Yale University Press History 2013 Catalog

HISTORY
2013
Colonial & Early American History
New
Defiance of the Patriots

The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
Sarah Osborns World

The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
Endowed by Our Creator

The Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Benjamin L. Carp
Evocative and enthralling, this is the broadest account yet of a defining event in American history, which forged the American character and continues to shape its politics today.
Paper 2011 328 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17812-8 $20.00 Cloth 2010 328 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11705-9 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16845-7
Catherine A. Brekus
A charismatic leader among eighteenthcentury American evangelical Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the details of her life and spiritual quest for more than thirty years. Her eloquent writings open a new window on the roots of the evangelical movement.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2013 448 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18290-3 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18832-5
Michael I. Meyerson
Rejecting the extreme arguments of todays debates, this book examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom and how it can inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.
Cloth 2012 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16632-3 $32.50
The Federalist Papers

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

Francis J. Bremer
Thomas J. Schaeper
The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution.
John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds

An illuminating biography of John 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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17913-2 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18885-1
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A Rich Spot of Earth

Peter J. Hatch
Foreword by Alice Waters
Jeffersons Shadow
The Story of His Science
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Thomas Jeffersons Revolutionary Garden at Monticello
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.
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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18077-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18227-9
Graced with nearly 200 full-color illustrations, A Rich Spot of Earth is the first book devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden. The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens.
Cloth 2012 280 pp. 201 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17114-3 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18340-5
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Atlantic & Latin American History
Britain and Spain in America 14921830
Empires of the Atlantic World
New Worlds
John Lynch
A Religious History of Latin America

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

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

This groundbreaking book is the first to investigate the idea of religious tolerance in Spain, Portugal, and their New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition.
Winner of the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History; Winner of the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize, of the 2009 Leo Gershoy Award, and of the 2009 George L. Mosse Prize, all given by the American Historical Association Paper 2009 352 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15854-0 $27.00 Cloth 2008 352 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12580-1 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15053-7
J. H. Elliott
In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic civilizations, providing rich insights into both while revealing aspects of their dual history that influence the Americas to this day.
Winner of the 2007 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians Paper 2007 608 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12399-9 $32.00 Cloth 2006 560 pp. 43 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11431-7 $55.00
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Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City
Land, Writing, and Native Rule
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

David Eltis and David Richardson
Foreword by David Brion Davis; Afterword by David W. Blight
A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade.
Winner of the 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award; Winner of the 2011 James A. Rawley Prize, given by the American Historical Association; Winner of the 201112 Louis Gottschalk Prize given by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps; 5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18529-4
Edited by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy

With essays by Dennis Carr, Mara Castaeda de la Paz, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Mary E. Miller, Barbara E. Mundy, Richard Newman and Michele Derrick, and Gordon Whittaker
This book marks the first publication of a rare, 16th-century map of Mexico City, along with the results of extensive scientific, historical, and linguistic research.
Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Cloth 2013 232 pp. 284 color + 13 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18071-8 $75.00
Black Ranching Frontiers

Andrew Sluyter
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 15001900

A substantive and groundbreaking book that demonstrates for the first time that 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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17992-7 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18323-8
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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12555-9 $32.50
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The 19th Century in America
Letters from America

Alexis de Tocqueville
Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Frederick Brown
This book presents for the first time the complete translated correspondence of Tocqueville on his first journey to America in 1831. These remarkable letters contain the seeds of his later masterful account of American democracy.
Winner of the 2011 Translation Prize given by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Paper 2012 304 pp. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18183-8 $20.00 Cloth 2010 304 pp. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15382-8 $28.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15383-5
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The Iron Way
Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America
Domestic Subjects
Beth H. Piatote
Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

In this interdisciplinary work, 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 Series on American Indians and Modernity Cloth 2013 248 pp. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17157-0 $45.00
William G. Thomas
This groundbreaking book offers new perspectives on the central role of the railroads in the decades leading up to the Civil War, during the bloody war years, and traveling forward into the early years of modern America.
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New
Black Gotham
A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
The Frederick Douglass Papers

Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
American Zion
The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War
Carla L. Peterson
Black Gotham is a fascinating look at a little-known segment of American history: African-American elites in New York City in the nineteenth century, told through Carla Petersons intriguing account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her ancestors.
Winner of the 2011 New York City Book Awards sponsored by the New York Society Library Paper 2012 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18174-6 $20.00 Cloth 2011 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16409-1
Eran Shalev
This original book examines the widespread notion in Americas early decades that the United States was a second or new Israel, an idea that powerfully influenced nationalism, politics, and culture.
Cloth 2013 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18692-5 $40.00
Frederick Douglass
Edited by John R. McKivigan
This volume revisits the events of Douglasss earlier autobiographies while placing them in the context of his later years and accomplishments.
The Frederick Douglass Papers Series Cloth 2012 1,200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17634-6 $150.00
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New
The Colorado Doctrine

Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
John Browns Spy

Steven Lubet
The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

This is the story of John Cook, who plotted and participated in the Harpers Ferry invasion with John Brown, then betrayed his comrades in a confession that shook the entire abolitionist movement.
David Schorr
David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the appropriation doctrine, a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West.
Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference Cloth 2012 256 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13447-6 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18904-9
The Lamar Series in Western History
War of a Thousand Deserts

Brian DeLay
New in paper
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Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

In this radically new account of Americas watershed victory in the U.S.-Mexican War, DeLay uncovers the forgotten role of the Comanches and their native allies.
Winner of the 2009 Robert M. Utley Award and the 2009 W. Turrentine Jackson Award, given by the Western History Association Paper 2009 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15837-3 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15042-1
The Jeffersons at Shadwell

Susan Kern
Kerns research is impeccable, her writing fluid, and no one will ever again be able to consider Jefferson without taking this terrific book into account. A great achievement.Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston
Winner of the 2011 Richard Slatten Award, sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society Paper 2012 320 pp. 56 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18743-4 $24.00 Cloth 2010 384 pp. 56 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15390-3 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15570-9
The Rush to Gold

Malcolm J. Rohrbough
France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 18481854

The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 gold seekers in the mid-1800s, and it is the story of 30,000 Frenchman who came by sea that is told in The Rush to Gold. This is the first book to give an international focus to this pivotal time.
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The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hmlwinen
This groundbreaking book uncovers the lost story of the Comanche Indians and the vast and powerful empire they built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Winner of the 2009 Bancroft Prize; Winner of the Caughey Western History Association Prize given by the Western History Association Paper 2009 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15117-6 $25.00
Geronimo
Robert M. Utley
This fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time strips away the myths that have obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of the ferocious and elusive Apache fighter for the first time.
Cloth 2012 376 pp. 27 b/w illus. + 13 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12638-9 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18900-1
Murder in Tombstone
Steven Lubet
The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp

The gunfight at the OK Corral is legendarybut what happened once the shooting ended? This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the gunfight and shows how a talented defense attorney saved them from the gallows.
Paper 2006 288 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11527-7 $19.00
The American West

A New Interpretive History
The Spanish Frontier in North America

The Brief Edition
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

Paper 2000 632 pp. 150 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07835-0 $29.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16059-8
David J. Weber
New
Natures Noblemen
Frontiers
Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West
A Short History of the American West
Monica Rico
Exploring the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by roughing it in the wilderness, Monica Rico reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context.
This compact synthesis of Webers prizewinning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spains 300-year tenure on the continent. From the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spains gradual retreat, Weber offers a balanced assessment of the impact of each civilization upon the other.
Paper 2009 320 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 16 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15621-8
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

Paper 2008 288 pp. 32 pp. illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13620-3 $19.00
20th- & 21st-Century America
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New in paper
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

Emily Bernard
A Great Leap Forward

1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
Hank Greenberg
Mark Kurlansky
The Hero Who Didnt Want to Be One

New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky delivers the compelling life story of Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish player elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jewish Lives Paper 2013 192 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19246-9 $16.00 Cloth 2011 192 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13660-9 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17514-1
A Portrait in Black and White

