles Carlton
A powerful account of the effects of war on early modern Britain, showing how war forged the British state and exploring the personal experiences of battle and bloodshed.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 24 b/w illus. + 10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13913-6 $40.00
War by Land, Sea, and Air

Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command
David Jablonsky
A retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhowers lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command.
Yale Library of Military History Paper 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17135-8 $23.00 Cloth 2010 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15389-7 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15568-6
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Wellingtons Wars
Huw J. Davies
The Making of a Military Genius

This book offers a provocative reappraisal of the Duke of Wellingtons brilliant military career, arguing that his success was based as much on political acumen as on his talent as a military commander.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16417-6 $38.00
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Churchills Bunker
Richard Holmes
The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London
Holmes provides the first comprehensive history of Londons Cabinet War Rooms, from which Churchill managed to turn a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a victory for the free world.
Baghdad at Sunrise
Peter R. Mansoor
A Brigade Commanders War in Iraq

In this gripping book, a U.S. Army brigade commander offers an unprecedented on-the-ground account of the crucial first year of the war in Iraq.
Yale Library of Military History Paper 2009 416 pp. 25 b/w illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15847-2 $18.00 Cloth 2008 416 pp. 25 b/w illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14069-9 $28.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14263-1
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Military History
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December 1941
Evan Mawdsley
Twelve Days that Began a World War

An account of twelve days in December 1941, when interlinked eventsincluding the Battle of Moscow, the Pearl Harbor raid, and Hitlers declaration of war on Americadecided the outcome of a war and changed the course of a century.
Cloth 2011 360 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15445-0 $30.00
An Atlas of the The Burma Campaign Peninsular War

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Disaster into Triumph, 194245
Frank McLynn
This book, in essence a quadruple biography, tells the true story of four largerthan-life Allied commanders (three Brits and one American) who battled the Japanese, and sometimes each other, in the long and bloody Burma campaign of World War II.
Yale Library of Military History Cloth 2011 552 pp. 17 b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17162-4 $35.00
Ian Robertson
This is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and explains the sequence of battles and the course of the war through expertly drawn cartography in color.
Cloth 2010 160 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 77 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14869-5 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17014-6
Five Days in London, May 1940

John Lukacs
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacss magisterial new book.
Paper 2001 256 pp. illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08466-5 $11.95 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18091-6
Gallipoli
Robin Prior
The End of the Myth

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.
First Strike
Mark Totten
America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

This original study explores the history of just war theory to consider when a states use of pre-emptive force may be justified.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12448-4 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16864-8
The Legacy of the Second World War

John Lukacs
The master historian John Lukacs explores lasting questions and enigmas about World War II, its consequences, and its persistent legacy.
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The Warrior Generals

Winning the British Civil Wars
The Artist and the Warrior

Theodore Rabb
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.
Military History through the Eyes of the Masters

How have artists across the millennia depicted warfare? This uniquely wide-ranging book examines an array of masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century to reveal evolving attitudes toward war and warriors.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. 60 b/w + 40 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12637-2 $45.00
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Ancient History
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.
Europe Between the The Romans and their Oceans 9000 BCAD 1000 World
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A Short Introduction
Barry Cunliffe
Brian Campbell
A concise history of ancient Rome from the early Republic to the last Western Roman emperor, this accessible book covers politics and emperors, warfare and the army, culture, the rise of Christianity, and much more.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. 42 b/w illus., 10 maps, 5 plans ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11795-0 $35.00
What was going on in Europe 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.
By Ramsay MacMullen
Christianity and Voting About God in Early Church Councils Paganism in the In this original book, an eminent Fourth to Eighth historian explores how early Christian Centuries doctrine was determined by majority
vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy
Corruption and the Decline of Rome

Written in an informal and lively style, this bookthe culmination of years of research and thoughtful analysisprovides a fascinating, fresh line of investigation and shows convincingly that the decline of Rome was a gradual, insidious process rather than a climactic event.
In this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries.
Ramsay MacMullen is the recipient of a lifetime Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association
Christianizing the Roman Empire

(A. D. 100400)
How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiasticalviewpoint.
Paganism in the Roman Empire

This is the first book to focus on the beliefs and practices common to all non-Christian religions of the Empire. After examining the successes of the more dynamic cults and the effects on paganism of the conversion of the Constantine, MacMullen concludes that the conversion of the Empire to Christianity was not as inevitable and complete as it has seemed up until now.
Paper 1983 246 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02984-0 $22.00
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Ancient History
A Visitors Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Neil Faulkner
Were the ancient Olympic games anything like the competitions we know today? This unique guide transports us to the games of 388 B.C., bringing to life the sights and sounds, the athletes and attendees, the sporting and religious events, and much, much more.
Available in April 2012 PB-with Flaps 2012 272 pp. 40 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15907-3 $28.00
Blood and Mistletoe

The History of the Druids in Britain
The Ancient Oracles

Making the Gods Speak
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.
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.
Alexander the Great

A Life in Legend
New in paper
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.
Antony and Cleopatra

Adrian Goldsworthy
In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of antiquity, acclaimed classical historian Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal of his subjects, set against the political backdrop of their time. A history of lives lived intensely at a time when the world was changing profoundly, the book takes readers on a journey that crosses cultures and boundaries from ancient Greece and ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire.
Paper 2011 480 pp. 20 color illus. + 14 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17745-9 $20.00 Cloth 2010 480 pp. 20 color illus. + 14 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16534-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16700-9
Ancient Greece
Thomas R. Martin
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students and general readers alike.
Paper 2000 276 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08493-1 $16.95
Philip II of Macedonia
Ian Worthington
Alexander the Great is remembered as an unparalleled conqueror, but this provocative biography contends that the achievements of his colorful father, Philip II of Macedonia, were just as great. A brilliant military and political strategist, a canny diplomat, and a king par excellence, Philip entirely changed the course of Greek history.
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Dawn of Egyptian Art

Diana Patch
This lavishly illustrated exploration of the origins of Egyptian art and motifs includes rare and ancient images of people, animals, and landscapes.
Available in May 2012 Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2012 256 pp. 240 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17952-1 $60.00
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Medieval, Renaissance & Reformation History
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Isabella and Leonardo

Francis Ames-Lewis
An intriguing look at the artistic relationship between one of the most powerful and interesting women of the Italian Renaissance one of the most celebrated artists of all time.
The Artistic Relationship between Isabella dEste and Leonardo da Vinci
The Late Medieval English Church

