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New Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jeffersons Foreign Policy FRANCIS D. COGLIANO This dramatic reevaluation of Jefferson as a statesman sheds new light on his attitudes, priorities, willingness to use deadly force, and challenges as the leader of a fledgling republic in a world of warring empires. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 288 pp. 3 maps 978-0-300-17993-4 $32.50 Robert Morriss Folly The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder RYAN K. SMITH Though reading like a novel, this thoroughly researched book tells the true story of the American Founder known as the financier of the Revolution whose unrestrained extravagance in constructing a Philadelphia mansion ruined his finances and his reputation. AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2014 Cloth 2014 416 pp. 56 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19604-7 $40.00 The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784 ELLEN R. COHN, EDITOR, ET AL. With the signing of the 1783 peace treaty, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (including the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American. THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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the Atlantic World BILLY G. SMITH This extraordinary book tells the newly discovered story of one small British ship that sailed to West Africa in hopes of establishing a slavefree colony but instead set in motion a fateful, history-altering yellow-fever pandemic. Cloth 2013 328 pp. 21 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19452-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Empires of the Atlantic World Britain and Spain in America 14921830 J. H. ELLIOTT In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, 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
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All Can Be Saved Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World STUART B. SCHWARTZ 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 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence; 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
proclamations from the mid-eighteenth century in the American colonies provide a radically different historical perspective on the Declaration of Independence and the motivations and events that inspired the creation of the remarkable document that inflamed the American Revolution.
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New in paper Jeffersons Shadow The Story of His Science KEITH THOMSON Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, but this book is the first to focus on his passion for science, the influence of science on his vision for America, his scientific experiments and inventions, and his lasting contributions to paleontology, geography, climatology, archaeology, and more. PAPER AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Paper 2014 336 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20593-0 $22.00 Cloth 2012 336 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18403-7 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Recent & Classic Titles Sarah Osborns World The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America CATHERINE A. BREKUS A charismatic leader among eighteenth-century American evangelical Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the details of her life and spiritual quest for more than thirty years. Her eloquent writings open a new window on the roots of the evangelical movement. Winner of the 2013
Aldersgate Prize given by John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University
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Recent & Classic Titles From Peace to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 16571761 BRYCCHAN CAREY This book shows how Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and how the Society of Friends became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade. Cloth 2012 272 pp. 978-0-300-18077-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK The Federalist Papers
HAMILTON, JAMES MADISON, AND JOHN JAY; EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN SHAPIRO This authoritative edition of the ALEXANDER
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
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Endowed by Our Creator The Birth of Religious Freedom in America MICHAEL I. MEYERSON Rejecting the extreme arguments of todays debates, this book examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom and how it can inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation. Cloth 2012 384 pp. 978-0-300-16632-3 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy
THOMAS J. SCHAEPER The first complete
Davenport, the English Puritan clergyman who cofounded the colony of New Haven and was a central figure in seventeenth-century Puritanism in England and New England. Cloth 2012 440 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17913-2 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution. Paper 2012 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18745-8 $23.00 Cloth 2011 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11842-1 $37.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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wife and political partner of President John Quincy Adams reveals her as an articulate and sophisticated woman, as well as a shrewd analyst of politics. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 416 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19796-9 $40.00
Emerson, as editor, mentor, and promoter to a group of young literary aspirants is explored in author David Dowlings fascinating history.
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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. Paper 2012 304 pp. 2 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18183-8 $20.00 Cloth 2010 304 pp. 2 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15382-8 $34.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New in paper The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics
of Backlash GERARD N. MAGLIOCCA This book explores the powerful backlash that Bryan inspired during the 1890s, and the lessons for those who advocate sweeping change in our own divisive times. PAPER AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Paper 2014 248 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20582-4 $35.00 Cloth 2011 248 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15314-9 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
John Browns Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook STEVEN LUBET This lively book investigates the unknown story of John Cook, who plotted the Harpers Ferry invasion with John Brown, participated in the disastrous raid, then betrayed his comrades in a tragic confession that shook the entire abolitionist movement. Cloth 2012 336 pp. 978-0-300-18049-7 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK The Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and
the Making of Modern America WILLIAM G.
THOMAS This offers new perspectives on the
central role of the railroads in the decades leading up to the Civil War, during the bloody war years, and traveling forward into the early years of modern America. Paper 2013 352 pp. 56 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18746-5 $20.00 Cloth 2011 296 pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14107-8 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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look at the history and legacy of an important Civil War monument, which celebrated the contributions of one of the first military units composed of African American soldiers.
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In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history, Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed, from its origins in colonial-era Virginia to the present. Paper 2014 240 pp. 978-0-300-20587-9 $25.00 Cloth 2012 240 pp. 978-0-300-18138-8 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Recent & Classic Titles The Frederick Douglass Papers Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass FREDERICK DOUGLASS; EDITED BY JOHN R. MCKIVIGAN A long-neglected essential of African-American literature, this volume revisits the events of Douglasss earlier autobiographies while placing them in the context of his later years and accomplishments. THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS SERIES Cloth 2012 1,128 pp. 27 illus. 978-0-300-17634-6 $150.00 Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
DAVID ELTIS AND DAVID RICHARDSON; FOREWORD BY DAVID BRION DAVIS; AFTERWORD BY DAVID W. BLIGHT
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black? How are racial boundaries constructed? This thought-provoking book explores the history of black identity and its shifting meaning from the first arrival of Africans in America to Obamas presidency. Cloth 2014 336 pp. 978-0-300-19781-5 $30.00
FREDERICK DOUGLASS; INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY DAVID W. BLIGHT A powerful life story and
a passionate indictment of Americas politics of enslavement in the years preceding the Civil War, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography of Frederick Douglass, a man born into slavery who became one of the nations leading abolitionists, authors, orators, and statesmen. Paper 2014 432 pp. 978-0-300-19059-5 $13.00
A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the 2011
James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic history, given by the American Historical Association; Winner of the 2011-12 Louis Gottschalk Prize, given by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps; 5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphs 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. The book begins with a 1925 court case and shows howalmost a century laterour society has yet come to terms with interracial marriage. Cloth 2013 344 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16682-8 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Claims in the United States DAVID E. WILKINS This book provides a legal and political history of the claims Native Americans have made against the federal government over the past two centuries regarding violations of treaties, indigenous sovereignty, and property rights. THE HENRY ROE
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Paper 2012 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps 978-0-300-18174-6 $20.00 Cloth 2011 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 15001900 ANDREW SLUYTER A substantive and groundbreaking book that demonstrates for the first time and contrary to conventional wisdomthat Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. YALE AGRARIAN STUDIES SERIES Cloth 2012 320 pp. 52 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17992-7 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK The Zong A Massacre, the Law and the End of
Slavery JAMES WALVIN In 1781, the captain of a British ship running short of drinking water ordered 132 African slaves thrown overboard. This book is the first full account of the horrifying event, the later trial, and the moral and political debates that followed. Cloth 2011 304 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12555-9 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
draws on exciting recent archaeological and ethnographic findings to provide a full account of Connecticuts indigenous peoples throughout their 10,000-year history. PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION
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Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature BETH H. PIATOTE Piatote analyzes the literary works of Native American intellectuals in the context of assimilation-era laws and policies aimed at national domestication, showing how Native American writing illuminated, contested, and refigured the reach of the law. THE HENRY ROE CLOUD
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New Gathering Together The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 16001870 SAMI LAKOMKI This comprehensive book demonstrates how the interactions between the Shawnee peoples and arriving European colonists transformed the political realities and ideas of both groups, profoundly affecting the course of American history.
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in Los Angeles, 17811894 DAVID SAMUEL TORRESROUFF A bold new work of urban history explores the early development of Los Angeles, how race has always determined its social and spatial boundaries, and how a 19th-century incursion of immigrants from the United States caused a profound and permanent shift in its political and physical environment. Cloth 2013 376 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14123-8 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2009 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15837-3 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New in paper Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West DANIEL JUSTIN HERMAN 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,
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Paper 2009 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 maps 978-0-300-15117-6 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2013 400 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19826-3 $30.00 Cloth 2010 400 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13736-1 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Jeffersons boyhood home, providing new insights into the founding fathers formative years. Winner of the 2011 Richard Slatten Award
for Excellence in Virginian Biography, sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society; Winner of the 2011 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize given by the Vernacular Architecture Forum
This fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time strips away the myths that have obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of the ferocious and elusive Apache fighter for the first time. Paper 2013 376 pp. 27 b/w illus. + 13 maps 978-0-300-19836-2 $20.00 Cloth 2012 376 pp. 27 b/w illus. + 13 maps 978-0-300-12638-9 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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countrys foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nations largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. Cloth 2013 512 pp. 23 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19172-1 $45.00
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The Spanish Frontier in North America The Brief Edition 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 978-0-300-14068-2 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
colorful history of the spectacular Gateway Arch of St. Louis and the controversial tactics of its creators. Beloved as a symbol of American democracy, the monument can also be seen as a vivid example of failed urban planning. ICONS OF AMERICA; PAPER AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Paper 2014 232 pp. 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20568-8 $18.00 Cloth 2013 232 pp. 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16949-2 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New in paper 1940 FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitlerthe Election amid the Storm SUSAN DUNN This spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season explores the deep divisions in the United States on the eve of World War II, the pull of Lindberghs staunch isolationism, and the courageous candidates and politicians who forged crucial agreements across the aisle.
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Recent & Classic Titles A Great Leap Forward 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth ALEXANDER J. FIELD This careful study of U.S. growth data reveals that the innovation and infrastructure development of the 1930snot the industrial response to WWIIset the stage for the economic boom of the following decades.
Winner of the 2012 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize, sponsored by the Economic History Association; Winner of the 2012 National Book Award in the Social Sciences, sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu
YALE SERIES IN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HISTORY
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The Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought SUSAN JACOBY In this thought-provoking biography, the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in the American secular tradition and demonstrates why his arguments matter today more than ever. Paper 2014 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20578-7 $15.00 Cloth 2013 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13725-5 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Recent & Classic Titles Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance A Portrait in Black and White
EMILY BERNARD This groundbreaking book
Paper 2012 400 pp. 36 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18816-5 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-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. Paper 2013 376 pp. 41 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19252-0 $20.00 Cloth 2012 376 pp. 41 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12199-5 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Return from the Natives How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War PETER MANDLER Margaret Mead was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could assess not only primitives but also the most complex modern societies in ways useful for waging war. This fascinating book weighs up her successes and failures. Cloth 2013 384 pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18785-4 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles A Single Roll of the Dice Obamas Diplomacy with Iran TRITA PARSI In this illuminating book, 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. Named One of The Best Books of 2012
on the Middle East by Foreign Affairs
the 300-year history of civil disobedience in America: the causes that have inspired it, the justifications used to defend it, and the controversies it has aroused at every turn. Cloth 2013 424 pp. 978-0-300-12459-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2013 312 pp. 978-0-300-19236-0 $17.00 Cloth 2012 304 pp. 978-0-300-16936-2 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River ZYGMUNT J. B. PLATER In a narrative that dispels widespread misperceptions about the environmental battle against the TVAs final dam project, a law professor and his students carry the notorious snail darter case through the corridors of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Cloth 2013 392 pp. 33 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17324-6 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Time No Longer Americans After the
American Century PATRICK SMITH An original exploration of Americas founding myths, our nostalgic commitment to such ideas as American exceptionalism, and why we must understand the facts of our history if we are to thrive in the coming century. Cloth 2013 240 pp. 978-0-300-17656-8 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2014 496 pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20588-6 $25.00 Cloth 2013 496 pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17640-7 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Recent & Classic Titles The Good Rich and What They Cost Us ROBERT F. DALZELL, JR. Through case studies
of some of the richest figures in American historyWashington, Rockefeller, Gates, Winfreythis timely book explores whether Americas strong commitment to the creation of wealth threatens our democratic society. Cloth 2012 208 pp. 23 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17559-2 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
history of changing attitudes toward ambition and how ambition influenced New World colonization, the Declaration of Independence, and Americans perceptions of themselves. Cloth 2013 256 pp. 10 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18280-4 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2013 584 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17658-2 $125.00 Paper 2013 584 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19475-3 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 19141918 LOUIS BARTHAS; TRANSLATED BY EDWARD M. STRAUSS This translation of the diaries and letters of a French corporal on the Western front in World War I brings the gritty reality of trench warfare to an English-speaking audience in a manner unparalleled even in the best soldier writings from that war. The reader feels and smells and hears the mud, the blood, the fear, the deafening noise of exploding shells, the clatter of machine guns, the cries of the wounded and dying. Here is the war as the men in the trenches experienced it.James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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New Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War PETER R. MANSOOR The first full account of the 20078 troop surge in Iraq, told by a member of General Petraeuss innermost circle, reveals how the strategy was devised and implemented, who supported the effort and who didnt, and how the surge changed Iraqi history. YALE LIBRARY OF MILITARY HISTORY Cloth 2013 384 pp. 20 b/w illus + 2 maps 978-0-300-17235-5 $28.00 Wellington The Path to Victory 17691814
RORY MUIR This masterly new biography
Montys Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe JOHN BUCKLEY From D-Day to VE-Day, historian John Buckley offers a radical reexamination of Great Britains military prowess in the last years of World War Two, suggesting that the oft-maligned British Army was, in fact, more than a match for the Nazi war machine. Cloth 2013 384 pp. 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13449-0 $35.00 Citizen Emperor Napoleon in Power
PHILIP DWYER The second volume of Dwyers widely
provides an authoritative re-evaluation of Wellingtons career, both as a soldier and politician, while giving new and unexpected insights into this talented, complex, and often difficult man. Cloth 2013 744 pp. 32 pp. illus.; maps; plans 978-0-300-18665-9 $38.00
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as the starting point for later 20th-century global violence and conflict. This compelling book argues that in fact this war reshaped understandings of peace and international politics in important and lasting ways.
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acclaimed new biography sheds bright light on Napoleons sensational myth-making to bolster his military reputation as well as his political ruthlessness, evolution as a leader, and complicated inner life. Cloth 2013 816 pp. 64 b/w illus., 5 maps 978-0-300-16243-1 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front ANTHONY FLETCHER Drawing
on the correspondence of British soldiers on the Western Front, this book provides a vivid account of their experiences and reveals the comradeship, humor, and strong morale that sustained them in the face of the horrors of war. Cloth 2013 352 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-19553-8 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles Twelve Turning Points of the Second World 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. Paper 2012 288 pp. 20 b/w illus. + 5 maps 978-0-300-18770-0 $16.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New in paper The Making of the First World War IAN F. W. BECKETT In this original and
spellbinding reinterpretation of the Great War, a noted historian turns the spotlight on twelve military, political, and cultural eventssome nearly forgottenwhose legacies continue to shape our world today. PAPER AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Paper 2014 280 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20664-7 $20.00 Cloth 2013 280 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16202-8 $28.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Military Genius HUW J. DAVIES 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. Cloth 2012 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-16417-6 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
masterpieces and literary legends of the 19th century, this book is a magisterial, convincingly argued new survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography.
Winner in the Photography/Art category at the 2013 Great Southeast Book Festival
PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Cloth 2012 352 pp. 151 color + 63 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18733-5 $65.00
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
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Paper 2011 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17766-4 $20.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12085-1 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles 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. Paper 2011 208 pp. 978-0-300-17138-9 $19.00 Cloth 2010 208 pp. 978-0-300-11439-3 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
A full account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of WWI, this book sets aside the many myths about the Allied operation and arrives at the devastating conclusion that nearly 390,000 troops died in vain. Paper 2010 304 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16894-5 $24.00 Cloth 2009 288 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14995-1 $35.00
Photography and the American Civil War JEFF L. ROSENHEIM This eye-opening
study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war. PUBLISHED BY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART/DISTRIBUTED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cloth 2013 288 pp. 303 color + b/w illus. 978-0-300-19180-6 $50.00
CONTRIBUTIONS BY LIAM KENNEDY, HILARY ROBERTS, NATALIE ZELDIN Featuring over 525 powerful
images and analysis from esteemed scholars, this ambitious book offers a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between photography and armed conflict. Winner of
the 2013 Kraszna-Krausz Awards in the Best Photography Book category
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Cloth 2012 612 pp. 179 color + 364 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17738-1 $90.00
of Marlboroughs ten triumphant campaigns, 17021722, and analyzing the administrations of his former staff officers in America and the West Indies, Marlboroughs America demonstrates that the dukes victory in Europe created Great Britain. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY Cloth 2013 608 pp. 11 color + 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17859-3 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain RONALD HUTTON 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. 978-0-300-17085-6 $32.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Voting About God in Early Church Councils RAMSAY MACMULLEN In this original
book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian 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. 978-0-300-11596-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III ERIC M. MEYERS AND MARK A. CHANCEY This comprehensive introduction is destined to become the standard book on biblical archaeology from Alexander the Greats conquest to Constantines reign. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Paper 2014 400 pp. 17 color, 170 b/w, 10 maps 978-0-300-20583-1 $25.00 Cloth 2012 400 pp. 17 color, 170 b/w, 10 maps 978-0-300-14179-5 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Recent & Classic Titles Caesars Druids An Ancient Priesthood
argues that the Druids 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. 978-0-300-12442-2 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Paper 2013 328 pp. 978-0-300-16005-5 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
A Visitors Guide to the Ancient Olympics NEIL FAULKNER This unique guide
transports us to the games of 388 B.C., bringing to life the sights and sounds, the athletes and attendees, and the sporting and religious events. PB-with Flaps 2012 272 pp. 40 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. 978-0-300-15907-3 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders GALBERT OF BRUGES; TRANSLATED
AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEFF RIDER This
excellent new translation of medieval Flemish cleric Galbert of Brugess twelfth century journal describing the scandalous assassination of Glorious Charles, count of Flanders, and its bloody aftermath provides a fascinating, first-person account of life, politics, power, and murder in Europe during the Middle Ages. Paper 2013 296 pp. 6 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15230-2 $30.00
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offers a bold new appraisal of the Field of Cloth of Gold, arguably the most extravagant and controversial international summit of the Renaissance era, providing fresh insights into the political realities of the sixteenth century and the mentalities of Europes monarchs. Cloth 2014 288 pp. 8 pp b/w illus. 978-0-300-14886-2 $65.00
wide-ranging 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.
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award in 2012, given by the American Musicological Society; Winner of the 2012 Polonsky First Prize in the research category for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines
Paper 2013 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. 978-0-300-19477-7 $38.00 Cloth 2011 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. 978-0-300-16778-8 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2014 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20553-4 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles 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, 1 map spread 978-0-300-17327-7 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. Paper 2012 320 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18791-5 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. Paper 2012 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18157-9 $30.00 Cloth 2010 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11423-2 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Mortgage of the Past Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (10501300) FRANCIS OAKLEY Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume, exploring kingship and related themes from the tenth to the fourteenth century. THE EMERGENCE OF WESTERN
POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES
research in a wide range of disciplines, this definitive history casts new light on the crucial Anglo-Saxon period, from the exit of the Romans to the arrival of William the Conqueror. Cloth 2013 496 pp. 100 color illus., 40 line drawings, 60 maps 978-0-300-12534-4 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
ANDREW
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. 978-0-300-17821-0 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles The Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc LARISSA JULIET TAYLOR 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. 978-0-300-16895-2 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK 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 Aquitainewife of two kings, mother of two kings, a tenacious and ambitious twelfthcentury 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. 978-0-300-17820-3 $25.00 Cloth 2009 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11911-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New The Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 EDITED BY WILLIAM
illustrated book presents a unique cultural record of the worlds first great financial crisisthe stock market crash of 1720 in France, England, and Hollandas depicted in the art, literature, and commentary of the time.
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Cloth 2013 360 pp. 240 color + 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16246-2 $75.00
Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet 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. 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2014 304 pp. 100 color + 111 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19224-7 $75.00
Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain AMANDA E. HERBERT In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert demonstrates the importance of these bonds not only to the women themselves but to the building of the British Atlantic world. Cloth 2014 272 pp. 27 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17740-4 $55.00 The Great Plague A Peoples History
EVELYN LORD This intimate history of Englands
Great Plague of 1665-66 brings a dark era of contagion and death to vivid life through personal stories of loss and survival from a wide range of individualsfrom common folk to historical notables Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newtonin the small British community of Cambridge. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 192 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. 978-0-300-17381-9 $40.00
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New The City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London CHRISTINE STEVENSON Surveying the City of London in the wake of the Restoration in 1660 and the Great Fire six years later, this authoritative book examines how monuments are made meaningful. PUBLISHED FOR THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE
FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART
This colorful account of Lord Stranges Men, a renowned acting troupe that briefly dominated the London stage in the late Elizabethan Era, explores the companys distinctive approach to the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others; its bold theatrical innovations; and its remarkable influence on the dramaturgy of the time. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 480 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19199-8 $65.00
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decade following the Revolution of 1688 illuminates the Williamite regimes struggle to establish political trust and the painful tension it faced between liberty and security. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY Cloth 2014 360 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17104-4 $40.00
Queen Caroline Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court JOANNA MARSCHNER This meticulously researched volume surveys Caroline of Ansbachs significant contributions to English arts and culture. PUBLISHED FOR THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART; AVAILABLE
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Cloth 2014 232 pp. 120 color + 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19777-8 $75.00
THOMAS MORE;
Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of Mores rhetoric in this masterful translation of Utopia. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. Paper 2014 232 pp. 2 illus. 978-0-300-18610-9 $8.95
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Recent & Classic Titles Household Politics Conict in Early Modern England DON HERZOG In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that early modern English canonical sources and sermons, which often urge the subordination of women, were blathernot that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Cloth 2013 224 pp. 978-0-300-18078-7 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Rebranding Rule The Restoration and
Revolution Monarchy, 16601714 KEVIN SHARPE This is the definitive study of how successive British monarchs attempted to culturally justify their rule in the years following the restoration of Charles II. Cloth 2013 872 pp. 90 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16201-1 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. 978-0-300-17089-4 $22.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16245-5 $32.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeares Julius Caesar 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
Paper 2013 200 pp. 978-0-300-18800-4 $15.00 Cloth 2011 200 pp. 978-0-300-15218-0 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2012 264 pp. 100 color + 115 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16279-0 $85.00
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 sixteenthcentury world. The book captures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd. Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus 978-0-300-17084-9 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Ralph Tailors Summer A Scrivener, His City and the Plague KEITH WRIGHTSON 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. 978-0-300-17447-2 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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This sweepingly majestic book is based on the full range of primary sources and sets the reign in its full European context. Christopher Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated foreword which takes stock of more recent publications in the field. Paper 2011 480 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-07370-6 $26.00
