Yale University Press: 2009 books
by James C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought...
by James C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare....
The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936
Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book focuses on the short but crucial period that led to the collapse of the Spanish Republic and set the stage for the ensuing civil war. Stanley G. Payne, an internationally known scholar of modern Spanish history, details the political shifts that occurred from 1933 to 1936 and examines the actions...
Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience...
Invisible Countries
Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of “cartographical stasis”
What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating’s...
by Iain McGilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres...
by Mr Godfrey Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and highly respected British commentator, argues that America...
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Farming the Red Land
Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable...
American Judaism
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Jonathan D. Sarna’s award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years.
Praise for the first edition:
“Sarna...
The Exile's Song
Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dédé, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dédé, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France’s best classical musicians and went on to spend...
by Dr. Thomas Dormandy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating physical and mental pain. This extraordinary book encompasses...
by George C. Edwards III
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Retreat of the Elephants
An Environmental History of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people...