This groundbreaking book is the first to focus on the flamboyant Carl Van Vechten, his notoriety as a white man with a passion for black people and culture, and his still-debated contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.
Paper 2013 376 pp. 41 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19252-0 $20.00 Cloth 2012 376 pp. 41 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12199-5 $30.00
Alexander J. Field
This careful study of U.S. growth data reveals that the innovation and infrastructure development of the 1930snot the industrial response to WWIIset the stage for the economic boom of the following decades.
Winner of the 2012 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize, sponsored by the Economic History Association
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Paper 2012 400 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18816-5 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16875-4
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High Life
New
The Gateway Arch

Tracy Campbell
This book explores the 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 Cloth 2013 256 pp. 25 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16949-2 $26.00
The Eighteen-Day Running Mate

Joshua M. Glasser
Condo Living in the Suburban Century
Matthew Gordon Lasner

The first comprehensive study of how condominium and cooperative housing transformed the city and the American dream in the 20th century.
Cloth 2012 336 pp. 125 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16408-4 $40.00/$30.00
McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis

This riveting story of the 1972 election uncovers how vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagletons secrets were revealed, why he withdrew from the race, and how George McGoverns campaign dealt with the staggering blow.
New
Return from the Natives

How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War
New
1940
New
FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler the Election amid the Storm
The Great Agnostic

Susan Jacoby
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.
Susan Dunn
This spellbinding story of the RooseveltWillkie election season explores the deep divisions in the United States on the eve of World War II, the pull of Lindberghs staunch isolationism, and the courageous candidates and politicians who forged crucial agreements across the aisle.
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

In this thought-provoking biography, Susan Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in the American secular tradition and demonstrates why his arguments matter today more than ever.
20th- & 21st-Century America
New in paper
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Elizabeth and Hazel

Two Women of Little Rock
A Single Roll of the Dice

Obamas Diplomacy with Iran
Eslanda
David Margolick
The iconic image of Elizabeth and Hazel at age fifteen showed us the terrible burden that nine young Americans had to shoulder to claim our nations promise of equal opportunity. . . . David Margolick now tells us the amazing story of how Elizabeth and Hazel, as adults, struggled to find each other across the racial divide and in so doing, end their pain and find a measure of peace. We all need to know about Elizabeth and Hazel.President Bill Clinton
Cloth 2011 320 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14193-1 $26.00 Paper 2012 320 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18792-2 $15.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17835-7
Trita Parsi
No one in the United States knows more about Iran, or can speak more authoritatively about the complex historical relationship between Iran and the US, than Trita Parsi. A Single Roll of the Dice is a must-read.Reza Aslan, author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Paper 2013 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19236-0 $17.00 Cloth 2012 304 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16936-2 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18377-1
The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
Barbara Ransby
This compelling biography tells Essie Robesons own story for the first time from her unconventional marriage, to her influence on her husbands early career, to her tireless efforts against racism and injustice around the globe.
New in paper
Modernist America
Richard Pells
The Dance Claimed Me

A Biography of Pearl Primus
Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Modernist America brilliantly explains why Gershwins music, and Pollocks paintingswhy these and other artists and entertainerssimultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.
Paper 2012 512 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18173-9 $24.00
Peggy and Murray Schwartz

The first full-scale biography of the seminal dancer, anthropologist, and educator, who championed social and racial justice through her blazingly original choreography and performances.
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What Changed When Everything Changed

Joseph Margulies
9/11 and the Making of National Identity

Margulies shows how new attitudes have taken hold even though the threat from terrorism has waned, and how are redefining our national identity in disturbing ways.
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Time No Longer
Patrick Smith
The Snail Darter and the Dam

Zygmunt J. B. Plater
Americans After the American Century

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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17656-8 $27.50
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How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River

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.
According to Our Hearts

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
This book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today, beginning with a 1925 court case and showing how our society has yet come to terms with interracial marriage.
American Overview
Sex and the Office

Julie Berebitsky
New
New
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

In this engaging book, Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the present.
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World Cloth 2012 376 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11899-5 $38.00
Ambition, A History
From Vice to Virtue
Arcadian America
The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
William Casey King

This engaging book explores the history of changing attitudes toward ambition pernicious vice, admired virtue, both? and how ambition influenced New World colonization, the Declaration of Independence, and Americans perceptions of themselves.
Aaron Sachs
The garden cemetery, a popular but largely forgotten tradition of the pre-Civil War era, has much to teach us about the history of Americas communal landscapes and todays environmental ideas, says the author of this thought-provoking book.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2013 496 pp. 54 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17640-7 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18905-6
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The Good Rich and What They Cost Us

Robert F. Dalzell, Jr.
Through case studies of some of the richest figures in American history Washington, Rockefeller, Gates, Winfrey, and morethis timely book explores whether Americas strong commitment to the creation of wealth threatens our democratic society.
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Connecticuts Indigenous Peoples
New in paper
What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures
The American Circus

Edited by Susan Weber, Kenneth Ames, and Matthew Wittmann
An exploration of how American culture, values, demography, business practices, and other factors transformed the fundamental nature of the European circus into a distinctly American past time.
Published for the Bard Graduate Center, NY Paper over board 2012 472 pp. 327 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18539-3 $65.00
Lucianne Lavin
with a contribution to the Introduction by Paul Grant-Costa; Edited by Rosemary Volpe
This volume draws on exciting recent archaeological and ethnographic findings to provide a full account of Connecticuts indigenous peoples throughout their 10,000-year history.
Published in association with the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Cloth 2013 416 pp. 37 color + 235 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18664-2 $45.00
New in paper
American Georgics
Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land Edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue
A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the modern organic movement.
Yale Agrarian Studies Series Paper 2012 432 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18804-2 $27.50 Cloth 2011 432 pp. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13709-5 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17184-6
New in paper
Circus and the City

New York, 17932010
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Matthew Wittmann
A compelling look at the American circus in New York City, featuring archival photography, circus ephemera, and costumes, as well as offering broad history of the circus business.
Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, NY Paper over Board 2012 208 pp. 250 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18747-2 $40.00
American Lynching
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history, Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed, from its origins in colonial-era Virginia to the present.
Military History
New
Perilous Glory
The Rise of Western Military Power
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 events some nearly forgottenwhose legacies continue to shape our world today.
Five Days in London, May 1940

John Lukacs
A gripping historical drama. . . . Lucakss story is not new, . . . but [he] has transformed it into a memorable drama. M.F. Perutz, New York Review of Books The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacss magisterial new book.
Paper 2001 256 pp. illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08466-5 $12.95 Cloth 1999 256 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08030-8 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18091-6
John France
This major new history encompasses warfare around the world from 3100 B.C. to the Gulf War and challenges accepted ideas about the development of military strength, the impact of culture on war, the future of Western dominance, and much more.
New in paper
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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 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18770-0 $16.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16033-8
The Civil War and American Art

Eleanor Jones Harvey
A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography, featuring artistic masterpieces and literary legends of the 19th century.
Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum Cloth 2012 352 pp. 151 color + 63 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18733-5 $65.00
The Legacy of the Second World War

John Lukacs
Mr. Lukacs is one of the more incisive historians of the 20th century, and especially of the tangled events leading to World War II.Joseph C. Goulden, Washington Times How did the divisions of Europeand, consequently, the Cold Warcome about? What were the true reasons for Werner Heisenbergs mission to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in September 1941? Was the Cold War unavoidable? In this work, which offers both an accessible primer for students and challenging new theses for scholars, Lukacs addresses these and other riddles, revealing the ways in which the war and its legacy still touch our lives today.
Paper 2011 208 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17138-9 $19.00 Cloth 2010 208 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11439-3 $26.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18096-1
Wellingtons Wars
Huw J. Davies
The Making of a Military Genius

This book offers a provocative reappraisal of the Duke of Wellingtons brilliant military career, arguing that his success was based as much on political acumen as on his talent as a military commander.
The Battle of Marathon

