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America

Unlikely General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Stockwell Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300251876, Yale University Press, June 2020
376 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In the spring of 1792, President George Washington chose "Mad" Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from t...

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Christianity

America

American Catholics A History

Woodcock Tentler Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...

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Europe

Law

Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire

Wood Laurie M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...

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Europe

Field of Cloth of Gold

Richardson Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780300248029, ISBN: HB: 9780300148862, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy and mystery. Throughout most of the late...

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Ancient World

Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

Beck Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226711485, ISBN: HB: 9780226711348, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. Wh...

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America

Urban Lowlands A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Moga Steven T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710532, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

In "Urban Lowlands", Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the pover...

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America

They Knew They Were Pilgrims Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

Turner John G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225501, Yale University Press, May 2020
456 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible....

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Political Science

Military

Arms and Influence

Schelling Thomas C., Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Henry III 1207-1258

Carpenter David

ISBN: HB: 9780300238358, Yale University Press, May 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to E...

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America

Lonely Crowd A Study of the Changing American Character

Riesman David, Glazer Nathan, Denney Reuel, Sennett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300246735, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "The Lonely Crowd" opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new...

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