Yale University Press History 2011 Catalog

HISTORY
2011
Atlantic History
New
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
David Eltis and David Richardson
Foreword by David Brion Davis; Afterword by David W. Blight
“The Atlas is the Rosetta Stone of slave historiography, making legible through
maps and charts the mass of data that, at long last, allows us to grapple with
and interpret the strange and intricate history of the slave trade in African
human beings to the New World between 1501 and 1866. If there were
Pulitzer Prizes for databases, this would win, hands down.”—Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., Harvard University
“These magnificent maps—all 189—document almost every conceivable
aspect of one of the world’s worst crimes. An epic and gruesome drama
receives a fitting representation. A superb contribution to scholarship.”
—Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic
slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5
million Africans and involved almost every Also available:
country with an Atlantic coastline. In this
extraordinary book, two leading historians Extending the Frontiers
have created the first comprehensive, Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave
up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of Trade Database
kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly
200 maps, especially created for the volume, Edited by David Eltis and David Richardson
that explore every detail of the African slave Drawing on an enormous amount of recent research, the
traffic to the New World. contributors to this volume explore fundamental questions
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth- about the history of the transatlantic trade in slaves.
Century Culture and History Cloth 2008 400 pp. 17 b/w illus. + 2 maps
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps; ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13436-0 $90.00
5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphs
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00
Oceans of Wine New All Can Be Saved

Madeira and the Emergence of Colour of Paradise Religious Tolerance and Salvation
American Trade and Taste The Emerald in the Age of in the Iberian Atlantic World
David Hancock Gunpowder Empires Stuart B. Schwartz
This innovative book examines the Kris Lane This groundbreaking book is the first to
Portuguese-American Madeira wine investigate the idea of religious tolerance
trade from 1640 to 1815, demonstrating Kris Lane tracks the extraordinary in Spain, Portugal, and their New World
how the trade helped shape the Atlantic odyssey of Columbian emeralds from colonies during the era of the Inquisition.
world and American society. the period of the time of the Conquista-
dors to the age of Napoleon and Bolivar, Winner of the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize, the
Winner of the 2009-2010 Louis Gottschalk and from the jungle mines to princely 2009 Leo Gershoy Award, and the 2009
Prize sponsored by the American Society courts. George L. Mosse Prize, all given by the
for Eighteenth-Century Studies American Historical Association
Cloth 2010 320 pp. 16 pp. color illus.
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16131-1 $40.00 Paper 2009 352 pp. 12 b/w illus.
Century Culture and History ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15854-0 $25.00
Cloth 2009 680 pp. 57 b/w + 16 color illus. Cloth 2008 352 pp. 12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13605-0 $50.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12580-1 $40.00
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Colonial & Early American History
New in paper New The Great Awakening

The Puritan Origins Defiance of the The Roots of Evangelical
Christianity in Colonial America
of the American Self Patriots Thomas S. Kidd
Sacvan Bercovitch The Boston Tea Party and the
Making of America In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of religious
With a New Preface by the Author
revivals shook American colonial society.
Bercovitch’s subject is the development Benjamin L. Carp This book provides a definitive history
of the concept of American identity; his Evocative and enthralling, this is the of these revivals, called the First Great
method is comparatism to specify the broadest account yet of a defining event Awakening, and shows how the evangeli-
uniqueness of that development. in American history, which forged the cal movement’s radical notions of the
Paper 2011 288 pp. American character and continues to spiritual equality of all people encouraged
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00 shape its politics today. the democratic style that later came to
characterize the American republic.
Cloth 2010 328 pp. 33 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11705-9 $30.00 Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today
New in paper Award of Merit in the category of History/
Biography
Foul Bodies The Federalist Papers Paper 2009 416 pp. 15 b/w illus.
Cleanliness in Early America Alexander Hamilton, James ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15846-5 $22.00
Kathleen M. Brown Cloth 2007 416 pp. 15 b/w illus.
Madison, and John Jay ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11887-2 $35.00
“Brown has framed an intriguing new Edited and with an Introduction by
area of research and gathered a surpris- Ian Shapiro
ingly rich source of textual evidence. This authoritative edition of the com- The Protestant Interest
Marvelous.”—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, plete texts of the Federalist Papers, the New England After Puritanism
author of A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the
Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, Thomas Kidd
Articles of Confederation is accompa-
1785-1812 nied by essays in which leading scholars Thomas Kidd explores the religious
Winner of the 2010 Lawrence W. Levine provide historical context and thematic history of colonial New England during
Award, presented by the Organization background. a period that witnessed the end of
of American Historians; Winner of the Puritanism and the emergence of a
Rethinking the Western Tradition
2009 Society for Historians of the Early revivalist religious movement and global
Paper 2009 608 pp.
American Republic Book Award evangelical awakenings.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2 $20.00
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World Cloth 2004 224 pp.
Paper 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10421-9 $45.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17155-6 $30.00 New in paper
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10618-3 $45.00 The Hanging of New in paper
Thomas Jeremiah Peter’s War
New in paper A Free Black Man’s Encounter A New England Slave Boy and the
with Liberty American Revolution
Jonathan Edwards’s J. William Harris Joyce Lee Malcolm
“Sinners in the Hands This book tells for the first time the tragic This riveting biography of a Massachu-
of an Angry God” story of Thomas Jeremiah, a black man setts slave boy who fought in the Revolu-
A Casebook caught up in the turmoil of revolution tionary War illuminates race relations in
in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1775. the northern colonies, early battles of the
Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb J.
D. Maskell, and Kenneth P. Minkema A Best Book of 2009, Library Journal; revolution, and the experiences of black
Winner of the Silver Medal in the History soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
This volume presents the accurate and category for the 2009 Book of the Year
definitive version of Sinners, accompa- Paper 2010 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.
Award, presented by ForeWord magazine
nied by the tools necessary to study and ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16806-8 $20.00
teach this famous American sermon. Paper 2011 240 pp. 22 b/w illus. Cloth 2009 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17132-7 $20.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11930-5 $28.00
Paper 2010 224 pp. 29 b/w illus. Cloth 2009 240 pp. 22 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14038-5 $14.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15214-2 $27.50
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Colonial & Early American History
Benjamin Franklin New The Brittle Thread