Edward III
FRANK BARLOW
Frank Barlows magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. Paper 2011 373 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-07156-6 $24.00
W. MARK ORMROD An enlightening biography that takes a deeper look at the personality of this celebrated warrior king, emphasising the importance of Edwards familial relationships and his achievement of a cohesive stable nation. Paper 2013 752 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19408-1 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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the first Tudor queen reveals in new detail Marys connections with Spain, her fraught relationships with her father King Henry VIII and half-sister Elizabeth, her religious fervor and how it led to horrible violence, and much more. Paper 2013 408 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-19416-6 $25.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
First published in 1968, J. J. Scarisbricks Henry VIII remains the standard account, a thorough exploration of the documentary sources, stylishly written and highly readable. In an updated foreword, Professor Scarisbrick takes stock of subsequent research and places his classic account within the context of recent publications. Paper 2011 560 pp. 23 b/w illus. 978-0-300-07158-0 $27.00
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(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. Paper 2012 304 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 3 maps 978-0-300-18771-7 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Britains last foreign-born monarch presents a richly detailed portrait of the king as a vital part of the governing process and as a dynastic patriarch, patron of the arts, and political survivor. The book reassesses George IIs achievements and the enduring impact of his reign. Paper 2013 328 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18777-9 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New Facts and Inventions Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell EDITED BY PAUL TANKARD This fascinating selection of the journalistic writings of James Boswell, best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, reveals an intriguing new facet of this complex and engaging literary figure, while providing a vivid insight into British journalism and public life in the second half of the eighteenth century. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 480 pp. 19 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14126-9 $115.00 Jonathan Swift His Life and His World
LEO DAMROSCH In this major new biography,
New Adam Smiths Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments JACK RUSSELL WEINSTEIN A radical new appreciation of the writings and theories of Adam Smith, an eighteenth-century Scottish political and moral philosopher, and pioneer of modern economic theory. It cogently argues that the ideas expounded by the visionary Smith form the foundations of contemporary liberalism and progressive thought. Cloth 2013 360 pp. 978-0-300-16253-0 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK New in paper Robespierre A Revolutionary Life
Leo Damrosch tells the story of Swifts life anew, probing holes in the existing evidence to show how the public version of his life the one accepted until recentlywas deliberately misleading. Cloth 2013 592 pp. 94 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16499-2 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Magnicent Entertainments
Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals MELANIE DODERER-WINKLER A pioneering study of the Georgian eras spectacular temporary displays, this book surveys the elaborate floral creations, fireworks, and architecture erected for royal marriages, battle victories, and other public celebrations. PUBLISHED FOR THE PAUL MELLON
CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART
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. Paper 2013 320 pp. 31 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19724-2 $25.00 Cloth 2012 352 pp. 31 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11811-7 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2013 270 pp. 133 color + 100 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18642-0 $75.00
EILEEN HUNT BOTTING; WITH ESSAYS BY RUTH ABBEY, EILEEN HUNT BOTTING, NORMA CLARKE, MADELINE CRONIN, AND VIRGINIA SAPIRO A comprehensive
new edition of Mary Wollstonecrafts visionary eighteenth-century feminist treatisethe firstever argument for womens rights as universal human rightsincludes essays by leading Wollstonecraft scholars that examine both the historical and contemporary political relevance and enduring legacies of this groundbreaking Enlightenment era document. RETHINKING THE WESTERN TRADITION; AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Paper 2014 416 pp. 978-0-300-17647-6 $15.00
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Recent & Classic Titles Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in EighteenthCentury England DONNA T. ANDREW Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century Englandduelling, suicide, adultery, and gamblingand the subsequent emergence of the middle class. Cloth 2013 328 pp. 4 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18433-4 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Britons 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. Paper 2009 469 pp. 978-0-300-15280-7 $22.00 When London Was Capital of America JULIE FLAVELL In this first-ever
portrait of eighteenth-century 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. Paper 2011 320 pp. 36 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17813-5 $22.00 Cloth 2010 320 pp. 36 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13739-2 $37.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Enlightenments Frontier The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism FREDRIK ALBRITTON JONSSON Enlightenments Frontier looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment, which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism, and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers from the era, including Adam Smith and his defense of free markets. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTHCENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY
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diary of eighteenth-century English clothier Joseph Ryder provides an illuminating, reallife perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism in the 1700s. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE
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Cloth 2013 312 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16961-4 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New KATHLEEN KETE Examining the lives and works of Germaine de Stael, Stendahl, and Georges Cuvier, historian Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary Napoleonic and Restoration France. Cloth 2012 256 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17482-3 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Captain Cook Master of the Seas
FRANK MCLYNN Bestselling biographer Frank McLynn
presents a vivid, remarkable reappraisal of Captain James Cook, illuminating an aspect of the legendary explorers life that has been largely overlooked by recent writers: his identity as a brilliant seaman. Paper 2012 512 pp. 45 color illus. + 4 maps 978-0-300-18431-0 $20.00 Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 maps 978-0-300-11421-8 $37.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles The Enlightened Economy An Economic History of Britain 17001850 JOEL MOKYR 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
STEVE PINCUS
In this bold new narrative history Steve Pincus argues that Englands Glorious Revolution was a fundamental turning point in the making of the modern world. Winner of the 2010
Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, given by the MacMillan Center; Winner of the 2010 Morris D. Forkosch Prize given by the American Historical Association
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Paper 2011 664 pp. 72 scattered b/w illus. 978-0-300-17143-3 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
On Historical Distance
MARK SALBER
Friendship JOHN B. RADNER In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship experienced by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental Life of Johnson. Cloth 2013 432 pp. 5 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17875-3 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
from Machiavelli to the present, Mark Salber Phillips examines the concept of historical distance and its role in historiography. Cloth 2013 312 pp. 10 color + 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14037-8 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Mayhem Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 174853 NICHOLAS ROGERS A vivid account of the crime wave and subsequent moral panic that gripped the streets of London after the demobilization of thousands of soldiers and sailors following the end of the War of Austrian Succession. Winner of the 2013
John Ben Snow Prize, sponsored by North American Conference on British Studies
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century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this booka new and revised edition of his 1989 classic Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics. Paper 2012 168 pp. 978-0-300-18166-1 $16.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2013 272 pp. 12 b/w photos, 3 graphs 978-0-300-16962-1 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO This groundbreaking book takes a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, blending archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis. The author focuses on the early modern Jewish diasporic community of Livorno, Tuscany, and its extensive business ties with Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean and Europe.
Co-winner of the 2010 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, awarded by the Association of Jewish Studies; Winner of the 2010 Leo Gershoy Award, awarded by the American Historical Association
Paper 2012 488 pp. 19 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18749-6 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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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. Winner of the
2013 Louis Beer Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association
Paper 2013 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 1 map 978-0-300-19820-1 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
remarkable collection of letters between German Jews trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the U. S. offers rare insights into the challenges of an average American family responding to desperate requests for refuge and aid. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 10 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19752-5 $30.00
Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic DAVID CAUTE In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of the Cold War years, the author uncovers a hidden act that cost one man a university chair while the other continued to be honored. Cloth 2013 352 pp. 978-0-300-19209-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK A World Without Jews The Nazi
Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
ALON CONFINO Tracing the stories the
Good Italy, Bad Italy Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future BILL EMMOTT In this lively analysis, a respected journalist explores Italys fascinating dual national character, the nations descent into economic malaise and political corruption, and what can be done to ensure a return to more prosperous and more democratic times. Paper 2013 312 pp. 978-0-300-19716-7 $20.00 Cloth 2012 304 pp. 978-0-300-18630-7 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Belonging and Genocide Hitlers
Community, 19181945 THOMAS KHNE 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. Paper 2013 224 pp. 978-0-300-19828-7 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Nazis told themselves about their past and destiny, Confino proposes a penetrating new assessment of the Holocaust, showing how a world without Jews was conceivable and imaginable before and during the war.
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East BARRY RUBIN
AND WOLFGANG G. SCHWANITZ This ground-
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breaking book is the first to offer a complete account of the Nazi-Arab-Muslim alliance that changed the course of World War II and continues to influence the Middle East today. Cloth 2014 360 pp. 31 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14090-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis MICHAEL HAAS This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Cloth 2013 376 pp. 978-0-300-15430-6 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Contesting Democracy 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. Paper 2013 296 pp. 10 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19412-8 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Hitlers Philosophers
YVONNE SHERRATT
LAMONT; WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY LAWRENCE L. LANGER Written by a member of the French
resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer. Paper 2014 384 pp. 978-0-300-19077-9 $25.00
Raphael Lemkin EDITED BY DONNA-LEE FRIEZE This never-before-published autobiography recounts the life of a giant among modern ethical thinkers, a Holocaust survivor who invented the word genocide, inspired the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, and profoundly influenced human rights history. Cloth 2013 328 pp. 978-0-300-18696-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
the full story of the Butcher of Prague for the first time. One of the most dangerous men in the Third Reich, Heydrich commanded the SS Security Service, the Gestapo, and the Nazi Criminal Police; organized the SS killing squads; and helped plan the Final Solution. Paper 2012 416 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-18772-4 $18.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-11575-8 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Astonishingly, Hitler gained the backing of many intellectuals of his time. This book is the first to uncover the chilling story of the philosophers who supported the Nazis, and those whose lives were destroyed by them. Cloth 2013 328 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15193-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The Passage to Europe How a Continent Became a Union LUUK VAN MIDDELAAR This essential book explains the origins of the European Union, the forces binding it together and driving it forward, and how political leaders will surmount the current economic turmoil. Cloth 2013 392 pp. 978-0-300-18112-8 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
is vast, this 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 Paper 2013 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19259-9 $16.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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murdered women were victims of Jack the Ripper? This intriguing exploration of unsolved slayings in Britain and even across the seas illuminates the Ripper case, contemporary life in London, police procedures, medical practices, and much more. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 22 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11720-2 $35.00
Wilfred Owen
than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler, this engaging personal history is also the first to make extensive use of his private correspondence in bringing to life a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century cultural history, perhaps the most influential artist of his generation. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 432 pp. 12 color + 94 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20346-2 $40.00
GUY CUTHBERTSON This new biography of one of Britains most loved poets provides a fresh account of Wilfred Owens life and formative influences. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 352 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15300-2 $40.00
reconstruction of the memoir the eminent Victorian editor Walter Bagehot might have written, the author captures the spirit and brilliance of his subject and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered an unpardonable fault: dullness. Cloth 2013 224 pp. 978-0-300-19554-5 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Literary Churchill Writer, Reader, Actor JONATHAN ROSE This striking portrait of Churchill reveals the profound influence of literature and theater on the life he composed for himself, his own writings, his political agenda, and the critical decisions he made during World War II. AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 520 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20407-0 $35.00
Bloomsburys evolution as the undisputed intellectual quarter of London during the nineteenth centurybefore the heyday of the Bloomsbury Group. Cloth 2012 400 pp. 44 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15447-4 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Palmerston A Biography
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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. Paper 2012 584 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17796-1 $35.00 Cloth 2011 584 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11898-8 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Explorers of the Nile The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure TIM JEAL The author of Stanley 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. Paper 2012 528 pp. 35 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18739-7 $18.50 Cloth 2011 528 pp. 35 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14935-7 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas
Greatest Explorer TIM JEAL Henry Morton Stanley was 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; Silver medal winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award in the category of Biography
secret lover of young actress Nelly Ternan? How would a man of his renown have hidden such an affair? This engaging book is the first complete account of the scandal that threatened to ruin Dickens and of the cover-up that continued for generations. Cloth 2012 232 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11219-1 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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, 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. Paper 2011 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17093-1 $25.00 Cloth 2009 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11207-8 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
biography draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most accurate portrait yet of the celebrated explorer/ missionary who was first to cross Africa from coast to coast. Paper 2013 456 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-19100-4 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Judith Walkowitz shows how Londons sophisticated and subversive Soho district became a showcase for a new twentiethcentury cosmopolitan identity. Cloth 2012 432 pp. 37 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. 978-0-300-15194-7 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. With the aid of copious maps, archive prints and photographs, and the words of East Londoners, he explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area. Paper 2012 440 pp. 50 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18775-5 $35.00 Cloth 2011 384 pp. 50 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14880-0 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
to archival research, an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, and a fascinating view of the lives of the poor in preRevolutionary France, historian Arlette Farges internationally admired classic work is a grand appreciation of the craft of discovery. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY Cloth 2013 152 pp. 978-0-300-17673-5 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
investigation tracing the growth of the suburbs of London back to the 17th century. PUBLISHED
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letters offer a fascinating and immensely entertaining glimpse into the mind of one of the most prominent and respected historians of the twentieth century. Cloth 2013 480 pp. 978-0-300-18534-8 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The Gardens of the British Working Class MARGARET WILLES Spanning four
centuries, Margaret Willess vibrant peoples history examines the myriad ways that the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played an integral role in everyday British life for more than four centuries.
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An eminent historian offers an insiders account of his craft, providing a fresh view of the challenges of historical research, changes in the field since the 1950s, and the power of historical works to shape the world of thought and action. Cloth 2012 264 pp. 978-0-300-18638-3 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
JOHN LUKACS A master historian explores the literary art of history and the future of teaching, researching, and writing about the past. Paper 2012 192 pp. 978-0-300-18169-2 $16.00 Cloth 2011 192 pp. 978-0-300-16956-0 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New The Compelling Ideal Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 19011956 JAN KIELY Jan Kielys fascinating history explores the origins of ganhua (reformation), the technique of systematic thought reform originating in early twentieth-century Chinese prisons and subsequently adapted for broader social and political use in Mao Zedongs revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society.
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sordid to the serene, this publication provides a multidimensional picture of Chinas physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong changed the country forever. DISTRIBUTED FOR
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Zulu Warriors The Battle for the South African Frontier JOHN LABAND This vivid military history, the first full account of five related wars waged by the British to gain control of southern Africa, explores attitudes, tactics, battles, and military cultures from European and African perspectives.
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and lavishly illustrated history surveys nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem. Cloth 2013 368 pp. 20 color + 185 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11195-8 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal Valley EDITED BY RODERICK J.
