Yale University Press: 2009 books
A Voice Still Heard
Selected Essays of Irving Howe
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America’s most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe’s work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous...
Through a Screen Darkly
Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods—but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of...
War
An Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive,...
Profit with Honor
The New Stage of Market Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This wise and optimistic book examines the rampant scandals that plague American corporations today and shows how companies can reverse the resulting climate of mistrust. By seizing the opportunity to address some of the nation’s-and the world’s-most serious problems, business can strengthen its...
Modernization and Its Political Consequences
Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
People’s capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymous structures and processes over which they have little...
by Allison Stanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
John Brown's Spy
The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
John Brown's Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer—as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years,...
Escaping the Dark, Gray City
Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the...
Sovereignty for Survival
American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked...
Hitler's Compromises
Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
History has focused on Hitler’s use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing the surprisingly...
by Deborah Hertz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1988
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel Varnhagen,...
Medicine and the German Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients Jews exerted a great influence on the formation of modern medical discourse and practice. This fascinating book investigates the relationship between...
Artists Under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
“What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?” Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent...