Yale University Press: 2009 books
Vicious
Wolves and Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the...
Legal Codes and Talking Trees
Indigenous Womens Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Katrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of romantic writers and...
Roads Taken
The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs...
Lawrence of Arabia's War
The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts.
Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary...
by Heather Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the “lost circulations” of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance
Geography, Mobility, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. It is well known that Italian Renaissance artists traveled; this book considers...
by Richard Serra, Hal Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
“The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.”—Richard Serra
Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra’s...
by Dean Mark William Roche
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche...
Heidegger's Polemos
From Being to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Gregory Fried offers in this book a careful investigation of Martin Heidegger’s understanding of politics. Disturbing issues surround Heidegger’s commitment to National Socialism, his disdain for liberal democracy, and his rejection of the Enlightenment. Fried confronts these issues, focusing not...
Managing the Wild
Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical...
Genetics of Original Sin
The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Increasingly absorbed in recent years by advances in our understanding of the origin of life, evolutionary history, and the advent of humankind, eminent biologist Christian de Duve of late has also pondered deeply the future of life on this planet. He speaks to readers with or without a scientific...
by Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture
What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical...
by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Stephen Sartarelli, Virginia Jewiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged,...