Edmund S. Morgan Edward Bancroft of Life
This brilliant biography by one of our Scientist, Author, Spy Backcountry People Make a Place
greatest historians offers a compact and Thomas J. Schaeper for Themselves in Early America
provocative new portrait of America’s Mark Williams
most extraordinary patriot. The first complete biography of a
little-known but fascinating figure in the This innovative microhistory gives
Finalist for the 2003 National Book history of espionage and the American voice to the people of two backcountry
Critics Circle Award in biography Revolution. colonial towns in Southern New
Paper 2003 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. Cloth 2011 352 pp. 4 b/w illus. England and shows how, following the
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10162-1 $16.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11842-1 $35.00 Revolution, these rural settlers pushed
Cloth 2002 352 pp. 20 b/w illus. the urban elites to put a strongly
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09532-6 $28.00 democratic stamp on the new nation.
Young Men and Cloth 2009 288 pp. 15 b/w illus.
New in paper the Sea ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13922-8 $45.00
Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
Montesquieu and the Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh New
Logic of Liberty This book focuses on two centuries of
War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, early American maritime history, years A Cheerful and
Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness when the Atlantic Ocean beckoned as Comfortable Faith
of Mind, the Spirit of Political the great frontier. Drawing on the Anglican Religious Practice in the
Vigilance, and the Foundations of records of seamen who sailed from Elite Households of Eighteenth-
the Modern Republic Salem, Massachusetts, in the colonial
and early national period, the book
Century Virginia
Paul A. Rahe details the personal and social lives of Lauren F. Winner
This book seeks to understand the short- several thousand seafaring men and This enlightening book examines an
comings of the modern democratic state their families. array of physical objects found in elite
in light of the great political thinker’s Paper 2007 352 pp. 25 b/w illus. Virginia households of the eighteenth
insightful critique of liberal democracy. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12366-1 $23.00 century to discover what they can tell us
Paper 2010 400 pp. Cloth 2005 352 pp. 25 b/w illus. about their owners’ lives and religious
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16808-2 $30.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10067-9 $40.00 practices.
Cloth 2009 400 pp.
Cloth 2010 288 pp. 39 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14125-2 $45.00
Inventing a Nation ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12469-9 $45.00
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
New in paper Gore Vidal Digging in the City of
Defying Empire “For anyone puzzled by our continuing Brotherly Love
Trading with the Enemy in attachment to what some dead white Stories from Philadelphia
Colonial New York males did two centuries ago, Vidal’s talk Archaeology
is an engaging answer, an unblinking
Thomas M. Truxes view of our national heroes by one who Rebecca Yamin
“Few history books make an original cherishes them, warts and all. . . . A sly This intriguing book explores
scholarly argument and rivet the reader’s tract for the times.”—Edmund S. eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
attention from start to finish. Defying Morgan, New York Review of Books Philadelphia through the findings
Empire does both: a remarkable, Selected as an outstanding book by of recent archaeological excavations,
rewarding book.”—Fred Anderson, University Press Books for Public and sharing the excitement of reconstruct-
author of Crucible of War: The Seven Secondary School Libraries ing long-forgotten lives—craftspeople,
Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in shopkeepers, ministers, free Blacks,
Icons of America
British North America, 1754-1766 Native Americans, and other ordinary
Paper 2004 208 pp.
Paper 2010 304 pp. 20 b/w maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10592-6 $14.00 men and women.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16425-1 $22.00 Cloth 2003 208 pp. Cloth 2008 264 pp. 132 b/w illus.
Cloth 2008 304 pp. 20 b/w maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10171-3 $22.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10091-4 $35.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11840-7 $30.00
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18th- & 19th-Century American History
New in paper New New

