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G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

Ebel Jonathan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...

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Inglorious Revolution Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil

Summerhill William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139273, Yale University Press, November 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Nineteenth-century Brazil's constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financ...

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Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Wells Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780300217384, Yale University Press, October 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history – only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun With a long and colorful family history of def...

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Sovereignty for Survival American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

Allison James Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300206692, Yale University Press, October 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

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American Census A Social History

Anderson Margo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...

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Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

Schermerhorn Jack Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780300192001, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demo...

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Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

Caute David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212327, ISBN: HB: 9780300192094, Yale University Press, June 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of...

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Captain and "the Cannibal" An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Fairhead James

ISBN: HB: 9780300198775, Yale University Press, May 2015
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Mo...

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Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Eltis David, Richardson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212549, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 30.7x23.9 cm, 189 colour maps, 5 black&white illus., 61 colour graphs, 36 colour illus.

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up...

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