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Sons of the Waves The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail

Taylor Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300245714, Yale University Press, April 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 1 map

British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including co...

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Women Studies

Europe

Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Griffin Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...

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Anthropology

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In Pursuit of Civility Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

Thomas Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300251524, ISBN: HB: 9780300235777, Yale University Press, April 2020
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour illus.

What did it mean to be 'civilized' in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas's seminal studies "Religion and the Decline of Magic", "Man and the Natural World", and "The Ends of Life", explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years bet...

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Political Science

Scots and Catalans Union and Disunion

Elliott John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253382, Yale University Press, March 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 3 maps, 2 black&white figures

A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the...

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Europe

Culture in Nazi Germany

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253375, Yale University Press, March 2020
472 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During...

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Empires of the Atlantic World Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253399, Yale University Press, March 2020
608 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 43 black&white illus.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatil...

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Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade

Hosler John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251494, ISBN: HB: 9780300215502, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim s...

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Military

First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader

Fritz Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...

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Provincializing Global History Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830

Livesey James Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780300237160, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

"Provincializing Global History" explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingl...

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Middle East

Women Studies

Matilda Empress, Queen, Warrior

Hanley Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300251470, Yale University Press, February 2020
296 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown – the first woman ever to hold the position – and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political le...

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