Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Benjamin Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential...
"Complicity with Evil"
The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during...
by David Hale, Lyric Hughes Hale
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
by Xun Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more...
Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme—like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century—proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction...
by Edward Friedman, Professor Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor Mark Selden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to...
The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that—so far—has proved intractable. After every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes, the Republicans...
by James Ledbetter
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The Snail Darter and the Dam
How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme...
by James West Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History...
The Informant
The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In The Informant, historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King’s historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost...
Founders as Fathers
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political philosophers.In addition to many examples of Lincoln’s...
Rival Power
Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe
Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West...