G.W. Bernard
Too Much to Know

Ann Blair
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

Historian George Bernard presents a bold, provocative challenge to our understanding of the late medieval church and the Protestant Reformation.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 304 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17997-2 $45.00
Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Long before the modern era scholars complained of the overabundance of books and developed techniques for selecting, sorting, and storing information on a large scale. This intriguing book examines information management in pre-modern contexts with a special focus on the impact of printing in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 240 pp. 60 color + 60 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12124-7 $50.00
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Leonardo da Vinci
Luke Syson
Anne Boleyn
Fatal Attractions
Painter at the Court of Milan

With Larry Keith, Arturo Galansino, Antonio Mazzotta, Minna Moore Ede, Scott Nethersole, and Per Rumberg
A new examination of Leonardos career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy.
Published by National Gallery Company/ Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2011 320 pp. 255 color + 11 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-1-85709-491-6 $65.00
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 $20.00 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
The English Aristocracy, 10701272

David Crouch
A Social Transformation
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.
Bannockburn
David Cornell
The Triumph of Robert the Bruce

In Bannockburn, Robert the Bruces vastly outnumbered Scottish troops spectacularly defeated the English army led by Edward II. This groundbreaking book brings the battle to life with colorful detail and fresh insights, explaining what happened in the years leading to 1314, how the battle unfolded, and the impact of its legacy in both Scotland and England.
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The Renaissance Portrait
From Donatello to Bellini
Edited by Keith Christiansen and Stefan Weppelmann

Surveying works in a variety of media, this catalogue investigates the development of Italian portraiture and its links to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2011 432 pp. 255 color + 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17591-2 $65.00
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By Eamon Duffy
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Fires of Faith
Catholic England under Mary Tudor

A controversial reassessment of Mary Tudors efforts to eradicate Protestantism and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth-century England, written by a leading authority on the history of Christianity.
Paper 2010 280 pp. 30 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16889-1 $18.00 Cloth 2009 280 pp. 30 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15216-6 $28.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16045-1
Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket

Peter Fergusson
This account of the major renewal at Canterbury cathedral priory in the mid12th century masterminded by Prior Wibert throws light on important shifts in architecture and monastic life during the early years of Henry IIs rule and that of his Royal Chancellor, Thomas Becket.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2011 288 pp. 50 color + 100 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17569-1 $85.00
The End of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris
Shedding new light on the final turbulent years of Byzantium, this evocative book explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered the thousand-year empire and reveals the consequences for ordinary Byzantines and their remarkable legacy.
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The Wars of the Roses

Michael Hicks
A magisterial account of the Wars of the Roses by a renowned historian, explaining for the first time why they began, why they kept recurring, and why they ceased.
The Voices of Morebath
Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

This delightful book offers a rare glimpse of life in a remote sixteenthcentury English village during the dramatic changes of the Reformation. Through vividly detailed parish records kept from 1520 to 1574 by the Sir Christopher Trychay, the garrulous priest of Morebath, we see how a tiny Catholic community rebelled, was punished, and reluctantly accepted Protestantism under the demands of the Elizabethan state.
Paper 2003 260 pp. 26 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09825-9 $16.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17502-8
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 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15981-3
Boyle
Between God and Science
Michael Hunter
This extraordinary work is the first biography in a generation of one of the worlds most important scientists, Robert Boylea pioneer of the modern experimental method, the champion of a novel mechanical view of nature, and a penetrating thinker regarding philosophical and theological issues related to science.
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Marking the Hours
English People and Their Prayers, 12401570

Surviving copies of the Book of Hours, the most personal and widely used book of the later Middle Ages, offer precious clues to the lives of their owners and the times in which they lived. Duffy examines these prayer books and the messages and jottings in their margins for insights into an era of great religious and social change.
Paper 2011 208 pp. 120 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17058-0 $25.00
The Music Libel Against the Jews

Ruth HaCohen
This deeply imaginative and wideranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a musical libela variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his harmonious musicality.
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The Escorial
Henry Kamen
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Art and Power in the Renaissance

An acclaimed historian explores one of the worlds most iconic buildings, as well as the monarch who created it.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 36 illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16244-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16825-9
The Serpent and the Lamb

Steven Ozment
Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

This spirited retelling of the lives and works of Cranach, the artist, and Luther, the reformer, recognizes for the first time how their combined successes gave birth to modern German art and the Protestant Reformation.
The Book in the Renaissance

Andrew Pettegree
A groundbreaking study of the fascinating world of books in the first great age of print, from 1450 to 1600.
Winner of the 2011 Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of America Paper 2011 440 pp. 69 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17821-0 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16835-8
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Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Images from a Scientific Revolution
Domenico Laurenza
This richly illustrated book offers a fresh view of the relationship between art and science, presenting new discoveries and original interpretations of work by Renaissance masters.
Available in March 2012 Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper 2012 48 pp. 55 color + 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17957-6 $14.95
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The Second Crusade

Extending the Frontiers of Christendom
The Mortgage of the Past

Francis Oakley
Jonathan Phillips
The Second Crusade (11451149) was an extraordinarily bold, but largely unsuccessful, attempt to defeat unbelievers in the Holy Land, Iberia, and northeastern Europe. This definitive book casts new light on the origins, planning, and execution of the Second Crusade, uncovering its profound impact on both Europe and the Middle East.
Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (10501300)

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.
Available in April 2012 The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages Cloth 2012 336 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17633-9 $55.00
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Berninis Beloved
Sarah McPhee
A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini

Representing years of meticulous research, Berninis Beloved reveals the story of Costanza Piccolomini, the woman whose intelligence and passion inspired one of Berninis most breathtaking marble portraits.
Available in May 2012 Cloth 2012 280 pp. 75 color + 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17527-1 $45.00
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The Crusades
A History; Second Edition
The Arch Conjuror of England

John Dee
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Jonathan Riley-Smith here provides a comprehensive history of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. His book will be the standard and authoritative account of the Crusades for years to come.
Paper 2005 400 pp. 9 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10128-7 $20.00
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.
Available in April 2012 Cloth 2012 384 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11719-6 $55.00
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The Making of the Middle Ages

R. W. Southern
A distinguished Oxford historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization.
Paper 1961 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00230-0 $21.00
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
Rome and Rhetoric

Shakespeares Julius Caesar
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.
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 Cloth 2011 200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15218-0 $25.00
The Raven King

Marcus Tanner
Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Seizing the Hungarian throne at fifteen, the effervescent Matthias Corvinus reigned long (14591490) and extraordinarily well. This book is the first in English to tell the gripping story of the Raven King and of the fate of his fabled 2000-volume library. Dispersed across Europe after his death, the kings exquisite volumes have been pursued with fervor for centuries.
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The Conversion of Scandinavia

