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Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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America

Nation's Crucible The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194616, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans-Native Americans, African Americans, an...

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America

Marlborough's America

Saunders Webb Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300178593, Yale University Press, January 2013
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect", but, in Marlborough's Amer...

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Ancient World

Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk

Doty L. Timothy, Wallenfels Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300185270, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 28.7x21.6 cm, 194 black&white illus.

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

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Technology & Engineering

America

Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

Thomas William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187465, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Beginning with Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national forma...

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Europe

Ambition, a History From Vice to Virtue

King William

ISBN: HB: 9780300182804, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

From log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to office of the CEO, ambition drives the American Dream. Americans are a nation of people driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous v...

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Europe

Mayhem Post-war Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

Rogers Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300169621, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...

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Africa

Of Africa

Soyinka Wole

ISBN: PB: 9780300198331, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing...

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America

Yale, 1900-2001 Volume 1 & 2: Yale College Twentieth Century - a History in Present Time; Whiffenpoofs - Twentieth Century

Nash Gould Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300047592, Yale University Press, January 2013
556 pp., 25x15 cm

This slipcased, two-volume set includes: "Yale College Twentieth Century", and "A History in Present Time". Beginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, VOLUME I is a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excer...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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