Yale University Press: 2009 books
The Jewel House
Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers,...
Another World
Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this groundbreaking book explores the invention of print media—including...
by Professor Annette Morreau
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The meteoric career of the Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann ended with his sudden and tragic death in 1942, aged only thirty-nine. A brilliant soloist and chamber performer, many expected him to inherit from Pablo Casals the reputation of the greatest cellist of all time. The trio he formed with Jasha...
Fires of Faith
Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of “Bloody Mary”...
by Richard L. Hasen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In 2000, just a few hundred votes out of millions cast in the state of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. The outcome of the election rested on Florida's 25 electoral votes, and legal wrangling continued for 36 days. Then, abruptly,...
John Wilkes
The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (172697) is remembered as the father of the British free press, defender of civil and political liberties, and hero to American colonists, who attended closely to his outspoken endorsements of liberty. Wilkes’s political career...
Reformations
The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...
The Colonel Who Would Not Repent
The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fought for and achieved liberation in 1971. Coups and...
The Last Days of Mankind
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods...
by Michael H. Kater
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and...
by Katie Hornstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative...
by Frederick Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tropic of Cancer's initial U.S. release, Frederick...
Risk, Chance, and Causation
Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But what exactly is actually meant by increased risk”-should we worry if we are told that we are at twice...
The Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities...