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America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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Europe

Enlightenment's Frontier The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300162547, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps, 7 black&white illus.

"Enlightenment's Frontier" looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment – which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism – and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus, David Hume and Adam Smith. In this groundbreaking ne...

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Education

Worth of the University

Levin Richard C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197259, Yale University Press, July 2013
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.

Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin's retirement as president of Yale University, this captivating collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university l...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Africa

Political Science

Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa

Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

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America

Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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History of Art

Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes From Estridentismo to 30-30!

Flores Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300184488, Yale University Press, July 2013
376 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 48 colour images, 122 black&white illus.

In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). It is inspired by Mexico's rapid modernization following the Mexican Revolu...

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Biography & Memoires

Strindberg A Life

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300198065, ISBN: HB: 9780300136937, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite draw...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

John Keats

Roe Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300197273, Yale University Press, June 2013
480 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but...

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Christianity

Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Ozment Steven E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192537, Yale University Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 colour images, 81 black&white illus.

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-refor...

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