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America

Surge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

Lane Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300203738, Yale University Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt...

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Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Asian America A Primary Source Reader

Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Wong K. Scott, Chang Jason Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300195446, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a w...

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America

United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

Marques Leonardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300212419, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considera...

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America

Political Science

President and the Apprentice Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223521, Yale University Press, January 2017
816 pp., 22.7x14.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We kno...

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America

Founders as Fathers The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Glover Lorri

ISBN: PB: 9780300219746, ISBN: HB: 9780300178609, Yale University Press, August 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers – men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and int...

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Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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America

Mourning Lincoln

Hodes Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780300219753, ISBN: HB: 9780300195804, Yale University Press, April 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in new...

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Performing Arts

America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

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