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Empires of theAtlantic WorldBritain and Spain in America1492–1830

J. H. Elliott

In this account, distinguished historianJ. H. Elliott interweaves the historieso the two great Atlantic civilizations,providing rich insights into both whilerevealing aspects o their dual history that inuence the Americas to this day.

Winner of the 2007 Francis ParkmanPrize awarded by the Society of AmericanHistorians

Paper 2007 608 pp. 43 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12399-9 $29.00Cloth 2006 560 pp. 43 b/w illus.

ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11431-7 $55.00

Spain, Europe and theWider World 1500–1800J.H. Elliott

This extraordinarily wide-ranging volume gathers together historian J. H.Elliott’s recent writings on politics, art,culture, and ideas in Europe and thecolonial worlds rom 1500 to 1800.

Cloth 2009 352 pp. 31 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14537-3 $38.00

Oceans of WineMadeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste

David Hancock

This innovative book examines thePortuguese-American Madeira winetrade rom 1640 to 1815, demonstratinghow the trade helped shape the Atlantic

world and American society.Winner of the 2009-2010 Louis Gottschalk Prize sponsored by the American Societyfor Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Cloth 2009 680 pp. 57 b/w + 16 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13605-0 $50.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15581-5

Atlantic History

Atlas of theTransatlantic SlaveTradeDavid Eltis and David RichardsonForeword by David Brion Davis;

Afterword by David W. Blight

A monumental work, decades in themaking: the frst atlas to illustrate theentire scope o the transatlantic slave trade.

Winner of the 2010 American PublishersAward for Professional and ScholarlyExcellence; Winner of the 2011 James A.Rawley Prize in Atlantic history, given bythe American Historical Association

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Cloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps;

5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphsISBN 13: 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00

Extending theFrontiersEssays on the New TransatlanticSlave Trade Database

Edited by David Eltis and DavidRichardson

Drawing on an enormous amount o

recent research, the contributors to this volume explore undamental questionsabout the history o the transatlantictrade in slaves.

Cloth 2008 400 pp. 17 b/w illus. + 2 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-13436-0 $90.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15174-9

Colour of ParadiseThe Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

Kris LaneLane tracks the extraordinary odyssey o Columbian emeralds rom the period o the time o the Conquistadors to the ageo Napoleon and Bolívar, and rom the

jungle mines to princely courts.

Cloth 2010 320 pp. 16 pp. color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16131-1 $40.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16470-1

New

New WorldsA Religious History of LatinAmerica

John Lynch

John Lynch presents a brilliant capstone work encompassing the Latin Americanpeople’s reception o Christianity romthe Spanish Conquest and the arrival o evangelists to the dictators and repressiveregimes o the twentieth century.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 384 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16680-4 $35.00

All Can Be Saved

Religious Tolerance and Salvationin the Iberian Atlantic World

Stuart B. Schwartz

This groundbreaking book is the frst toinvestigate the idea o religious tolerancein Spain, Portugal, and their New Worldcolonies during the era o the Inquisition.

Winner of the 2008 Cundill InternationalPrize in History; Winner of the 2009John E. Fagg Prize, the 2009 Leo GershoyAward, and the 2009 George L. MossePrize, all given by the American Historical

Association

Paper 2009 352 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15854-0 $25.00Cloth 2008 352 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12580-1 $40.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15053-7

New

The Zong A Massacre, the Law and the Endof Slavery

James Walvin

In 1781, the captain o a British shiprunning short o drinking water ordered132 Arican slaves thrown overboard.This book is the frst ull account o thehorriying event, the later trial, and themoral and political debates that ollowed.


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New

The Papers o BenjaminFranklinVolume 40: May 16 throughSeptember 15, 1783

Ellen R. Cohn, EditorJonathan R. Dull, Senior Associate Editor;Karen Duval and Kate M. Ohno, AssociateEditors; Alicia K. Anderson, Adrina M.Garbooshian, Michael Sletcher, and PhilippZiesche, Assistant Editors; Alysia M. Cain,Editorial Assistant

The Papers o Benjamin FranklinCloth 2011 784 pp. 8 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16546-3 $100.00

The Autobiography o Benjamin FranklinSecond Edition

Benjamin FranklinEdited by Leonard W. Labaree, Ralph L.Ketcham, Helen C. Boateld, and Helene H.Fineman. With a new oreword by EdmundS. Morgan

Translated into a dozen languages, printedin hundreds o editions, and read by mil-lions o people, Franklin’s autobiography has had an inuence perhaps unequaled by

any other book by an American writer.Paper 2003 364 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09858-7 $9.95Available as eBook 978-0-300-15955-4

The Federalist PapersAlexander Hamilton, JamesMadison, and John JayEdited and with an Introduction byIan Shapiro

This authoritative edition o the completetexts o the Federalist Papers, the Constitu-tion, the Bill o Rights, and the Articles o Conederation is accompanied by essays in

which leading scholars provide historicalcontext and thematic background.

Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2009 608 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2 $20.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16104-5

Colonial & Early American History

New in paper

What Clothes RevealThe Language o Clothing inColonial and Federal America

Linda Baumgarten

This stunning book, illustrated withmore than 300 color photographs,eatures a rich array o eighteenth- andnineteenth-century garments rom thepremiere collection o the ColonialWilliamsburg Foundation.

Published in association with the ColonialWilliamsburg FoundationPaper 2012 280 pp. 355 color + 36 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18107-4 $45.00

The Puritan Originso the American Sel With a New Preace

Sacvan BercovitchWith a New Preace by the Author

Bercovitch’s subject is the developmento the concept o American identity andhe explores the Puritan achievement inits broadest cultural context.

Paper 2011 304 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00

Foul BodiesCleanliness in Early America

Kathleen M. Brown

This unusual history examines how practices and attitudes toward cleanli-ness and dirt evolved in America romthe arrival o the frst Europeans to themid-1800s.

Winner o the 2010 Lawrence W. LevineAward, presented by the Organization

o American Historians; Winner o the2009 Society or Historians o the EarlyAmerican Republic Book Award

Society and the Sexes in the Modern WorldPaper 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17155-6 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16027-7

New in paper

Deance o thePatriotsThe Boston Tea Party and theMaking o America

Benjamin L. CarpEvocative and enthralling, this is the

broadest account yet o a defning eventin American history, which orged theAmerican character and continues toshape its politics today.


New in paper

Notes rom theGroundScience, Soil, & Society in theAmerican Countryside

Benjamin R. Cohen

Integrating the history o science,environmental history, and sciencestudies, this book examines the cultural

conditions that brought agriculture andscience together in early America.

Yale Agrarian Studies SeriesPaper 2011 288 pp. 29 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17770-1 $27.50Available as eBook 978-0-300-15492-4

Jonathan Edwards’s“Sinners in the Handso an Angry God”A Casebook

Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach,Caleb J. D. Maskell, and KennethP. Minkema

Designed specifcally or the classroom,this volume presents the accurate anddefnitive version o Sinners , accompa-nied by the tools necessary to study andteach this amous American sermon.

Paper 2010 224 pp. 29 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14038-5 $14.00






























































































































































Colonial & Early American History

New

“A Rich Spot o Earth”Thomas Jeerson’s RevolutionaryGarden at Monticello

Peter J. Hatch

Foreword by Alice WatersThis gorgeous volume describes Je-erson’s unique vegetable garden atMonticello and uncovers his lastinginuence on American culinary, garden,and landscape history.

Available in April 2012Cloth 2012 288 pp. 201 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17114-3 $35.00

The Hanging o

Thomas JeremiahA Free Black Man’s Encounter with Liberty

J. William Harris

This book tells or the frst time the tragicstory o Thomas Jeremiah, a black mancaught up in the turmoil o revolutionin Charleston, South Carolina, in 1775.

Winner o the Silver Medal in the Historycategory or the 2009 Book o the YearAward, presented by ForeWord magazine


The Great Awakening The Roots o EvangelicalChristianity in Colonial America

Thomas S. Kidd

In the mid-1700s, an outbreak o reli-

gious revivals shook American colonialsociety. This book provides a defnitivehistory o these revivals, called the FirstGreat Awakening.

Paper 2009 416 pp. 15 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15846-5 $22.00Cloth 2007 416 pp. 15 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11887-2 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14825-1

New

Endowed by OurCreatorThe Birth o Religious Freedomin America

Michael I. MeyersonRejecting the extreme arguments o today’s debates, this book examines

what the ramers o the Constitutionactually said about religious reedomand how it can inspire and uniy ourreligiously diverse nation.

Available in May 2012Cloth 2012 320 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16632-3 $32.50

Peter’s WarA New England Slave Boy and theAmerican Revolution

Joyce Lee Malcolm

This riveting biography o a Massa-chusetts slave boy who ought in theRevolutionary War illuminates racerelations in the northern colonies, early

battles o the revolution, and the experi-ences o black soldiers on both sides o the conict.

Paper 2010 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16806-8 $20.00Cloth 2009 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11930-5 $28.00

Benjamin FranklinEdmund S. Morgan

This brilliant biography by one o ourgreatest historians oers a compact andprovocative new portrait o America’smost extraordinary patriot.

Winner o the 2002 Colonial Dames o America Annual Book Award; Chosen asa Notable Book o the Year by the New York Times Book Review


New

Edward BancrotScientist, Author, Spy

Thomas J. Schaeper

The frst complete biography o a

little-known but ascinating fgure in thehistory o espionage and the AmericanRevolution.

Cloth 2011 352 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11842-1 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17171-6

Deying EmpireTrading with the Enemy inColonial New York

Thomas M. Truxes

This enthralling book uncovers the story o New York City merchants’ illicit trade

with the enemy during the French andIndian War, and how British reactions tothis treacherous behavior hastened thecolonies’ march toward revolution.

Paper 2010 304 pp. 20 b/w mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-16425-1 $22.00Cloth 2008 304 pp. 20 b/w mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-11840-7 $30.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15043-8

Young Men and the SeaYankee Seaarers in the Age o Sail

Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh

This book ocuses on two centuries o early American maritime history, years

when the Atlantic Ocean beckoned as thegreat rontier.

Paper 2007 352 pp. 25 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12366-1 $23.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15026-1

















































































































































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The Statue o Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Edward Berenson

In this stirring history o Lady Liberty,

cultural historian Edward Berensonexplores the statue’s creation in France,its changing meaning or each genera-tion o Americans, and its signifcanceas a symbol in the post-9/11 years.

Available in May 2012Icons o AmericaCloth 2012 240 pp. 37 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14950-0 $25.00

Dominion rom Sea

to SeaPacic Ascendancy and AmericanPower

Bruce Cumings

In this bold history, Bruce Cumingsupends the dominant Atlanticistapproach to American history andoers a Pacifc perspective on America’sascendency over the past 150 years.

Paper 2010 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16800-6 $24.00Cloth 2009 672 pp. 21 b/w + 13 color illus.

ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11188-0 $38.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15497-9

New in paper

FruitlandsThe Alcott Family and TheirSearch or Utopia

Richard Francis

This is the frst defnitive account o Fruitlands, one o history’s most unsuc-

cessul—but most signifcant—utopianexperiments, established in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-olddaughter Louisa May was among themembers).


Financial Fraud andGuerrilla Violence inMissouri’s Civil War,1861–1865

Mark W. GeigerThis highly original work explores thereasons or the puzzling intensity o Mis-souri’s guerrilla conict, and or the state’sanomalous experience in Reconstruction.

Winner o the Tom Watson Brown Book Prize awarded by the Society o Civil WarHistorians

Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2010 320 pp. 36 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15151-0 $55.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15152-7

Fighting or AmericanManhoodHow Gender Politics Provoked theSpanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

Kristin L. Hoganson

Blending the insights o genderstudies with oreign-policy studies,this groundbreaking book oers a new

understanding o American imperial-ism during the Spanish-American andPhilippine-American wars.

Yale Historical Publications SeriesPaper 2000 320 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08554-9 $22.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14787-2

Tocqueville and HisAmericaA Darker Horizon

Arthur KaledinThis groundbreaking study o Tocqueville’slie, thought, and writings yields new insights into his views on democraticculture and politics.

Cloth 2011 440 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11931-2 $45.00

Early American History/Nineteenth-Century America

Inventing a NationWashington, Adams, Jeerson

Gore Vidal

One o the master stylists o Americanliterature, Gore Vidal provides us

with his uniquely irreverent take onAmerica’s ounding athers.

Icons o AmericaPaper 2004 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10592-6 $14.00

A Cheerul andComortable FaithAnglican Religious Practice in theElite Households o Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Lauren F. WinnerThis book examines an array o physical objects ound in elite Virginiahouseholds o the eighteenth century todiscover what they can tell us about theirowners’ lives and religious practices.


Narrative o the Lieo Frederick Douglass,An American SlaveWritten by Himsel

Frederick DouglassEdited by John W. Blassingame, John R.McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks

This classic autobiography includes achronology o Douglass’s lie, a thor-ough introduction, historical notes, andreader responses to the 1845 edition.



















































































































































Nineteenth-Century America

The Tragedy o William JenningsBryanConstitutional Law and thePolitics o Backlash

Gerard N. MaglioccaPopulist William Jennings Bryan ailedthree times to win the White House.This book explores the powerul

backlash that he inspired during the1890s, the resulting transormation o constitutional law, and the lessons orthose who advocate sweeping change inour own divisive times.


Hellre NationThe Politics o Sin in AmericanHistory

James A. Morone

This insightul new conceptualization o American political history demonstratesthat—despite the clear separation o church and state—religion lies at theheart o American politics.

Paper 2004 592 pp. 43 b/w illus.

ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10517-9 $23.00Cloth 2003 592 pp. 43 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09484-8 $40.00

The Fate o the CorpsWhat Became o the Lewis andClark Explorers Ater the Expedition

Larry E. Morris

This engaging book is the frst to tracethe ascinating histories o the remark-able men—and one woman—who

were members o the Lewis and Clarkexpedition. In later years, some o theseindividuals became public ofcials,others continued to be adventurers, andtwo were even murder suspects: this

book tells their stories in colorul detail.


New in paper

Black GothamA Family History o AricanAmericans in Nineteenth-CenturyNew York City

Carla L. PetersonBlack Gotham is a ascinating look ata little-known segment o Americanhistory: Arican-American elites in New York City in the nineteenth century,told through Carla Peterson’s intriguingaccount o her quest to reconstruct thelives o her ancestors.

Paper 2012 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-18174-6 $20.00Cloth 2011 446 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 2 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00

Available as eBook 978-0-300-16409-1

Delia’s TearsRace, Science, and Photography inNineteenth-Century America

Molly RogersForeword by David W. Blight

In the frst narrative history o the pho-tographs o South Carolina slaves madeor the amous naturalist Louis Agassiz,Molly Rogers tells the story o the pho-

tographs, the people they depict, and themen who made and used them.


Mrs. Mattingly’sMiracleThe Prince, the Widow, and the CureThat Shocked Washington City

Nancy Lusignan Schultz

The miraculous cure o a WashingtonD.C. widow’s ravaging cancer in 1824,purportedly through the interventiono a charismatic German prince, ignitedpolitical, social, and religious controversy.This gripping book captures the dramao the miracle and its repercussions.


New in paper

The Writings o Abraham LincolnEdited by Steven B. Smith

Bringing an assortment o AbrahamLincoln’s speeches, letters, and privatemeditations together with our interpre-tive essays, Steven Smith demonstratesLincoln’s strength as a political philosopher.

Paper available in April 2012Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2012 384 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18123-4 $18.00Cloth 2012 384 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16510-4 $55.00

New in paper Letters rom AmericaAlexis de TocquevilleEdited, Translated, and with anIntroduction by Frederick Brown

This book presents or the frst time thecomplete translated correspondence o Tocqueville on his frst journey to Americain 1831. These remarkable letters containthe seeds o his later masterul account o American democracy.


New

The Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and theMaking o Modern America

William G. ThomasThis groundbreaking book oers new perspectives on the central role o therailroads in the decades leading up to theCivil War, during the bloody war years,and traveling orward into the early yearso modern America.


























































































































































Furs and Frontiers inthe Far NorthThe Contest among Native andForeign Nations or the BeringStrait Fur Trade

John R. BockstoceWith expert scholarship and a keeneye or detail, Bockstoce provides thefrst analysis o the historic competi-tion among the Russians, British, andAmericans or control o Alaska.

Paper 2010 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-16799-3 $26.00Cloth 2009 496 pp. 42 b/w illus. + 10 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-14921-0 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15490-0

ViciousWolves and Men in America

Jon T. Coleman

In this provocative history o wolvesin America, Jon Coleman investigatesthe sometimes violent and alwayscontroversial relationship between thetwo species.

Winner o the 2005 John H. DunningPrize sponsored by the AmericanHistorical Association

Paper 2006 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11972-5 $18.50Cloth 2004 288 pp. 3 maps + 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10390-8 $30.00

War o a ThousandDesertsIndian Raids and theU.S.-Mexican War

Brian DeLay

In this radically new account, BrianDeLay uncovers the orgotten role o theComanches and their native allies.

Winner o the 2009 Robert M. UtleyAward and o the 2009 W. TurrentineJackson Award given by the WesternHistory Association


Sugar Creek Lie on the Illinois Prairie

John Mack Faragher

The ascinating story o the birth anddevelopment o a rural American com-munity, rom its origins at the turn o the nineteenth century to the years thatollowed the Civil War.

Paper 1988 285 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-04263-4 $22.50

New in paper

Deying the OddsThe Tule River Tribe’s Struggle orSovereignty in Three Centuries

Gelya Frank and Carole GoldbergAn anthropologist and a legal scholarcombine expertise in this innovative

book, deploying the history o oneCaliornia tribe in a defnitive study o indigenous sovereignty rom frstcontact through the current Indiangaming era.

Paper 2011 428 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 15 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-17889-0 $40.00Cloth 2010 432 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 15 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-12016-5 $65.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16286-8

New

Subverting ExclusionTranspacic Encounters withRace, Caste, and Borders,1885–1928

Andrea Geiger

In the only English-language book onthe subject, Andrea Geiger examines the

history o immigrants descended romJapan’s outcaste communities in theNorth American West during the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuriesand their encounters with two separatecultures o exclusion.


The Lamar Series in Western History

The BourgeoisFrontierFrench Towns, French Traders, andAmerican Expansion

Jay Gitlin

This important work o revisionisthistory tells the story o the BourgeoisFrontier—the French merchants andamilies rom Mid-America who shapedthe course o western expansion.

Winner o the 2010 Al Andrew HeggoyPrize given by the French ColonialHistorical Society



The Comanche EmpirePekka Hämäläinen

This groundbreaking book uncovers thelost story o the Comanche Indians andthe vast and powerul empire they builtin the eighteenth and early nineteenthcenturies.

Winner o the 2009 Bancrot Prize, givenby Columbia University; Co-winner o the

2009 Merle Curti Award, presented by theOrganization o American Historians

Paper 2009 512 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 8 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-15117-6 $23.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14513-7

Hell on the RangeA Story o Honor, Conscience, andthe American West

Daniel Justin Herman

In this lively account o Arizona’s RimCountry War o the 1880s, the authoruncovers surprising truths aboutthe complex interplay o honor andconscience, violence and identity, in thehistory o the American West.

Published in Cooperation with the WilliamP. Clements Center or Southwest Studies,Southern Methodist University Cloth 2010 400 pp. 40 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13736-1 $45.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16854-9































































































































































The Lamar Series in Western History

The American WestA New Interpretive History

Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

This grand survey o the history o the

American West presents a panoramic view o events and characters rom thefrst contacts between Native Americansand Europeans through the 1990sand is llustrated with more than 150contemporary drawings, posters, andphotographs.

Winner o the 2001 Caughey WesternHistory Association Prize


FrontiersA Short History o the AmericanWest

Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher

This concise and reshly updated editionprovides a grand survey o our colorulrontier history, rom the frst contacts

between Native Americans and Europe-ans to the beginning o the twenty-frst

century.Paper 2008 288 pp. 32 pp. illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13620-3 $19.00

William Clark’s WorldDescribing America in an Age o Unknowns

Peter J. Kastor

Focusing on maps, surveys, journals andother objects William Clark created tohelp describe America’s West or those

who had not yet seen it, this book castsnew light on how the West took shape inthe national imagination.


The Jeersons atShadwellSusan Kern

An original study o Shadwell, ThomasJeerson’s boyhood home, providing

new insights into the ounding ather’sormative years.

Winner o the 2011 Abbott LowellCummings Prize given by the VernacularArchitecture Forum; Winner o the 2011Richard Slatten Award or Excellence inVirginian Biography, sponsored by theVirginia Historical Society


Murder in TombstoneThe Forgotten Trial o Wyatt Earp

Steven Lubet

The gunfght at the OK Corral islegendary—but what happened oncethe shooting ended? This book tells thenearly unknown story o the prosecu-tion o Wyatt Earp, his brothers, andDoc Holiday ollowing the gunfght andshows how a talented deense attorney saved them rom the gallows.


The American FarWest in the TwentiethCentury Earl PomeroyEdited by Richard W. Etulain;Foreword by Howard R. Lamar

In this monumental history, the mostrespected western scholar o our timedraws a nuanced and highly originalportrait o the American West in thetwentieth century.

Paper 2009 600 pp. 62 b/w photos + mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-15852-6 $25.00Cloth 2008 600 pp. 62 b/w photos + mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-12073-8 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14267-9

Sun Chie The Autobiography o a HopiIndian

Edited by Leo W. SimmonsDon “Sun Chie” Talayesva; With anew oreword by Robert V. Hine

Don C. Talayesva o Oraibi, Arizona,the Sun Chie, was an individual caught

between the crosscurrents o twocultures. For Leo Simmons, a white man

who was adopted as a clan brother, hefnally wrote the story o his lie in all itsextraordinary detail.

Paper 1963 480 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00227-0 $22.50

Fugitive LandscapesThe Forgotten History o theU.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Samuel Truett

In the nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies, U.S. and Mexican elitessought to transorm the U.S.-Mexico

borderlands into a crossroads o eco-nomic development. This book exploreshow eorts to tame this ugitive land-scape ran aground, telling a orgottenstory o unulflled dreams with lessonsor contemporary border relations.


The Spanish Frontierin North AmericaThe Brie Edition

David J. Weber

This compact synthesis o David J.Weber’s prize-winning history o colonial Spanish North America

vividly tells the story o Spain’s 300- year tenure on the continent. From thefrst Spanish-Indian contact throughSpain’s gradual retreat, Weber oers a

balanced assessment o the impact o each civilization upon the other.

Paper 2009 320 pp. 40 b/w illus. + 16 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2 $20.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15621-8
























































































































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Twentieth-Century America

New in paper

Joe DiMaggioThe Long Vigil

Jerome Charyn

This riveting study o Joe DiMaggio

oers a more sympathetic look at his lie beyond the baseball feld, a reversal o how the legendary sports icon has beenportrayed in recent years.

Icons o AmericaPaper 2012 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18147-0 $15.00Cloth 2011 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12328-9 $24.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17266-9

A Great Leap Forward1930s Depression andU.S. Economic Growth

Alexander J. Field

This careul study o U.S. growthdata reveals that the innovation andinrastructure development o the1930s—not the industrial response toWWII—set the stage or the economic

boom o the ollowing decades.

Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2011 400 pp. 36 b/w illus.

ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15109-1 $45.00

From Ellis Island to JFKNew York’s Two Great Waves o Immigration

Nancy Foner

Two great waves o immigration—oneat the start o the twentieth century andanother in its fnal decades—trans-ormed the history and personality o New York City. This book is the frstin-depth comparison o New York’s twoimmigration eras.

Winner o the 2000 Theodore SaloutosBook Award o the Immigration andEthnic History Society

Copublished with the Russell Sage FoundationPaper 2002 352 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09321-6 $22.00

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Eighteen-Day Running MateMcGovern, Eagleton, and aCampaign in Crisis

Joshua M. GlasserThis riveting story o the 1972 electionuncovers how vice-presidential candi-date Thomas Eagleton’s secrets wererevealed, why he withdrew rom therace, and how George McGovern’scampaign dealt with the staggering blow.

Available in July 2012Cloth 2012 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17629-2 $26.00

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Emma GoldmanRevolution as a Way o Lie

Vivian Gornick

Emma Goldman is the story o a modernradical who took seriously the ideathat inner liberation is the frst busi-ness o social revolution. Her politics,rom beginning to end, was based onresistance to that which thwarted theree development o the inner sel. This

book is a vibrant, deeply human portraito a woman dedicated to ferce protestagainst the tyranny o institutions overindividuals.

Jewish LivesCloth 2011 160 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13726-2 $25.00

For All the World toSeeVisual Culture and the Struggleor Civil Rights

Maurice Berger

Foreword by Thulani DavisThis stunning book is the frst compre-hensive examination o the ways that

visual images mattered in the Americancivil rights struggle, rom photography,television, and flm to magazines, news-papers, and advertising.

Cloth 2010 224 pp. 53 b/w + 37 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12131-5 $39.95Available as eBook 978-0-300-16331-5

New Carl Van Vechtenand the HarlemRenaissanceA Portrait in Black and White

Emily Bernard

This groundbreaking book is the frstto ocus on the amboyant Carl VanVechten, his notoriety as a white man

with a passion or black people and

culture, and his still-debated contribu-tions to the Harlem Renaissance.


New in paper

The Hollywood SignFantasy and Reality o anAmerican Icon

Leo Braudy

The frst comprehensive history o theHollywood Sign, which was erected in1923 as a temporary real estate adver-tisement and has become a permanentpart o our cultural heritage.

Icons o AmericaPaper 2012 224 pp. 17 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18145-6 $15.00Cloth 2011 224 pp. 17 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15660-7 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15878-6















































































































































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American CaesarsLives o the Presidents romFranklin D. Roosevelt to GeorgeW. Bush

Nigel HamiltonFrom the acclaimed author o Monty, JFK: Reckless Youth, and Bill Clinton comes a new, vivid portrait o the lasttwelve U.S. presidents, rom Franklin D.Roosevelt to George W. Bush.


The Myth o AmericanExceptionalismGodrey Hodgson

The idea that the United States isdestined to spread its unique gits o democracy and capitalism to othercountries is dangerous or Americansand or the rest o the world, warns aneminent British commentator in thisprovocative book.

Paper 2010 240 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16419-0 $18.00Cloth 2009 240 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12570-2 $26.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14268-6

New in paper

The Invisible Harry GoldThe Man Who Gave the Sovietsthe Atom Bomb

Allen M. Hornblum

The frst account o one o the mostimportant and enigmatic spies in U.S.history: the man who delivered the plansor the atom bomb to the Soviets.


New

Instituting ReormThe Social Museum o HarvardUniversity, 1903–1931

Edited by Deborah Martin Kao

and Michelle LamunièreIn this generously illustrated volume,leading scholars examine the history o a unique institution whose pedagogi-cal goals and exhibition style reect theProgressive Era’s scientifc approach tounderstanding social change.

Published by Harvard Art Museums/Distributed by Yale University PressCloth 2012 288 pp. 211 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17106-8 $55.00

Hank Greenberg The Hero Who Didn’t Want toBe One

Mark Kurlansky

New York Times best-selling authorMark Kurlansky delivers the compellinglie story o Hank Greenberg, the frstJewish player elected into the BaseballHall o Fame.

Jewish LivesCloth 2011 192 pp. 1 b/w illus.

ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13660-9 $25.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17514-1

New in paper

UnwarrantedInfuenceDwight D. Eisenhower and theMilitary-Industrial Complex

James Ledbetter

A ascinating analysis o one o the mostimportant political and economic ideaso our time: the ties between America’smilitary and its economy.

Icons o AmericaPaper 2011 280 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17762-6 $17.00Cloth 2011 280 pp. 1 b/w ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15305-7 $26.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16882-2

New

Elizabeth and HazelTwo Women o Little Rock

David Margolick

Who were the two fteen-year-old

girls rom Little Rock—one black, one white—in one o the most unorget-table photographs o the civil rights era?From what worlds did they come? Whathappened to them? How did the pictureaect their lives?


From the New Deal tothe New RightRace and the Southern Origins o Modern Conservatism

Joseph E. Lowndes

The South’s transition rom Democraticstronghold to Republican base hasrequently been viewed as a recent oc-currence. But as Joseph Lowndes arguesin this book, this rightward shit was notnecessarily a natural response by alien-ated whites, but rather the result o thelong-term development o an alliance

between Southern segregationists andNorthern conservatives, two groups whoinitially shared little beyond oppositionto specifc New Deal imperatives.

Paper 2009 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15123-7 $20.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14828-2

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A Complicated ManThe Lie o Bill Clinton as Told byThose Who Know Him

Michael Taki

The lie and times o Bill Clinton as told by 169 o the riends, colleagues, and rivals who know him best, revealing the mostcomplete and unexpected portrait o ourorty-second president published to date.


New in paper

Savages and ScoundrelsThe Untold Story o America’s Roadto Empire through Indian Territory

Paul VanDevelder

This book demolishes myths aboutAmerica’s westward expansion anduncovers a shocking historical pattern o governmental deception and maleasancein treaties signed—and just as oten

breached—with Native Americans. The book explores how millions o squaremiles o Native lands and resources wereraudulently acquired, who participated,

why, and the lingering consequences o that shameul history.


New in paper

Superpower IllusionsHow Myths and False IdeologiesLed America Astray—And How toReturn to Reality

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.Former U.S. ambassador to the USSRJack F. Matlock demolishes centralmyths behind America’s present oreignpolicy—including the idea that the U.S.destroyed Communism and ended theCold War—and makes bold recommen-dations or the Obama administration.


Woodrow WilsonPrinceton to the Presidency

W. Barksdale Maynard

This book oers a vivid account o Wilson’s stormy tenure as president o Princeton University. Focusing or thefrst time on this period o Wilson’slie, the book provides insights into hisdifcult personality, motivations, andruthless political tactics.

Cloth 2008 416 pp. 40 scattered b/w illus.


New in paper

Modernist AmericaArt, Music, Movies, and theGlobalization o American Culture

Richard Pells

This revelatory look at the popular belie that the cultural relationship betweenthe United States and the world has beenone-sided reveals how oreign inuencesabsorbed by American artists during theModernist movement actually created aglobal culture.

Paper available in June 2012Paper 2012 512 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18173-9 $23.00Cloth 2011 512 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11504-8 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17173-0

New in paper

Joe LouisHard Times Man

Randy Roberts

This is the defnitive biography o the

most amous Arican American o themid-twentieth century: his lie, thecomplex cast o characters around him,and his importance to civil rights.


New in paper

Pivotal DecadeHow the United States TradedFactories or Finance in the Seventies

Judith Stein

In this ascinating new history, JudithStein argues that in order to understandour current economic crisis we needto look back to the 1970s and the endo the age o the actory—the era o postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and

regulated capital produced both robusteconomic growth and greater incomeequality.


New in paper

The Sacco-VanzettiAair

America on TrialMoshik Temkin

This book is the frst to reveal the ullinternational scope o the Sacco-Vanzettiaair, tracing its enduring implicationsor America at home and abroad.


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American History—General

The ConservativesIdeas and PersonalitiesThroughout American History

Patrick Allitt

This persuasive account o American

conservatism covers the entire spano U.S. history and introduces majorconservative thinkers rom AlexanderHamilton and Daniel Webster toWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol.


New

Washington Crossing the DelawareRestoring an American Masterpiece

Carrie Rebora Barratt, LanceMayer and Gay Myers, SuzanneSmeaton, and Eli Wilner

This ascinating book recounts theacquisition and display o a belovedmasterpiece as well as its recent restora-tion and reraming.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum o Art/Distributed by Yale University PressPaper 2011 48 pp. 55 color + 10 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17642-1 $14.95

New

Sex and the OceA History o Gender, Power, andDesire

Julie Berebitsky

In this engaging book, Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudestoward sexuality and gender in the ofcehave changed rom the 1860s, when

women frst took jobs as clerks in theU.S. Treasury ofce, to the present.

Society and the Sexes in the Modern WorldCloth 2012 376 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11899-5 $38.00

American GeorgicsWritings on Farming, Culture,and the Land

Edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein,Sara M. Gregg, and Brian

DonahueA rich and evocative collection o agrar-ian writing rom the past two centuries,reecting how shiting views on agricul-ture have shaped American society, romthe frst European settlers to the modernorganic movement.

Yale Agrarian Studies SeriesCloth 2011 432 pp. 33 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13709-5 $35.00

The Encyclopedia o New York City Second Edition

Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the nation’s most ascinating city is in this new edition o this acclaimed,authoritative, and entertaining one-

volume encyclopedia.

Cloth 2010 1,584 pp. 752 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11465-2 $65.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-18257-6

New

Creating theAdministrativeConstitutionThe Lost One Hundred Years o American Administrative Law

Jerry L. Mashaw

This groundbreaking book is the frst tolook at administrative law in the earliestdays o the American republic, begin-ning with the creation o the frst U.S.Patent Board in 1793 and the ederalgovernment’s regulation o steamboatcommerce early in the nineteenth century.

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reerence

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 448 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17230-0 $75.00

The Liberty BellGary B. Nash

The distinguished historian Gary B. Nashrecasts the legacy o one o America’smost enduring icons o reedom.

Icons o AmericaPaper 2011 256 pp. 23 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17142-6 $14.00Cloth 2010 256 pp. 23 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13936-5 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16314-8

Wilderness and theAmerican MindFourth Edition

Roderick Nash

Roderick Nash’s classic study o America’schanging attitudes toward wildernesshas received wide acclaim since its initialpublication in 1967. Now a ourth editiono this highly regarded work is available,

with a new preace and epilogue in whichNash explores the uture o wildernessand reects on its ethical and biocentricrelevance.

Paper 2001 432 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09122-9 $18.00

The Woman WhoWalked into the SeaHuntington’s and the Making o aGenetic Disease

Alice WexlerForeword by Nancy S. Wexler

This groundbreaking book is the frst totrace the history o Huntington’s diseasein America, rom a despairing victim whocommitted suicide in 1806 to the geneticdiscoveries o our own times. Weavingtogether social, medical, and scientifcinsights, the book illuminates attitudestoward disease, heredity, eugenics, genetictesting, and more.

Paper 2010 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15861-8 $20.00Cloth 2008 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10502-5 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15177-0



























































































































































Military History

Perilous Glory The Rise o Western Military Power

John France

This major new history encompasses warare around the world rom 3100B.C. to the Gul War and challengesaccepted ideas about the developmento military strength, the impact o culture on war, the uture o Westerndominance, and much more.


