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Hugh Lane The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915

O'Neill Morna

ISBN: HB: 9780300236583, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 95 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This book charts a geography of the art market and the art museum in the early 20th century through the legacy of one influential dealer. Born in Ireland, Hugh Lane (1875-1915) established himself in London in the 1890s. With little formal education...

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Ancient World

Military

Hannibal A Hellenistic Life

MacDonald Eve

ISBN: PB: 9780300240306, ISBN: HB: 9780300152043, Yale University Press, August 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into R...

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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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Landscape Architecture

Contemporary Art

Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission

Jhaveri Shanay, Halter Ed, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.

Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...

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Political Science

Heart of the Declaration The Founders' Case for an Activist Government

Pincus Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780300234626, ISBN: HB: 9780300216189, Yale University Press, May 2018
224 pp., 21x14 cm

An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties:...

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Fashion

Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396457, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2018
336 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 330 colour illus.

Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creation...

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Europe

Hitler's Monsters A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

Kurlander Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300234541, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is ofte...

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America

Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958

Guerra Lillian

ISBN: HB: 9780300175530, Yale University Press, April 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.

The newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of "nature" have always occupied places at the heart of...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Christianity

Heretics and Believers A History of the English Reformation

Marshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300234589, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history – the first major overview for general readers in a generation – argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neit...

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