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Atlantic History
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New Worlds
John Lynch
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
Oceans of Wine
David Hancock
Colour of Paradise
The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires
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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
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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
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
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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
Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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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
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
Peters War
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.
Paper 2009 416 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15846-5 $22.00 Cloth 2007 416 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11887-2 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14825-1
Inventing a Nation
Gore Vidal
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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
Frederick Douglass
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Fruitlands
This classic autobiography includes a chronology of Douglasss life, a thorough introduction, historical notes, and reader responses to the 1845 edition.
Paper 2001 192 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08701-7 $7.95 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16339-1
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).
Paper 2011 344 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17790-9 $17.00 Cloth 2010 344 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14041-5 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16944-7
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
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Black Gotham
Carla L. Peterson
Hellfire Nation
James A. Morone
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Delias Tears
Molly Rogers
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.
Paper 2005 320 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10972-6 $22.50
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The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City
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.
Cloth 2011 296 pp. 54 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14107-8 $30.00
Sugar Creek
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.
Paper 2010 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16799-3 $26.00 Cloth 2009 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14921-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15490-0
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Vicious
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
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Subverting Exclusion
Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 18851928
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.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 18 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16963-8 $45.00
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
Sun Chief
Frontiers
Murder in Tombstone
Steven Lubet
Fugitive Landscapes
The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
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.
Paper 2008 272 pp. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14331-7 $22.00
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.
Cloth 2011 360 pp. 41 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13901-3 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16855-6
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
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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
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
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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
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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
Twentieth-Century America
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American Caesars
Nigel Hamilton
Instituting Reform
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?
Cloth 2011 320 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14193-1 $26.00
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
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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Unwarranted Influence
James Ledbetter
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Twentieth-Century America
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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.
Paper 2011 368 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17141-9 $20.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15596-9
Joe Louis
A Complicated Man
Michael Takiff
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.
Paper 2012 328 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17763-3 $17.50 Cloth 2010 328 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12222-0 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16885-3
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Woodrow Wilson
W. Barksdale Maynard
Pivotal Decade
Judith Stein
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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.
Paper 2011 384 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17150-1 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16329-2
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Modernist America
Richard Pells
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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.
Paper 2011 344 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17785-5 $25.00 Cloth 2009 344 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12484-2 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15617-1
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American HistoryGeneral
The Conservatives
Patrick Allitt
American Georgics
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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
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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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.
Paper 2010 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15861-8 $20.00 Cloth 2008 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10502-5 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15177-0
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.
Cloth 2011 456 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12074-5 $35.00
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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.
Paper 2010 528 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16804-4 $25.00 Cloth 2009 528 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15451-1 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15452-8
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
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
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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.
Paper 2011 256 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17748-0 $18.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16040-6 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16046-8
Baghdad at Sunrise
Peter R. Mansoor
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Military History
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December 1941
Evan Mawdsley
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
Gallipoli
Robin Prior
First Strike
Mark Totten
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Malcolm Wanklyn
In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British warsfrom Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figuresmilitary historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11308-2 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16841-9
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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.
Cloth 2010 352 pp. 80 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12442-2 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16588-3
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.
Paper 2011 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17086-3 $30.00 Cloth 2008 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11923-7 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14260-0
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
Cloth 2006 192 pp. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11596-3 $32.00
In this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries.
Paper 1999 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08077-3 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14754-4
Ramsay MacMullen is the recipient of a lifetime Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association
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Ancient History
Ronald Hutton
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh history.
Paper 2011 492 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17085-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15979-0
Richard Stoneman
This colorful book traces the entire thousand-year history of Greek oracles and examines why they continued to be consulted by Greek men and women at every level of society until the Christian abolition of paganism in A.D. 395.
Cloth 2011 288 pp. 45 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14042-2 $35.00
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Richard Stoneman
This engaging book is the first to gather together the hundreds of colorful legends told in cultures across the globe about Alexander the Great, conqueror of the ancient world. Richard Stoneman shows how the mythical exploits of Alexander have resonated for Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and in eastern and western cultures, for more than 2000 years.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16401-5 $23.00 Cloth 2008 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11203-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18238-5
Ancient Greece
Thomas R. Martin
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.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16476-3 $23.00 Cloth 2008 336 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12079-0 $35.00
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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
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
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.
Cloth 2011 352 pp. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11455-3 $55.00
Bannockburn
David Cornell
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By Eamon Duffy
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Fires of Faith
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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
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.
