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Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

Melnick Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194630, Yale University Press, January 2013
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tel...

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Culture Studies

Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Trivellato Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...

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Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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Culture Studies

Victorian Bloomsbury

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780300154474, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped a...

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Culture Studies

Milk A Local and Global History

Valenze Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300188127, Yale University Press, July 2012
351 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the ritu...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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America

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Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Culture Studies

Opium Reality's Dark Dream

Dormandy Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300175325, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating...

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Media Studies

Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age

Ito Mizuko, Okabe Daisuke, Tsuji Izumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...

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America

Havana Habit

Perez Firmat Gustavo

ISBN: PB: 9780300177893, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 20x13.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U. S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "H...

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