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History of the Gulag From Collectivization to the Great Terror

Khlevniuk Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205039, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a...

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Christianity

Protestant Interest New England After Puritanism

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205046, Yale University Press, August 2013
226 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious his...

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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Kleber Monod Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...

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German Generation An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century

Kohut Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192452, ISBN: HB: 9780300170030, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

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 m...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Hank Greenberg The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One

Kurlansky Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300192469, ISBN: HB: 9780300136609, Yale University Press, April 2013
192 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set...

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Literary Criticism

Why X Matters

Why Trilling Matters

Kirsch Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300187823, ISBN: HB: 9780300152692, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual lif...

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Watchful Clothier The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

Kadane Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300169614, Yale University Press, January 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides...

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America

Nation's Crucible The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194616, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans-Native Americans, African Americans, an...

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Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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Ambition, a History From Vice to Virtue

King William

ISBN: HB: 9780300182804, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

From log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to office of the CEO, ambition drives the American Dream. Americans are a nation of people driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous v...

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