Dominion from Sea Fruitlands Tocqueville and His
to Sea The Alcott Family and Their America
Pacific Ascendancy and American Search for Utopia
Arthur Kaledin
Power Richard Francis
Arthur Kaledin’s groundbreaking
Bruce Cumings This is the first definitive account of book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers
Fruitlands, one of history’s most an original combination of biography,
In this bold new history, Bruce Cumings unsuccessful—but most significant
upends the dominant Atlanticist approach character study, and wide-ranging
—utopian experiments. It was analysis of Tocqueville’s Democracy
to American history and offers a Pacific established in Massachusetts in 1843
perspective on America’s ascendency over in America, bringing new light to that
by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old classic work. The author examines the
the past 150 years. daughter Louisa May, future author of relation between Tocqueville’s compli-
Selected as one of the Atlantic’s 25 Best Little Women, was among the members) cated inner life, his self-imagination,
Books of the Year 2009 and an Englishman called Charles Lane, and his moral thought, and the meaning
Paper 2010 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus. under the watchful gaze of Emerson, of his enduring writings, leading to a
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16800-6 $24.00 Thoreau, and other New England new understanding of Tocqueville’s view
Cloth 2009 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus. intellectuals. of democratic culture and democratic
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11188-0 $38.00 Cloth 2010 344 pp. 20 b/w illus. politics. With particular emphasis on
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14041-5 $30.00 Tocqueville’s prescient anticipation of
various threats to liberty, social unity,
The Frederick Douglass and truly democratic politics in America
Papers New posed by aspects of democratic culture,
Kaledin underscores the continuing
Series 3: Correspondence, Financial Fraud and pertinence of Tocqueville’s thought in
Volume 1: 1842-1852 our own changing world of the twenty-
Frederick Douglass Guerrilla Violence in first century.
Edited by John R. McKivigan Missouri’s Civil War, Available in June 2011
This volume represents the first of a four- 1861-1865 Cloth 2011 480 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11931-2 $45.00
volume series of the selected correspon-
dence of the great American abolitionist Mark W. Geiger
and reformer Frederick Douglass. This highly original work explores a
The Frederick Douglass Papers Series previously unknown financial con- New
spiracy at the start of the American
Cloth 2009 728 pp. 10 b/w photos
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13560-2 $125.00 Civil War. The book explains the The Tragedy of
reasons for the puzzling intensity of William Jennings
Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for
Narrative of the Life of the state’s anomalous experience in Bryan
Reconstruction. In the broader history Constitutional Law and the
Frederick Douglass, of the war, the book reveals for the first Politics of Backlash
An American Slave time the nature of military mobilization
in the antebellum United States.
Gerard N. Magliocca
Written by Himself Although Populist candidate William
Edited by John W. Blassingame, John R. Yale Series in Economic and Financial
History Jennings Bryan lost the presidential
McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks; Gerald Fulkerson,
Textual Editor; James H. Cook, Victoria C. Gruber, Cloth 2010 320 pp. 36 b/w illus. elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he
and C. Jane Holtan, Editorial Assistants ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15151-0 $55.00 was the most influential political figure
of his era. In this astutely argued book,
This authoritative edition of this classic Gerard N. Magliocca explores how
of American autobiography includes a Bryan’s effort to reach the White House
chronology of Douglass’s life, a thorough energized conservatives across the
introduction, historical notes, and reader nation and caused a transformation in
responses to the 1845 edition. constitutional law.
Paper 2001 192 pp. 4 b/w illus. Available in April 2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08701-7 $7.95 Cloth 2011 248 pp. 15 scattered b/w illus.
Cloth 2001 192 pp. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15314-9 $40.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08831-1 $25.00

18th- & 19th-Century American History
New New New

The Judge Black Gotham Letters from America
A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder A Family History of African Alexis de Tocqueville
of a Fortune Americans in Nineteenth-Century Edited, Translated, and with an
James Mellon New York City Introduction by Frederick Brown
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics profes- Carla L. Peterson This book presents for the first time the
sor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon complete translated correspondence of
“Carla Peterson travels the well known
greatly influenced the fortunes of his Tocqueville on his first journey to America
streets of Lower Manhattan and Brook-
hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the in 1831. These remarkable letters contain
lyn to uncover the rich and hidden
nineteenth century. In the process, he the seeds of his later masterful account of
history of New York’s black elite in the
became one of the city’s most important American democracy.
nineteenth century. That the book arose
business leaders, and he laid the founda- from her research into her own family Cloth 2010 304 pp. 2 b/w illus.
tion for a family that would contribute history reminds us that in all of our ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15382-8 $28.00
considerably to the city’s growth and families lies the story of this country.”
welfare for much of the next hundred —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard
years, becoming one of the world’s most University
recognizable names in industry, innova-
New
tion, and philanthropy. Through his Black Gotham is a fascinating look at
a little-known segment of American
Mrs. Mattingly’s
in-depth examination of the extensive
Mellon family archives, in The Judge history: African-American elites in New Miracle
James Mellon—a direct descendent York City in the nineteenth century, The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure
of Thomas Mellon—has fashioned an told through Carla Peterson’s intriguing That Shocked Washington City
incisive portrait of the elder Mellon that account of her quest to reconstruct the
lives of her ancestors. Nancy Lusignan Schultz
presents the man in full.
Cloth 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus + 2 maps, The miraculous cure of a Washington
Available in April 2011 D.C. widow’s ravaging cancer in 1824,
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00
purportedly through the intervention of
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16714-6 $38.00
a charismatic German prince, ignited
political, social, and religious controversy.
New
The Fate of the Corps This gripping book captures the drama of
What Became of the Lewis and Delia’s Tears the miracle and its repercussions.
Clark Explorers After the Race, Science, and Photography in Available in March 2011
Expedition Nineteenth-Century America Cloth 2011 288 pp. 24 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11846-9 $30.00
Larry E. Morris Molly Rogers
Foreword by David W. Blight
“Morris writes well; his prose is smooth
“Through Delia’s Tears, a beguiling
and studded with information. He
brings each individual to life, drawn mixture of history and imagination, we The Legacy of the
from the shadows of archival files. . . . see that the poisonous allure of racial
thinking, often posing as reasoned
Mastodon
Morris allows us to explore that team The Golden Age of Fossils in America
through the careful reconstruction of objectivity, has always blurred our
their lives.”—Laurie Winn Carlson, vision. This is a story that is as beautiful Keith Thomson
Western Historical Quarterly as it is sad.”—Jonathan Scott Holloway, This exciting book tells the story of
Yale University America’s golden period of fossil discovery,
This engaging book is the first to trace
the fascinating histories of the remark- In the first narrative history of the the years from 1750 to 1890. Replete with
able men—and one woman—who photographs of South Carolina slaves high adventure, ruthless competing bone
were members of the Lewis and Clark made for the famous naturalist Louis hunters, and previously unimagined scien-
expedition. Agassiz, Molly Rogers tells the story of tific discoveries, the book sets the story of
the photographs, the people they depict, paleontology in the context of American
Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title and the men who made and used them. history and the opening of the West.
by Choice Magazine in 2006
Selected as an Editor’s Choice by Booklist Paper 2009 424 pp. 38 b/w illus. + 6 maps
Paper 2005 320 pp. 23 b/w illus. as one of the best titles published in 2010 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15129-9 $23.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10972-6 $22.50 Cloth 2008 424 pp. 38 b/w illus. + 6 maps
Cloth 2004 320 pp. 23 b/w illus. Cloth 2010 384 pp. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11704-2 $35.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10265-9 $35.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11548-2 $37.50

The Lamar Series in Western History
New in paper New in paper New

Furs and Frontiers in The Bourgeois Hell on the Range
the Far North Frontier A Story of Honor, Conscience, and
The Contest among Native and French Towns, French Traders, the American West
Foreign Nations for the Bering and American Expansion Daniel Justin Herman
Strait Fur Trade Jay Gitlin In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim
John R. Bockstoce Country War of the 1880s, the author
This important work of revisionist uncovers surprising truths about
With expert scholarship and a keen eye history tells the story of the Bourgeois the complex interplay of honor and
for detail, Bockstoce provides the first Frontier—the French merchants and conscience, violence and identity, in the
analysis of the historic competition families from Mid-America who shaped history of the American West.
among the Russians, British, and the course of western expansion.
Americans for control of Alaska. Published in Cooperation with the William
Winner of the 2010 Alf Andrew Heggoy P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
Paper 2010 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps Prize given by the French Colonial Southern Methodist University
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16799-3 $26.00 Historical Society Cloth 2010 400 pp. 40 b/w illus.
Cloth 2009 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps Paper 2010 290 pp. 29 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13736-1 $45.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14921-0 $35.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16803-7 $29.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10118-8 $40.00 Frontiers
Vicious A Short History of the American West
Wolves and Men in America
“Liberty to the Robert V. Hine and
Jon T. Coleman John Mack Faragher
Jon Coleman investigates the sometimes Downtrodden” This is a concise and freshly updated
violent and always controversial relation- Thomas L. Kane, Romantic
edition of Hine and Faragher’s acclaimed
ship between wolves and man. Reformer The American West: A New Interpretive
Winner of the 2005 W. Turrentine Jackson Matthew J. Grow History. The authors provide a grand
Award, given by the Western History survey of our colorful frontier history,
Association; Winner of the 2005 John H. This book recounts the full story of
from the first contacts between Native
Dunning Prize for 2005 sponsored by the the life and achievements of reformer
Americans and Europeans to the
American Historical Association Thomas L. Kane—abolitionist, women’s
beginning of the twenty-first century.
rights advocate, Civil War general, and,
Paper 2006 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus. though not a Mormon himself, indefati- Paper 2008 288 pp. 32 pp. illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11972-5 $18.50 gable defender of the religious rights of ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13620-3 $19.00
Cloth 2004 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus. Cloth 2007 288 pp. 32 pp. illus.
Mormons.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10390-8 $30.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11710-3 $30.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13610-4 $40.00
War of a Thousand The American West
Deserts The Comanche A New Interpretive History
Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War Robert V. Hine and
Brian DeLay
Empire John Mack Faragher
Pekka Hämäläinen
In this radical account of America’s wa- This grand survey of the history of the
tershed victory in the U.S.-Mexican War, Winner of the 2009 Bancroft Prize, given American West presents a panoramic
DeLay uncovers the forgotten role of the by Columbia University; Co-winner of view of events and characters from the
the 2009 Merle Curti Award, presented by first contacts between Native Americans
Comanches and their native allies.
the Organization of American Historians; and Europeans through the 1990s.
Winner of the 2009 Robert M. Utley Award Winner of the Caughey Western History
and of the 2009 W. Turrentine Jackson Association Prize given by the Western Winner of the 2001 Caughey Western
Award given by the Western History History Association History Association Prize
Association Paper 2000 632 pp. 150 b/w illus.
Paper 2009 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 maps
Paper 2009 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15117-6 $22.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07835-0 $29.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15837-3 $25.00 Cloth 2008 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 maps Cloth 2000 632 pp. 150 b/w illus.
Cloth 2008 496 pp. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12654-9 $35.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07833-6 $60.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11932-9 $35.00

The Lamar Series in Western History
New Murder in Tombstone Fugitive Landscapes

The Jeffersons at The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp The Forgotten History of the
Steven Lubet U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Shadwell Samuel Truett
This book tells the nearly unknown
Susan Kern story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, In the nineteenth and early twentieth
“Ground-breaking and original. . . . Kern’s his brothers, and Doc Holiday following centuries, U.S. and Mexican elites sought
research is impeccable, her writing the gunfight and shows how a talented to transform the U.S.-Mexico border-
fluid, and no one will ever again be able defense attorney saved them from the lands into a crossroads of economic
to consider Jefferson without taking gallows. development. This book explores how
this terrific book into account. A great Paper 2006 288 pp. 35 b/w illus. efforts to tame this fugitive landscape
achievement.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11527-7 $17.00 ran aground, telling a forgotten story
Prize-winning author of American Lion of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for
and Franklin and Winston contemporary border relations.
An original study of Shadwell, Thomas Making Indian Law Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title
Jefferson’s boyhood home, providing The Hualapai Land Case and the for 2007 by Choice Magazine
new insights into the founding father’s Birth of Ethnohistory Paper 2008 272 pp. 27 b/w illus
formative years.
Christian W. McMillen ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14331-7 $22.00
Cloth 2010 384 pp. 56 b/w illus. Cloth 2006 272 pp. 27 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15390-3 $30.00 This is the story of a groundbreaking ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11091-3 $40.00
Supreme Court decision in 1941 that
changed the field of Indian law. Threat-
Revolution in Texas
ened by railroad claims to their lands,
Arizona’s Hualapai people engaged in
The Spanish Frontier
How a Forgotten Rebellion and a legal battle, emerged victorious, and in North America
Its Bloody Suppression Turned along the way introduced revolutionary The Brief Edition
Mexicans into Americans new ways of thinking about all native David J. Weber
peoples, their property, and their past.
Benjamin Heber Johnson This compact synthesis of David J.
Winner of the 2008 John Phillip Reid Weber’s prize-winning history of colonial
“Johnson has written an important book, Book Award, given by the American Society
one that deserves the attention of those Spanish North America vividly tells the
for Legal History; Winner of the 2008
interested in the history of the United Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, given by story of Spain’s 300-year tenure on the
States, Chicanos, and the Texas-Mexico the American Society for Ethnohistory continent. From the first Spanish-Indian
borderlands.”—James A. Sandos, contact through Spain’s gradual retreat,
Paper 2009 304 pp. 2 maps Weber offers a balanced assessment of
American Historical Review ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14329-4 $25.00 the impact of each civilization upon the
Paper 2005 272 pp. 29 b/w illus. Cloth 2007 304 pp. 2 maps other.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10970-2 $23.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11460-7 $40.00
Cloth 2003 272 pp. 29 b/w illus. Paper 2009 320 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 16 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09425-1 $35.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2 $20.00
The American Far
New West in the Twentieth Barbaros
Century Spaniards and Their Savages in the
William Clark’s World Earl Pomeroy
Age of Enlightenment
Describing America in an Age of David J. Weber
Edited by Richard W. Etulain
Unknowns
Foreword by Howard R. Lamar This landmark book explores how Spain
Peter J. Kastor attempted to come to terms with the
In this monumental history, the most
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help describe America’s West for those portrait of the American West in the Winner of the 2006 John E. Fagg Prize given
who had not yet seen it, this book casts twentieth century. by the American Historical Association
new light on how the West took shape in
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Twentieth-Century America

