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Asia

Down and Out in Saigon Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Cherry Haydon

ISBN: PB: 9780300218251, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals – a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a p...

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Europe

European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions

Paquette Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...

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Europe

History

Rotten Bodies Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Siena Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300233520, Yale University Press, July 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...

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Europe

Stormtroopers A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

Siemens Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300246599, Yale University Press, July 2019
504 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

<p>Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidatio...

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Africa

African Americans and Africa A New History

Ibitayo Blyden Nemata Amelia

ISBN: HB: 9780300198669, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

What is an "African American" and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States' first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This work p...

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Africa

African States since Independence Order, Development, and Democracy

Christensen Darin, Laitin David D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226614, Yale University Press, July 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 85 black&white illus.

Authors Christensen and Laitin argue that an interplay of geographic, historical, and demographic factors undergird sub-Saharan states' post?independence struggles to eradicate poverty, establish democratic accountability, and quell civil unrest. The...

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America

Blueprint for War FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

Dunn Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300244342, ISBN: HB: 9780300203530, Yale University Press, June 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus. in 8-pg insert

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under t...

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Asia

Contested Territory Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam

Lentz Christian C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300233957, Yale University Press, June 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands' transformation into Northwest Vietnam Historians regard the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 as the conflict that toppled the French...

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Middle East

Literary Criticism

Jerusalem City of the Book

Mack Merav, Balint Benjamin, Brenner Frederic

ISBN: HB: 9780300222852, Yale University Press, June 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto Writing Our History

Roskies David G., Kassow Samuel D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236729, Yale University Press, June 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...

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