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Year of Peril America in 1942
ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...
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£25,00
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Yellow Demon of Fever Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300215854, Yale University Press, June 2020
296 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fou...
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£50,00
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Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
ISBN: PB: 9781857096477, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
64 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 65 colour and black&white illus.
The British painter David Bomberg (1890-1957) was among the most precociously talented artists of his generation, and the influence of his legacy continues to be felt. This catalogue is the first to explore Bomberg's early work in relation to the col...
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£16,95
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Yves Zurstrassen Free. 2009-2019
ISBN: HB: 9780300246568, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
264 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.
The decade of work produced between 2010 and 2019 by Belgian abstract painter Yves Zurstrassen (b. 1956) is the focus of this beautifully designed and illustrated book. Although he originally studied graphic art, Zurstrassen was inspired by Abstract...
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£40,00
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Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes
ISBN: PB: 9780300218077, Yale University Press, July 2019
576 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 67 black&white illus.
This book is a translation of a key commentary on the "Book of Changes, or Yijing (I Ching)", perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The "Yijing" first appeared as a divination text in Zhou-dynasty China (ca. 1045–256 bce) and...
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£60,00
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Year of Blue Water
ISBN: PB: 9780300242645, ISBN: HB: 9780300242652, Yale University Press, May 2019
96 pp., 21x14 cm
How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective...
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£14,99
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£30,00
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Young Victoria
ISBN: HB: 9780300238877, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus.
This beautiful, extensively researched volume investigates the birth and early life of one of the most familiar British monarchs, Queen Victoria (1819-1901). A wealth of material, including many unexamined sources and unpublished images, sheds new li...
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£35,00
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Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History
ISBN: PB: 9780300118537, Yale University Press, July 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultur...
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£32,50
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Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...
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£9,99
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£16,99
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Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300224689, Yale University Press, September 2017
924 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 118 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.
This authoritative guide, the companion to "Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North", covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century...
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£60,00
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