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Havana Habit

Perez Firmat Gustavo

ISBN: PB: 9780300177893, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 20x13.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U. S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "H...

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Culture Studies

America

Hollywood Sign Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300181456, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 20.7x14.1 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents th...

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America

Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Peterson Carla L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181746, Yale University Press, February 2012
446 pp., 22.5x14.7 cm, 2 maps, 36 black&white illus.

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham" is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbours...

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America

Notes from the Ground Science, Soil & Society in the American Countryside

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177701, ISBN: HB: 9780300139235, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

"Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian...

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Photography

America

Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression

McDannell Colleen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...

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General

America

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America

Brown Richard Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...

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Military

America

Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Ledbetter James

ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm

In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...

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America

Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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America

Military

War by Land, Sea, and Air Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command

Jablonsky David

ISBN: PB: 9780300171358, Yale University Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...

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