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America

American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Madley Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Unpacking My Library Artists and Their Books

Steffens Jo, Neumann Matthias, Proust Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300216981, Yale University Press, October 2017
184 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.

Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the "Unpacking My Library" series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today's leading thinkers. "Artists and Their Books" showcases the person...

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Military

Middle East

Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror

Salazar Philippe-Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...

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History of Art

Eros Visible Art, Sexuality, and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy

Turner James Grantham

ISBN: HB: 9780300219951, Yale University Press, October 2017
464 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 340 colour and black&white illus.

Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, J...

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Anthropology

Europe

Day at Home in Early Modern England Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700

Hamling Tara, Richardson Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300195019, Yale University Press, October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...

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America

American West A New Interpretive History

Hine Robert V., Faragher John Mack, Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185171, Yale University Press, October 2017
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 228 black&white illus.

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it p...

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Military

Europe

Battle of Agincourt

Curry Anne, Mercer Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300228779, Yale University Press, October 2017
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Published in partnership with the Royal Armouries, this comprehensive, sumptuously illustrated volume provides a defining reassessment of England's legendary victory on the fields of Agincourt on October 25, 1415. Dramatized by William Shakespeare in...

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Political Science

Europe

Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...

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History of Art

Degas A Passion for Perfection

Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300228236, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) relentless experimentation with technical procedures is a hallmark of his lifelong desire to learn. The numerous iterations of compositions and poses suggest an intense self-discipline, as well as a refusal to accept any cre...

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Political Science

Europe Didn't Work Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit

Atkinson Dan, Elliott Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780300228793, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed – and what will happen when the European Union completely unravels.

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