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition EDITED BY ROBERT HARMS, BERNARD
K. FREAMON, AND DAVID W. BLIGHT Bringing
together essays from the leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this groundbreaking work presents the first comprehensive study of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean world during the nineteenth century. Paper 2013 264 pp. 4 b/w illus. + 3 maps 978-0-300-16387-2 $30.00
discoveries in the Senegal River valley, this authoritative volume presents new data on iron production, population settlement, and environmental change on the site of the ancient West African Empire of Takrur, the first kingdom south of the Sahara mentioned by medieval Arab chroniclers. YALE UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY; AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Paper 2014 584 pp. 266 illus. 978-0-300-20389-9 $50.00
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union FELIX WEMHEUER An
authoritative study of food politics in the Peoples Republic of China and the Soviet Union, this provocative history uses famine as a lens to view the rise of the twentieth centurys premier socialist systems, providing a new approach to the study of world hunger. YALE AGRARIAN STUDIES SERIES; AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 5 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19581-1 $65.00
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tragedy, the Great Famine brought about by Mao Zedongs Great Leap Forward, is movingly and powerfully recalled by survivors of the catastrophe that took more than 45 million Chinese lives. Cloth 2013 336 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18404-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. Paper 2013 328 pp. 20 illus. 978-0-300-19869-0 $16.00
in Middle Eastern affairs, challenges the way we understand Middle Eastern history and politics in this provocative book. September 11 and other Islamic acts of aggression have little to do with U.S. behavior or policy, Karsh argues. Rather, such attacks express Islams ancient, powerful, and continuing imperial tradition. Paper 2013 304 pp. 978-0-300-19817-1 $20.00
The Forgotten Palestinians A History of the Palestinians in Israel ILAN PAPP 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. Paper 2013 344 pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18432-7 $22.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13441-4 $32.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK The Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War AVI RAZ This penetrating book explores newly opened archives to uncover how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed in the crucial years after the Six Day War. The authors conclusions are both controversial and illuminating. Paper 2013 480 pp. 7 maps 978-0-300-19850-8 $22.00 Cloth 2012 480 pp. 7 maps 978-0-300-17194-5 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Syria The Fall of the House of Assad; New Updated Edition DAVID W. LESCH The author, who knows Assad better than any other Westerner, analyzes the Syrian presidents failed leadership, his transformation from bearer of hope to reactionary tyrant, and his regimes violent response to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Paper 2013 320 pp. 978-0-300-19722-8 $18.00 Cloth 2012 288 pp. 978-0-300-18651-2 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK A Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa ROGER S. LEVINE 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 Paper 2013 328 pp. 22 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19829-4 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New in paper Of Africa WOLE SOYINKA In search of a deeper understanding of Africa, its identity, and its current crises, Wole Soyinka explores a wide range of topics, including culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. Refusing defeatism, he charts a path to a better future. Paper 2013 224 pp. 978-0-300-19833-1 $16.00 Cloth 2012 224 pp. 978-0-300-14046-0 $24.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition LEONARD THOMPSON, EDITED AND
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Recent & Classic Titles From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of a National
Homeland in Turkey BEHLL ZKAN How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Paper 2012 288 pp. 27 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17201-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations of the centenary of South Africas ruling African National Congress in January 2012. Paper 2014 416 pp. 978-0-300-18935-3 $20.00
enigmaticleaders in Israeli history, Begin was revered but also despised. This biography offers the first complete portrait of the private man, his public contributions, and the mystery of his final years in seclusion. Cloth 2012 584 pp. 48 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16235-6 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Recent & Classic Titles The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
ROBERT BRODY This bookthe only survey in
English of the crucial Geonic periodfocuses on the cultural and historical milieu of the Geonim as well as their intellectual and literary creativity. Winner of the National Jewish Book
Councils Maurice Amado Foundation Award for 1998
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. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the destruction of indigenous cultures, Islanders reveals there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.
Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize
Paper 2012 352 pp. 50 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18056-5 $22.00 Cloth 2011 356 pp. 50 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12438-5 $35.00
Tibet A History
SAM VAN SCHAIK This timely and insightful history of Tibet spans from the seventh century to modern times, in a lively narrative that sheds light on the countrys complex relationship with China, and it explores what it means to be Tibetan today. Paper 2013 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19410-4 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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New Gulag Town, Company Town Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta ALAN BARENBERG A major work of cutting-edge historiography, Alan Barenbergs history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established as a prison camp complex during the Soviet Unions Stalinist era, offers a radical reassessment of the infamous Gulag Archipelago. THE YALE-HOOVER SERIES ON STALIN, STALINISM, AND THE COLD WAR; AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17944-6 $65.00 Genocide on the Drina River
` ` Edina Becirevics scholarly yet BECIREVIC
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the history and development of Siberia, one of the worlds most inhospitable regions, is explored through the lives of those who settled therefrom sixteenth-century Cossacks to Soviet gulag prisoners to present day Russian entrepreneurs seeking new opportunities in the nothingness. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 352 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16794-8 $38.00
intensely personal history of the ethnic cleansing committed by Serbians against Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s is an essential in-depth study of the devastating and dehumanizing effects of genocide on individual destinies and the mechanisms of its denial. AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2014 Cloth 2014 288 pp. 978-0-300-19258-2 $65.00
Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 195370 POLLY JONES Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras.
EURASIA PAST AND PRESENT
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to examine coded telegraphs exchanged between Comintern supervisors in Moscow and Communist Party leaders around the worldenriches our understanding of Soviet political influence during the crucial decade from 1933-1943. ANNALS OF COMMUNISM SERIES;
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highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburgs residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism, and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Cloth 2014 488 pp. 110 b/w + 12 pp. col. illus. 978-0-300-16918-8 $35.00
Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition J. ARCH GETTY A fascinating inquiry into patrimonial clan politics under the Stalinist political system. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day. Cloth 2013 384 pp. 978-0-300-16929-4 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
political discussions between Czechoslovakian playwright and president Vaclav Havel and esteemed Polish journalist Adam Michnik two of the leading intellectual icons of the revolution in Eastern Europeis published in book form and in English for the first time.
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New The Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution ADAM
MARCZYK, AND ROMAN CZARNY Eastern
European dissident Adam Michnik, one of the most courageous and controversial journalists of our age, compares modern-day Poland to post-revolutionary France in this profound and brilliant meditation on politics, morality, history, and the virus of fundamentalism. POLITICS AND CULTURE; AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 192 pp. 978-0-300-18597-3 $25.00
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theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the USSR, this monumental work explores in words and pictures how Russian drama survived, adapted, and innovated under harsh totalitarian pressures and restrictions decades after the heydays of Gorky, Gogol, and Chekhov. AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Cloth 2014 768 pp. 61 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19476-0 $125.00
The Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire JAMES LOEFFLER Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion. Winner of the 2011 University
of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies sponsored by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Restless Valley Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia PHILIP SHISHKIN A vivid account of Central Asias wild recent history, its role as a staging ground for U.S. military actions in nearby Afghanistan, and its struggles against violence, corruption, and the ruinous heroin industry. Paper 2014 328 pp. 18 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20591-6 $20.00 Cloth 2013 328 pp. 18 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18436-5 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Recent & Classic Titles Gulag Voices An Anthology
EDITED BY
An original collection of fifty-seven maps with commentaries on the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus, from the eighteenth century to present, this atlas helps untangle the exceptionally complicated history in this region. AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Cloth 2014 240 pp. 57 color maps 978-0-300-15308-8 $65.00
author Anne Applebaum brings together a unique collection of Gulag survivors memoirs. ANNALS OF COMMUNISM SERIES Paper 2012 216 pp. 978-0-300-17783-1 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles Russias Cold War From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall JONATHAN HASLAM 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. Russias Cold War fills a significant gap in our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry of the twentieth century. Paper 2012 544 pp. 978-0-300-18819-6 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
VASSILIEV This stunning expos of Soviet JOHN EARL HAYNES, HARVEY KLEHR, AND ALEXANDER
Recent & Classic Titles 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. 978-0-300-18285-9 For more information, visit stalindigitalarchive.com Petersburg Fin de Sicle
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espionage in the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is based on extensive KGB archives never revealed before. With new information on Alger Hiss, Robert Oppenheimer, the Rosenbergs, and many others, the book for the first time documents the secret world of Stalins spies and the Americans who worked with them. Paper 2010 704 pp. 978-0-300-16438-1 $26.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. Paper 2013 416 pp. 7 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19198-1 $30.00 Cloth 2011 416 pp. 7 b/w illlus. 978-0-300-16504-3 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Voice of the People Letters from the Soviet Village, 19181932 BY C. J. STORELLA AND
A. K. SOKOLOV; DOCUMENTS TRANSLATED BY C. J. STORELLA The first comprehensive collection
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway Russia and the
Communist Past DAVID SATTER This compelling and original book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons of its tragic Communist experience and shows how a deep-rooted lack of respect for the individual blocks the nations way to a stable and democratic future. Paper 2013 400 pp. 978-0-300-19237-7 $23.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime, this book offers a unique history from below that illuminates peasants confrontation with the demands of a powerful state and their efforts to contend with the changes introduced into their daily lives and work by the Russian Revolution.
