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George Washington The Wonder of the Age

Rhodehamel John

ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...

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Political Science

America

All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power

Wright Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...

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Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R. IV, Husband Julie, Kaufman Heather L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...

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Biography & Memoires

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Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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America

Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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America

Hubert Humphrey The Conscience of the Country

Offner Arnold A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222395, Yale University Press, August 2018
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well?known high points: the civ...

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America

General

Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Flores Lori A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...

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America

American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century A Social and Cultural History

Bushman Richard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226737, Yale University Press, July 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the eighteenth century, three-quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America's farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian R...

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Swindler Sachem The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England

Pulsipher Jenny Hale

ISBN: HB: 9780300214932, Yale University Press, June 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

According to his kin, John Wompas was "no sachem", although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English – even visiting and securing the support of Ki...

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