War Without FrontsThe USA in Vietnam

Bernd Greiner

Translated rom the German byAnne Wyburd with Victoria Fern

Published to considerable controversy inGermany, this astonishing book drawson new archival material to reveal theexistence o a systematic U.S. policy during the Vietnam War to exterminateVietnamese civilians whenever and

wherever possible.


New in paper

Churchill’s BunkerThe Cabinet War Rooms and theCulture o Secrecy in WartimeLondon

Richard Holmes

Holmes provides the frst comprehen-

sive history o London’s Cabinet WarRooms, rom which Churchill managedto turn a seemingly inevitable deeat atthe hands o the Nazis into a victory orthe ree world.


New in paper

The Battle o MarathonPeter Krentz

Drawing on early travelers, archaeolo-gists, geologists, reenactors, and soldiers,Peter Krentz tells a compelling story thatdeends Herodotus’ account o how theAthenians won their most amous victory.

Yale Library o Military History Paper 2011 256 pp. 32 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17766-4 $17.00Cloth 2010 256 pp. 32 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12085-1 $27.50Available as eBook 978-0-300-16880-8

War by Land, Sea, andAirDwight Eisenhower and theConcept o Unied Command

David Jablonsky

A retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a resh look at DwightD. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy,in light o his evolving approach to theconcept o unifed command.

Yale Library o Military History


Baghdad at SunriseA Brigade Commander’s War inIraq

Peter R. Mansoor

In this gripping book, a U.S. Army

brigade commander oers an unprec-edented on-the-ground account o thecrucial frst year o the war in Iraq.

Yale Library o Military History Paper 2009 416 pp. 25 b/w illus. + 4 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-15847-2 $18.00Cloth 2008 416 pp. 25 b/w illus. + 4 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-14069-9 $28.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14263-1

Twelve Turning Pointso the Second WorldWarP. M. H. Bell

A resh exploration o the Second WorldWar through twelve key events thatshaped the direction and outcome o the conict.

Cloth 2011 288 pp. 20 b/w illus. + 5 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-14885-5 $28.00

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This Seat o MarsWar and the British Isles,1485–1746

Charles CarltonA powerul account o the eects o waron early modern Britain, showing how

war orged the British state and explor-ing the personal experiences o battleand bloodshed.

Cloth 2011 336 pp. 24 b/w illus. + 10 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-13913-6 $40.00

New

Wellington’s WarsThe Making o a Military Genius

Huw J. Davies

This book oers a provocative reap-praisal o the Duke o Wellington’s

brilliant military career, arguing that hissuccess was based as much on politicalacumen as on his talent as a military commander.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16417-6 $38.00

















































































































































Military History

New

December 1941Twelve Days that Began a WorldWar

Evan Mawdsley

An account o twelve days in December1941, when interlinked events—includ-ing the Battle o Moscow, the PearlHarbor raid, and Hitler’s declaration o

war on America—decided the outcomeo a war and changed the course o acentury.

Cloth 2011 360 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 6 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-15445-0 $30.00

Five Days in London,

May 1940John Lukacs

The days rom May 24 to May 28,1940 altered the course o the history o this century, as the members o theBritish War Cabinet debated whether tonegotiate with Hitler or to continue the

war. The decisive importance o thesefve days is the ocus o John Lukacs’smagisterial new book.

Paper 2001 256 pp. illus.


The Legacy o theSecond World WarJohn Lukacs

The master historian John Lukacsexplores lasting questions and enigmasabout World War II, its consequences,and its persistent legacy.


New

The Burma CampaignDisaster into Triumph, 1942–45

Frank McLynn

This book, in essence a quadruple biog-

raphy, tells the true story o our larger-than-lie Allied commanders (three Britsand one American) who battled theJapanese, and sometimes each other, inthe long and bloody Burma campaign o World War II.

Yale Library o Military History Cloth 2011 552 pp. 17 b/w illus. + 6 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-17162-4 $35.00

GallipoliThe End o the Myth

Robin Prior

A ull account o the disastrousGallipoli campaign o WWI, this booksets aside the many myths about theAllied operation and arrives at thedevastating conclusion that nearly 390,000 troops died in vain.


New

The Artist and theWarriorMilitary History through the Eyeso the Masters

Theodore Rabb

How have artists across the millen-nia depicted warare? This uniquely

wide-ranging book examines an array o masterpieces rom the ancient world tothe twentieth century to reveal evolvingattitudes toward war and warriors.

Cloth 2011 288 pp. 60 b/w + 40 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12637-2 $45.00

An Atlas o thePeninsular WarIan Robertson

This is the frst comprehensive modernatlas o the Peninsular War, the series

o campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and Britishorces commanded by the Duke o Wel-lington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and explains thesequence o battles and the course o the

war through expertly drawn cartography in color.

Cloth 2010 160 pp. 35 b/w illus. + 77 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-14869-5 $55.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17014-6

First StrikeAmerica, Terrorism, and MoralTradition

Mark Totten

This original study explores the history o just war theory to consider when astate’s use o pre-emptive orce may be

justifed.

Cloth 2010 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12448-4 $30.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16864-8

The Warrior GeneralsWinning the British Civil Wars

Malcolm Wanklyn

In this bold history o the men whodirected and determined the outcomeo the mid-seventeenth-century British

wars—rom Cromwell, Fairax, andEssex to many more lesser-knownfgures—military historian MalcolmWanklyn oers the frst assessment o

leadership and the importance o command in the civil wars.

















































































































































Ancient History

Caesar’s DruidsAn Ancient Priesthood

Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Exploring the various roles that Druidsplayed in British and Gallic society during the frst centuries B.C. andA.D.—not just as priests but as judges,healers, scientists, and power brokers—Aldhouse-Green argues that they werea highly complex, intellectual, andsophisticated group whose inuencetranscended religion and reached intothe realms o secular power and politics.


Europe Between theOceans9000 BC–AD 1000

Barry Cunlie

What was going on in Europe that

enabled it by 1000 A.D. to become adriving global orce? This sensationalinterdisciplinary work by a leadingarchaeologist reorients our understand-ing o Old Europe’s success, uncoveringa set o complex actors that have goneunrecognized until now.

Paper 2011 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17086-3 $30.00Cloth 2008 480 pp. 120 b/w + 80 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11923-7 $45.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14260-0

Christianity andPaganism in theFourth to EighthCenturies

In this book, MacMullen investigatesthe transition rom paganism toChristianity between the ourth andeighth centuries.


Christianizing theRoman Empire(A. D. 100–400)

How did the early Christian churchmanage to win its dominant place inthe Roman world? In his newest book,an eminent historian o ancient Romeexamines this question rom a secular—rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint.


New

The Romans and theirWorldA Short Introduction

Brian Campbell

A concise history o ancient Rome romthe early Republic to the last WesternRoman emperor, this accessible bookcovers politics and emperors, warareand the army, culture, the rise o Chris-tianity, and much more.

Cloth 2011 288 pp. 42 b/w illus.,10 maps, 5 plansISBN 13: 978-0-300-11795-0 $35.00

Voting About God inEarly Church CouncilsIn this original book, an eminenthistorian explores how early Christiandoctrine was determined by majority

vote in church councils during the thirdto sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into councilchambers, where rank and fle bishopsengage in debate, then vote to establish asingle Christian orthodoxy


By Ramsay MacMullen

Corruption and theDecline o RomeWritten in an inormal and lively style,this book—the culmination o years o research and thoughtul analysis—provides

a ascinating, resh line o investigationand shows convincingly that the declineo Rome was a gradual, insidious processrather than a climactic event.


Paganism in the RomanEmpireThis is the frst book to ocus on the beliesand practices common to all non-Christian

religions o the Empire. Ater examining thesuccesses o the more dynamic cults and theeects on paganism o the conversion o the Constantine, MacMullen concludes thatthe conversion o the Empire to Christian-ity was not as inevitable and complete as ithas seemed up until now.

Paper 1983 246 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02984-0 $22.00

Ramsay MacMullen is

the recipient o a lietimeAward or ScholarlyDistinction rom theAmerican Historical

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Ancient History

A Visitor’s Guide tothe Ancient OlympicsNeil Faulkner

Were the ancient Olympic gamesanything like the competitions we know

today? This unique guide transports usto the games o 388 B.C., bringing tolie the sights and sounds, the athletesand attendees, the sporting and religiousevents, and much, much more.

Available in April 2012PB-with Flaps 2012 272 pp.40 b/w + 8 pp. color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15907-3 $28.00

New in paper

Antony and CleopatraAdrian Goldsworthy

In this remarkable dual biography o thetwo great lovers o antiquity, acclaimedclassical historian Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance tocreate a nuanced and historically acuteportrayal o his subjects, set againstthe political backdrop o their time. Ahistory o lives lived intensely at a time

when the world was changing proound-ly, the book takes readers on a journey

that crosses cultures and boundariesrom ancient Greece and ancient Egyptto the Roman Empire.

Paper 2011 480 pp. 20 color illus. + 14 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-17745-9 $20.00Cloth 2010 480 pp. 20 color illus. + 14 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-16534-0 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16700-9

The Ancient OraclesMaking the Gods Speak

Richard Stoneman

This colorul book traces the entirethousand-year history o Greek oraclesand examines why they continued to beconsulted by Greek men and women atevery level o society until the Christianabolition o paganism in A.D. 395.


Alexander the GreatA Lie in Legend

Richard Stoneman

This engaging book is the frst to

gather together the hundreds o colorullegends told in cultures across the globeabout Alexander the Great, conqueroro the ancient world. Richard Stonemanshows how the mythical exploits o Alexander have resonated or Christians,Jews, and Muslims, and in eastern and

western cultures, or more than 2000 years.

Paper 2010 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16401-5 $23.00Cloth 2008 336 pp. 30 b/w + 16 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11203-0 $35.00


Philip II o MacedoniaIan Worthington

Alexander the Great is rememberedas an unparalleled conqueror, but thisprovocative biography contends thatthe achievements o his colorul ather,Philip II o Macedonia, were just asgreat. A brilliant military and politicalstrategist, a canny diplomat, and a king

par excellence , Philip entirely changedthe course o Greek history.


Blood and MistletoeThe History o the Druids inBritain

Ronald Hutton

Crushed by the Romans in the frst

century A.D., the ancient Druids o Britain let almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known o the Druids, then explores how and why they have been repeatedly reinvented toplay varying roles in English, Scottish,and Welsh history.


Ancient GreeceFrom Prehistoric to HellenisticTimes

Thomas R. Martin

Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greekcivilization rom its Stone Age roots tothe ourth century B.C. Focusing on thedevelopment o the Greek city-state andthe society, culture, and architectureo Athens in its Golden Age, Martinintegrates political, military, social,and cultural history in a book that will

appeal to students and general readersalike.

Paper 2000 276 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08493-1 $16.95

New

Dawn o Egyptian ArtDiana Patch

This lavishly illustrated exploration o

the origins o Egyptian art and motisincludes rare and ancient images o people, animals, and landscapes.

Available in May 2012Published by The Metropolitan Museum o Art/Distributed by Yale University PressCloth 2012 256 pp. 240 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17952-1 $60.00

















































































































































Medieval, Renaissance & Reformation History

New

Isabella and LeonardoThe Artistic Relationship betweenIsabella d’Este and Leonardo da Vinci

Francis Ames-Lewis

An intriguing look at the artisticrelationship between one o the mostpowerul and interesting women o theItalian Renaissance one o the mostcelebrated artists o all time.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 240 pp. 60 color + 60 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12124-7 $50.00

New

Leonardo da VinciPainter at the Court o Milan

Luke SysonWith Larry Keith, Arturo Galansino,Antonio Mazzotta, Minna MooreEde, Scott Nethersole, and PerRumberg

A new examination o Leonardo’s careerthat illuminates his time as court painterto the Duke o Milan, an experience thatundamentally changed his outlook andhis legacy.

Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressCloth 2011 320 pp. 255 color + 11 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-1-85709-491-6 $65.00

New

The RenaissancePortraitFrom Donatello to Bellini

Edited by Keith Christiansenand Stean Weppelmann

Surveying works in a variety o media,this catalogue investigates the develop-ment o Italian portraiture and its linksto Renaissance society and politics,ideals o the individual, and conceptso beauty.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum o Art/Distributed by Yale University PressCloth 2011 432 pp. 255 color + 6 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17591-2 $65.00

New

The Late MedievalEnglish ChurchVitality and Vulnerability Beorethe Break with Rome

G.W. BernardHistorian George Bernard presents a

bold, provocative challenge to ourunderstanding o the late medievalchurch and the Protestant Reormation.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 304 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17997-2 $45.00

Anne BoleynFatal Attractions

G. W. Bernard

Drawing on a wide-ranging orensicexamination o sixteenth-century sources, G. W. Bernard oers a reshportrait o one o England’s mostcaptivating queens.

Paper 2011 256 pp. 16 b/w illusISBN 13: 978-0-300-17089-4 $20.00Cloth 2010 256 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16245-5 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16585-2

BannockburnThe Triumph o Robert the Bruce

David Cornell

In Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce’s vastly outnumbered Scottish troopsspectacularly deeated the English army led by Edward II. This groundbreaking

book brings the battle to lie with color-ul detail and resh insights, explaining

what happened in the years leading to1314, how the battle unolded, and theimpact o its legacy in both Scotlandand England.


New in paper

Too Much to Know Managing Scholarly Inormationbeore the Modern Age

Ann Blair

Long beore the modern era scholarscomplained o the overabundanceo books and developed techniquesor selecting, sorting, and storinginormation on a large scale. Thisintriguing book examines inormationmanagement in pre-modern contexts

with a special ocus on the impact o printing in Europe in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries.



The EnglishAristocracy,1070–1272A Social Transormation

David Crouch

This groundbreaking book oers the

frst close examination o the ate o English aristocrats ollowing Williamthe Conqueror’s victory. A radical trans-ormation ensued, the author shows,as society redefned itsel around theprinciple o nobility.

















































































































































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Canterbury CathedralPriory in the Age o Becket

Peter FergussonThis account o the major renewal atCanterbury cathedral priory in the mid-12th century masterminded by PriorWibert throws light on important shitsin architecture and monastic lie duringthe early years o Henry II’s rule and thato his Royal Chancellor, Thomas Becket.

Published or the Paul Mellon Centre orStudies in British ArtCloth 2011 288 pp. 50 color + 100 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17569-1 $85.00

CalvinBruce Gordon

This brilliant new portrait o Protestantreormer John Calvin reveals hishuman complexity, the sources o hisconvictions, and how he inspired andtransormed the sixteenth-century

world. The book captures a man at oncearrogant, charismatic, unorgiving,generous, and shrewd.

Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illusISBN 13: 978-0-300-17084-9 $23.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15981-3

New

The Music LibelAgainst the JewsRuth HaCohen

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the frstcenturies o the Christian era, gentileshave associated Jews with noise. RuthHaCohen ocuses her study on a “musi-cal libel”—a variation on the Passionstory that recurs in various orms andcultures in which an innocent Christian

boy is killed by a Jew in order to silencehis “harmonious musicality.”


The End o ByzantiumJonathan Harris

Shedding new light on the fnal turbulent years o Byzantium, this evocative book explains how the Ottoman Turksconquered the thousand-year empire andreveals the consequences or ordinary Byzantines and their remarkable legacy.


New in paper

The Wars o the RosesMichael Hicks

A magisterial account o the Wars o theRoses by a renowned historian, explain-ing or the frst time why they began, why they kept recurring, and why they ceased.


BoyleBetween God and Science

Michael Hunter

This extraordinary work is the frst biography in a generation o one o the world’s most important scientists,Robert Boyle—a pioneer o the modernexperimental method, the championo a novel mechanical view o nature,and a penetrating thinker regardingphilosophical and theological issuesrelated to science.


By Eamon Duffy

Fires o FaithCatholic England under MaryTudor

A controversial reassessment o Mary

Tudor’s eorts to eradicate Protes-tantism and restore Catholicism inmid-sixteenth-century England, written

by a leading authority on the history o Christianity.

Paper 2010 280 pp. 30 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16889-1 $18.00Cloth 2009 280 pp. 30 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15216-6 $28.50 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16045-1

The Voices o MorebathReormation and Rebellion in anEnglish Village

This delightul book oers a rareglimpse o lie in a remote sixteenth-century English village during thedramatic changes o the Reormation.Through vividly detailed parish recordskept rom 1520 to 1574 by the Sir Chris-topher Trychay, the garrulous priest o Morebath, we see how a tiny Catholiccommunity rebelled, was punished, andreluctantly accepted Protestantism underthe demands o the Elizabethan state.

Paper 2003 260 pp. 26 b/w + 16 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09825-9 $16.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17502-8

Marking the HoursEnglish People and Their Prayers,1240–1570

Surviving copies o the Book of Hours ,the most personal and widely used booko the later Middle Ages, oer preciousclues to the lives o their owners andthe times in which they lived. Duy examines these prayer books and themessages and jottings in their margins orinsights into an era o great religious andsocial change.

Paper 2011 208 pp. 120 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17058-0 $25.00






















































































































































The EscorialArt and Power in the Renaissance

Henry Kamen

An acclaimed historian explores oneo the world’s most iconic buildings, as

well as the monarch who created it.

Cloth 2010 336 pp. 36 illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16244-8 $35.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16825-9

New

Art and Anatomy inRenaissance Italy Images rom a ScienticRevolution

Domenico LaurenzaThis richly illustrated book oers a resh

view o the relationship between artand science, presenting new discoveriesand original interpretations o work by Renaissance masters.

Available in March 2012Published by The Metropolitan Museum o Art/Distributed by Yale University PressPaper 2012 48 pp. 55 color + 10 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17957-6 $14.95

New

Bernini’s BelovedA Portrait o Costanza Piccolomini

Sarah McPhee

Representing years o meticulousresearch, Bernini’s Beloved reveals thestory o Costanza Piccolomini, the

woman whose intelligence and passioninspired one o Bernini’s most breath-taking marble portraits.

Available in May 2012Cloth 2012 280 pp. 75 color + 50 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17527-1 $45.00

New

The Serpent and theLambCranach, Luther, and the Makingo the Reormation

Steven OzmentThis spirited retelling o the lives and

works o Cranach, the artist, and Luther,the reormer, recognizes or the frsttime how their combined successes gave

birth to modern German art and theProtestant Reormation.


New

The Mortgageo the PastReshaping the Ancient PoliticalInheritance (1050–1300)

Francis Oakley

Francis Oakley continues his magisterialthree-part history o the emergence o Western political thought during theMiddle Ages with this second volume,exploring kingship and related themes

rom the tenth to the ourteenth century.Available in April 2012The Emergence o Western PoliticalThought in the Latin Middle AgesCloth 2012 336 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17633-9 $55.00

New

The Arch Conjuroro EnglandJohn DeeGlyn Parry

Based on primary documents, this new biography o John Dee, the great maguso the Elizabethan world, challengesmany o our belies about his occult,religious, and political involvements.

Available in April 2012Cloth 2012 384 pp. 14 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11719-6 $55.00

New in paper

The Book in theRenaissanceAndrew Pettegree

A groundbreaking study o the ascinating world o books in the frst great age o print, rom 1450 to 1600.

Winner o the 2011 Phyllis GoodhartGordon Book Prize, presented by theRenaissance Society o America


The Second CrusadeExtending the Frontiers o Christendom

Jonathan Phillips

The Second Crusade (1145–1149) was anextraordinarily bold, but largely unsuc-cessul, attempt to deeat “unbelievers” inthe Holy Land, Iberia, and northeasternEurope. This defnitive book casts new light on the origins, planning, and execu-tion o the Second Crusade, uncovering itsproound impact on both Europe and theMiddle East.


The CrusadesA History; Second Edition

Jonathan Riley-Smith

Jonathan Riley-Smith here provides acomprehensive history o the Crusades:an account o the theology o violence

behind the Crusades, the major Crusades,the experience o crusading, and thecrusaders themselves. His book will be thestandard and authoritative account o theCrusades or years to come.

Paper 2005 400 pp. 9 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-10128-7 $20.00




















































































































































The Making o theMiddle AgesR. W. Southern

A distinguished Oxord historianpresents an absorbing study o the

main personalities and the inuencesthat molded the history o WesternEurope rom the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chie orms o social, political, and religiousorganization.

Paper 1961 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00230-0 $21.00

The Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate o His Lost Library

Marcus Tanner

Seizing the Hungarian throne at fteen,the eervescent Matthias Corvinusreigned long (1459–1490) and extraor-dinarily well. This book is the frst inEnglish to tell the gripping story o the Raven King and o the ate o hisabled 2000-volume library. Dispersedacross Europe ater his death, the king’sexquisite volumes have been pursued

with ervor or centuries.


The Virgin WarriorThe Lie and Death o Joan o Arc

Larissa Juliet Taylor

This biography o Joan o Arc paints a vivid portrait o the teenaged Frenchpeasant girl whose charisma and sheerorce o will electrifed those around her

and struck terror into the hearts o theEnglish soldiers and leaders.

Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 pp b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16895-2 $20.00Cloth 2009 320 pp. 16 pp b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11458-4 $30.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16129-8

New in paper

Eleanor o AquitaineQueen o France, Queen o England

Ralph V. Turner

Untangling the myths and legends o many centuries, this defnitive biography gives us the real Eleanor o Aquitaine—

wie o two kings, mother o two kings, atenacious and ambitious twelth-century queen who carved a unique position orhersel in a society hostile to the idea o a woman in power.


New

SavonarolaThe Rise and Fall o a RenaissanceProphet

Donald Weinstein

This deeply considered new biography o the visionary Dominican provides thefrst truly satisying account o Savon-

arola, his charismatic vision, and his ateas a ailed prophet.

Cloth 2011 400 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00

Shopping in theRenaissanceConsumer Cultures in Italy,1400–1600

Evelyn Welch

This ascinating book breaks new ground in the area o Renaissancematerial culture, ocusing on themarketplace and such related topics asmiddle-class to courtly consumption,the provision o oodstus, and theacquisition o antiquities and holy relics.

Winner o the Wolson FoundationHistory Prize 2005

Paper 2009 256 pp. 80 b/w + 40 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15985-1 $35.00

New

Rome and RhetoricShakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Garry Wills

In this many-aceted examination o

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar , a prominenthistorian unearths the play’s classicalsources and shows how the Rome wecarry in our minds today is the RomeShakespeare rhetorically created or us.

The Anthony Hecht Lectures in theHumanities SeriesCloth 2011 200 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15218-0 $25.00

New

The Conversion o ScandinaviaVikings, Merchants, andMissionaries in the Remaking o Northern Europe

Anders Winroth

Drawing on painstaking analysis andpaleographic reconstruction o archeolog-ical and literary sources, Anders Winrothpresents a radically new interpretationo the conversion o Scandinavia rom

paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.


New

Ralph Tailor’s SummerA Scrivener, His City and the Plague

Keith Wrightson

This hugely moving study looks in detailat the plague o 1636 and its impact onone English city through the eyes o a young scrivener, Ralph Tailor. KeithWrightson reconstructs lie in seven-teenth-century Newcastle-on-Tyne andenvisions what such a calamitous decima-tion o the population must have meantor personal, amilial, and social relations.