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New When You Were Gentiles Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Pauls Corinthian Correspondence CAVAN W. CONCANNON Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the apostle Pauls first audience to his Corinthian correspondence, focusing on issues of ethnicity, civic identity, politics, and empire to present a robust portrait of the civic, discursive, and lived landscapes of ancient Roman Corinth. SYNKRISIS; AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19793-8 $65.00 The Ten Commandments A Short History
of an Ancient Text MICHAEL COOGAN In this lively and provocative book, a leading biblical scholar investigates the history of the Ten Commandments, their inconsistencies, their afterlives, and more to arrive at surprising conclusions. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 176 pp. 9 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17871-5 $25.00
and expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls presents a complete account of the formation of the Jewish canon. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Cloth 2013 304 pp. 978-0-300-16434-3 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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body of scholarly work, Professor Satlows groundbreaking study offers provocative new assertions about how an ancient collection of seemingly obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. Cloth 2014 320 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17191-4 $35.00
Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus STEPHEN J. DAVIS In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of Christian history by examining how readers in antiquity and the medieval world would have made sense of the young Jesus portrayed in the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas. SYNKRISIS Cloth 2014 432 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14945-6 $45.00 Pagan Britain
RONALD HUTTON In this
original study of classical Hebrew, from its origins through the Rabbinic period, this book combines linguistics and social history to view the story of the ancient Israelites through the lens of their language. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY; AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2013 280 pp. 978-0-300-17668-1 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Huguenots
GEOFFREY TREASURE
enthralling account of paganism in Britain from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity, the author explores new evidence concerning pagan beliefs and rituals and the meanings of such sacred sites as Stonehenge and Avebury. Cloth 2014 496 pp. 103 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19771-6 $45.00
This majestic historical account encompasses the entire Huguenot experience in sixteenthand seventeenth-century France, from hopeful beginnings and rising political influence to Catholic reprisals and the repressive edict that forced hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Cloth 2013 488 pp. 45 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19388-6 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes; Fourth Edition EAMON DUFFY This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
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Leaving few traces of his personal life behind, Thomas Aquinas has long stymied the efforts of biographers. Undeterred, master teacher Denys Turner uncovers revealing details about the elusive saint and achieves an illuminating new portrait. PAPER AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Paper 2014 312 pp. 978-0-300-20594-7 $20.00 Cloth 2013 312 pp. 978-0-300-18855-4 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2014 288 pp. 978-0-300-20595-4 $22.00 Cloth 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-19160-8 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of a global Christianity over the first thousand years of its history and shows how it constituted one of the most profound revolutions the world has known. Paper 2013 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19838-6 $22.00 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11884-1 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles The Unity of Christ Continuity and Conict
in Patristic Tradition 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 Alexandria and reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity. Cloth 2012 408 pp. 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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. Paper 2012 324 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-18430-3 $23.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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in the Piedmont South DREW A. SWANSON Drew A. Swansons provocative environmental history of southern tobacco examines the material relationships that connected the crops, land, and people of the Piedmont region, linking issues of race and landscape management while exploring how an attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. YALE AGRARIAN STUDIES SERIES; AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19116-5 $45.00
New Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great Revolution in Science DAVID KNIGHT This landmark history takes us along on the great voyage of discovery that ushered in the modern age. Ideas, experiments, characters, conflicts, and achievementsall come to life in this account of the rise of science and how it changed the world. AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 336 pp. 55 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17379-6 $35.00 The Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and
Our Gamble over Earths Future PAUL SABIN This gripping history of the clash between environmentalists and their conservative criticsfrom the late 1960s to the present traces the origins of the political gulf that separates the two sides. Sabin makes a forceful case for using social values, rather than economic or biological absolutes, to guide societys crucial choices about climate change, the planets health, and our own. Cloth 2013 320 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17648-3 $28.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, describing the nations effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands, and ecosystems.
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Fifth Edition RODERICK FRAZIER NASH; FOREWORD BY CHAR MILLER This new edition of Roderick Nashs classic study features a new preface and epilogue by the author, as well as a new foreword by Char Miller, which bring Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness and the dynamic between humans and the natural world. Paper 2014 440 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19038-0 $20.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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A provocative and penetrating new biography of Galileo as author, inventor, and astronomer, revealing both his centrality to the Scientific Revolution and the Renaissance, and his godlessness, failures, and obstinacy. Paper 2013 344 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19729-7 $22.00 Cloth 2010 354 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12536-8 $40.00
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Recent & Classic Titles Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease MARK HARRISON In this pathbreaking investigation of the connections between trade and contagious disease through the centuries, the author uncovers disturbing weaknesses in regulatory systems that have failed to protect public health or facilitate global commerce in the past, and continue to fall far short. Cloth 2013 400 pp. 43 b/w illus. 978-0-300-12357-9 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Global Crisis War, Climate Change and
Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
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the disturbing connection between the worldwide tumult of the mid-seventeenth century and weather changes during the same period. The inevitable question arises: are we prepared to deal with the repercussions of climate change in our own time? Winner of one
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The Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World JEREMY BLACK Exploring five centuries of cartography and communications, armaments, mercantilism, imperialism, science, and astronomy, author Jeremy Black demonstrates that how a nation acquires and utilizes information is what has always determined its greatness. Cloth 2014 504 pp. 978-0-300-16795-5 $40.00 Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies
Against It JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT How can we forestall the rising tide of suicides in the United States and worldwide? In this invaluable book, the author combs through the history of suicide to recover the most powerful arguments against the irretrievable act. Cloth 2013 280 pp. 978-0-300-18608-6 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Disease WILLIAM C. SUMMERS A fascinating case history of how plague was used by various entities for different purposes, illustrating the interplay among technology, culture, and disease. Cloth 2012 216 pp. 13 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18319-1 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