Peter Krentz
Drawing on early travelers, archaeologists, geologists, reenactors, and soldiers, Peter Krentz tells a compelling story that defends Herodotus account of how the Athenians won their most famous victory.
Yale Library of Military History Paper 2011 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17766-4 $20.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12085-1 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16880-8
Military History
New in paper
Gallipoli
New
December 1941
Evan Mawdsley
The End of the Myth
Twelve Days that Began a World War

An account of twelve days in December 1941, when interlinked eventsincluding the Battle of Moscow, the Pearl Harbor raid, and Hitlers declaration of war on Americadecided the outcome of a war and changed the course of a century.
Paper 2012 360 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18787-8 $18.00 Cloth 2011 360 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15445-0 $30.00
Robin Prior
A full account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of WWI, this book sets aside the many myths about the Allied operation and arrives at the devastating conclusion that nearly 390,000 troops died in vain.
War/Photography
Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels, with Natalie Zelt

With contributions by Liam Kennedy, Hilary Roberts, John Stauffer, Bodo von Dewitz, Jeff Hunt, and 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.
Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Cloth 2012 604 pp. 179 color + 362 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17738-1 $90.00
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The Burma Campaign

Frank McLynn
Disaster into Triumph, 194245

This book tells the true story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders who battled the Japanese, and sometimes each other, in the long and bloody Burma campaign of World War II.
Yale Library of Military History Paper 2012 552 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18744-1 $20.00 Cloth 2011 552 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17162-4 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17836-4
Photography and the American Civil War

Jeff 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 256 pp. 200 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19180-6 $50.00
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Marlboroughs America
Stephen Saunders Webb
Marching through the Duke of Marlboroughs ten triumphant campaigns, 17021722, and analyzing the administrations of his former staff officers in America and the West Indies, Marlboroughs America demonstrates that the dukes victory in Europe created Great Britain, that it won the united kingdom preeminence in the Atlantic world, and that the dukes delegates in America transformed autonomous and underdeveloped colonies into prosperous and aggressive provinces of empire.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 608 pp. 11 color + 25 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17859-3 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18260-6
The Warrior Generals

Winning the British Civil Wars
New
Malcolm Wanklyn
In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British warsfrom Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figuresmilitary historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars.
The Men Who Lost America
British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Andrew Jackson OShaughnessy

This unique account of the American Revolution, told from the perspectives of King George III, Lord North, General Burgoyne, and other British leaders, brings to light the real reasons behind the British Empires stunning and unexpected loss.
Cloth 2013 576 pp. 32 illus. + 7 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19107-3 $37.50
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The Ancient World
Caesars Druids
An Ancient Priesthood
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.not just as priests but as judges, healers, scientists, and power brokers Aldhouse-Green argues that they were a highly complex, intellectual, and sophisticated group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics.
Europe Between the Oceans

9000 BCAD 1000
New in paper
Ancient Greece
Thomas R. Martin
Barry Cunliffe
What was going on in Europe (a relatively minor peninsula in world terms) that enabled it by 1000 A.D. to become a driving global force? This sensational interdisciplinary work by a leading archaeologist reorients our understanding of Old Europes success, uncovering a set of complex factors that have gone unrecognized until now.
Paper 2011 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17086-3 $30.00
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Now in its second edition, this classic work now features new maps and illustrations, a new introduction, and updates throughout.
Paper 2013 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16005-5 $18.00
The Romans and their World

A Short Introduction
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, the sporting and religious events, and much, much more.
PB-with Flaps 2012 272 pp. 40 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15907-3 $28.00
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Ancient Rome
Thomas R. Martin
Brian Campbell
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ancient sources and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization.
Cloth 2012 288 pp. 42 b/w illus. +10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11795-0 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17215-07
From Romulus to Justinian

This concise and beautifully written history of ancient Rome from its founding in the eighth century B.C. through Justinian's rule in the sixth century A.D. pays unique attention to the values that propelled the Empires rise and fall.
Cloth 2012 256 pp. 13 maps, 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16004-8 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16133-5
Blood and Mistletoe

The History of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh history.
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The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos

Guy MacLean Rogers
Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World

In a groundbreaking reinterpretation of ancient polytheism, Guy MacLean Rogers rethinks and de-naturalizes Roman imperial history and the transition to Christianity.
Cloth 2012 528 pp. 2 color + 27 b/w illus. + 11 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17863-0 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18270-5
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The Ancient World
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.
Corruption and the Decline of Rome

Ramsay MacMullen
MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. Written in an informal and lively style, his book the culmination of years of research and thoughtful analysisprovides a fascinating, fresh line of investigation and shows convincingly that the decline of Rome was a gradual, insidious process rather than a climactic event.
The Ancient Oracles

Making the Gods Speak
Richard Stoneman
This colorful book traces the entire thousand-year history of Greek oracles and examines why they continued to be consulted by Greek men and women at every level of society until the Christian abolition of paganism in A.D. 395.
Alexander the Great

A Life in Legend
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

Ramsay MacMullen
In this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed.
Paper 1999 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08077-3 $22.00
Paganism in the Roman Empire

Ramsay MacMullen
This is the first book to focus on the beliefs and practices common to all non-Christian religions of the Empire. After examining the successes of the more dynamic cults and the effects on paganism of the conversion of the Constantine, MacMullen concludes that the conversion of the Empire to Christianity was not as inevitable and complete as it has seemed up until now.
Paper 1983 246 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02984-0 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-19123-3
Richard Stoneman
This engaging book is the first to gather together the hundreds of colorful legends told in cultures across the globe about Alexander the Great, conqueror of the ancient world. Richard Stoneman shows how the mythical exploits of Alexander have resonated for Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and in eastern and western cultures, for more than 2000 years.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16401-5 $23.00
Christianizing the Roman Empire

(A. D. 100400)
Ramsay MacMullen
How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In this book, MacMullen examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiasticalviewpoint.
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Medieval & Renaissance History
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The Raven King

Marcus Tanner
New in paper
The Crusader States

Malcolm Barber
This original and wide-ranging history of twelfth-century life in the crusader statesJerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessaexplores the military battles and cultural clashes as East and West struggled for dominance.
Cloth 2012 496 pp. 15 b/w illus. + 21 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11312-9 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18931-5
Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

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

Ruth HaCohen
This deeply imaginative and wideranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise.
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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19477-7 $38.00 Cloth 2011 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16778-8 $55.00
The English Aristocracy, 10701272

A Social Transformation
David Crouch
This groundbreaking book offers the first close examination of the fate of English aristocrats following William the Conquerors victory. A radical transformation ensued, the author shows, as society redefined itself around the principle of nobility.
Savonarola
New in paper
The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
The End of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris
Shedding new light on the final turbulent years of Byzantium, this evocative book explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered the thousand-year empire and reveals the consequences for ordinary Byzantines and their remarkable legacy.
Donald Weinstein
This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet.
Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00
New in paper
The Arch Conjuror of England

John Dee
The Late Medieval English Church

G.W. Bernard
The Wars of the Roses

Michael Hicks
A magisterial account of the Wars of the Roses by a renowned historian, explaining for the first time why they began, why they kept recurring, and why they ceased.
Glyn Parry
Based on primary documents, this new biography of John Dee, the great magus of the Elizabethan world, challenges many of our beliefs about his occult, religious, and political involvements.
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

Historian George Bernard presents a bold, provocative challenge to our understanding of the late medieval church and the Protestant Reformation.
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Medieval & Renaissance History
New
The Anglo-Saxon World

N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan
Incorporating the latest 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 336 pp. 40 b/w + 100 color illus. + 60 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12534-4 $45.00
The Mortgage of the Past

Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (10501300)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
Ralph V. Turner
Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this definitive biography gives us the real Eleanor of Aquitaine wife of two kings, mother of two kings, a tenacious and ambitious twelfth-century queen who carved a unique position for herself in a society hostile to the idea of a woman in power.
Francis Oakley
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume, exploring kingship and related themes from the tenth to the fourteenth century.
The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages Cloth 2012 344 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17633-9 $55.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18350-4
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The True History of Merlin the Magician

Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was made famous by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century. Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was believed to be and what he has meant to Britain.
The Book in the Renaissance

Andrew Pettegree
A groundbreaking study of the fascinating world of books in the first great age of print, from 1450 to 1600.
Winner of the 2011 Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of America Paper 2011 440 pp. 69 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17821-0 $27.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16835-8
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France

Kathleen Wellman
Beginning in 1410 with the birth of Agns Sorel and continuing through 1599 with the death of Gabrielle dEstrees, Kathleen Wellman examines their lives, accomplishments, and the iconic status of elite women in the French court.
The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 13001800

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

Larissa Juliet Taylor
The Life and Death of Joan of Arc

This biography of Joan of Arc paints a vivid portrait of the teenaged French peasant girl whose charisma and sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders.
Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16895-2 $20.00
The Conversion of Scandinavia
Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe
Anders Winroth
Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.
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Early Modern Britain & Europe
Anne Boleyn
Fatal Attractions
Calvin
Bruce Gordon
This brilliant new portrait of Protestant reformer John Calvin reveals his human complexity, the sources of his convictions, and how he inspired and transformed the sixteenth-century world. The book captures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.
Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17084-9 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15981-3
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G. W. Bernard
Drawing on a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of Englands most captivating queens.
Rebranding Rule
Kevin Sharpe
The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 16601714

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe shows how the preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwells interregnum and Charles IIs restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors.
Too Much to Know

Ann Blair
Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Long before the modern era scholars complained of the overabundance of books and developed techniques for selecting, sorting, and storing information on a large scale. This intriguing book examines information management in pre-modern contexts with a special focus on the impact of printing in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Household Politics
Don Herzog
Conflict in Early Modern England

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 232 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18078-7 $38.00
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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 Series Paper 2013 200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18800-4 $15.00 Cloth 2011 200 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15218-0 $25.00
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Utopia
Second Edition
Citizen Portrait
Thomas More
Translated and Introduced by Clarence H. Miller; With a New Afterword by Jerry Harp Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of Mores rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes Mores life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance.
Paper 2013 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18610-9 $8.95
Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
Tarnya Cooper
Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of Tudor- and Jacobean-era portraiture, focusing on how the middle class adopted and found new uses for this classic art form.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2012 264 pp. 100 color + 115 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16279-0 $85.00
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The English Monarch Series
Henry V
Christopher Allmand
In this sweepingly majestic book, Christopher Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated foreword which takes stock of more recent publications in the field.
New in paper
Edward II
Seymour Phillips
This definitive biography, the fruit of a lifetimes study, does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. But Seymour Phillips scrutiny of the multitude of available sources shows that a richer picture emerges, in line with the complexity of events and of the man himself.
thelstan
Sarah Foot
The First King of England

This biography of King Athelstan (924939), who reigned briefly but brilliantly, reveals for the first time his personal life, his spectacular military victories, and why he may justly be called the first English monarch.
Paper 2012 304 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 3 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18771-7 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16037-6
Edward the Confessor

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.
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King Stephen
Edmund King
This compelling biography provides the most complete picture yet of King Stephen, the unfortunate monarch whose twelfth-century reign descended into long years of civil war as his family and allies struggled to save his throne.
Henry VIII
J. J. Scarisbrick
First published in 1968, J. J. Scarisbricks Henry VIII remains the standard account, a thorough exploration of the documentary sources, stylishly written and highly readable. In an updated foreword, Professor Scarisbrick takes stock of subsequent research and places his classic account within the context of recent publications.
New in paper New in paper
Mary I
Edward III
W. Mark Ormrod
An enlightening biography that takes a deeper look at the personality of this celebrated warrior king, emphasising the importance of Edwards familial relationships and his achievement of a cohesive stable nation.
New in paper
Englands Catholic Queen
George II
King and Elector
John Edwards
This authoritative biography of the first Tudor queen reveals in new detail Marys connections with Spain, her fraught relationships with her father King Henry VIII and half-sister Elizabeth, her religious fervor and how it led to horrible violence, and much more.
Paper 2013 408 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19416-6 $25.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00
Andrew C. Thompson
This landmark biography of Britains last foreign-born monarch presents a richly detailed portrait of the king as a vital part of the governing process and as a dynastic patriarch, patron of the arts, and political survivor. The book reassesses George IIs achievements and the enduring impact of his reign.
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The Age of Reason
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Aristocratic Vice
The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
When London Was Capital of America

Julie Flavell
In this first-ever portrait of eighteenthcentury London as the capital of America, Julie Flavell re-creates the famous citys heyday as the center of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
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Enlightenments Frontier
Donna T. Andrew
Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century Englandduelling, suicide, adultery, and gamblingand the subsequent emergence of the middle class.
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 Cloth 2013 368 pp. 7 b/w illus. + 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16254-7 $50.00
Britons
New
Forging the Nation 17071837 Revised Edition
William Beckford
Perry Gauci
Linda Colley
This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author.
First Prime Minister of the London Empire

This first-ever biography of William Thomas Beckford provides a unique look at British history from the perspective of the colonies where he spent his early years. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 304 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16675-0 $38.00
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The Watchful Clothier

Matthew Kadane
The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

The recently discovered diary of eighteenth-century English clothier Joseph Ryder provides an illuminating, real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism in the 1700s.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 312 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16961-4 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18893-6
The Social Life of Coffee

Brian Cowan
The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

This book provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society in Britain in the seventeenth century. Britains virtuosi spurred initial interest in coffee and invented the social template for coffeehouses, soon a central part of urban life.
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.
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The Age of Reason
New in paper
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Making Ireland English

The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century
Captain Cook
Master of the Seas
Solomons Secret Arts

The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
Frank McLynn
Bestselling biographer Frank McLynn presents a vivid, remarkable reappraisal of Captain James Cook, illuminating an aspect of the legendary explorers life that has been largely overlooked by recent writers: his identity as a brilliant seaman.
Paper 2012 512 pp. 45 color illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18431-0 $20.00 Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11421-8 $35.00
Jane Ohlmeyer
This groundbreaking book explores the remaking of Irelands aristocracy during the tumultuous seventeenth century and offers a major new interpretation of the role of aristocrats in establishing English control over Ireland.
Paul Monod
This illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult.
Robespierre
Peter McPhee
I Am Not Master of Events
The Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 161923

An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets
A Revolutionary Life
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? This book combines new research and a deep understanding of the French Revolution to provide a fresh and nuanced portrait of one of historys most controversial figures.
The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
Larry Neal
A distinguished economic historian explores two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time and the outsized personalities involved with them: the Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble of the early eighteenth century.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 232 pp. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15316-3 $50.00
Martha White Paas

With Broadsheet Descriptions by John Roger Paas and Translations by George C. Schoolfield
This economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 161923 draws on rare contemporary broadsheets to explore its effect on peoples lives and behavior.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 192 pp. 27 b/w illus. +1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14676-9 $85.00
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The Enlightened Economy

Joel Mokyr
An Economic History of Britain 17001850

This incisive examination of the origins of the modern economy during the Industrial Revolution also explains why this phenomenon came to fruition in Britain.
The New Economic History of Britain Series Paper 2012 550 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18951-3 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17650-6
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The Age of Reason
New
1688
New in paper
On Historical Distance
Mark Salber Phillips
Examining the work of historians from Machiavelli to the present, Mark Salber Phillips examines the concept of historical distance and its role in historiography.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 320 pp. 10 color + 30 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14037-8 $50.00
The First Modern Revolution
Steve Pincus
An important, fresh, and imaginative work of scholarship. . . . It will have recast the origins of modern England as well as the history of the revolution of 1688.Bernard Bailyn, New York Review of Books
Winner of the 2010 Morris D. Forkosch Prize given by the American Historical Association The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2011 664 pp. 72 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17143-3 $27.50
The 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.
Co-winner of the 2010 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, awarded by the Association of Jewish Studies; Winner of the 2010 Leo Gershoy Award, awarded by the American Historical Association Paper 2012 488 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18749-6 $35.00
David Hume
The Philosopher as Historian
Nicholas Phillipson
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this booka new and revised edition of his 1989 classic Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics.
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Johnson and Boswell

A Biography of 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.
Against War and Empire

Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Richard Whatmore
A fascinating intellectual history of a group of prominent Genevans struggle to infiltrate and reform the governments of Britain and France in order to promote free trade policies.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2012 416 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17557-8 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18357-3
Adam Smith
An Enlightened Life
Nicholas Phillipson
This book shows the extent to which Smiths other great works were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand Science of Man, one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, encompassing law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Paper 2012 352 pp. 4 b/w + 29 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17767-1 $23.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17443-4
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Mayhem
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.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 272 pp. 12 b/w illus., 3 graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16962-1 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18906-3
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Victorian & Modern Britain
New
New
Stanley
Tim Jeal
Victorian Bloomsbury
Rosemary Ashton
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her earlytwentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health for all.
Libertys Dawn
Emma Griffin
A Peoples History of the Industrial Revolution

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer

Remembered today mainly for a question he never uttered (Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), Henry Morton Stanley was in truth a brilliant adventurer who overcame a nightmarish childhood to become Africas greatest explorer. Drawing on previously closed archives, this grand and colorful biography presents the first accurate picture of Stanley and his extraordinary achievements.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography; Named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times Book Review Paper 2008 608 pp. 67 b/w illus. + 3 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14223-5 $18.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15290-6
Palmerston
A Biography
New
Macaulay and Son

Catherine Hall
New in paper
David Brown
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (17841865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesmans personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerstons foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerstons contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Architects of Imperial Britain

A powerful, searching, critical account of the evangelical humanitarian and liberal imperialist who defined the parameters of nation and empire in the early/mid-nineteenth century.
Cloth 2012 420 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16023-9 $75.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18918-6
Livingstone
Tim Jeal
Revised and Expanded Edition

This new edition of Jeals masterful 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 432 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19100-4 $25.00
New in paper
Explorers of the Nile

Tim Jeal
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

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.
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Victorian & Modern Britain
City of Gold and Mud

Painting Victorian London
New
Nights Out
Nancy Rose Marshall

City of Gold and Mud raises questions about the Victorian metropole in terms of how these popular paintings of modern life portrayed national and imperial identities; relationships of race, class, and gender; and the values, desires, and fears of their makers and users. Nancy Rose Marshall draws on artists writings, arts criticism, popular poetry, news reports, cartoons, tourist guides, religious tracts, and more to paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of London during this critical time in its economic and artistic development.
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2012 320 pp. 60 color + 160 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17446-5 $75.00
The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Michael Slater
Was Charles Dickens the 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.
Life in Cosmopolitan London
Judith R. Walkowitz
In this lively book Judith Walkowitz shows how Londons sophisticated and subversive Soho district became a showcase for a new twentieth-century cosmopolitan identity.
Cloth 2012 432 pp. 37 b/w + 8 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15194-7 $40.00
New
The Marquess of Queensberry

Wildes Nemesis
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
This masterly biography uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But his core focus is Dickens career as a writer and professional authornot only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of letters, journalism, shorter fiction, and other writings.
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 in the Biography category, Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World Paper 2011 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17093-1 $25.00 Cloth 2009 720 pp. 65 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11207-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16552-4
Linda Stratmann
The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. Linda Stratmanns biography paints a riveting, complex picture of this man.
New
In the Olden Time

Andrew Sanders
Victorians and the British Past

In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strongs groundbreaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British History (1978). Sanders explores the essentially literary nature of Victorian history writing, and he reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual. This book offers an original view of Victorian responses to British history, presenting a fresh investigation of unexpected Victorian attitudes and the establishment of particular 20th-century prejudices and bias.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Cloth 2013 244 pp. 80 color + 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19042-7 $75.00
New in paper
Beyond the Tower

A History of East London
John Marriott
In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. He explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area.
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19th- & 20th-Century Europe
New in paper
Hitlers Berlin
Abused City
New
Auschwitz and After

Second Edition
Thomas Friedrich
In this entirely new account of Hitlers relationship with Berlin, the author explores how Germanys capital captivated Hitlers imagination and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions.
Forbidden Music
Michael Haas
Charlotte Delbo
Translated by Rosette C. Lamont; With a New Introduction by Lawrence L. Langer
Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes.
Paper 2013 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19077-9 $25.00
The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

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.
New in paper
Hitlers Hangman
The Life of Heydrich
Robert Gerwarth
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

With a New Preface
Orderly and Humane

The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
R. M. Douglas
Why did the Allied nations violently expel many millions of German-speaking civilians from their homes across Europe in the wake of WWII? This book reveals for the first time the story of an unparalleled episode of mass human rights abuse.
Cloth 2012 504 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 1 map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16660-6 $38.00
This chilling biography tells the full story of the Butcher of Prague for the first time. One of the most dangerous men in the Third Reich, Heydrich commanded the SS Security Service, the Gestapo, and the Nazi Criminal Police; organized the SS killing squads; and helped plan the Final Solution.
Paper 2012 416 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18772-4 $18.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11575-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17746-6
Jeffrey Herf
This groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germanys Arabic language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since.
Recipient of 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Prize; Winner of the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton Prize as given by the German Studies Association Paper 2010 368 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16805-1 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15583-9
New in paper
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity

A History
Sarah
New in paper
The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
A German Generation
An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century
Robert Gottlieb
Brilliantly, Gottliebs Sarah tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate and scandalousdaughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.
Jewish Lives Paper 2013 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19259-9 $16.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16879-2
Thomas A. Kohut
Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.
Carter Vaughn Findley

Against the panorama of political, economic, social, and cultural change, religious and secular forces emerge and compete to shape two centuries of late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.
Paper 2011 544 pp. 40 b/w + 16 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15261-6 $32.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15262-3
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19th- & 20th-Century Europe
New
New in paper
New
Totally Unofficial
The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in TwentiethCentury Europe
The Genius
Eliyahu Stern
Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism

This book offers a new narrative of modern Jewish history based on the life and legacy of the most influential modern rabbinic figure, the eighteenthcentury rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, known as the Vilna Gaon.
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 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18696-3 $35.00
Jan-Werner Mller
This brilliant guide to European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century. With special focus on Fascism and Stalinism and their legacies, the author illuminates both the centurys ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century.
The Communist Manifesto

Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac
with essays by Steven Lukes, Stephen Eric Bronner, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Saskia Sassen
A new volume in the Rethinking the Western Tradition series: Marx and Engels classic Communist Manifesto, accompanied by essays on its continuing relevance in the post-communist era.
Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2012 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12302-9 $12.00 Cloth 2012 240 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12301-2 $55.00
Building After Auschwitz
New
The Passage to Europe

Luuk van Middelaar
Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust
How a Continent Became a Union

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 352 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18112-8 $40.00
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the ways in which their work has been shaped by shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust.
Cloth 2011 448 pp. 25 color + 150 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16914-0 $50.00
Walther Rathenau
Shulamit Volkov
Weimars Fallen Statesman
New
Hitlers Philosophers
Many Yale University Press titles are also available from most major e-Book stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&Ns nook store, Google Editions, Kobo, and Sony. Yvonne Sherratt
Astonishingly, Hitler gained the backing of many intellectuals of his time. This book is the first to uncover the chilling story of the philosophers who supported the Nazis, and those whose lives were destroyed by them.
The first full biography of Walther Rathenau to be published in English in many years, this sensitive portrait explores Rathenaus life, assassination, and the complex dynamic between Jews and Germans in the Weimar Republic.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2012 256 pp. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14431-4 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17847-0
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Russian & Slavic History
New in paper
Gulag Voices
Edited by Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum brings together a unique collection of Gulag survivors memoirs.
Annals of Communism Series Paper 2012 216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17783-1 $18.00 Cloth 2011 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15320-0 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16012-3
The Leningrad Blockade, 19411944

