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Essay on the Principle of Population
ISBN: PB: 9780300177411, Yale University Press, February 2018
624 pp., 20.8x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989....
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£16,99
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Figuring History Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
ISBN: HB: 9780300233896, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 59 colour illus.
Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collect...
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£25,00
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Paston Treasure Microcosm of the Known World
ISBN: HB: 9780300232905, Yale University Press, February 2018
590 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 474 colour and black&white illus.
"The Paston Treasure", a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of th...
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£60,00
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Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...
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Stakes of History On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300228939, Yale University Press, February 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm
Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers's illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of ke...
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£40,00
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Monet the Collector
ISBN: HB: 9780300232622, Yale University Press, January 2018
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the founder of French Impressionism and remains one of the world's best-known and most beloved painters. His works are on view in many of the finest museums, and details of his storied life are well documented. Less well...
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£40,00
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Frederic Church A Painter's Pilgrimage
ISBN: PB: 9780300218435, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly detailed compositions. Among Church's lesser-known masterpieces are...
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900
ISBN: HB: 9780300223934, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring thirty-six artists from eleven different countries, this beau...
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American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...
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£30,00
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Clarence H. White and His World The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
ISBN: HB: 9780300229080, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 343 colour and black&white illus.
Clarence H. White (1871-1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White's contributions, including...
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