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Reformations The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

Eire Carlos M. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240030, Yale University Press, October 2018
920 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 155 black&white illus.

<p>A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vi...

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Political Science

America

All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power

Wright Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...

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America

Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R. IV, Husband Julie, Kaufman Heather L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...

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Asia

End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Ancient World

Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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America

Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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Medieval

King Arthur The Making of the Legend

Higham Nicholas J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300210927, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 7 maps

According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today declare...

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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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