Anders Winroth
Savonarola
The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe

Drawing on painstaking analysis and paleographic reconstruction of archeological and literary sources, Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.
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
The Virgin Warrior

Larissa Juliet Taylor
The Life and Death of Joan of Arc

This biography of Joan of Arc paints a vivid portrait of the teenaged French peasant girl whose charisma and sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders.
Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16895-2 $20.00 Cloth 2009 320 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11458-4 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16129-8
Shopping in the Renaissance

Evelyn Welch
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Consumer Cultures in Italy, 14001600

This fascinating book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics.
Winner of the Wolfson Foundation History Prize 2005 Paper 2009 256 pp. 80 b/w + 40 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15985-1 $35.00
Ralph Tailors Summer

Keith Wrightson
A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

This hugely moving study looks in detail at the plague of 1636 and its impact on one English city through the eyes of a young scrivener, Ralph Tailor. Keith Wrightson reconstructs life in seventeenth-century Newcastle-on-Tyne and envisions what such a calamitous decimation of the population must have meant for personal, familial, and social relations.
Cloth 2011 224 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17447-2 $40.00
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Yale English Monarchs
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Mary I
Englands Catholic Queen
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.
Henry V
Christopher Allmand
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.
New in paper
Edward the Confessor

Frank Barlow
New in paper
thelstan
Sarah Foot
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.
New in paper
The First King of England

This biography of King Athelstan (924939), who reigned briefly but brilliantly, reveals for the first time his personal life, his spectacular military victories, and why he may justly be called the first English monarch.
Cloth 2011 283 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 3 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12535-1 $40.00
Richard III
Charles Ross
New in paper
Henry VIII
J. J. Scarisbrick
New in paper
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.
George II
King and Elector
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.
Visit www. yalebooks.com/ englishmonarchs for a complete list of titles in The English Monarchs Series
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Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Britain
Selected Writings
Jeremy Bentham
Edited by Stephen G. Engelmann
This volume contains the first representative selection of the writings of Jeremy Bentham (17481832), the major utilitarian philosopher and reformer.
Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2011 560 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11237-5 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16868-6
The Social Life of Coffee

Brian Cowan
Captain Cook
Master of the Seas
The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

This book provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society in Britain in the seventeenth century, and how initial interest in coffee and invented the social template for coffeehouses, soon a central part of urban life.
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.
Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11421-8 $35.00
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform

Speeches and Letters
The Enlightened Economy

Joel Mokyr
Edmund Burke
Edited by David Bromwich
This anthology of Edmund Burkes important speeches, letters, and pamphlets shows the genius of the great eighteenth-century British statesman and the depth of his concern with reformparticularly in America, India, and Ireland.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2000 536 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08147-3 $26.00
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An Economic History of Britain 17001850

This incisive examination of the origins of the modern economy during the Industrial Revolution also explains why this phenomenon came to fruition in Britain.
The New Economic History of Britain Series Cloth 2010 550 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12455-2 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17650-6
When London Was Capital of America

Julie Flavell
In this first-ever portrait of eighteenthcentury London as the capital of America, Julie Flavell re-creates the famous citys heyday as the center of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
Britons
New
Forging the Nation 17071837 Revised Edition
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.
I Am Not Master of Events

Larry Neal
The Atmosphere of Heaven

Mike Jay
The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
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
The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius

This book tells the strange story of maverick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose medical researchers in Bristol, England discovered the mind-altering effects of inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s.
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Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Making Ireland English

Jane Ohlmeyer
Adam Smith
An Enlightened Life
The English Prize
The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century

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.
Nicholas Phillipson
Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the founder of modern economics. This book shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smiths other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand Science of Man, one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smiths death in 1790.
Named a Favorite Business Book of 2010, Bloomberg BusinessWeek; Named a Best Book of 2010 by the Atlantic The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2012 352 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17767-1 $23.00 Cloth 2010 368 pp. 4 b/w + 29 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16927-0 $32.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17443-4
The Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour
Edited by Maria Dolores Snchez-Juregui Alpas and Scott Wilcox

The dramatic story of the capture of the British merchant ship Westmorland and the subsequent disposition of its prized contents sheds new light on the 18th century cultural phenomenon known as the Grand Tour.
Available in June 2012 Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Francisco Cloth 2012 400 pp. 350 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17605-6 $75.00
1688
The First Modern Revolution
Steve Pincus
In this bold narrative history, Pincus argues that Englands Glorious Revolution was a fundamental turning point in the making of the modern world.
Bronze Medal winner for the 2010 Independent Publishers Book Awards in the History Category; 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 scattered b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17143-3 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15605-8
The Town House in Georgian London

Rachel Stewart
Stepping away from conventional analyses of materials or style and into the previously unexplored world of the house owner, this book takes a fresh look at both the social, as well as the architectural, importance of the 18thcentury London town house.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2009 192 pp. 60 b/w + 20 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15277-7 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16566-1
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David Hume
The Philosopher as Historian
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. As a philosopher, Hume sought a way of seeing the world and pursuing happiness independently of a belief in God. His groundbreaking approach applied the same outlook to Britains history, showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2012 168 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18166-1 $16.00
Empire to Nation
Geoff Quilley
Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 17681829

This book argues that maritime culture is critical to our understanding of 18thand 19th-century Britain and rethinks the place of visual culture in the relationship between nation and empire.
Behind Closed Doors

At Home in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery
In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there.
Paper 2010 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16896-9 $28.00 Cloth 2009 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15453-5 $45.00
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Nineteenth-Century Britain
New in paper
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Palmerston
A Biography
Explorers of the Nile

The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
City of Gold and Mud

Painting Victorian London
David Brown
This is the first comprehensive biography of the charismatic Lord Palmerston (17841865), a grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics who became foreign secretary, prime minister, and one of the defining figures of his age.
Available in March 2012 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
Tim Jeal
The author of Stanley (National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography 2007) offers a spellbinding narrative of the adventures of six indefatigable men and one intrepid woman on the dangerous quest to find the nineteenth centurys greatest prize: the source of Africas White Nile.
Nancy Rose Marshall

This multifaceted portrait of Victorian London demonstrates how artists of the day made sense of the newly modern city through narrative, realist paintings that depict its streets, crowds, and individuals.
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2012 320 pp. 60 color + 160 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17446-5 $75.00
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Stanley
Tim Jeal
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 $23.00 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
The Darwin Archipelago

