Yale University Press: 2009 books
Spare the Birds!
George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women’s hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for...
by Ann M. Little
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend...
by John Wallace, Alexander McGrattan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its family into art music, and its rise...
Memory Lands
King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia...
Accessible Connecticut
A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and...
by Prof Kirby Deater-Deckard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
All parents experience stress as they attempt to meet the challenges of caring for their children. This comprehensive book examines the causes and consequences of parenting distress, drawing on a wide array of findings in current empirical research. Kirby Deater-Deckard explores normal and pathological...
How Jews Became Germans
The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s...
Rooted Cosmopolitans
Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists
The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of...
Black Ranching Frontiers
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in...
Science Blogging
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-seven of the greatest minds in scientific communication,...
by William G. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
by Julius G. Getman
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Plutocrats United
Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In...
Designing Modern America
Broadway to Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their...