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Political Science

Ukrainian Nationalism Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956

Shkandrij Myroslav

ISBN: HB: 9780300206289, Yale University Press, March 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than...

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America

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Eltis David, Richardson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212549, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 30.7x23.9 cm, 189 colour maps, 5 black&white illus., 61 colour graphs, 36 colour illus.

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up...

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Business & Economics

Unbalanced The Co-Dependence of America and China

Roach Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300212655, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The modern-day Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship was built on a set of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable co-dependence....

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History of Art

Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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History of Art

Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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America

Amistad's Orphans An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Lawrance Benjamin Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300198454, Yale University Press, March 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revis...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936-1969

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300209716, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the...

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General

Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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Military

Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace

Drixler Fabian, Fleming William D., Wheeler Robert George

ISBN: PB: 9781933789033, Yale University Press, March 2015
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japan's early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizi...

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America

Biography & Memoires

George I. Sanchez The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

Blanton Carlos Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300190328, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the ea...

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