Steve Jones
The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer

Remembered today mainly for a question he never uttered (Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), Henry Morton Stanley was in truth a brilliant adventurer who overcame a nightmarish childhood to become Africas greatest explorer. Drawing on previously closed archives, this grand and colorful biography presents the first accurate picture of Stanley and his extraordinary achievements.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography; Named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times Book Review; Silver medal winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award in the category of Biography; Selected as one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post Paper 2008 608 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14223-5 $18.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15290-6
The Naturalists Career Beyond Origin of Species

A brilliant survey of the great evolutionists lesser-known works, and how they anticipated so much of modern biology.
Paper 2012 248 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18158-6 $20.00 Cloth 2011 248 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15540-2 $27.50
The Gates of Hell

Andrew Lambert
Sir John Franklins Tragic Quest for the North West Passage
Andrew Lambert accesses to new materials to depict the shocking fate of Captain Sir John Franklins doomed arctic expedition and how, despite his failure, Franklin inspired future arctic heroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.
Paper 2011 456 pp. 8 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16788-7 $22.00 Cloth 2009 456 pp. 8 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15485-6 $32.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15486-3
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Twentieth-Century Britain/British HistoryGeneral
Demobbed
Coming Home After World War Two
New
New
Nights Out
Life in Cosmopolitan London
The London Square

Gardens in the Midst of Town
Alan Allport
This book tells a gripping tale thats in danger of being lost to national memory: the story of what really happened when millions of British servicemen returned home after the war. Drawing on letters and diaries, and on newspapers, reports, novels, and films, Alan Allport illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experience for veterans, their families and British society at large.
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 b/w plate section ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16886-0 $20.00 Cloth 2010 288 pp. 16 b/w plate section ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14043-9 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17016-0
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.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 400 pp. 37 b/w illus. + 8 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15194-7 $40.00
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
This lively, informed, and perceptive narrative charts the vicissitudes of Londons squares and brings the social and building history of these extraordinary, resilient, and often eccentric places into sharp focus.
Available in July 2012 The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2012 304 pp. 100 color + 160 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15201-2 $65.00
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Vauxhall Gardens
A History
New
David E. Coke and Alan Borg

Vauxhall Gardens was the foremost pleasure garden of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London. This comprehensive and prolifically illustrated account makes a major contribution to the study of London entertainments, culture, class and ideology, and reveals the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail.
Beyond the Tower

A History of East London
John Marriott
In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research, copious maps, archive prints and photographs, and the words of East Londoners from seventeenth-century silk weavers to Cockneys during the Blitz to explore the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area.
Capital Affairs
Frank Mort
London and the Making of the Permissive Society

A series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life during the 1950s in ways that had major national consequences. High and low society collided in a city of social and sexual extremes. Patrician men-abouttown, young independent women, go-ahead entrepreneurs, Westminster politicians, queer men, and West Indian newcomers played a conspicuous part in dramatic encounters that signaled a new phase of post-Victorian sexual morality This arresting history of sex and politics at this time charts the course of modern British society and the birth of the so-called permissive society.
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The Making of the English Gardener

Margaret Willes
Plants, Books and Inspiration, 15601660

A fascinating history of the people and publications that revolutionized Britains gardens in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from extravagant estates to humble kitchen plots, and the links they forged with the wider world.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 80 b/w +24 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16382-7 $45.00
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Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Europe
Moses Mendelssohn
Sage of Modernity
New
Shmuel Feiner
Translated by Anthony Berris
The German Socrates, Moses Mendelssohn (17291786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Feiners book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man.
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.
History and the Enlightenment

Hugh Trevor-Roper
This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of Hugh Trevor-Ropers careermany hitherto inaccessible, one never before published focusing on the writing and understanding of history in the eighteenth century.
Enlightened Pleasures
Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism
New
New
Thomas M. Kavanagh
In this daring book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth century France as primarily the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and esthetics.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2010 264 pp. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14094-1 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16285-1
The Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-23

Martha White Paas
Against War and Empire

Richard Whatmore
An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets

With Broadsheet Descriptions by John Roger Paas and Translations by George C. Schoolfield
This economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 161923 draws on rare contemporary broadsheets to explore its effect on peoples lives and behavior.
Available in June 2012 Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 160 pp. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14676-9 $85.00
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

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.
Available in July 2012 The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2012 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17557-8 $65.00
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Making Way for Genius

Kathleen Kete
The Philosophers Quarrel
Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
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.
Available in May 2012 Cloth 2012 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17482-3 $38.00
Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott

This engaging book presents a full account of the tragic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, the two most important thinkers of the eighteenth century. The authors explore the relation between the mens quarrel and their philosophical thought and discuss how their incompatible ideas reverberate in thinking today.
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Nineteenth- & Twentieth-Century Europe
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

Louis Begley
From the prize-winning author of Wartime Lies, an anatomy of the infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer attached to the French armys General Staff, with profound implications for our own time.
Selected as a Favorite Book of the Year, The New Yorker Why X Matters Series Paper 2010 272 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16814-3 $16.00 Cloth 2009 272 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12532-0 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15645-4
Sarah
New
The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb
Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, Gottliebs Sarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimateand scandalousdaughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.
Orderly and Humane

The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
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.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16660-6 $38.00
Napoleon
Philip Dwyer
New
The Path to Power

A groundbreaking biography focusing on the young Napoleon and his improbable rise to power. Debunking many of the myths that Napoleon himself promulgated as an early manipulator of the media, Dwyers book sheds new light on Napoleons inner life and character, and on the twisting path that led from his boyhood in Corsica to the coup that gave him leadership of France at the age of thirty.
A 2008 Top Seller in European History as compiled by YBP Library Services Paper 2009 672 pp. 64 b/w illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15132-9 $23.00 Cloth 2008 672 pp. 64 b/w illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13754-5 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14820-6
The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Edited by Jeffrey C. Isaac
A new volume in the Rethinking the Western Tradition series: Marx and Engels classic Communist Manifesto, accompanied by essays on its continuing relevance in the post-communist era.
Available in May 2012 Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2012 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12302-9 $12.00 Cloth 2012 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12301-2 $55.00
The Death of the Shtetl

Yehuda Bauer
In this important book an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian weaves historical narrative with individual testimonies to recount the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 19411942.
Plumes
The Jews of San Nicandro

John A. Davis
The remarkable and intimate story of an Italian peasant communitys unique conversion to the Jewish faith, shedding fresh light on wider transformations in Europe before and after the Second World War.
Cloth 2010 252 pp. 8 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11425-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16036-9
Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
Sarah Abrevaya Stein