Cloth 2011 224 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17447-2 $40.00































































































































































Yale English Monarchs

New in paper

Henry VChristopher Allmand


New in paper

Edward the ConessorFrank Barlow


New in paper

Richard IIICharles RossPaper 2011 268 pp. 36 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07979-1 $23.00

New in paper

Henry VIIIJ. J. Scarisbrick


New

Mary IEngland’s Catholic Queen

John Edwards

This authoritative biography o the

frst Tudor queen reveals in new detailMary’s connections with Spain, herraught relationships with her atherKing Henry VIII and hal-sisterElizabeth, her religious ervor and how it led to horrible violence, and muchmore.


Æthelstan

The First King o EnglandSarah Foot

This biography o King Athelstan(924–939), who reigned briey but

brilliantly, reveals or the frst time hispersonal lie, his spectacular military

victories, and why he may justly becalled “the frst English monarch.”

Cloth 2011 283 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. + 3 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-12535-1 $40.00

New in paper

King StephenEdmund King

This compelling biography providesthe most complete picture yet o KingStephen, the “unortunate monarch”

whose twelth-century reign descendedinto long years o civil war as his amily and allies struggled to save his throne.



New

Edward IIIW. Mark Ormrod

An enlightening biography that takesa deeper look at the personality o this

celebrated warrior king, emphasisingthe importance o Edward’s amilialrelationships and his achievement o acohesive stable nation.


New in paper

Edward IISeymour Phillips

This defnitive biography, the ruito a lietime’s study, does not presentEdward II as a heroic or successul king:his deposition ater a turbulent reigno nearly twenty years is proo enoughthat it went terribly wrong. But SeymourPhillips’ scrutiny o the multitude o available sources shows that a richerpicture emerges, in line with the com-plexity o events and o the man himsel.



George IIKing and Elector

Andrew C. Thompson

This landmark biography o Britain’slast oreign-born monarch presents arichly detailed portrait o the king as a

vital part o the governing process and

as a dynastic patriarch, patron o thearts, and political survivor. The bookreassesses George II’s achievements andthe enduring impact o his reign.


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Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Britain

Selected WritingsJeremy BenthamEdited by Stephen G. Engelmann

This volume contains the frst represen-tative selection o the writings o Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the major utili-tarian philosopher and reormer.

Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2011 560 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11237-5 $20.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16868-6

On Empire, Liberty,and ReormSpeeches and Letters

Edmund Burke

Edited by David BromwichThis anthology o Edmund Burke’simportant speeches, letters, andpamphlets shows the genius o the greateighteenth-century British statesmanand the depth o his concern withreorm—particularly in America, India,and Ireland.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Paper 2000 536 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08147-3 $26.00

BritonsForging the Nation 1707–1837Revised Edition

Linda Colley

This brilliant and seminal bookexamines how a more cohesive Britishnation was invented ater 1707 and how this new national identity was nurturedthrough war, religion, trade, and empire.This edition contains an extensive new

preace by the author.Paper 2009 469 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15280-7 $22.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17720-6

The Social Lieo CoeeThe Emergence o the BritishCoeehouse

Brian Cowan

This book provides the defnitiveaccount o the origins o coee drinkingand coeehouse society in Britain inthe seventeenth century, and how initialinterest in coee and invented the socialtemplate or coeehouses, soon a centralpart o urban lie.


New in paper

When London WasCapital o AmericaJulie Flavell

In this frst-ever portrait o eighteenth-century London as the capital o Amer-ica, Julie Flavell re-creates the amouscity’s heyday as the center o an empirethat encompassed North America andthe West Indies.


The Atmosphereo HeavenThe Unnatural Experiments o DrBeddoes and His Sons o Genius

Mike JayThis book tells the strange story o mav-erick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whosemedical researchers in Bristol, Englanddiscovered the mind-altering eects o inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s.


Captain Cook Master o the Seas

Frank McLynn

Bestselling biographer Frank McLynnpresents a vivid, remarkable reappraisalo Captain James Cook, illuminatingan aspect o the legendary explorer’slie that has been largely overlooked by recent writers: his identity as a brilliantseaman.

Cloth 2011 490 pp. 45 col illus. + 4 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-11421-8 $35.00

The EnlightenedEconomy An Economic History o Britain

1700–1850Joel Mokyr

This incisive examination o the originso the modern economy during theIndustrial Revolution also explains why this phenomenon came to ruition inBritain.

The New Economic History o Britain SeriesCloth 2010 550 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12455-2 $45.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17650-6

New

“I Am Not Mastero Events”The Speculations o John Law and Lord Londonderry in theMississippi and South Sea Bubbles

Larry Neal

A distinguished economic historianexplores two o the greatest fnancial

fascos o all time and the outsizedpersonalities involved with them: theMississippi Bubble and the South SeaBubble o the early eighteenth century.

Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Cloth 2012 232 pp. 10 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15316-3 $50.00


















































































































































New

Making IrelandEnglishThe Irish Aristocracy in theSeventeenth Century

Jane OhlmeyerThis groundbreaking book explores theremaking o Ireland’s aristocracy duringthe tumultuous seventeenth century andoers a major new interpretation o therole o aristocrats in establishing Englishcontrol over Ireland.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 680 pp. 24 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11834-6 $65.00

1688The First Modern Revolution

Steve Pincus

In this bold narrative history, Pincusargues that England’s Glorious Revolu-tion was a undamental turning point inthe making o the modern world.

Bronze Medal winner or the 2010Independent Publishers Book Awards inthe History Category; Winner o the 2010Morris D. Forkosch Prize given by theAmerican Historical Association

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Paper 2011 664 pp. 72 scattered b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17143-3 $25.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15605-8

Empire to NationArt, History and the Visualizationo Maritime Britain, 1768–1829

Geo Quilley

This book argues that maritime cultureis critical to our understanding o 18th-and 19th-century Britain and rethinksthe place o visual culture in the rela-tionship between nation and empire.


New in paper

Adam SmithAn Enlightened Lie

Nicholas Phillipson

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the

world as the ounder o modern eco-nomics. This book shows the extent to

which The Wealth of Nations and Smith’sother great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments , were part o a larger schemeto establish a grand “Science o Man,”one o the most ambitious projects o the European Enlightenment, which wasto encompass law, history, and aestheticsas well as economics and ethics, and

which was only hal complete on Smith’sdeath in 1790.

Named a Favorite Business Book o 2010,Bloomberg BusinessWeek; Named a BestBook o 2010 by the Atlantic

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Paper 2012 352 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17767-1 $23.00Cloth 2010 368 pp. 4 b/w + 29 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16927-0 $32.50Available as eBook 978-0-300-17443-4

New in paper

David HumeThe Philosopher as Historian

Nicholas Phillipson

A giant o the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was oneo the most important philosophersever to write in English. He was also a

brilliant historian. In this book—a new and revised edition o his 1989 classic—Nicholas Phillipson shows how Humereed history rom religion and politics.

As a philosopher, Hume sought a way o seeing the world and pursuing hap-piness independently o a belie in God.His groundbreaking approach appliedthe same outlook to Britain’s history,showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Paper 2012 168 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18166-1 $16.00

New

The English PrizeThe Capture o the Westmorland,An Episode o the Grand Tour

Edited by Maria Dolores

Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés andScott Wilcox

The dramatic story o the capture o theBritish merchant ship Westmorland andthe subsequent disposition o its prizedcontents sheds new light on the 18thcentury cultural phenomenon known asthe Grand Tour.

Available in June 2012Published in association with the YaleCenter or British Art and the RealAcademia de Bellas Artes de San Francisco

Cloth 2012 400 pp. 350 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17605-6 $75.00

The Town House inGeorgian LondonRachel Stewart

Stepping away rom conventionalanalyses o materials or style and intothe previously unexplored world o thehouse owner, this book takes a reshlook at both the social, as well as thearchitectural, importance o the 18th-century London town house.

Published or the Paul Mellon Centre orStudies in British ArtCloth 2009 192 pp. 60 b/w + 20 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15277-7 $65.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16566-1

Behind Closed DoorsAt Home in Georgian England

Amanda Vickery

In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes o Georgian Englandto examine the lives o the people wholived there.

Paper 2010 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16896-9 $28.00Cloth 2009 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15453-5 $45.00

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Nineteenth-Century Britain

New in paper

PalmerstonA Biography

David Brown

This is the frst comprehensive biogra-

phy o the charismatic Lord Palmerston(1784–1865), a grand and ascinatingfgure in Victorian politics who becameoreign secretary, prime minister, andone o the defning fgures o his age.

Available in March 2012Paper 2012 584 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17796-1 $35.00Cloth 2011 584 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11898-8 $50.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16844-0

New in paper

The DarwinArchipelagoThe Naturalist’s Career BeyondOrigin of Species

Steve Jones

A brilliant survey o the great evolution-ist’s lesser-known works, and how they anticipated so much o modern biology.

Paper 2012 248 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18158-6 $20.00Cloth 2011 248 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15540-2 $27.50

The Gates o HellSir John Franklin’s Tragic Questor the North West Passage

Andrew Lambert

Andrew Lambert accesses to new materials to depict the shocking ate

o Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomedarctic expedition and how, despite hisailure, Franklin inspired uture arcticheroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.

Paper 2011 456 pp. 8 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16788-7 $22.00Cloth 2009 456 pp. 8 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15485-6 $32.50Available as eBook 978-0-300-15486-3

New

Explorers o the NileThe Triumph and Tragedy o aGreat Victorian Adventure

Tim Jeal

The author o Stanley (National BookCritics’ Circle Award in Biography 2007)oers a spellbinding narrative o theadventures o six indeatigable men andone intrepid woman on the dangerousquest to fnd the nineteenth century’sgreatest prize: the source o Arica’sWhite Nile.


Stanley The Impossible Lie o Arica’sGreatest Explorer

Tim Jeal

Remembered today mainly or a ques-tion he never uttered (“Dr. Livingstone,I presume?”), Henry Morton Stanley

was in truth a brilliant adventurer whoovercame a nightmarish childhood to

become Arica’s greatest explorer. Draw-ing on previously closed archives, thisgrand and colorul biography presents

the frst accurate picture o Stanley andhis extraordinary achievements.

Winner o the 2007 National Book CriticsCircle Award or Biography; Named oneo the 100 Notable Books o 2007 byThe New York Times Book Review ; Silvermedal winner o the 2008 IndependentPublisher Book Award in the categoryo Biography; Selected as one o the bestbooks o 2008 by the Washington Post


New

City o Gold and MudPainting Victorian London

Nancy Rose Marshall

This multiaceted portrait o Victorian

London demonstrates how artists o theday made sense o the newly moderncity through narrative, realist paintingsthat depict its streets, crowds, andindividuals.

The Paul Mellon Centre or Studies inBritish ArtCloth 2012 320 pp. 60 color + 160 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17446-5 $75.00

Charles Dickens

Michael SlaterThis masterly biography uncoversDickens the man through the proessionin which he excelled. Michael Slaterexplores the personal and emotionallie, the high-profle public activities,the relentless travel, the charitable

works, the amateur theatricals and theastonishing productivity. But his coreocus is Dickens’ career as a writer andproessional author—not only his bignovels but also his phenomenal outputo letters, journalism, shorter fction,and other writings.

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Twentieth-Century Britain/British History—General

DemobbedComing Home Ater World WarTwo

Alan Allport

This book tells a gripping tale that’s

in danger o being lost to nationalmemory: the story o what really happened when millions o Britishservicemen returned home ater the war.Drawing on letters and diaries, and onnewspapers, reports, novels, and flms,Alan Allport illuminates the darkerside o the homecoming experienceor veterans, their amilies and Britishsociety at large.

