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• 2010
The legacy of excellence continues...
Recent award-winning History titles from Yale University Press
Mastodon
New Paperback The Golden Age of Fossils Young Men and the Sea
in America Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
Soft Despotism, Keith Thomson Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh
Democracy’s Drift This exciting book tells the story of This book focuses on two centuries of
Montesquieu, Rousseau, America’s golden period of fossil early American maritime history, years
Tocqueville, and the Modern discovery, the years from 1750 to 1890. when the Atlantic Ocean beckoned as the
Prospect Replete with high adventure, ruthless great frontier. Drawing on the records
competing bone hunters, and previously of seamen who sailed from Salem,
Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College unimagined scientific discoveries. Massachusetts, in the colonial and early
This provocative book draws on the national period, the book details the per-
2008 424 pp. 38 b/w illus. + 6 maps
thinking of three great political Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11704-2 $35.00 sonal and social lives of several thousand
philosophers to diagnose the malady Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15129-9 $23.00 seafaring men and their families.
of today’s liberal democracies: soft
Paper 2005 352 pp. 25 b/w illus.
despotism. A condition that occurs as ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12366-1 $23.00
paternalistic state power expands, soft
despotism may be nonviolent, but it
Hero, Hawk, and
seriously undermines the spirit of self- Open Hand Inventing a Nation
government, says historian Paul Rahe. American Indian Art of the
Ancient Midwest and South Washington, Adams, Jefferson
2009 400 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14492-5 $38.00 Edited by Richard F. Townsend Gore Vidal
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16423-7 $25.00 Gore Vidal provides us with a uniquely
This book features a stunning selection
of artworks, artifacts, and ritual objects, irreverent take on America’s founding
ranging from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1500. fathers. Vidal brings them to life at the
key moments of decision in the birthing
Published in association with The Art of our nation and considers the impact
Institute of Chicago of their ideas and personalities on an
2004 288 pp. 120 b/w + 320 color illus. America that he views with both pride
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10467-7 $70.00 and concern.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10601-5 $40.00
Paper 2003 208 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10592-6 $14.00
New
New
The Spanish Frontier Notes from the Ground
Would you like to receive Science, Soil, and Society in the
in North America e-mail notices of new American Countryside
The Brief Edition Benjamin R. Cohen, University
books in your field?
David J. Weber Sign up at of Virginia
This compact synthesis of David J. yalebooks.com/email Integrating the history of science, envi-
Weber’s prize-winning history of ronmental history, and science studies,
colonial Spanish North America vividly Notes from the Ground examines the cul-
tells the story of Spain’s 300-year tenure tural conditions that brought agriculture
on the continent. and science together in early America.
Paper 2009 320 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 16 maps Cloth 2009 288 pp. 29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2 $20.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13923-5 $55.00
2008 416 pp. 25 b/w illus.; 4 maps in text Cloth 2008 416 pp. 40 scattered b/w illus.
Churchill: Visionary. Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14069-9 $28.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13604-3 $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15847-2 $18.00
Statesman. Historian. New Paperback
John Lukacs New
This powerful book presents a clear-eyed
Auto Mania
view of Winston Churchill, the workings Superpower Illusions Cars, Consumers, and the
of his historical imagination, and his How Myths and False Ideologies Environment
successes and failures as a statesman. Led America Astray—And How to Tom McCarthy, United States Naval
Written by the best-selling author of Return to Reality Academy
Five Days in London, May 1940, the Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Columbia Spanning the automobile’s entire history,
book sets forth the essence of one of the University this book is the first to relate consumer
towering figures of twentieth-century
Former U.S. ambassador to the behavior to the wider environmental
history.
USSR Jack F. Matlock demolishes central impact of cars—from raw materials and
2002 224 pp. manufacturing to use and disposal.
myths behind America’s present foreign
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09769-6 $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10302-1 $15.00 policy—including the idea that the U.S. 2007 368 pp. 52 b/w illus.
destroyed Communism and ended the Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11038-8 $32.50
Cold War—and makes bold recommen- Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15848-9 $20.00
Five Days in London, dations for the Obama administration.
May 1940 Cloth 2010 368 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13761-3 $30.00
Picturing Faith
John Lukacs Photography and the Great
Depression
The days from May 24 to May 28,
1940 altered the course of the history
The Informant Colleen McDannell
of this century, as the members of the The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and
In riveting pictures and text this book
British War Cabinet debated whether to the Murder of Viola Liuzzo tells the story of an ambitious national
negotiate with Hitler or to continue the Gary May photographic project initiated by the
war. The decisive importance of these American government during the Great
five days is the focus of John Lukacs’s The murder of Viola Liuzzo, the only
Depression. Then-unknown photogra-
magisterial new book. white woman killed during the Civil
phers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker
Rights Movement, shocked the nation.
