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Pomp and Poverty A History of Silk in Ireland

Dunlevy Mairead

ISBN: HB: 9780300170412, Yale University Press, April 2011
280 pp., 26.2x19.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 135 colour illus.

Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong silk has always been a symbol of wealth and status, beginning in prehistoric China. In "Pomp and Poverty: A History of Silk in Ireland", Mairead Dunlevy unfolds a colourful tale. She introduces us to the merchants...

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America

Puritan Origins of the American Self

Bercovitch Sacvan

ISBN: PB: 9780300172416, Yale University Press, April 2011
260 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

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Middle East

Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

Mather James

ISBN: PB: 9780300170917, Yale University Press, March 2011
320 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluri...

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Middle East

Palestine Betrayed

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300172348, Yale University Press, February 2011
336 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte...

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America

Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

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Middle East

Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

Katouzian Homa

ISBN: PB: 9780300169324, Yale University Press, October 2010
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons – for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East – but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than...

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Jewish Studies

Plumes Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

Stein Sarah Abrevaya

ISBN: PB: 9780300168181, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 17 black&white illus.

The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consu...

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Contemporary Art

Petah Coyne Everything That Rises Must Converge

Markonish Denise

ISBN: PB: 9780300167702, Yale University Press, September 2010
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.

Unlike many contemporary artists who focus on social or media-related issues, Petah Coyne (b. 1953) imbues her work with a magical quality to evoke intensely personal associations. Her sculptures convey an inherent tension between vulnerability and a...

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Political Science

Pacific Alliance Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations

Calder Kent E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168341, Yale University Press, September 2010
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Despite the enduring importance of the U. S. -Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its pol...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Picasso Looks at Degas

Cowling Elizabeth, Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300134124, Yale University Press, July 2010
352 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

The great Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascination – some might say "obsession" – with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). In this groundbreaking study, noted Degas scholar...

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