This incisive study explores population movements and declining fertility in China, India, Japan, and North America in the 21st century, suggesting that politics, in addition to cultural and economic concerns, must be included as a prime determining factor in these powerful global trends. Cloth 2013 344 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13906-8 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda KRISTIE MACRAKIS In the first book ever devoted to the history of invisible ink and other concealed writings, a historian of espionage reveals its secret history from tattoos on the scalp of a slave to DNA microdots. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 392 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17925-5 $27.50 The Invention of News How the World Came to Know About Itself ANDREW PETTEGREE This lively history of news from the pre-printing press era to 1800 explores the many ways news was transmitted, the development of news as an industry, and how rapid news dissemination empowered people in the great events of their times. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 448 pp. 64 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17908-8 $35.00
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What does history tell us about the success rate of austerity measures in times of economic crisis? This timely book explores why austerity still has proponents despite its long record of failure, and why the concept is alien to capitalism. AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 224 pp. 978-0-300-20393-6 $26.00
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Paper 2012 272 pp 978-0-300-18153-1 $16.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Christmas tree spans many centuries and cultures, uncovering the mysteries of the tradition and tracing its evolution to our own times, when Christmas trees appear in all corners of the globe. Cloth 2012 108 pp. 7 color + 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18652-9 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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A renowned botanist recounts the eventful 250-million-year history of the ginkgo tree, its near demise during the ice ages, its surprising reprieve from extinction through human intervention, and its honored place in cities around the globe. Cloth 2013 408 pp. 61 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18751-9 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, this riveting account of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward Larson restores these expeditions status as grand endeavors of science. Paper 2012 344 pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18821-9 $16.00 Cloth 2011 326 pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15408-5 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Love A History
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973 2005 EDITED BY DEBORAH DASH MOORE AND
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POSEN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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 accuratelyand successfullyconceive it. Paper 2013 312 pp. 978-0-300-18774-8 $16.00 Cloth 2011 294 pp. 978-0-300-11830-8 $29.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2012 1,232 pp. 169 color + 58 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13553-4 $150.00
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teacher brings the world of literature alive, guiding young readers on an entertaining journey across centuries and cultures, from The Canterbury Tales to Harry Potter, Robinson Crusoe to 1984. Cloth 2013 288 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18685-7 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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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. PB-with Flaps 2011 272 pp. 40 illus. 978-0-300-17082-5 $17.00 Cloth 2010 272 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15533-4 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
women who asked endless questions about the world and found exciting answers through scientific discovery, this spirited volume invites readers of all ages on a journey through the amazing history of science. PB-with Flaps 2013 272 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19713-6 $15.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Edition E. H. GOMBRICH E. H. Gombrichs Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history. PB-with Flaps 2013 304 pp. 205 color illus. 978-0-300-19718-1 $22.00 Cloth 2011 304 pp. 205 color illus. 978-0-300-17614-8 $29.95
seventeen languages since its first publication in 1936, E. H. Gombrichs bestselling history of the world is at last available in English. Gombrich tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty. Named a Favorite
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introduction to Western philosophy brings the ideas of the worlds greatest thinkers into focus, from Socrates questions about reality to Peter Singers thinking on the moral status of animals in our own times. Paper 2012 272 pp. 42 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18779-3 $15.00 Cloth 2011 260 pp. 42 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15208-1 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Aldhouse-Green, 14 Allawi, 29 Allmand, 20 Andrew, 22 Applebaum, 33 Ashton, 26 Barber, 15 Barenberg, 32 Barlow, 20 Barthas, 11 Bayles, 8 Becirevic, 32 Beckett, 12 Beeley, 37 Begg & Bennett, 26 Bell, 12 Bernard, E., 9 Bernard, G.W., 19, 36 Bertholet & van der Aalsvoort, 29 Bidlack & Lomagin, 33 Binding, 24 Black, 39 Blair, 19 Bonelli, 24 Brekus, 3 Bremer, 3 Brody, 31 Brown, 26 Brunner, 40 Buckley, 11 Bynum, 41 Campbell, 8 Carey, 3 Carlton, 12 Carlyle, 28 Caute, 24 Chan, 31 Cheyette, 39 Cogliano, 2 Colley, 22 Concannon, 35 Conno, 24 Coogan, 35 Cooper, 19 Crane, 40 Crouch, 15 Crystal, 41 Cunliffe, 14 Cuthbertson, 26 Dalzell, Jr., 10 Damrosch, 21 Dash Moore & Gertz, 40 Davies, 12 Davis, 35 de Tocqueville, 4 Delay, 7 Delbo, 25 Doderer-Winkler, 21 Douglas, 24 Douglass, 5 Dowling, 4 Duffy, 36 Dunn, 9 Dwyer, 11 Eagleton, 40 Edwards, 20 Elliott, 2, 28 Eltis & Richardson, 5 Emmott, 24 Farge, 28 Faulkner, 14 Field, 9 Firsov et al., 32 Flavell, 22 Fletcher, 11 Fogelson, 8 Foot, 20 France, 12 Franklin, 2 Freeman, 37 Frieze, 25 Galbert of Bruges, 15 Galor & Bloedhorn, 29 Gauci, 22 Gerwarth, 25 Getty, 32 Glasser, 9 Goetzmann et al., 17 Goldring, 17 Gombrich, 41 Gordon, 19 Gottlieb, 25 Greenough et al., 5 Grifn, 27 Haas, 25 HaCohen, 15 Hmlinen, 7 Hamilton et al., 3 Harline, 37 Harms et al., 29 Harris, 16 Harrison, 39 Hart, 37 Hartley, 32 Harvey, 12 Haslam, 34 Haynes et al., 34 Hecht, 39 Heffron, 4 Hempton, 36 Herbert, 17 Herman, 7 Herzog, 19 Hicks, 16 Higham & Ryan, 16 Hobsbawm, 40 Hutton, R., 14, 35 Jacoby, 9 Jeal, 27 Jones, 32 Jonsson, 22 Kadane, 22 Kamen, 15 Karsh, 30 Kelly, 32 Kern, 7 Kete, 22 Kiely, 29 King, E., 20 King, W., 10 Knight, 38 Krentz, 12 Khne, 24 Kurlansky, 9 Laband, 29 Lakomki, 6 Larson, 40 Lavin, 6 LawrenceMathers, 16 Lesch, 30 Levack, 37 Levine, 30 Lim, 35 Loefer, 33 Lord, 17 Lubet, 4, 8 Lukacs, 13, 28 Lynch, 2 MacMullen, 14 Macrakis, 39 Magliocca, 4 Mandler, 9 Manley & MacLean, 18 Mansoor, 11 Marissen, 18 Marriott, 28 Marschner, 18 Martin, 14 Matynia, 32 Mawdsley, 13 May, 40 McIntosh et al., 29 McKellar, 28 McLynn, 13, 22 McPhee, 21 Meyers & Chancey, 14 Meyerson, 3 Michnik, 33 Mokyr, 23 Monod, 23 Monter, 16 More, 18 Moss, 37 Muir, 11 Mller, 25 Mulligan, 11 Nash, 38 Nongbri, 37 OBrien, 28 OShaughnessy, 13 Oakley, 16 OnwuachiWillig, 5 Ormrod, 20 Osman, 30 zkan, 31 Papp, 30 Parker, 39 Parrillo, 10 Parsi, 10 Perry, 10 Peterson, 6 Pettegree, 16, 39 Phillips, 23 Phillipson, 23 Piatote, 6 Pincus, 23 Plater, 10 Prior, 13 Prochaska, 26 Radner, 23 Ransby, 5 Raz, 30 Richardson, 15 Rico, 8 Rogers, G., 14 Rogers, N., 23 Rohrbough, 8 Rose, 26 Rosenheim, 13 Rushdy, 5 Sabin, 38 Sachs, 10 Satlow, 35 Satter, 34 Scarisbrick, 20 Schaeper, 3 Schniedewind, 35 Schui, 40 Schultz, 4 Schwanitz, 24 Schwartz, S., 2 Schwartz, P. & M., 6 Senelick & Ostrovsky, 33 Shain, 2 Shalev, 4 Sharpe, 19 Sherratt, 25 Shilon, 31 Shishkin, 33 Sirota, 18 Slater, 27 Sluyter, 6 Smith, B., 2 Smith, P., 10 Smith, R., 2 Soyinka, 31 Stalin Digital Archive, 34 Steinberg, 34 Stevenson, 18 Stichelbaut, 11 Stoneman, 14 Storella & Sololov, 34 Stratmann, 27 Summers, 39 Sutherland, D., 26 Sutherland, J., 41 Swanson, 38 Tal, 38 Talayesva, 6 Tankard, 21 Tanner, 16 Taylor, 17 Thomas, N., 31 Thomas, W., 4 Thompson, A., 20 Thompson, L., 31 Thomson, 3 Thorpe, 33 Thurley, 26 Tobin, 21 Tollebeek & van Assche, 12 Torres-Rouff, 7 Treasure, 35 Trivellato,23 Tsutsiev, 33 Tucker et al., 13 Turner, D., 36 Turner, R., 17 Utley, 7 van Middelaar, 25 van Schaik, 31 Vauchez, 36 Venet, 4 Vermes, 36 Walkowitz, 27 Walvin, 6 Warburton, 41 Wayne, 5 Webb, 13 Weber, 8 Weil, 18 Weinstein, D., 17 Weinstein, J., 21 Wellman, 17 Wemheuer, 29 Wilken, 36 Wilkins, 6 Willes, 28 Williams, 38 Wills, 18, 19 Winroth, 15 Winter & Teitelbaum, 39 Wollstonecraft, 21 Wootton, 38 Wrightson, 19 Zhou Xun, 30
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19Th-CENTURY AMERICa...............................4
AFRICaN-AMERICaN HISTORY......................5-6
AMERICaN OVERVIEw.................................10
RELIGIOUS HISTORY................35-37
MILITaRY HISTORY...................................11-13
ENVIRONMENTaL HISTORY..........................38
GENERaL INTEREST..............................39-40
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