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To Begin the World Over Again How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe

Lockwood Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300232257, Yale University Press, September 2019
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 1 map

While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact – it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellion...

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Current Affairs

Another Kind of War The Nature and History of Terrorism

Lynn John A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188813, Yale University Press, September 2019
520 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

In the years since 9/11, there has been a massive surge in interest surrounding the study of terrorism. This volume applies distinguished military historian John Lynn's lifetime of research and teaching experience to this difficult topic. As a form o...

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Africa

Frontiers in the Gilded Age Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

Offenburger Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300225877, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines ho...

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America

Maroon Nation A History of Revolutionary Haiti

Gonzalez Johnhenry

ISBN: HB: 9780300230086, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent H...

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Ancient World

Political Science

Athens A History of the World's First Democracy

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246605, Yale University Press, August 2019
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Europe

Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

Muir Rory

ISBN: HB: 9780300244311, Yale University Press, August 2019
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 colour illus.

In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories o...

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Ancient World

Biography & Memoires

Brutus The Noble Conspirator

Tempest Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780300246643, Yale University Press, August 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 6 maps

Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a controversial and enigmatic man even to those who knew him. His leading role in the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of...

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Europe

Kremlin Letters Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

Reynolds David, Pechatnov Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780300247657, ISBN: HB: 9780300226829, Yale University Press, August 2019
680 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 3 maps

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume – the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration – the messages are published and also ana...

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Asia

Political Science

Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

Magnus George

ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...

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Christianity

America

America's Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life

Sands Kathleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300213867, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When Americans fight about "religion", we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core politi...

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