Paper 2010 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16931-7 $28.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16121-2
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The Escorial
Henry Kamen
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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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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.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16475-6 $26.00 Cloth 2008 336 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11274-0 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16836-5
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Berninis Beloved
Sarah McPhee
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The Crusades
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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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
Ralph V. Turner
Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this definitive biography gives us the real Eleanor of Aquitaine wife of two kings, mother of two kings, a tenacious and ambitious twelfth-century queen who carved a unique position for herself in a society hostile to the idea of a woman in power.
Paper 2011 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17820-3 $25.00 Cloth 2009 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11911-4 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15989-9
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
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Savonarola
Donald Weinstein
This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet.
Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00
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Mary I
Edward III
W. Mark Ormrod
An enlightening biography that takes a deeper look at the personality of this celebrated warrior king, emphasising the importance of Edwards familial relationships and his achievement of a cohesive stable nation.
Cloth 2012 720 pp. 28 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11910-7 $45.00
Henry V
Christopher Allmand
Paper 2011 480 pp. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07370-6 $26.00
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.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00
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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.
Paper 2012 704 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17802-9 $30.00 Cloth 2010 704 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15657-7 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18457-0
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Richard III
Charles Ross
Paper 2011 268 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07979-1 $23.00
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Henry VIII
J. J. Scarisbrick
Paper 2011 560 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07158-0 $27.00
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King Stephen
Edmund King
This compelling biography provides the most complete picture yet of King Stephen, the unfortunate monarch whose twelfth-century reign descended into long years of civil war as his family and allies struggled to save his throne.
Paper 2012 384 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18195-1 $35.00 Cloth 2011 384 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11223-8 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17010-8
George II
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.
Cloth 2011 315 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11892-6 $40.00
Visit www. yalebooks.com/ englishmonarchs for a complete list of titles in The English Monarchs Series
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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
Captain Cook
Master of the Seas
Frank McLynn
Bestselling biographer Frank McLynn presents a vivid, remarkable reappraisal of Captain James Cook, illuminating an aspect of the legendary explorers life that has been largely overlooked by recent writers: his identity as a brilliant seaman.
Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11421-8 $35.00
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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Britons
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Linda Colley
This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author.
Paper 2009 469 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15280-7 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17720-6
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
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Adam Smith
An Enlightened Life
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
1688
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
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David Hume
Nicholas Phillipson
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this booka new and revised edition of his 1989 classic Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics. 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
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
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Palmerston
A Biography
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.
Cloth 2011 528 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14935-7 $32.50
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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
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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Demobbed
Coming Home After World War Two
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Nights Out
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
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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.
Cloth 2011 384 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14880-0 $45.00
Capital Affairs
Frank Mort
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Moses Mendelssohn
Sage of Modernity
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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.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2010 248 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16175-5 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16752-8
Robespierre
Peter McPhee
A Revolutionary Life
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? This book combines new research and a deep understanding of the French Revolution to provide a fresh and nuanced portrait of one of historys most controversial figures.
Cloth 2012 352 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11811-7 $40.00
Enlightened Pleasures
Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism
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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
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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
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Sarah
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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.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16879-2
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
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Twentieth-Century Europe
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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
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Hitlers Hangman
The Life of Heydrich
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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.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11575-8 $35.00
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.
Cloth 2012 352 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17003-0 $38.00
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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.
Available in May 2012 Cloth 2012 480 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16670-5 $40.00
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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
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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.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11321-1 $45.00
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Walther Rathenau
Weimars Fallen Statesman
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.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2012 256 pp. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14431-4 $25.00
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.
Paper 2002 544 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09314-8 $27.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14388-1
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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.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12306-7 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16581-4
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.
Cloth 2011 358 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11471-3 $35.00
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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
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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.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11844-5 $55.00
Spies
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Funding Loyalty
Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev
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
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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.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2011 240 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13724-8 $25.00
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Belarus
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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.
Cloth 2011 256 pp. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13435-3 $35.00
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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
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Religious History
Sin
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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
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Christopher A. Beeley
Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathersamong them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandriaand reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity.
Cloth 2012 416 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00
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.
Cloth 2011 512 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12626-6 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15587-7
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Religious History
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Conversions
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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.
Paper 2011 752 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17309-3 $27.50
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.
Cloth 2011 432 pp. 58 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17615-5 $35.00
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Sunday
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.