Richard Bidlack and Nikita Lomagin
Translations by Marian Schwartz
Spies
A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev

This stunning expos of Soviet espionage in the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is based on extensive KGB archives never revealed before. 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.
Based on new archival research, this book presents a comprehensive account of the German siege of Leningrad in 194143, during which close to one million Leningraders perished.
Annals of Communism Series Cloth 2012 552 pp. 76 b/w illus, 5 maps, 3 tables ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11029-6 $75.00
Roads to the Temple
Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 19871991
Leon Aron
A compelling new history of the collapse of the Soviet Union that explores the intellectual and ideological impulses that propelled the revolution.
Cloth 2012 496 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11844-5 $40.00
Propaganda State in Crisis
Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 19271941
New in paper
Russias Cold War

Jonathan Haslam
David Brandenberger
Although the Soviet Union is often considered to have been the worlds first propaganda state, communist officials under Stalin were repeatedly frustrated in their attempts to promote a coherent sense of Soviet social identity. An expos of systemic failure within USSRs ideological establishment, this book rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Paper 2012 376 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15537-2 $55.00
From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russias Cold War fills a significant gap in our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry of the twentieth century.
Funding Loyalty
The Economics of the Communist Party
Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev

Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist partys financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh look at the evolution of the party and its role in the Soviet economy and society as a whole.
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Paper 2013 224 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16436-7 $35.00
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Russian & Slavic History
The Stalin Cult

Jan Plamper
New
New
A Study in the Alchemy of Power

In the first book to examine the cultural products of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism.
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War Cloth 2012 352 pp. 62 b/w + 21 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16952-2 $55.00
Restless Valley
Philip Shishkin
Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia

An award-winning reporter provides 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.
The Voice of the People

Letters from the Soviet Village, 19181932
Documents translated by C. J. Storella
The first comprehensive collection 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.
Annals of Communism Series Cloth 2013 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11233-7 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18901-8
By C. J. Storella and A. K. Sokolov
Leon Trotsky
A Revolutionarys Life
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. Also, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and to collaborate.
ePub 2012 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18285-9 Visit yalebooks.com for more information
Joshua Rubenstein
Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotskys own political oblivion.
Jewish Lives Cloth 2011 240 pp. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13724-8 $25.00
New
Atlas of the EthnoPolitical History of the Caucasus

Arthur Tsutsiev
Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov
An original collection of fifty-six 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.
Cloth 2013 208 pp. 57 color maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15308-8 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16010-9
New in paper
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway

Russia and the Communist Past
New in paper
David Satter
This compelling book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons of its tragic Communist experience and shows how a deep-rooted lack of respect for the individual blocks the nations way to a stable and democratic future.
Paper 2013 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19237-7 $23.00 Cloth 2011 400 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11145-3 $29.95
Petersburg Fin de Sicle

Mark D. Steinberg
This investigation of the writings of diverse urban Russian writers on the eve of revolution sheds new light on their shared anxieties about modern life and the search for meaning in a time of both crisis and possibility.
Paper 2013 416 pp. 7 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19198-1 $30.00 Cloth 2011 416 pp. 7 b/w illlus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16504-3 $45.00
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Religious History
The Unity of Christ

Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition
A New History of Early Christianity

Charles Freeman
This stimulating history of early Christianity, the first full account for over forty years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion, and gives a new slant on a familiar story.
Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17083-2 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16658-3
New in paper
The Age of Doubt

Christopher Lane
Christopher A. Beeley
Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathersamong them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandriaand reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity.
Cloth 2012 408 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00
Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

By analyzing the parallel battles over faith and reason in the nineteenth century and ours, scholar Christopher Lane makes a case for the benefits of religious uncertainty.
New in paper
Conversions
Craig Harline
Ten Popes Who Shook the World

Eamon Duffy
Which Catholic popes have had the greatest impact on history? Eamon Duffy selects ten profoundly influential popes, from St. Peter to John Paul II, and explores their amazing lives and accomplishments.
Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

This powerful work explores the parallel disruption of two familiesone in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America todaywhen a beloved family member converts to another religion.
New Directions in Narrative History Paper 2013 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19244-5 $23.00 Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50
New in paper
Why Niebuhr Matters

Charles Lemert
Although Niebuhr died in 1971, political leaders including Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, and John McCain acknowledge his influence on their thinking today. This concise book explains why Niebuhr remains important in our own uncertain times.
Why X Matters Series Paper 2013 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19254-4 $16.00 Cloth 2011 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17542-4 $26.00
New in paper
Holy Bones, Holy Dust

Charles Freeman
New
How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

This intriguing, beautifully illustrated book encompasses 1,000 years of holy relics across Europe, deepening our understanding of the medieval world by revealing how they were used in religion and also in business, politics, and warfare.
Paper 2012 324 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18430-3 $23.00
Calvinism
A History
D. G. Hart
This brisk single-volume history explores Calvinism from its origins in the sixteenth century through today, assessing political and social dynamics as the church grew and evolved. The book also raises important questions about the relation of church and state in our own times.
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Religious History
New
New
New
The Devil Within

Brian P. Levack
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

In this fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of possession and exorcism, the author explores puzzling questions about the motives of the possessed, the contagiousness of symptoms, differences among religious cultures, modern cases of possession, and much more.
Cloth 2013 352 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11472-0 $35.00
Before Religion
Brent Nongbri
A History of a Modern Concept

Spanning two thousand years of history, this concise, gripping narrative shows how religion was an invention of modernity.
Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
Denys Turner
Leaving few traces of his personal life behind, Thomas Aquinas has long stymied the efforts of biographers. Undeterred, master teacher Denys Turner uncovers revealing details about the elusive saint and achieves an illuminating new portrait.
Cloth 2013 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18855-4 $28.00
New in paper
New
The Serpent and the Lamb

Steven Ozment
New
Transient Apostle
Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

This spirited retelling of the lives and works of Cranach, the artist, and Luther, the reformer, recognizes for the first time how their combined successes gave birth to modern German art and the Protestant Reformation.
Paper 2013 344 pp. 77 b/w + 11 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19253-7 $20.00 Cloth 2012 344 pp. 77 b/w + 11 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16985-0 $35.00
Christian Beginnings
From Nazareth to Nicaea
Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
Geza Vermes
In this deeply learned and beautifully written book, Geza Vermes tells the enthralling story of how a revolutionary, anticonformist Jewish subsect became the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
Cloth 2013 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19160-8 $30.00
Timothy Luckritz Marquis

In a significant reevaluation of Pauls place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostles correspondence and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day.
Cloth 2013 216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18714-4 $55.00
New
Ancient Christian Martyrdom

Candida R. Moss
New in paper
Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions

In this innovative study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2012 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00
Julian of Norwich, Theologian

Denys Turner
This provocative book casts Julian of Norwich in a new light, revealing for the first time the subtlety, consistency, and originality of her theological thought. Julian stands among the medieval eras foremost thinkers, the author contends.
The First Thousand Years

Robert Louis Wilken
A Global History of Christianity

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.
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Asia, Africa & the Middle East
New in paper
New in paper
New in paper
Cultures in Contact
From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.
Edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah Graff, and Yelena Rakic

A scholarly overview of archaeological discoveries, art historical interpretations of material culture, and the literary, historical and political interactions between the ancient Near Eastern civilizations and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press PB-with Flaps 2013 320 pp. 300 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18503-4 $50.00
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 Paper 2013 408 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18932-2 $40.00
The Taming of the Demons

Jacob P. Dalton
Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob P. Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Great Partition

New in paper
New in paper
The Making of India and Pakistan
Kenya
Southern Africa
Stephen Chan
Yasmin Khan
One of the first events of decolonization in the twentieth century, the Great Partition of 1947 was also one of the most bloody. In this sweeping reappraisal of Indias liberation from British rule and the emergence of Pakistan, Yasmin Khan uncovers the recklessness of the Partition plan, its catastrophic human toll, and the unshakable animosity left in its wake.
Between Hope and Despair, 19632012
Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how its poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions will be across the continent.
Daniel Branch
In this illuminating account of Kenyas first fifty years of independence, an authority on African history analyzes how ethnic violence, government corruption, inequality, and other difficult issues hinder national prosperity and justice.
The Limits of Dtente