A bold and original examination of the international Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which flourished on three continents from the 1880s until the great feather bust of the First World War.
Winner of the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Paper 2010 256 pp. 17 b/w illus + 1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16818-1 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14285-3
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Twentieth-Century Europe
Auschwitz and After

Charlotte Delbo
Translated by Rosette C. Lamont; Introduction by Lawrence L. Langer
This unique and profoundly moving memoir of life in the concentration camps and afterward was written by a French female resistance leader, a nonJew who became an important literary figure in post-war France.
Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award Paper 1997 376 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07057-6 $24.00
New in paper
Facts Are Subversive

Timothy Garton Ash
Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

This collection of essays by one of Europes leading political writers offers dazzling insights into todays world and Americas troubled place in it.
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

With a New Preface
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.
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 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15583-9
Heidegger
The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 19331935
New
Hitlers Hangman
The Life of Heydrich
New
Emmanuel Faye
Translated by Michael B. Smith; Foreword by Tom Rockmore
In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heideggers Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to paint a damning picture of Nazisms influence on the philosophers thought and politics.
Bronze medal winner of the 2009 Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category, presented by ForeWord magazine Paper 2011 464 pp. 5 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17207-2 $27.50 Cloth 2009 464 pp. 5 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12086-8 $40.00
Robert Gerwarth
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.
A German Generation
An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century
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.
New
The Hour of Europe

' Josip Glaurdic
Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

This new examination of the dissolution of Yugoslavia offers the first comprehensive assessment of the impact of American and European foreign policy on the conflict and on the violent tactics ' of the regime of Slobodan Miloevic.
Belonging and Genocide

Thomas Khne
New
Hitlers Community, 19181945

How could the German people have condoned and participated in the Holocaust? Thomas Khne offers a provocative answer to this troubling question. He shows how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society.
Hitlers Berlin
Abused City
Thomas Friedrich
In this vivid and 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.
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Twentieth-Century Europe/European HistoryGeneral
The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 19331945
Edited by Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jckel
Translated by William Templer
Presented for the first time in English, the secret Nazi reports reveal what life was like for German Jews, as well as the attitudes of the German population to Jewish discrimination, deportations, and extermination.
Cloth 2010 1,064 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11803-2 $150.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16858-7
Contesting Democracy
New
Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
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.
The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 13001800

William Monter
In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter explores Europes increasing acceptance of autonomous female rule between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution by examining the public careers of its thirty women sovereigns.
Cloth 2012 304 pp. 18 b/w illus., 1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17327-7 $38.00
New
Living with Hitler

Eric Kurlander
Walther Rathenau
Weimars Fallen Statesman
The Dynamics of Global Dominance

European Overseas Empires, 14151980
Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich

This book is the first to analyze in detail the activities of German liberal democrats from 1933 to the end of the Nazi regime, exploring why so few resisted and so many embraced aspects of the Third Reich. The answers that come to light have crucial implications for understanding the genesis of authoritarian regimes everywhere.
Shulamit Volkov
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.
David B. Abernethy
This magisterial survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires asks how and why these empires took shape, persisted, and finally fell. David B. Abernethy explains Europes long occupation of global center stage and throws new light on todays postcolonial world and the legacies of empire.
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Windows on the War
Mozart and the Nazis

How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 19411945
Whispering City
Rome and Its Histories
Erik Levi
This book is the first to explore how the Nazi regime appropriated Mozart as a cultural and political icon, shamelessly distorting his humanitarian views to further fascist goals.
Edited by Peter Kort Zegers and Douglas W. Druick

This is the first major publication in English to focus on the extraordinary posters issued by the Soviet Unions TASS news agency during World War II to bolster support for the Soviet war effort.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Paper over Board 2011 400 pp. 300 color + 140 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17023-8 $65.00
R. J. B. Bosworth
In this one-of-a-kind book, historian Richard Bosworth draws upon his expertise in Italian pasts to explore the many layers of history found within the Eternal City.
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Russian & Eastern European History
New in paper
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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.
Paper available in March 2012 Annals of Communism Series Paper 2012 224 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
The Leningrad Blockade, 19411944

A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
Russias Cold War

Jonathan Haslam
From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance.
Richard Bidlack and Nikita Lomagin

Translations by Marian Schwartz
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.
Available in June 2012 Annals of Communism Series Cloth 2012 544 pp. 74 b/w illus. + 5 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11029-6 $75.00
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Roads to the Temple

Leon Aron
Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 19871991
A compelling new history of the collapse of the Soviet Union that explores the intellectual and ideological impulses that propelled the revolution.
Spies
New in paper
The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
Propaganda State in Crisis

David Brandenberger
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev

This stunning expos of Soviet espionage in the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is based on extensive KGB archives never revealed before and documents for the first time the secret world of Stalins spies and the Americans who worked with them.
Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 19271941

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
New
Funding Loyalty
Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev
The Economics of the Communist Party
The Unfinished Revolution

James Mark
Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist partys financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh look at the evolution of the party and its role in the Soviet economy and society as a whole.
Available in May 2012 The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Paper 2012 224 pp. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16436-7 $35.00
Children of the Gulag

Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky
This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime and arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag.
Annals of Communism Series Cloth 2010 480 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12293-0 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15503-7
Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious peoples revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wideranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided by the past.
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Russian & Eastern European History
Lenins Jewish Question

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
In this first examination of Lenins genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenins maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and how Lenins Jewish relatives converted to Christianity, explains how Lenins vision of Russian Marxism shaped his identity, and explores Lenins treatment of party colleagues of Jewish origin and the Jewish Question in Europe. PetrovskyShtern also uncovers the continuous efforts of the Soviet communists to suppress Lenins Jewishness and the no less persistent attempts of Russian extremists to portray Lenin as a Jew.
New
New
Leon Trotsky
Joshua Rubenstein
A Revolutionarys Life
Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. 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.
Petersburg Fin de Sicle

Mark D. Steinberg
This investigation of the writings of diverse urban Russian writers on the eve of revolution sheds new light on their shared anxieties about modern life and the search for meaning in a time of both crisis and possibility.
Cloth 2011 416 pp. 7 b/w illlus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16504-3 $45.00
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Belarus
New
The Last European Dictatorship
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway

David Satter
Andrew Wilson
This book is the first in English to explore Belaruss complicated past from medieval times through the Soviet years, the years since independence, and its current situation under a corrupt, authoritarian, and surprisingly tenacious president.
Russia and the Communist Past
New
The Stalin Cult

Jan Plamper
A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism.
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Cloth 2012 352 pp. 62 b/w + 21 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16952-2 $55.00
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.
Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11145-3 $29.95
New
Stalin Digital Archive

The result of years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to materials from Stalins personal archive and monographs on the history of Soviet and international communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and to collaborate.
See the inside front cover for a full description
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Religious History
Sin
New
A History
Gary A. Anderson
In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition.
Winner of the 2010 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category Paper 2010 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16809-9 $20.00 Cloth 2009 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14989-0 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15487-0
Ten Popes Who Shook the World

Eamon Duffy
Which Catholic popes have had the greatest impact on history? Eamon Duffy selects ten profoundly influential popes, from St. Peter to John Paul II, and explores their amazing lives and accomplishments.
Holy Bones, Holy Dust

Charles Freeman
How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

This intriguing, beautifully illustrated book encompasses 1,000 years of holy relics across Europe, deepening our understanding of the medieval world by revealing how they were used in religion and also in business, politics, and warfare.
Cloth 2011 306 pp. 16pp b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12571-9 $35.00
The Good and Evil Serpent

James H. Charlesworth
New
The Unity of Christ

Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition
How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbolic meanings of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the utter creativity of the biblical authors use of symbols and argues that we must, today, reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.
Tied winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2010 744 pp. 102 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14082-8 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14273-0
A New History of Early Christianity

Charles Freeman
This stimulating history of early Christianity, the first full account for over forty years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion, and gives a new slant on a familiar story.
Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17083-2 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16658-3
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 416 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00
Kabbalah in Italy, 12801510

A Survey
Moshe Idel
The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.
Sex and Religion in the Bible

Calum Carmichael
In this unique book, one of the most original voices in biblical studies today focuses on the themes of marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love in the Bible to illuminate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of biblical views about sex and religion.
Augustine and the Jews

Paula Fredriksen
A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

Fredriksens provocative book traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian antiJudaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition.
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Religious History
By Craig Harline: New
New
New
Conversions
Ancient Christian Martyrdom

Candida R. Moss
The Life of the Virgin

Maximus the Confessor
Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

This powerful work explores the parallel disruption of two familiesone in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America todaywhen a beloved family member converts to another religion.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50
Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions

In this innovative study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself.
Available in June 2012 The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2012 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Stephen J. Shoemaker

This first English translation of the earliest complete Life of the Virgin provides a rich and crucial source for understanding the history of Marian piety.
Available in May 2012 Cloth 2012 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17504-2 $35.00
New in paper
John Henry Newman

The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
Miracles at the Jesus Oak
Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

In the musty archive of a Belgian abbey, historian Craig Harline happened upon a vast collection of documents written in the seventeenth century by people who claimed to have experienced miracles and wonders. Craig Harline recasts these testimonies into engaging vignettes that open a window onto the believers, unbelievers, and religious movements of the Age of Reformation.
Paper 2011 336 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16702-3 $22.00
New
Frank M. Turner
One of the most controversial religious figures of his time, John Henry Newman (18011890) split rancorously from the Church of England and converted to Roman Catholicism. In this provocative reappraisal of Newman and the Tractarian movement that he led, Frank Turner challenges previous understandings not only of the man but also of the religious and intellectual life in Victorian England.
Octavia, Daughter of God

The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
Jane Shaw
This book uncovers the little-known story of the Panacea Society, a postWorld War I utopian community of remarkable English women led by Octavia, whom they believed was the daughter of God.
New in paper
Julian of Norwich, Theologian

Denys Turner
This provocative book casts Julian of Norwich in a new light, revealing for the first time the subtlety, consistency, and originality of her theological thought. Julian stands among the medieval eras foremost thinkers, the author contends.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16391-9 $40.00
Sunday
The Age of Doubt

Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty
A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Through a fascinating blend of stories and analysis, historian Craig Harline examines Sundayfrom its ancient beginnings among the early Christians to brunch and football in America today.
Paper 2011 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16703-0 $22.00
Christopher Lane
By analyzing the parallel battles over faith and reason in the nineteenth century and ours, scholar Christopher Lane makes a case for the benefits of religious uncertainty.
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The Middle East
New in paper
A Quiet Revolution
Leila Ahmed
The Great Caliphs

Amira K. Bennison
New in paper
The Veils Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

This probing study of the veils recent returnfrom one of the worlds foremost authorities on Muslim women reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islams place in the West today.
Paper available in May 2012 Paper 2012 360 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18143-2 $22.00 Cloth 2011 360 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17095-5 $30.00
The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire

This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance to the cultural history of Europe and America as the inheritor and interpreter of GraecoRoman traditions.
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity

A History
Carter Vaughn Findley

Against the panorama of political, economic, social, and cultural change, religious and secular forces emerge and compete to shape two centuries of late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.
New New in paper
Afghanistan
Limits of Detente
Craig Daigle
Forging Civilizations along the Silk Road
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 19691973
In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle shows how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.
Available in July 2012 Cloth 2012 384 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16713-9 $55.00
New in paper
In Ishmaels House
Martin Gilbert
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

In this absorbing and eloquent book Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents a fascinating account of hope, opportunity, fear, and terror that have characterized Jews and Muslims through the 1,400 years of their intertwined history.
Edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino

The long, rich, and diverse history of ancient Afghanistan is seen with fresh perspective through materials from key sites along important trading corridors.
Available in May 2012 Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Paper 2012 160 pp. 138 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17954-5 $35.00
New
New in paper
Moshe Dayan
Mordechai Bar-On
Israels Controversial Hero

This authoritative biography provides a vivid portrait of Moshe Dayan, one of the most powerfuland complex military and political leaders in Israels tumultuous first decades of statehood.
Available in June 2012 Jewish Lives Cloth 2012 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14941-8 $25.00
Islam, Science, and the The Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran Challenge of History
Ahmad Dallal
Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies.
The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2012 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17771-8 $19.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15914-1
Homa Katouzian
This comprehensive history of Iran covers the entire history of the area from the foundation of the ancient Persian empire to todays Iranian state.
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The Middle East
New in paper
New
New
Levant
Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
A Single Roll of the Dice

Trita Parsi
Philip Mansel
Not so long ago, in certain great cosmopolitan cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us?
Obamas Diplomacy with Iran

