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Decorative Arts

American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonia...

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Music

Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Marglin Jessica M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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America

United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

Marques Leonardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300212419, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considera...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Search for Takrur Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley

McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Bocoum Hamady

ISBN: PB: 9780913516294, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 348 black&white illus

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...

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Music

Biography & Memoires

Exile's Song Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World

McKee Sally

ISBN: HB: 9780300221367, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dede, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dede, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's b...

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Contemporary Art

Carmen Herrera Lines of Sight

Miller Dana, Lemoine Serge, Mosquera Gerardo, Sullivan Edward J., Espinel Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300221862, Yale University Press, January 2017
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulte...

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History of Art

French Art of the Eighteenth Century The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Conisbee Philip, Causey Faya, Gage Deborah, Holmes Mary Tavener, Kahng Eik, Nicholson Kathleen, Ribeiro Aileen, Siegfried Susan, Poulet Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780300220179, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 134 colour illus.

This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presen...

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Europe

Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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Literary Criticism

Art of Survival France and the Great War Picaresque

Murphy Libby

ISBN: HB: 9780300217513, Yale University Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...

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