The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 19691973
New
Syria
Craig Daigle
Craig Daigle shows how the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.
The Fall of the House of Assad
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.
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Asia, Africa & the Middle East
From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan

The Making of a National Homeland in Turkey
Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
The Bride and the Dowry New 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.
Avi Raz
This penetrating book explores newly opened archives to uncover how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed in the crucial years after the Six Day War. The authors conclusions are both controversial and illuminating.
Cloth 2012 480 pp. 7 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17194-5 $35.00
Behll zkan
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey.
New
New in paper
Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Menachem Begin
A Life
Islanders
Avi Shilon
Translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett
One of the most importantand enigmaticleaders in Israeli history, Begin was revered but also despised. This biography offers the first complete portrait of the private man, his public contributions, and the mystery of his final years in seclusion.
The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Thomas
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook.
Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize given by the Wolfson Foundation Paper 2012 352 pp. 50 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18056-5 $22.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-17499-1
Trita Parsi
With a New Preface by the Author
Trita Parsi untangles the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present and spells out how American policies can avert catastrophe and lead the region toward peace.
Winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Paper 2008 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14311-9 $19.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-13806-1
New in paper
Israel
An Introduction
The Great Famine in China, 19581962

A Documentary History
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.
Barry Rubin
In this uniquely wide-ranging portrait of Israel, students and general readers will find accurate information on such important topics as its history, land and people, politics, society, economics, and culture.
Edited by Zhou Xun

Drawn from previously closed and now inaccessible archives, this is the first comprehensive documentary history of Chinas Great Famine, a result of the Great Leap Forward, that took the lives of at least 45 million peasants.
Cloth 2012 224 pp. 1 b/w map ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17518-9 $45.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18358-0
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The Little Histories / Historians & Historiography
New
A Little History of Science

William Bynum
Filled with stories of men and 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.
A Little Book of Language

David Crystal
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming narrative history, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling.
PB-with Flaps 2011 272 pp. 40 illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17082-5 $17.00 Cloth 2010 272 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15533-4 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15875-5
New
History in the Making

J. H. Elliott
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.
A Little History of the World

E.H. Gombrich
Translated by Caroline Mustill; Illustrated by Clifford Harper
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 Book of 2005 by the Los Angeles Times PB-with Flaps 2008 304 pp. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14332-4 $14.95 Available as eBook 978-0-300-10883-5
The Future of History

John Lukacs
A master historian explores the literary art of history and the future of teaching, researching, and writing about the past.
A Little History of Philosophy

Nigel Warburton
This lively and accessible 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.
Witness to History
Victoria Schofield
The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett

The first biography of one of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary political observers who, behind the scenes, had remarkable access to political leaders in Britain, the United States, and Germany during a period of international upheaval and global war.
New in paper
A Little History of the World

Illustrated Edition
On Heroes, HeroWorship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle
Edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser
Carlyles classic exploration of heroes and heroic leadership is accompanied by essays that reevaluate the spiritual, rather than the authoritarian, roots of his thought.
Rethinking the Western Tradition Paper 2013 448 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14860-2 $20.00
E. H. Gombrich
This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of Gombrichs narrative with the images that may well have been in his minds eye as he wrote the book.
Cloth 2011 304 pp. 200 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17614-8 $29.95
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Population, Health, & World History / General Interest
New
New
New
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Population, Fear, and Uncertainty

The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
Geoffrey Parker
A master historian uncovers the disturbing connection between the worldwide tumult of the mid-seventeenth century and weather changes during the same period. The inevitable question arises: are we prepared to deal with the repercussions of climate change in our own time?
Winner of one of the 2012 Heineken Prizes Cloth 2013 850 pp. 100 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15323-1 $40.00
Jay Winter and Michael Teitelbaum

This eye-opening book looks at population movements in China, India, Japan, and North America and argues that politics must be considered when assessing these trends, not just economic and cultural factors.
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 19732005
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz
This ambitious anthology documents the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes around the world since 1973. From literature to visual arts, from popular culture to spiritual works, the volume encompasses the full diversity of Jewish civilization.
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Cloth 2012 1,232 pp. 169 color + 58 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13553-4 $150.00
New New
Contagion
Inventing the Christmas Tree

Bernd Brunner
Translated by Benjamin A. Smith
This charming history of the beloved 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. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18652-9 $18.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-18886-8
How Commerce Has Spread Disease
Opium
Realitys Dark Dream
Mark Harrison
In this book, the author uncovers disturbing weaknesses in regulatory systems that have failed to protect public health or facilitate global commerce in the past, and continue to fall far short.
Thomas Dormandy
This extraordinary book explores the entire history of the worlds most fascinating drug, revealing opiums power to relieve suffering, inspire great art, and promote medical advances but also to destroy individuals, families, and even nations.
New
New
The Great Manchurian Plague of 19101911

The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease
Ginkgo
Why Marx Was Right

Terry Eagleton
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with.
Paper 2012 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18153-1 $16.00
The Tree That Time Forgot
Peter Crane
Foreword by Peter Raven
A renowned botanist recounts the eventful 250-million-year history of the ginkgo tree, its near demise during the ice ages, its surprising reprieve from extinction through human intervention, and its honored place in cities around the globe.
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.
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World History & General Interest
New in paper
New in paper
New in paper
Humanity
A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
An Empire of Ice
Edward J. Larson
Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

Published to coincide with the 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.
The Master and His Emissary

Iain McGilchrist
Jonathan Glover
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-9/11 era and into our own time.
Paper 2012 496 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18640-6 $17.00
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Now available in a larger format, a fascinating exploration of the differences between the brains right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture.
Paper 2012 544 pp. 15 color + 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18837-0 $25.00
New in paper
New
How to Change the World

Eric Hobsbawm
New in paper
Mutiny and Its Bounty

Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye
Reflections on Marx and Marxism

In this penetrating reassessment of Marxist thought and its relevance today, renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm argues that the author of Das Kapital has much to say to us in the postcommunist era.
Paper 2012 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18820-2 $22.00
Love
Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery
A History
Simon May
A radically new exploration of the ways we think about love; how it has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over nearly three millennia; and how we might more accurately and successfullyconceive it.
This original book explores how great seafaring captains like Columbus and Magellan not only quelled mutinies but also built upon such incidents to strengthen their enterprises. Todays organizational leaders have much to learn about leadership and tactics from these earlier masters.
New
Odd Couple
International Trade and Labor Standards in History
Michael Huberman
Contrary to common belief, argues a prominent economic historian, globalization does not destroy labor standards and workers quality of life: globalization and labor have worked in tandem to improve living standards.
Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 256 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15870-0 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15876-2
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Open Yale Courses

The Open Yale Courses Series is designed to bring the depth and breadth of a Yale education to a wide variety of readers. Based on Yales Open Yale Courses program (http://oyc.yale.edu), these books bring outstanding lectures by Yale faculty to the curious reader, whether student or adult. Covering a wide variety of topics across disciplines in the social sciences, physical sciences, and humanities, Open Yale Courses books offer accessible introductions at affordable prices.
Introduction to the Bible

Christine Hayes
This introduction to the 24 short books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles examines the struggles of generations of biblical writers to make sense of their own and their nations experiences over a span of many centuries.
Paper 2012 448 pp. 10 b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18179-1 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18827-1
New Testament History and Literature

Dale B. Martin
In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, a distinguished Yale professor presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements.
Paper 2012 464 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18085-5 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18219-4
Death
Shelly Kagan
What am I to make of the fact that I am going to die? In this thought-provoking book, philosopher Shelly Kagan confronts myriad questions relating to our mortality and invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about death.
The Moral Foundations of Politics

