Yale University Press: 2009 books
Unfinished Revolutions
Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Post-revolution states often find that once dictators have been deposed, other problems arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat examines three countries grappling with political transitions in the wake of the...
The Chattel Principle
Internal Slave Trades in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus...
The Heart of the Declaration
The Founders' Case for an Activist Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document
From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or...
The Nation?s Crucible
The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country’s first large population of nonnaturalized Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those...
by Rob Frieden
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
by Prof. Madhavi Sunder, J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In this pioneering book Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of the effects of intellectual property law on social and cultural life. Although most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law as it relates to economics, it is first and foremost a tool for promoting innovative...
Self-Evident Truths
Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that “all men are created equal” How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic...
Great Game East
India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic...
Basic Income
A Guide for the Open-Minded
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens....
Free the Beaches
The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The story of our separate and unequal America in the making, and one man’s fight against it
During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America’s most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist...
The Making of Americans
Democracy and Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our childrenWhy, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive and thought-provoking book, educational...
The Red Pencil
Convictions from Experience in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent....
by Stuart Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
by Clayton P. Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011