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History of Art

Rembrandt in Amsterdam Creativity and Competition

Dickey Stephanie S., Sander Jochen

ISBN: HB: 9780300249934, Yale University Press, November 2020
300 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 illus.

Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern Europe at that time. Considered a bold step for a fledgling artist, this change demonstrates that Rembra...

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History of Art

Speaking of Objects African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Petridis Constantine

ISBN: HB: 9780300254327, Yale University Press, November 2020
216 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by l...

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Street Life in Renaissance Italy

Nevola Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9780300175431, Yale University Press, November 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.

The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, p...

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America

Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Ostler Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.

In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...

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Poetry

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

Bloom Harold

ISBN: HB: 9780300247282, Yale University Press, November 2020
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death – completed weeks before Harold Bloom died – shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called "a universe of death". Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of li...

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Poetry

That Light, All at Once Selected Poems

de Dadelsen Jean-Paul, Hacker Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300214208, Yale University Press, November 2020
232 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm

Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber bea...

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History of Art

Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler

MacDonald Margaret F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300254501, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 170 colour illus.

In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial Symphony in White pai...

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Political Science

World Safe for Democracy Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

Ikenberry G. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300230987, Yale University Press, November 2020
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal c...

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Architecture

Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.

Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...

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Business & Economics

Forgive Us Our Debts The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility

Yarrow Andrew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300158632, Yale University Press, November 2020
184 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

In this immensely timely book, Andrew Yarrow brings the sometimes eye-glazing discussion of national debt down to earth, explaining in accessible terms why federal debt is rising (and will soon rise much faster), what effects it may have on Americans...

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