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Mayhem Post-war Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

Rogers Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300169621, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...

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Voice of the People Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932

Sokolov A. K., Storella C. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112337, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to n...

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Culture Studies

Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Trivellato Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...

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Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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Russia's Cold War From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

Haslam Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188196, Yale University Press, October 2012
544 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity". The Soviet U...

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Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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Macaulay and Son Architects of Imperial Britain

Hall Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300160239, Yale University Press, September 2012
420 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

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World

December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...

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Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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Biography & Memoires

Athelstan The First King of England

Foot Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300187717, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 3 maps, 16-pages of black&white illus.

The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unpre...

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