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America

Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

Torres-Rouff David Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...

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Ancient World

Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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World

Little Histories

Little History of the World

Gombrich E. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197181, Yale University Press, October 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 200 colour illus.

E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book...

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Military

Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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Military

World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Middle East

Islamic Imperialism A History (Second Edition)

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300198171, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So a...

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Europe

Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty J. Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300169294, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proxi...

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Belonging and Genocide Hitler's Community, 1918-1945

Kuhne Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300198287, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kuhne offers a provocative answer. In ad...

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Architecture

Europe

City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London

Stevenson Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300190229, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 23 colour images, 115 black&white illus.

The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)

Talayesva Don C., Simmons Leo W., Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew, Hine Robert V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...

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