Ian Shapiro
What sorts of governments merit the allegiance of their people? When should allegiance be withdrawn? This accessible book explores major answers and discusses why democracy supplies the most reliable basis for political legitimacy.
Paper 2012 304 pp. 8 graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18545-4 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-12869-7
Theory of Literature
Paul H. Fry
In this brilliant tour of twentieth-century literary theory, Professor Paul Fry explores important movements and themes that illuminate what literature is, how it is produced, and the many ways it can be understood.
Political Philosophy
Steven B. Smith
This engaging book explores the wide terrain of political philosophy through classic texts by Plato, Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and others who confront enduring problems: who ought to govern? why should I obey the law? how should conflict be controlled?
For more information on this series, please visit www.yalebooks.com/oyc

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Index
Aldhouse-Green, 11 Allmand, 16 Andrew, 17 Applebaum, 24 Aron, 24 Aruz, Graff & Rakic, 28 Ashton, 20 Barber, 13 Barlow, 16 Beckett, 9 Beeley, 26 Bell, 9 Belova & Lazarev, 24 Berebitsky, 8 Bernard, E., 6 Bernard, G.W., 13, 15 Bidlack & Lomagin, 24 Blair, 15 Branch, 28 Brandenberger, 24 Brekus, 2 Bremer, 2 Brody, 28 Brown, 20 Brunner, 31 Bynum, 30 Campbell, B., 11 Campbell, T., 6 Carey, 2 Carlyle, 30 Carp, 2 Chan, 28 Colley, 17 Cooper, 15 Cowan, 17 Crane, 31 Crouch, 13 Crystal, 30 Cunliffe, 11 Daigle, 28 Dalton, 28 Dalzell, Jr., 8 Davies, 9 de Tocqueville, 4 DeLay, 5 Delbo, 22 Dormandy, 31 Douglas, 22 Douglass, 4 Duffy, 26 Dunn, 6 Eagleton, 31 Edwards, 16 Elliott, J.H., 3, 30 Eltis & Richardson, 3 Faulkner, 11 Field, 6 Findley, 22 Flavell, 17 Foot, 16 France, 9 Freeman, 26 Friedrich, 22 Frieze, 22 Fry, 33 Gauci, 17 Gerwarth, 22 Glasser, 6 Glover, 32 Gombrich, 30 Gordon, 15 Gottlieb, 22 Griffin, 20 Haas, 22 HaCohen, 13 Hagenstein, Gregg, & Donahue, 8 Hall, 20 Hmlinen, 5 Hamilton et al., 2 Harline, 26 Harris, 13 Harrison, 31 Hart, 26 Harvey, 9 Haslam, 24 Hatch, 2 Hayes, 33 Haynes, Klehr, & Vassiliev, 24 Herf, 22 Herzog, 15 Hicks, 13 Higham & Ryan, 14 Hine & Faragher, 5 Hobsbawm, 32 Huberman, 32 Hutton, 11 Isaac, 23 Jacoby, 6 Jeal, 20 Jonsson, 17 Kadane, 17 Kagan, 33 Kern, 5 Kete, 17 Khan, 28 King, E., 16 King, W., 8 Kohut, 22 Krentz, 9 Kurlansky, 6 Lane, 26 Larson, 32 Lasner, 6 Lavin, 8 Lawrence-Mathers, 14 Lemert, 26 Lesch, 28 Levack, 27 Lubet, 4, 5 Lukacs, 9, 30 Lynch, 3 MacMullen, 12 Mandler, 6 Margolick, 7 Margulies, 7 Marquis, 27 Marriott, 21 Marshall, 21 Martin, T., 11 Martin, D., 33 Mawdsley, 10 May, 32 McGilchrist, 32 McLynn, 10, 18 McPhee, 18 Meddelaar, 23 Meyerson, 2 Miller & Mundy, 3 Mokyr, 18 Monod, 18 Monter, 14 Moore & Gertz, 31 More, 15 Moss, 27 Mller, 23 Murphy & Coye, 32 Neal, 18 Nongbri, 27 OShaughnessy, 10 Oakley, 14 Ohlmeyer, 18 Onwuachi-Willig, 7 Ormrod, 16 zkan, 29 Ozment, 27 Paas, 18 Parker, 31 Parry, 13 Parsi, 7, 29 Pells, 7 Peterson, 4 Pettegree, 14 Phillips, S., 16 Phillips, M. S., 19 Phillipson, 19 Piatote, 4 Pincus, 19 Plamper, 25 Plater, 7 Prior, 10 Radner, 19 Ransby, 7 Raz, 29 Rico, 5 Rogers, G., 11 Rogers, N., 19 Rohrbough, 5 Rosenfeld, 23 Rosenheim, 10 Rubenstein, 25 Rubin, 29 Rushdy, 8 Sachs, 8 Sanders, 21 Satter, 25 Scarisbrick, 16 Schaeper, 2 Schofield, 30 Schorr, 4 Schwartz, P. & M., 7 Schwartz, S., 3 Shalev, 4 Shapiro, 33 Sharpe, 15 Sherratt, 23 Shilon, 29 Shishkin, 25 Slater, 21 Sluyter, 3 Smith, P., 7 Smith, S., 33 Soyinka, 29 Stalin Digital Archive, 25 Steinberg, 25 Stern, 23 Stoneman, 12 Storella & Sokolov, 25 Stratmann, 21 Summers, 31 Tanner, 13 Taylor, 14 Thomas, W., 4 Thomas, N., 29 Thompson, 16 Thomson, 2 Trivellato, 19 Tsutsiev, 25 Tucker, Michels, & Zelt, 10 Turner, R., 14 Turner, D., 27 Utley, 5 van Schaik, 29 Vermes, 27 Volkov, 23 Walkowitz, 21 Walvin, 3 Wanklyn, 10 Warburton, 30 Webb, 10 Weber, 5 Weber, Ames, & Wittman, 8 Weinstein, 13 Wellman, 14 Whatmore, 19 Wilken, 27 Wills, 15 Winroth, 14 Winter & Teitelbaum, 31 Wittman, 8 Zhou Xun, 29
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Table of Contents
Colonial & Early American History.......2
The Age of Reason...............................17-19
Atlantic & Latin American History ........3
Victorian & Modern Britain...............20-21
The 19th Century in America.................4
19th- & 20th-Century Europe............22-23
The Lamar Series in Western History.....5
Russian & Slavic History.....................24-25
20th- & 21st-Century America............6-7
Religious History................................26-27
American Overview.................................8
Asia, Africa & The Middle East..........28-29
Military History ...............................9-10
The Little Histories.................................30
The Ancient World.........................11-12
Historians & Historiography...................30
Medieval & Renaissance History......13-14
Population, Health & World History......31
Early Modern Britain & Europe............15
World History & General Interest..........32
The English Monarch Series.................16
Open Yale Courses.....................................33
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HISTORY

Colonial & Early American History

Defiance of the Patriots

Sarah Osborns World

Endowed by Our Creator

The Federalist Papers

Building a New Jerusalem

John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds

A Rich Spot of Earth

Thomas Jeffersons Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

From Peace to Freedom

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Atlantic & Latin American History

Britain and Spain in America 14921830

Empires of the Atlantic World

A Religious History of Latin America

All Can Be Saved

Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City

Land, Writing, and Native Rule

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Edited by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy

Black Ranching Frontiers

African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 15001900

A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery

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The 19th Century in America

Letters from America

The Iron Way

Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

The Frederick Douglass Papers

The Colorado Doctrine

John Browns Spy

The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

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The Lamar Series in Western History

War of a Thousand Deserts

Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

The Jeffersons at Shadwell

The Rush to Gold

France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 18481854

The Comanche Empire

The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp

The American West

The Spanish Frontier in North America

Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West

A Short History of the American West

Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

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20th- & 21st-Century America

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

A Great Leap Forward

The Hero Who Didnt Want to Be One

A Portrait in Black and White

The Gateway Arch

The Eighteen-Day Running Mate

Condo Living in the Suburban Century

Matthew Gordon Lasner

McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis

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