The Conservatives Joe DiMaggio A Great Leap Forward
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Throughout American History Jerome Charyn Economic Growth
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conservatism covers the entire span beyond the baseball field, a reversal of data reveals that the innovation and
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private writings of one of the twentieth Nigel Hamilton
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John Ehrman
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New One America in the New in paper

The Invisible 21st Century Sexual Chemistry
Harry Gold The Report of President Bill A History of the Contraceptive Pill
The Man Who Gave the Soviets Clinton’s Initiative on Race Lara V. Marks
the Atom Bomb Edited and with an Introduction This fascinating and original history
Allen M. Hornblum by Steven F. Lawson explores the little-known origins of the
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New New New

Modernist America The Dance A Complicated Man
Art, Music, Movies, and the Claimed Me The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by
Globalization of American A Biography of Pearl Primus Those Who Know Him
Culture Michael Takiff
Peggy and Murray Schwartz
Richard Pells The life and times of Bill Clinton as
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seminal dancer, anthropologist, and
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educator, who championed social and
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Guzman, and Kenneth Silverman and-tourism management and unprecedented cause célèbre. This book
emerging ecological concepts in the is the first to reveal the full international
A stunning visual history of the life
national parks, America’s most scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, tracing
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the performer’s personal transforma-
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General American History
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This groundbreaking book is the first to
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American Military History
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In the Name of God War by Land, Sea, A Question of
and Country and Air Command
Reconsidering Terrorism in Dwight Eisenhower and the Counterinsurgency from the Civil
American History Concept of Unified Command War to Iraq
Michael Fellman David Jablonsky Mark Moyar
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pre-emption and prevention in just
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Ancient History
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Caesar’s Druids Antony and Voting About God
An Ancient Priesthood Cleopatra in Early Church
Miranda Aldhouse-Green Adrian Goldsworthy Councils
Aldhouse-Green explores the various roles
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that Druids played in British and Gallic
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Death of a Superpower
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Fourth to Eighth
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Ancient History Yale English Monarchs
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The Ancient Oracles Æthelstan Edward II
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New Britons New

Selected Writings Forging the Nation 1707–1837 When London Was
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Jeremy Bentham
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Captain Cook Adam Smith History and the
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Frank McLynn Nicholas Phillipson Hugh Trevor-Roper
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At Home in Georgian England
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Why the Dreyfus Sarah The Gates of Hell
Affair Matters The Life of Sarah Bernhardt Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest
Robert Gottlieb for the North West Passage
Louis Begley
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infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer gives us a new way of looking at Franklin,
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Staff, with profound implications for Gottlieb’s Sarah is the first English- International Journal of Maritime History
our own time. language biography to appear in decades.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16814-3 $16.00 a national icon, a symbol of France. heroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.
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New
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A Biography
The Darwin The Age of Doubt
David Brown
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phy of the charismatic Lord Palmerston
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Philip Dwyer Origin of Species. But he produced and ours, scholar Christopher Lane
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his boyhood in Corsica to the coup that biology.
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An Atlas of the Plumes John Henry Newman
Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost The Challenge to Evangelical
Peninsular War World of Global Commerce Religion
Ian Robertson Sarah Abrevaya Stein Frank M. Turner
This is the first comprehensive modern “Amid a raft of commodity histories,
atlas of the Peninsular War, the series “This book is an extraordinary achieve-
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tually expansive, and possessed of an Victorian sage.”—Jeffrey Cox, Historical
forces commanded by the Duke of artfully built archival nest.”—Deborah
Wellington. Here a distinguished Journal
Cohen, Journal of Modern History
military historian examines and One of the most controversial religious
explains the sequence of battles and A bold and original examination of the figures of his time, John Henry Newman
the course of the war through expertly international Jewish trade in ostrich (1801–1890) split rancorously from the
drawn cartography in color. feathers, which flourished on three con- Church of England and converted to
tinents from the 1880s until the great Roman Catholicism. In this provoca-
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“feather bust” of the First World War. tive reappraisal of Newman and the
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Winner of the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Tractarian movement that he led, Frank
Jewish Literature sponsored by the Jewish Turner challenges previous understand-
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religious and intellectual life in Victorian
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Charles Dickens ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16818-1 $20.00 England.
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book prize
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of Victorian letters, Michael Slater’s
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This masterly biography uncovers Keith Thomson