Trita Parsi uncovers the full details of the diplomatic encounters between Washington and Tehran during Obamas early presidency, then discusses whether diplomacy should be the foreign policy approach of choice for the U.S.
Cloth 2012 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16936-2 $27.50
The Bride and the Dowry

Avi Raz
Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
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.
Treacherous Alliance
New in paper
From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan

The Making of a National Homeland in Turkey
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Trita Parsi
With a New Preface by the Author
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 $17.00 Cloth 2007 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12057-8 $28.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-13806-1
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Israel
An Introduction
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.
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.
Available in June 2012 Paper 2012 288 pp. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17201-0 $35.00
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The Forgotten Palestinians

Ilan Papp
Islamization from Below

Brian J. Peterson
Islamism and Islam

Bassam Tibi
This critically important book clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and contemporary Islamism are distinctly different. The former is a religious faith, the latter a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law.
Cloth 2012 368 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15998-1 $30.00
A History of the Palestinians in Israel

In this book, historian Ilan Papp examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israels attitude toward minorities and Palestinians attitudes toward the Jewish state.
The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 18801960

This groundbreaking investigation explores how and why so many rural West Africans became Muslim under French colonialism. The author argues that conversions were rarely coerced, but happened peacefully and gradually over several generations.
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African History
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New
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Kenya
Between Hope and Despair, 19632011
Explorers of the Nile

The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
Egypt on the Brink

Tarek Osman
From the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak

In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This is an essential guide to one of the Middle Easts most important but least understood states.
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.
Tim Jeal
The author of Stanley (National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography 2007) offers a spellbinding narrative of the adventures of six indefatigable men and one intrepid woman on the dangerous quest to find the nineteenth centurys greatest prize: the source of Africas White Nile.
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Southern Africa
Stephen Chan
Old Treacheries and New Deceits

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how its poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countries in particular: South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, all of which have remained interconnected since the end of colonial rule and the overthrow of apartheid. Chan draws on three decades of experience to provide the definitive inside guide to this complex region and offer insight on how the near future is likely to be a litmus test not just for this trio of countries but for all of Africa
Cloth 2011 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15405-4 $30.00
A Living Man from Africa

Roger S. Levine
New
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
This groundbreaking history reclaims the lost story of Jan Tzatzoe, an African leader and intermediary whose remarkable life epitomizes the tumultuous nature of the colonial encounter in South Africa and Great Britain.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2010 328 pp. 22 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12521-4 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16859-4
Libya
The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
Alison Pargeter
This riveting book documents Qaddafis rise and 42-year reign in Libya,the tenacious Arab Spring rebels success in toppling his repressive regime, and the challenges that confront Libya and her new leaders as they face an uncertain future.
A History of South Africa

Third Edition
Leonard Thompson
A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that countrys history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants.
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Asian History
New
The Taming of the Demons

Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism
Redeemed by Fire
Lian Xi
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

Lian Xi examines homegrown, mass Chinese Christianitys transformation from a small, beleaguered missionary church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous grassroots religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism.
Tibet
A History
Sam van Schaik

Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history. Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life by telling the stories of the people involved, from the glory days of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century through to the present day. He explores the emergence of Tibetan Buddhism and the rise of the Dalai Lamas, Tibets entanglement in the Great Game in the early twentieth century, its submission to Chinese Communist rule in the 1950s, and the troubled times of recent decades.
Jacob P. Dalton
Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to, Tibets dark age from 842 to 986 C.E., he draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the famous library cave near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road.
The Art of Not Being Governed

James C. Scott
New
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The acclaimed author James Scott adopts a radically different approach to history to tell the story of the deliberately stateless peoples who occupy a vast track of land in Asia called Zomia.
Winner of the 2010 John K. Fairbank Book Prize, given by the American Historical Association Yale Agrarian Studies Series Paper 2010 464 pp. 2 b/w illus. + 7 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16917-1 $25.00 Cloth 2009 464 pp. 2 b/w illus + 7 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15228-9 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15652-2
Wonder of the Age

Master Painters of India, 11001900
John Guy and Jorrit Britschgi

Dispelling the long-held view of the anonymity of Indian artists, this fascinating publication discusses the connoisseurship used to identify the painters of the magnificent works discussed and illustrated.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Cloth 2011 224 pp. 155 color + 10 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17582-0 $45.00
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Edited by Zhou Xun

Drawn from previously closed and now inaccessible archives, this is the first comprehensive documentary history of Chinas Great Famine, a result of the Great Leap Forward, that took the lives of at least 45 million peasants.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 256 pp. 1 b/w map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17518-9 $45.00
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Paper 1982 280 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02884-3 $22.00
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The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Thomas
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Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize
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Moon
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Bernd Brunner
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How to Change the World

