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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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America

General

Class Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion

Fraser Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780300244359, ISBN: HB: 9780300221503, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm

From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage", class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating...

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Political Science

America

Clear and Present Safety The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans

Cohen Michael A., Zenko Micah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222555, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14 cm

What most frightens the average American? Terrorism. North Korea. Iran. But what if none of these are probable or consequential threats to America? What if the world today is safer, freer, wealthier, healthier, and better educated than ever before? W...

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Christianity

Cunegonde's Kidnapping A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment

Kaplan Benjamin J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300244410, ISBN: HB: 9780300187366, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detent...

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Contemporary Art

Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970

White Michelle, Dervaux Isabelle, Rothenberg Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300244571, Yale University Press, May 2019
80 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...

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Europe

Croatia A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Fourth Edition)

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300246575, Yale University Press, April 2019
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Millions of tourists visit Croatia each year. Every summer, thousands of people walk along the famously beautiful marble-tiled street in Dubrovnik, now a World Heritage site. Of the countries that have emerged since the collapse of communism and the...

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Political Science

Choosing the Leader Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

Green Matthew N., Harris Douglas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300222579, Yale University Press, March 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm

How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic "Leadership in Congress", political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have...

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Literary Criticism

Construction of a National Vernacular Literature in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Edwin M. Duval Yale French Studies, Number 134

DeVos Jessica, Hayes Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300235999, Yale University Press, March 2019
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

French literature underwent radical changes in the sixteenth century. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in French Renaissance poetry and prose. In honor of Duval's literary "sleuthing", the con...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Christianity

Business & Economics

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Tanner Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9780300219036, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In his classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocative...

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