Dickens the man through the profession
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What sort of person was the young The Magnificent Mrs
naturalist who developed an evolution-
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works, the amateur theatricals and the
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of Charles Darwin’s early years draws
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Demobbed Twelve Turning The Jews of San
Coming Home After World War Two Points of the Nicandro
Alan Allport
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Contesting Moon
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General History
New Blood and Soil New

Why Marx Was Right A World History of Genocide and The Future of History
Extermination from Sparta to
Terry Eagleton Darfur John Lukacs
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done with. history of genocide and extermination Barzun
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Grand Strategies given by the German Studies Association ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16956-0 $26.00
Literature, Statecraft, and World Paper 2009 768 pp. 38 b/w illus. + 31 maps
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The Legacy of the
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elements of statecraft, fusing literature History Lesson John Lukacs
and international relations through A Race Odyssey
spirited interpretations of classic literary The master historian John Lukacs
Mary Lefkowitz
works. explores lasting questions and enigmas
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General History

The Master and His Representing Justice Boredom
Emissary Invention, Controversy, and A Lively History
The Divided Brain and the Rights in City-States and Peter Toohey
Making of the Western World Democratic Courtrooms
In the first book to argue for the benefits
Iain McGilchrist Judith Resnik and of boredom, Peter Toohey proves that
Dennis E. Curtis one of our most maligned emotions is,
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History of Religion
Sin New New

A History The Virgin of Chartres Holy Bones,
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and the Arts
Holy Dust
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original work, Gary Anderson shows Margot E. Fassler History of Medieval Europe
how changing conceptions of sin and
forgiveness lay at the very heart of the “Monumental . . . there is much in this Charles Freeman
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In this unique book, one of the most

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sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation,
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How a Universal Symbol Became Judaism and shows how and why
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History of Religion
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Kabbalah in Italy, Among the Gentiles Mother of God
1280–1510 Greco-Roman Religion and A History of the Virgin Mary
A Survey Christianity Miri Rubin
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the Paganism of Greece and Rome.
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Christians and Pagans around the world.
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The Christian Lambert offers a comprehensive and
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Theology and the Origins of Race tence or conflict with paganism, and its
New
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This provocative book casts Julian of
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divine presences in human life.
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The Middle East
New New New