Eric Hobsbawm
Reflections on Marx and Marxism

In this penetrating reassessment of Marxist thought and its relevance today, renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm argues that the author of Das Kapital has much to say to us in the postcommunist era.
Cloth 2011 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17616-2 $35.00
E. H. Gombrich
This illustrated edition brings together the pellucid humanity of the narrative with the images that may well have been in the authors minds eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations emerge from the text, enrich the authors intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 200 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17614-8 $29.95
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Nigel Warburton
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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.
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David Crystal
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming narrative history, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling.
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Love
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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.
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Author Index
Abernethy, 28 Ahmed, 33 Aldhouse-Green, 14 Allitt, 11 Allmand, 20 Allport, 24 Alpaes & Wilcox, 22 Ames-Lewis, 16 Anderson, 31 Applebaum, 29 Aron, 29 Aruz & Fino, 33 Barlow, 20 Bar-On, 33 Barratt et al., 11 Bauer, 26 Baumgarten, 2 Beeley, 31 Begley, 26 Bell, 12 Belova & Lazarev, 29 Bennison, 33 Bentham, 21 Bercovitch, 2 Berebitsky, 11 Berenson, 4 Berger, 8 Bernard, E., 8 Bernard, G.W., 16 Bidlack & Lomagin, 29 Blair, 16 Bockstoce, 6 Bosworth, 28 Branch, 35 Brandenberger, 29 Braudy, 8 Brown, K., 2 Brown, D., 23 Brunner, 37 Burke, 21 Campbell, 14 Carlton, 12 Carmichael, 31 Carp, 2 Chan, 35 Charlesworth, 31 Charyn, 8 Christiansen & Weppelmann, 16 Cohen, 2 Coke & Borg, 24 Coleman, 6 Colley, 21 Cornell, 16 Cowan, 21 Crouch, 16 Crystal, 37 Cumings, 4 Cunliffe, 14 Daigle, 33 Dallal, 33 Dalton, 36 Davies, 12 Davis, 26 de Tocqueville, 5 DeLay, 6 Delbo, 27 Dormandy, 37 Douglas, 26 Douglass, 4 Duffy, 17, 31 Dwyer, 26 Eagleton, 37 Edwards, Jonathan, 2 Edwards, John, 20 Elliott, 1 Eltis & Richardson, 1 Faragher, 6 Faulkner, 15 Faye, 27 Feiner, 25 Fergusson, 17 Field, 8 Findley, 33 Flavell, 21 Foner, 8 Foot, 20 France, 12 Francis, 4 Frank & Goldberg, 6 Franklin, 2 Fredriksen, 31 Freeman, 31 Friedrich, 27 Frierson & Vilensky, 29 Garton Ash, 27 Geiger, M., 4 Geiger, A., 6 Gerwarth, 27 Gilbert, 33 Gitlin, 6 Glasser, 8 ' Glaurdic, 27 Goldsworthy, 15 Gombrich, 37 Gordon, 17 Gornick, 8 Gottlieb, 26 Greiner, 12 Guy & Britschgi, 36 HaCohen, 17 Hagenstein, 11 Hmlinen, 6 Hamilton, A., et al., 2 Hamilton, N., 9 Hancock, 1 Harline, 32 Harris, J., 17 Harris, J.W., 3 Haslam, 29 Hatch, 3 Haynes et al., 29 Herf, 27 Herman, 6 Hicks, 17 Hine & Faragher, 7 Hobsbawm, 37 Hodgson, 9 Hoganson, 4 Holmes, 12 Hornblum, 9 Huang, 36 Huberman, 37 Hunter, 17 Hutton, 15 Idel, 31 Jablonsky, 12 Jack, 37 Jackson, 11 Jay, 21 Jeal, 23, 35 Jones, 23 Kaledin, 4 Kamen, 18 Kao & Lamunire, 9 Kastor, 7 Katouzian, 33 Kavanagh, 25 Kern, 7 Kete, 25 Kidd, 3 King, 20 Kohut, 27 Krentz, 12 Khne, 27 Kulka & Jckel, 28 Kurlander, 28 Kurlansky, 9 Lambert, 23 Lane, K., 1 Lane, C., 32 Larson, 38 Laurenza, 18 Ledbetter, 9 Levi, 28 Levine, 35 Lian Xi, 36 LongstaffeGowan, 24 Lowndes, 9 Lubet, 7 Lukacs, 13, 38 Lynch, 1 MacMullen, 14 Magliocca, 5 Malcolm, 3 Mansel, 34 Mansoor, 12 Margolick, 9 Mark, 29 Marriott, 24 Marshall, 23 Martin, 15 Marx & Engels, 26 Mashaw, 11 Matlock, 10 Mawdsley, 13 May, 38 Maynard, 10 McGrayne, 38 McLynn, 13, 21 McPhee, S.,18 McPhee, P., 25 Meyerson, 3 Miller, 38 Mokyr, 21 Monter, 28 Morgan, 3 Morone, 5 Morris, 5 Mort, 24 Moss, 32 Mller, 28 Nash, G., 11 Nash, R., 11 Neal, 21 Oakley, 18 Ohlmeyer, 22 Ormrod, 20 Osman, 35 zkan, 34 Ozment, 18 Paas, 25 Papp, 34 Pargeter, 35 Parry, 18 Parsi, 34 Patch, 15 Pells, 10 Peterson, B., 34 Peterson, C., 5 PetrovskyShtern, 30 Pettegree, 18 Phillips, J., 18 Phillips, S., 20 Phillipson, 22 Pincus, 22 Plamper, 30 Pomeroy, 7 Prior, 13 Quilley, 22 Rabb, 13 Raz, 34 Riley-Smith, 18 Roberts, 10 Robertson, 13 Rogers, 5 Ross, 20 Rubenstein, 30 Rubin, 34 Satter, 30 Scarisbrick, 20 Schaeper, 3 Schofield, 38 Schultz, 5 Schwartz, 1 Scott, 36 Shaw, 32 Shoemaker, 32 Simmons, 7 Slater, 23 Smith, 5 Southern, 19 Stein, J., 10 Stein, S., 26 Steinberg, 30 Stewart, 22 Stoneman, 15 Stump, 38 Syson, 16 Takiff, 10 Tanner, 19 Taylor, 19 Temkin, 10 Thomas, N., 36 Thomas, W., 5 Thompson, A., 20 Thompson, L., 35 Tibi, 34 Totten, 13 Trevor-Roper, 25 Truett, 7 Truxes, 3 Turner, R., 19 Turner, D., 32 Turner, F., 32 Valenze, 38 van Schaik, 36 VanDevelder, 10 Vickers & Walsh, 3 Vickery, 22 Vidal, 4 Volkov, 28 Walkowitz, 24 Walvin, 1 Wanklyn, 13 Warburton, 37 Weber, 7 Weinstein, 19 Welch, 19 Wexler, 11 Whatmore, 25 Willes, 24, 38 Wills, 19 Wilson, 30 Winner, 4 Winroth, 19 Worthington, 15 Wrightson, 19 Zaretsky & Scott, 25 Zegers & Druick, 28 Zhou Xun, 36
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Table of Contents
ninEtEEntH-cEntury BritAin............................23
AtlAntic History.......................................1
tWEntiEtH-cEntury BritAin.............................24
coloniAl & EArly AmEricAn History.....2-4
BritisH HistoryGEnErAl...............................24
ninEtEEntH-cEntury AmEricA...............4-5
sEvEntEEntH- & EiGHtEEntH-cEntury EuropE..25
tHE lAmAr sEriEs in WEstErn History...6-7
ninEtEEntH- & tWEntiEtH-cEntury EuropE.....26
tWEntiEtH-cEntury AmEricA..............8-10
tWEntiEtH-cEntury EuropE........................27-28
AmEricAn HistoryGEnErAl..................11
EuropEAn HistoryGEnErAl...........................28
militAry History...........12-13
russiAn & EAstErn EuropEAn History........29-30
AnciEnt History................................14-15
rEliGious History...................31-32
mEdiEvAl, rEnAissAncE & rEformAtion History .........................................16-19
tHE middlE EAst.........................................33-34
yAlE EnGlisH monArcHs .........................20
AfricAn History..............................................35
AsiAn History..........................................36
sEvEntEEntH- & EiGHtEEntH-cEntury BritAin............................................21-22
HistoryGEnErAl intErEst.......................37-38
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