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Political Science

Voting Wars From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198249, ISBN: HB: 9780300182033, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000 presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the presidency by the U. S. Supreme Court, revealed that our electoral processes...

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History of Art

Fictions of Art History

Hatt Michael, Ledbury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300191929, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

"Fictions of Art History", the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the "Visual Arts" series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art his...

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America

Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

Herman Daniel Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198263, Yale University Press, October 2013
384 pp., 23.9x15.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s, historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends...

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History of Art

King's Pictures The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers

Haskell Francis, Penny Nicholas, Serres Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300190120, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

The greatest paintings in today's most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of...

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Christianity

Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Hempton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...

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History of Art

Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence

Holmes Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300176605, Yale University Press, September 2013
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these "miraculous images" in the city and surroundin...

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Jewish Studies

Music Libel Against the Jews

HaCohen Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300194777, Yale University Press, July 2013
532 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel" – a variation on the Passion story that recurs in v...

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Christianity

Calvinism A History

Hart D. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148794, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...

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Europe

Household Politics Conflict in Early Modern England

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300180787, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Household Politics" offers a brand-new look at "familial patriarchy" in early modern England, which was an era when it supposedly thrived. Canonical sources and sermons often urged the subordination of women. But Herzog found that most considered th...

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Christianity

Conversions Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300192445, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...

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