Yale University Press: 2009 books
by William Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
“The war to end all wars” rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist, and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today’s conventional wisdom is that the Great War attuned the world to large-scale...
Benjamin V. Cohen
Architect of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (18941983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR’s presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen’s influence extended...
Congress's Constitution
Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress’s surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances.
Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis,...
A Mere Machine
The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths?
Red Lines, Black Spaces
The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book-the first history of a black middle-class community-tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which...
by Julian Dibbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Grave New World
The End of Globalization, the Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order
Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital...
Red Flags
Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise
Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China’s...
Vory
Russia's Super Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore...
by James Walvin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall....
Xerxes
A Persian Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements...
Writers and Rebels
The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca Gould draws from previously untapped archival sources...
Breathing Space
How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden...
Fake Silk
The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores...