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History of Art

America

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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Africa

General

Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

Sluyter Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...

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Europe

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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Biography & Memoires

America

Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy

Schaeper Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...

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Europe

Culture Studies

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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America

American Georgics Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Hagenstein Edwin C., Gregg Sara M., Donahue Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188042, Yale University Press, October 2012
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 33 black&white illus.

From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing fro...

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Europe

Russia's Cold War From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

Haslam Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188196, Yale University Press, October 2012
544 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity". The Soviet U...

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Europe

Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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Macaulay and Son Architects of Imperial Britain

Hall Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300160239, Yale University Press, September 2012
420 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

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World

Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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