Winner o the Longman-History TodayBook o the Year Award

Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 b/w plate sectionISBN 13: 978-0-300-16886-0 $20.00Cloth 2010 288 pp. 16 b/w plate sectionISBN 13: 978-0-300-14043-9 $38.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-17016-0

Capital AairsLondon and the Making o thePermissive Society

Frank Mort

A series o spectacular scandals

prooundly disturbed London lieduring the 1950s in ways that had majornational consequences. High and low society collided in a city o social andsexual extremes. Patrician men-about-town, young independent women,go-ahead entrepreneurs, Westminsterpoliticians, queer men, and West Indiannewcomers played a conspicuous part indramatic encounters that signaled a new phase o post-Victorian sexual morality This arresting history o sex and politicsat this time charts the course o modern

British society and the birth o theso-called permissive society.


New

Nights OutLie in Cosmopolitan London

Judith R. Walkowitz

In this lively book Judith Walkowitz

shows how London’s sophisticatedand subversive Soho district became ashowcase or a new twentieth-century cosmopolitan identity.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 400 pp.37 b/w illus. + 8 pp. color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15194-7 $40.00

New

Vauxhall GardensA History

David E. Coke and Alan Borg

Vauxhall Gardens was the oremostpleasure garden o eighteenth- andnineteenth-century London. This com-prehensive and prolifcally illustratedaccount makes a major contribution tothe study o London entertainments,culture, class and ideology, and revealsthe teeming lie, the spectacular art andthe ever-present music o Vauxhall inascinating detail.


New

The London SquareGardens in the Midst o Town

Todd Longstae-Gowan

This lively, inormed, and perceptive

narrative charts the vicissitudes o London’s squares and brings the socialand building history o these extraordi-nary, resilient, and oten eccentric placesinto sharp ocus.

Available in July 2012The Paul Mellon Centre or Studies inBritish ArtCloth 2012 304 pp. 100 color + 160 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15201-2 $65.00

New Beyond the TowerA History o East London

John Marriott

In this beautiully illustrated history o this iconic district, John Marriott drawson twenty-fve years o research, copiousmaps, archive prints and photographs,and the words o East Londoners romseventeenth-century silk weavers toCockneys during the Blitz to explore therelationship between the East End andthe rest o London, and challenges many o the myths that surround the area.


New

The Making o theEnglish GardenerPlants, Books and Inspiration,

1560–1660Margaret Willes

A ascinating history o the people andpublications that revolutionized Britain’sgardens in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, rom extravagant estates tohumble kitchen plots, and the links they orged with the wider world.

Cloth 2011 336 pp. 80 b/w +24 pp. color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16382-7 $45.00

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Moses MendelssohnSage o Modernity

Shmuel FeinerTranslated by Anthony Berris

The “German Socrates,” Moses

Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was the mostinuential Jewish thinker o the eigh-teenth and nineteenth centuries. Feiner’s

book is the frst that oers a ull, humanportrait o this ascinating man.

Jewish LivesCloth 2010 248 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16175-5 $25.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16752-8

Enlightened PleasuresEighteenth-Century France and

the New EpicureanismThomas M. Kavanagh

In this daring book, Thomas Kavanaghoverturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth century France as primarily the incubator o theRevolution. Instead, Kavanagh demon-strates how the art and literature o theera put the experience o pleasure at thecenter o the cultural agenda, leading toadvances in both ethics and esthetics.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Cloth 2010 264 pp. 21 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14094-1 $45.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16285-1

New

Making Way orGeniusThe Aspiring Sel in France romthe Old Regime to the New

Kathleen Kete

Examining the lives and works o Germaine de Stael, Stendahl, andGeorges Cuvier, historian Kathleen Ketecreates a groundbreaking cultural his-tory o ambition in post-Revolutionary Napoleonic and Restoration France.

Available in May 2012Cloth 2012 256 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17482-3 $38.00

New

RobespierreA Revolutionary Lie

Peter McPhee

Was Robespierre a heroic martyr

or a bloodthirsty tyrant? This bookcombines new research and a deepunderstanding o the French Revolutionto provide a resh and nuanced portraito one o history’s most controversialfgures.


New

The Kipper undWipper Infation,1619-23An Economic History withContemporary GermanBroadsheets

Martha White PaasWith Broadsheet Descriptions byJohn Roger Paas and Translations byGeorge C. Schooleld

This economic analysis o the Kipper

und Wipper ination o 1619–23 drawson rare contemporary broadsheets toexplore its eect on people’s lives and

behavior.

Available in June 2012Yale Series in Economic and FinancialHistory Cloth 2012 160 pp. 27 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14676-9 $85.00

History and theEnlightenmentHugh Trevor-Roper

This volume brings together some o the most original and radical writings

o Hugh Trevor-Roper’s career—many hitherto inaccessible, one never beorepublished— ocusing on the writingand understanding o history in theeighteenth century.


New

Against War andEmpireGeneva, Britain, and France in theEighteenth Century

Richard Whatmore

A ascinating intellectual history o agroup o prominent Genevans’ struggleto infltrate and reorm the governmentso Britain and France in order to promoteree trade policies.

Available in July 2012The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-

Century Culture and History Cloth 2012 448 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17557-8 $65.00

The Philosophers’QuarrelRousseau, Hume, and the Limits o Human Understanding

Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott

This engaging book presents a ull

account o the tragic collapse o theriendship between Rousseau and Hume,the two most important thinkers o theeighteenth century. The authors explorethe relation between the men’s quarreland their philosophical thought anddiscuss how their incompatible ideasreverberate in thinking today.


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Why the DreyusAair MattersLouis Begley

From the prize-winning author o War-time Lies , an anatomy o the inamous

prosecution o a Jewish ofcer attachedto the French army’s General Sta, withproound implications or our owntime.

Selected as a Favorite Book o the Year,The New Yorker

Why X Matters SeriesPaper 2010 272 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16814-3 $16.00Cloth 2009 272 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12532-0 $24.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-15645-4

NapoleonThe Path to Power

Philip Dwyer

A groundbreaking biography ocusingon the young Napoleon and his improb-able rise to power. Debunking many o the myths that Napoleon himsel promulgated as an early manipulator o the media, Dwyer’s book sheds new lighton Napoleon’s inner lie and character,

and on the twisting path that led romhis boyhood in Corsica to the coup thatgave him leadership o France at the ageo thirty.

A 2008 Top Seller in European History ascompiled by YBP Library Services

Paper 2009 672 pp. 64 b/w illus. + 4 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-15132-9 $23.00Cloth 2008 672 pp. 64 b/w illus. + 4 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-13754-5 $35.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-14820-6

SarahThe Lie o Sarah Bernhardt

Robert Gottlieb

Though the Bernhardt literature is vast,Gottlieb’s Sarah is the frst English-lan-guage biography to appear in decades.Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate—andscandalous—daughter o a courtesantransormed hersel into the mostamous actress who ever lived, and intoa national icon, a symbol o France.

Jewish LivesCloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16879-2

New The CommunistManiestoKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsEdited by Jerey C. Isaac

A new volume in the Rethinking theWestern Tradition series: Marx andEngels’ classic Communist Manifesto,accompanied by essays on its continuingrelevance in the post-communist era.

Available in May 2012Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2012 256 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12302-9 $12.00Cloth 2012 256 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12301-2 $55.00

PlumesOstrich Feathers, Jews, and a LostWorld o Global Commerce

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

A bold and original examination o theinternational Jewish trade in ostricheathers, which ourished on threecontinents rom the 1880s until the great“eather bust” o the First World War.

Winner o the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize orJewish Literature sponsored by the JewishBook Council

Paper 2010 256 pp. 17 b/w illus + 1 mapISBN 13: 978-0-300-16818-1 $20.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14285-3

New

Orderly and HumaneThe Expulsion o the Germansater the Second World War

R. M. Douglas

Why did the Allied nations violently expel many millions o German-speak-ing civilians rom their homes acrossEurope in the wake o WWII? This bookreveals or the frst time the story o anunparalleled episode o mass humanrights abuse.

Available in June 2012Cloth 2012 416 pp. 12 b/w illus. + 1 mapISBN 13: 978-0-300-16660-6 $38.00

The Death o theShtetlYehuda Bauer

In this important book an international-ly acclaimed Holocaust historian weaveshistorical narrative with individual tes-timonies to recount the destruction o the shtetls , small Jewish towns in Polandand Russia, at the hands o the Nazis in1941–1942.


The Jews o SanNicandroJohn A. Davis

The remarkable and intimate story o an Italian peasant community’s uniqueconversion to the Jewish aith, shedding

resh light on wider transormationsin Europe beore and ater the SecondWorld War.

Cloth 2010 252 pp. 8 pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11425-6 $30.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16036-9

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Twentieth-Century Europe

Auschwitz and AterCharlotte DelboTranslated by Rosette C. Lamont;Introduction by Lawrence L. Langer

This unique and prooundly movingmemoir o lie in the concentrationcamps and aterward was written by aFrench emale resistance leader, a non-Jew who became an important literary fgure in post-war France.

Winner o the 1995 American LiteraryTranslators Association Award

Paper 1997 376 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07057-6 $24.00

HeideggerThe Introduction o Nazism intoPhilosophy in Light o the Unpub-lished Seminars o 1933–1935

Emmanuel FayeTranslated by Michael B. Smith;Foreword by Tom Rockmore

In the most comprehensive examinationto date o Heidegger’s Nazism, Emman-uel Faye draws on previously unavailablematerials to paint a damning picture o Nazism’s inuence on the philosopher’sthought and politics.

Bronze medal winner o the 2009 Book o the Year Award in the Philosophycategory, presented by ForeWord magazine


New

Hitler’s Berlin

Abused CityThomas Friedrich

In this vivid and entirely new accounto Hitler’s relationship with Berlin, theauthor explores how Germany’s capitalcaptivated Hitler’s imagination and how he sought to redesign the city to align

with his obsessions and ambitions.


New in paper

Facts Are SubversivePolitical Writing rom a DecadeWithout a Name

Timothy Garton Ash

This collection o essays by one o Europe’s leading political writers oersdazzling insights into today’s world andAmerica’s troubled place in it.


New

Hitler’s HangmanThe Lie o Heydrich

Robert Gerwarth

This chilling biography tells the ullstory o the “Butcher o Prague” or thefrst time. One o the most danger-ous men in the Third Reich, Heydrichcommanded the SS Security Service, theGestapo, and the Nazi Criminal Police;organized the SS killing squads; andhelped plan the “Final Solution.”


New

The Hour o EuropeWestern Powers and the Breakupo Yugoslavia

Josip Glaurdic

This new examination o the dissolutiono Yugoslavia oers the frst compre-

hensive assessment o the impact o American and European oreign policy on the conict and on the violent tacticso the regime o Slobodan Miloševic.


Nazi Propaganda orthe Arab WorldWith a New Preace

Jerey Her

This groundbreaking history connects

Nazi Germany’s Arabic languagepropaganda during World War II toanti-Semitism in the Middle East in thedecades since.

Winner o the 2011 Sybil Halpern MiltonPrize as given by the German StudiesAssociation


New A German GenerationAn Experiential History o theTwentieth Century

Thomas A. Kohut

Germans o the generation born just beore the outbreak o World War I livedthrough a tumultuous and dramaticcentury. This book tells the story o their lives and, in so doing, oers a new history o twentieth-century Germany,

as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.


Belonging andGenocideHitler’s Community, 1918–1945

Thomas Kühne

How could the German people have

condoned and participated in theHolocaust? Thomas Kühne oers aprovocative answer to this troublingquestion. He shows how the Nazis usedthe human desire or community to

build a genocidal society.