Paper 2001 256 pp. illus. Evans, and Gordon Parks farmed out
This compelling book documents
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08466-5 $11.95 across America, chronicling the rich
the even more shocking story of FBI
religious vitality of the nation.
informant Tommy Rowe, who not only
infiltrated the KKK but also became a Cloth 2004 336 pp. 128 b/w illus.
violent participant. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10430-1 $52.00
Cloth 2005 448 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10635-0 $35.00
New
New New
The Culture of Nature
Britons Civil Society and
Forging the Nation 1707-1837 in Britain, 1680-1860
Revised Edition P.M. Harman
Empire
Ireland and Scotland in the
Linda Colley This wide-ranging book investigates Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
the emergence of modern ideas about
This brilliant and seminal book
the natural world in Britain from 1680–
James Livesey, University of Sussex
examines how a more cohesive British
nation was invented after 1707 and how 1860 through an examination of the James Livesey traces the origins of the
this new national identity was nurtured cultural values common to the sciences, modern conception of civil society to
through war, religion, trade, and empire. art, literature, and natural theology. the provincial societies of Ireland and
Lavishly illustrated and powerful, this Cloth 2009 400 pp. 17 b/w illus. Scotland in the eighteenth century and
edition contains an extensive new pref- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15197-8 $65.00 shows how this conception remains
ace by the author. central to the current political debate.
Cloth 2009 304 pp.
Paper 2009
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15280-7 $22.00
The Atmosphere of ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13902-0 $45.00
Heaven
New The Unnatural Experiments of Dr New Paperback
Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
When London Was Mike Jay
The Hellfire Clubs
Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies
Capital of America This book tells the strange story of mav- Evelyn Lord
Julie Flavell erick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose
medical researchers in Bristol, England This authoritative account of the
In this first-ever portrait of eighteenth- discovered the mind-altering effects of secret Hell-Fire Clubs that scandalized
century London as the capital of inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s. eighteenth-century England reveals
America, Julie M. Flavell recreates the who joined them, why the clubs became
famous city’s heyday as the center of Cloth 2009 296 pp. 24 b/w illus.
popular, and which of the many notori-
an empire that encompassed North ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12439-2 $30.00
ous legends about orgies, erotic libraries,
America and the West Indies. and blasphemous rituals are true.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 36 b/w illus. 2008 250 pp. b/w plate section
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13739-2 $30.00 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11667-0 $32.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16402-2 $25.00
New New
New
The Anti-Imperial Policing Stalin’s Land Reform in Russia
Choice Socialism Institutional Design and
The Making of the Ukrainian Jew Behavioral Responses
Repression and Social Order in the
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Soviet Union, 1924-1953 Stephen K. Wegren, Southern
Northwestern University Methodist University
David R. Shearer, University of
This groundbreaking book examines Delaware This timely work is the definitive account
how five writers and poets of Jewish of Russia’s land reform from the late
descent contributed to the development David Shearer presents a new interpreta- 1980s to today, initiatives that will have
of a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition tion of repression in Stalin’s Soviet a profound effect on Russia’s ability to
from the 1880s through the 1990s. Union, which emphasizes the impor- compete in an era of globalization.
tance of social repression as a precursor
Cloth 2009 384 pp. 29 b/w illus. in gallery to the “Great Terror” of 1937-1938. Paper 2009 360 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13731-6 $65.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15097-1 $55.00
Paper 2009 536 pp. 17 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14925-8 $55.00
The Empire’s New New
Clothes New Paperback The Ukrainians
A History of the Russian Fashion Unexpected Nation, Third Edition
Industry, 1700-1917
The Pearl Andrew Wilson, University College,
A True Tale of Forbidden Love
Christine Ruane, University of Tulsa London
in Catherine the Great’s Russia
Lavishly illustrated with contemporary Douglas Smith, University of This book is the most acute, informed,
photographs, this unique book studies and up-to-date account of Ukraine and
Washington
the revolution in dress in Imperial its people available today. Andrew Wilson
Russia and its impact on daily life. Douglas Smith presents the most com- focuses on the complex relations between
plete and accurate account ever written Ukraine and Russia and explains the
Winner of the 2009 Heldt Prize for the of the illicit love between Count Nicholas different versions of the past propagated
Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/ Sheremetev, Russia’s richest aristocrat, by Ukrainians and Russians. He also
Eurasian Women’s Studies, given by the and Praskovia Kovalyova, his serf and the examines the continuing debates over
Association of Women in Slavic Studies
greatest opera diva of her time. identity, culture, and religion in Ukraine
Cloth 2009 276 pp. 70 b/w + 50 color illus. since its independence in 1991.
2008 352 pp. 16 b/w + 11 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14155-9 $65.00
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12041-7 $35.00 Paper 2009 416 pp. 52 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15858-8 $22.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15476-4 $19.00
Table of Contents
American History
Colonial & Early America............3-6 General History...........................25-26
18th & 19th Centuries...............6-10 Religious History……………..........27
20th Century............................10-14 Asia.……...........................................28
Icons of America.......................14-15 The Middle East...........................29-30
Atlantic history.............................16 Russian & Slavic History.............31-32
British & European History Africa................................................33
Medieval & Renaissance/ Ancient History...........................33-34
Reformation .............................17-18 Latin America....................................34
16th & 17th Centuries .............18-20
18th Century.............................20-21 See page 2 for recent Yale University
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19th century.............................22-24