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Alexander the Great A Life in Legend

Stoneman Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300164015, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 46 black&white illus.

<p>Alexander the Great (356-323 B. C. E. ) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther – across foreign cultures,...

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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

Jacoby Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300164411, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 21x14 cm

Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have laboured to uncover the facts behind Chambers' shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 – that Alger Hiss, a former ri...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Getty J. Arch, Naumov Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300104073, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret tran...

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Medieval

Medieval Heart

Webb Heather

ISBN: HB: 9780300153934, Yale University Press, March 2010
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In this debut, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities. D...

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America

Pilgrims New World Settlers and the Call of Home

Hardman Moore Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300164053, Yale University Press, February 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life-histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wa...

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Defying Empire Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

Truxes Thomas M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164251, ISBN: HB: 9780300118407, Yale University Press, February 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed...

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Policing Stalin's Socialism Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union (1924-1953)

Shearer David R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300149258, Yale University Press, October 2009
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Policing Stalin's "Socialism" is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of...

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Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...

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Biography & Memoires

Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia

Smith Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780300158588, Yale University Press, August 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 11 colour images, 2 family trees

Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact "The Pearl" tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival...

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