A Quiet Revolution Turkey, Islam, Levant
The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Nationalism, and Splendor and Catastrophe on the
Middle East to America Mediterranean
Leila Ahmed Modernity Philip Mansel
A History, 1789–2007
This probing study of the veil’s recent Not so long ago, in certain great cosmo-
return—from one of the world’s fore- Carter Vaughn Findley politan cities on the shores of the eastern
most authorities on Muslim women— Against the panorama of political, Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and
reaches surprising conclusions about economic, social, and cultural change, Jews lived and flourished side by side. What
contemporary Islam’s place in the West religious and secular forces emerge can the histories of these cities tell us?
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Amira K. Bennison Lands
Ranging across two and a half centuries
This accessible and informative history Martin Gilbert and through the great cities of Istanbul,
brings the classical Islamic world alive, In this absorbing and eloquent book Aleppo, and Alexandria, James Mather tells
illuminating its importance to the cul- Martin Gilbert challenges the standard the forgotten story of the men of Britain’s
tural history of Europe and America as media portrayal and presents a fascinat- Levant Company who sought their for-
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Author Index
Ahmed, 30 Cusac, 12 Hancock, 2 Krentz, 14 Nash, 12 Smith, C., 12
Aldhouse- Dallal, 30 Harris, Kühne, 24 Orsi, 29 Smith, D., 32
Green, 14 J. William, 3
Dalton, 33 Kulka & Pappé, 30 Stein 11
Alford, 16 Harris, Jackel, 24
Davis, 23 Jonathan, 17 Payne, 25 Stewart, 20
Allitt, 9 Kurlander, 24
de Tocqueville, 6 Haskell, 12 Pells, 11 Stoneman, 15
Allmand, 15 Kurlansky, 10
DeLay, 7 Haslam, 31 Peterson, C., 6 Takiff, 11
Allport, 23 Lambert, A., 21
Douglass, 5 Haynes et al., 32 Peterson, B., 31 Tanner, 18
Anderson, 28 Lambert, M., 29
Duffy, 16 Heimann, 31 Petrovsky- Taub, 31
Applebaum, 31 Lane, K., 2 Shtern, 32
Dwyer, 21 Herf, 24 Taylor, 18
Barlow, 15 Lane, C., 21 Pettegree, 17
Eagleton, 26 Herman, 7 Temkin, 11
Bauer, 23 Larson, 24 Phillips,
Edwards, 3 Hicks, 17 J.R.S., 15 Thomas, 33
Begley, 21 Lawson, 10
Ehrman, 9 Hill, 26 Phillips, Thompson, 15
Bell, 23 Ledbetter, 10 Jonathan, 17
Eltis & Hine & Thomson, 6, 22
Bennison, 30 Richardson, 2 Faragher, 7 Lefkowitz, 26 Phillipson, 20
Toohey, 27
Bentham, 19 Fassler, 28 Hodgson, 9 Lenoe, 32 Pincus, 20
Totten, 13
Bercovitch, 3 Faye, 23 Holmes, 24 Levi, 24 Pomeroy, 8
Trevor-
Berger, 9 Feiner, 19 Hornblum, 10 Levine, 33 Poole, 27 Roper, 20
Bernard, 16 Fellman, 13 Hunt, 10 Lian Xi, 33 Prior, 25 Truett, 8
Blair, 16 Field, 9 Hunter, 17 Lowndes, 10 Rahe, 4 Truxes, 4
Bockstoce, 7 Findley, 30 Hutton, 14 Lubet, 8 Rapaport, 11 Turner, R., 18
Bosworth, 25 Flavell, 19 Idel, 29 Lukacs, 24, 26 Rashid, 31 Turner, F., 22
Braudy, 9 Foot, 15 Isserman & MacMullen, 14 Reader, 27 Turner, D., 29
Weaver, 26
Brown, D. 21 Francis, 5 Magliocca, 5 Resnik & Valenze, 27
Jablonsky, 13 Curtis, 27
Brown, K., 3 Fredriksen, 28 Malcolm, 3 van Scaik, 33
Jackson, 12 Roberts, 11
Brunner, 25 Freedman, 17 Mansel, 30 VanDevelder, 11
Jay, 19 Robertson, 22
Burke, 19 Freeman, 28 Mansoor, 13 Vickers, 4
Jennings, 29 Roeck, 25
Carmichael, Frierson & Mark, 32 Vickery, 20
Cathie, 23 Vilensky, 31 Johnson, B.H., 8 Rogers, 6
Marks, 10 Vidal, 4
Carmichael, Garton Ash, 31 Johnson, L., 29 Ross, 15
Calum, 28 Mather, 30 Waller, 22
Geiger, 5 Jones, 21 Rubin, 29
Carp, 3 Matlock, 10 Wanklyn, 18
Gilbert, 30 Kaledin, 5 Sandoval-
Chan, 33 May, 26 Weber, 8
Strausz, 12
Gitlin, 7 Kamen, 17
Charlesworth, 28 Maynard, 10 Welch, 18
Scarisbrick, 15
Glatstein, 23 Kastor, 8
Charyn, 9 Mcgilchrist, 27 Wexler, 12
Schaeper, 4
Goldsworthy, 14 Katouzian, 30
Clarke, 19 McGrayne, 27 Willes, 27
Schimmelpennick
Gordon, 17 Kavanagh, 19
McLynn, 20 van der Oye, 32 Williams, 4
Coleman, 7
Gottlieb, 21 Kawaguchi, 33
McMillen, 8 Schultz, 6 Wilson, 32
Colley, 19
Greiner, 13 Kazin, 9
Mellon, 6 Schwartz, Winner, 4
Cornell, 16
Grow, 7 P. & M, 11
Kern, 8
Cowan, 19 Mokyr, 20 Winter et al., 25
Hagenstein Schwartz, S., 2
Kidd, 3
Crouch, 16 et al., 12 Morgan, 4 Wootton, 18
Scott, 33
Kiernan, 26
Crystal, 25 Hämäläinen, 7 Morris, 6 Worthington, 15
Sellars, 11
King, 15
Cumings, 5 Hamilton, A., Mort, 25 Yamin, 4
Sharpe, 18
et al., 3 Kozlov
Cunliffe, 14 Moyar, 13 Zaretsky &
et al., 32 Shearer, 32
Hamilton, N., 9 Scott, 20
Müller, 25

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