Cloth 2011 248 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14192-4 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16881-5
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A Quiet Revolution
Leila Ahmed
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Afghanistan
Limits of Detente
Craig Daigle
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
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In Ishmaels House
Martin Gilbert
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Moshe Dayan
Mordechai Bar-On
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.
Paper 2010 448 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16932-4 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16122-9
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Levant
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?
Paper 2012 470 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18171-5 $20.00 Cloth 2011 470 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17264-5 $35.00
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.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17194-5 $35.00
Treacherous Alliance
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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.
Paper 2012 352 pp. 86 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16230-1 $30.00
Behll zkan
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey.
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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African History
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Kenya
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.
Cloth 2011 352 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14876-3 $35.00
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.
Cloth 2011 528 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14935-7 $32.50
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Southern Africa
Stephen Chan
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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
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.
Available in June 2012 Cloth 2012 304 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13932-7 $30.00
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.
Paper 2001 384 pp. 10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08776-5 $17.95
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Asian History
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Redeemed by Fire
Lian Xi
Tibet
A History
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.
Cloth 2011 336 pp. 7 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15392-7 $40.00
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Islanders
Nicholas Thomas
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook.
Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize
Paper 2012 356 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18056-5 $22.00 Cloth 2011 356 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12438-5 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17499-1
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HistoryGeneral Interest
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Moon
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A Brief History
Bernd Brunner
From the acclaimed author of Bears, an entertaining, often surprising cultural examination of Earths moon, through history, science, and literature, from ancient times to the present.
Paper 2011 304 pp. 93 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17769-5 $15.00 Cloth 2010 304 pp. 93 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15212-8 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16870-9
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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Opium
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Thomas Dormandy
This extraordinary book explores the entire history of the worlds most fascinating drug, revealing opiums power to relieve suffering, inspire great art, and promote medical advances but also to destroy individuals, families, and even nations.
Cloth 2012 352 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17532-5 $40.00
Odd Couple
Michael Huberman
Contrary to common belief, argues a prominent economic historian, globalization does not destroy labor standards and workers quality of life: globalization and labor have worked in tandem to improve living standards.
Available in May 2012 Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 256 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15870-0 $65.00
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How Bayes Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Edmund Stump
This book presents the first fully illustrated history of the discovery and exploration of the most remote mountain belt in the world, accompanied by spectacular photographs taken by the author during forty years of research in the Antarctic.
Cloth 2011 272 pp. 129 color + 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17197-6 $29.95
An Empire of Ice
Edward J. Larson
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Milk
Deborah Valenze
A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk over three thousand years of human civilization, from ancient myth to modern grocery store.
Cloth 2011 351 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11724-0 $28.00
Joseph C. Miller
Why did slavery suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution.
The David Brion Davis Series Paper 2012 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11315-0 $30.00
Love
A History
Simon May
A radically new exploration of the ways we think about love; how it has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over nearly three millennia; and how we might more accurately and successfullyconceive it.
Cloth 2011 294 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11830-8 $27.50
Reading Matters
Margaret Willes
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Witness to History
Victoria Schofield
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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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Theory of Literature
Paul H. Fry
In this brililant tour of twentieth-century literary theory, Professor Paul H. Fry explores important movements and themes that illuminate what literature is, how it is produced, and the many ways it can be understood. Available in April 2012 Paper 2012 416 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18083-1 $18.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18336-8
Death
Shelly Kagan
What am I to make of the fact that I am going to die? In this thoughtprovoking book, philosopher Shelly Kagan confronts myriad questions relating to our mortality and invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about death. Available in April 2012 Paper 2012 416 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18084-8 $18.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18342-9 The production of Open Yale Courses for the internet was made possible by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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Table of Contents
ninEtEEntH-cEntury BritAin............................23
AtlAntic History.......................................1
tWEntiEtH-cEntury BritAin.............................24
BritisH HistoryGEnErAl...............................24
ninEtEEntH-cEntury AmEricA...............4-5
tWEntiEtH-cEntury AmEricA..............8-10
tWEntiEtH-cEntury EuropE........................27-28
AmEricAn HistoryGEnErAl..................11
EuropEAn HistoryGEnErAl...........................28
militAry History...........12-13
AnciEnt History................................14-15
rEliGious History...................31-32
AfricAn History..............................................35
AsiAn History..........................................36
HistoryGEnErAl intErEst.......................37-38
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