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Twentieth-Century Europe/European History—General

Contesting Democracy Political Ideas in Twentieth-CenturyEurope

Jan-Werner Müller

This brilliant guide to European politicalideas and thinkers spans the twentiethcentury. With special ocus on Fascismand Stalinism and their legacies, theauthor illuminates both the century’sideological extremes and how Europe-ans built lasting liberal democracies inthe second hal o the century.


New Walther RathenauWeimar’s Fallen Statesman

Shulamit Volkov

The frst ull biography o WaltherRathenau to be published in English inmany years, this sensitive portraitexplores Rathenau’s lie, assassination,and the complex dynamic between Jewsand Germans in the Weimar Republic.

Jewish Lives


New

Windows on the WarSoviet TASS Posters at Home andAbroad, 1941–1945

Edited by Peter Kort Zegers andDouglas W. Druick

This is the frst major publication inEnglish to ocus on the extraordinary posters issued by the Soviet Union’sTASS news agency during World WarII to bolster support or the Soviet wareort.

Distributed or the Art Institute o ChicagoPaper over Board 2011 400 pp. 300 color+ 140 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17023-8 $65.00

New

The Rise o FemaleKings in Europe,1300–1800

William MonterIn this lively and pathbreaking book,William Monter explores Europe’sincreasing acceptance o autonomousemale rule between the late MiddleAges and the French Revolution by examining the public careers o its thirty

women sovereigns.

Cloth 2012 304 pp. 18 b/w illus., 1 mapISBN 13: 978-0-300-17327-7 $38.00

The Dynamics o Global DominanceEuropean Overseas Empires,1415–1980

David B. Abernethy

This magisterial survey o the rise anddecline o European overseas empiresasks how and why these empires tookshape, persisted, and fnally ell. DavidB. Abernethy explains Europe’s longoccupation o global center stage andthrows new light on today’s postcolonial

world and the legacies o empire.


Whispering City Rome and Its Histories

R. J. B. Bosworth

In this one-o-a-kind book, historianRichard Bosworth draws upon his

expertise in Italian pasts to explore themany layers o history ound within theEternal City.


The Jews in the SecretNazi Reports onPopular Opinion inGermany, 1933–1945

Edited by Otto Dov Kulka andEberhard JäckelTranslated by William Templer

Presented or the frst time in English,the secret Nazi reports reveal what lie

was like or German Jews, as well as theattitudes o the German population toJewish discrimination, deportations, andextermination.

Cloth 2010 1,064 pp. 40 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11803-2 $150.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16858-7

Living with HitlerLiberal Democrats in the ThirdReich

Eric Kurlander

This book is the frst to analyze indetail the activities o German liberaldemocrats rom 1933 to the end o theNazi regime, exploring why so ew resisted and so many embraced aspectso the Third Reich. The answers that

come to light have crucial implicationsor understanding the genesis o authoritarian regimes everywhere.


Mozart and the NazisHow the Third Reich Abused aCultural Icon

Erik Levi

This book is the frst to explore how theNazi regime appropriated Mozart as acultural and political icon, shamelessly distorting his humanitarian views tourther ascist goals.



















































































































































Russian & Eastern European History

New in paper

Gulag VoicesEdited by Anne Applebaum

Pulitzer Prize-winning author AnneApplebaum brings together a unique

collection o Gulag survivors’ memoirs.Paper available in March 2012Annals o Communism SeriesPaper 2012 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17783-1 $18.00Cloth 2011 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15320-0 $25.00 Available as eBook 978-0-300-16012-3

New

Roads to the TempleTruth, Memory, Ideas, and Idealsin the Making o the RussianRevolution, 1987–1991

Leon Aron

A compelling new history o the collapseo the Soviet Union that explores theintellectual and ideological impulsesthat propelled the revolution.


New

Funding Loyalty The Economics o the CommunistParty

Eugenia Belova andValery Lazarev

Funding Loyalty examines the Sovietcommunist party’s fnancial operationsand its budget rom the 1930s through

1960s, providing a resh look at theevolution o the party and its role in theSoviet economy and society as a whole.

Available in May 2012The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism,and the Cold WarPaper 2012 224 pp. 21 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16436-7 $35.00

New

The LeningradBlockade, 1941–1944A New Documentary Historyrom the Soviet Archives

Richard Bidlack and NikitaLomaginTranslations by Marian Schwartz

Based on new archival research, this book presents a comprehensive accounto the German siege o Leningrad in1941–43, during which close to onemillion Leningraders perished.

Available in June 2012Annals o Communism SeriesCloth 2012 544 pp. 74 b/w illus. + 5 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-11029-6 $75.00

New in paper

Propaganda Statein CrisisSoviet Ideology, Indoctrination,and Terror under Stalin, 1927–1941

David Brandenberger

An exposé o systemic ailure withinUSSR’s ideological establishment, this

book rewrites the history o Sovietindoctrination and mass mobilization

between 1927 and 1941.

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism,and the Cold WarPaper 2012 376 pp. 24 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15537-2 $55.00

Children o the Gulag Cathy A. Frierson andSemyon S. Vilensky

This groundbreaking book oers acomprehensive documentary history o children whose parents were identifedas enemies o the Soviet regime andarrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag.

Annals o Communism SeriesCloth 2010 480 pp. 29 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12293-0 $55.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-15503-7

Russia’s Cold WarFrom the October Revolution to theFall o the Wall

Jonathan Haslam

Far more than merely a straightorward

history o the Cold War, this book presentsthe frst account o politics and decisionmaking at the highest levels o Sovietpower: how Soviet leaders saw politicaland military events, what they were tryingto accomplish, their miscalculations, andthe ways they took advantage o Westernignorance.


SpiesThe Rise and Fall o the KGB inAmerica

John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr,and Alexander Vassiliev

This stunning exposé o Soviet espionagein the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is

based on extensive KGB archives neverrevealed beore and documents or the frsttime the secret world o Stalin’s spies andthe Americans who worked with them.


The UnnishedRevolutionMaking Sense o the CommunistPast in Central-Eastern Europe

James Mark

While the West has repeatedly been soldimages o a victorious people’s revolutionin 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is oreign to many in theormer Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided

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Russian & Eastern European History

New

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary’s Lie

Joshua Rubenstein

Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and

brilliantly awed man. Rubenstein oersus a Trotsky who is mentally acute andimpatient with others, one o the fneststudents o contemporary politics whoreused to engage in the nitty-gritty o party organization in the 1920s, whenStalin was maneuvering, inexorably,toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion.

Jewish LivesCloth 2011 240 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13724-8 $25.00

New

It Was a Long TimeAgo, and It NeverHappened Anyway Russia and the Communist Past

David Satter

This compelling book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons o itstragic Communist experience and shows

how a deep-rooted lack o respect orthe individual blocks the nation’s way toa stable and democratic uture.

Cloth 2011 400 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11145-3 $29.95

New

Petersburg Fin deSiècleMark D. Steinberg

This investigation o the writings o diverse urban Russian writers on the eveo revolution sheds new light on theirshared anxieties about modern lie andthe search or meaning in a time o bothcrisis and possibility.

Cloth 2011 416 pp. 7 b/w illlus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16504-3 $45.00

New

BelarusThe Last European DictatorshipAndrew Wilson

This book is the frst in English toexplore Belarus’s complicated past rommedieval times through the Soviet years,the years since independence, and itscurrent situation under a corrupt, au-thoritarian, and surprisingly tenaciouspresident.


Lenin’s JewishQuestionYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

In this frst examination o Lenin’sgenealogical and political connec-

tions to East European Jews, YohananPetrovsky-Shtern reveals the broadcultural meanings o indisputable evi-dence that Lenin’s maternal grandather

was a Jew. He examines why and how Lenin’s Jewish relatives converted toChristianity, explains how Lenin’s visiono Russian Marxism shaped his identity,and explores Lenin’s treatment o party colleagues o Jewish origin and theJewish Question in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern also uncovers the continuouseorts o the Soviet communists to

suppress Lenin’s Jewishness and theno less persistent attempts o Russianextremists to portray Lenin as a Jew.


New

The Stalin CultA Study in the Alchemy o Power

Jan PlamperBetween the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one o the most persuasivepersonality cults o all times saturatedSoviet public space with images o Stalin. A torrent o portraits, posters,statues, flms, plays, songs, and poemsgalvanized the Soviet population andinspired letist activists around the

world. In the frst book to examinethe cultural products and productionmethods o the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper

reconstructs a hidden history linkingartists, party patrons, state unctionar-ies, and ultimately Stalin himsel in thealchemical project that transormeda pock-marked Georgian into theembodiment o global communism.

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism,and the Cold WarCloth 2012 352 pp. 62 b/w + 21 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16952-2 $55.00

New

Stalin Digital ArchiveThe result o years o collaboration between the Russian State Archive o Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the StalinDigital Archive (SDA) provides access to materials rom Stalin’s personalarchive and monographs on the history o Soviet and international commu-nism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new waysor scholars and students to interact with this content and to collaborate.

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Religious History

SinA History

Gary A. Anderson

In this sensitive, imaginative, andoriginal work, Gary Anderson showshow changing conceptions o sin andorgiveness lay at the very heart o the

biblical tradition.

Winner o the 2010 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studiescategory


New

The Unity o ChristContinuity and Confict inPatristic Tradition

Christopher A. Beeley

Combining historical and theologicalanalysis, Christopher Beeley oers a new contextualized reading o early churchathers—among them Origen o Alex-andria, Gregory o Nazianzus, Augustineo Hippo, and Cyril o Alexandria—and

reexamines their ultimate contributionto the development o Christianity.

Cloth 2012 416 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00

Sex and Religion inthe BibleCalum Carmichael

In this unique book, one o the mostoriginal voices in biblical studies today

ocuses on the themes o marriage,sexuality, ertility, impurity, creation,and love in the Bible to illuminate theremarkable subtlety and sophisticationo biblical views about sex and religion.


New

Ten Popes Who Shook the WorldEamon Duy

Which Catholic popes have had thegreatest impact on history? EamonDuy selects ten prooundly inuentialpopes, rom St. Peter to John Paul II,and explores their amazing lives andaccomplishments.


The Good and EvilSerpent

How a Universal Symbol BecameChristianized

James H. Charlesworth

This pathbreaking book explores inplentiul detail the symbolic meaningso the serpent rom 40,000 BCE to thepresent, and rom diverse regions in the

world. In doing so it emphasizes theutter creativity o the biblical authors’use o symbols and argues that we must,today, reexamine our own archetypalconceptions with comparable creativity.

Tied winner o the 2011 ChristianityToday Book Award in the Biblical Studiescategory

The Anchor Yale Bible Reerence Library Cloth 2010 744 pp. 102 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14082-8 $45.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-14273-0

Augustine andthe JewsA Christian Deense o Jews and

JudaismPaula Fredriksen

Fredriksen’s provocative book tracesthe social and intellectual orces that ledto the development o Christian anti-Judaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition.


Holy Bones,Holy DustHow Relics Shaped the History o Medieval Europe

Charles Freeman

This intriguing, beautiully illustrated book encompasses 1,000 years o holy relics across Europe, deepening ourunderstanding o the medieval world

by revealing how they were used inreligion and also in business, politics,and warare.

Cloth 2011 306 pp. 16pp b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12571-9 $35.00

A New History o

Early Christianity Charles Freeman

This stimulating history o early Christi-anity, the frst ull account or over orty

years, revisits the extraordinary birth o a world religion, and gives a new slanton a amiliar story.

Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17083-2 $23.00Available as eBook 978-0-300-16658-3

Kabbalah in Italy,1280–1510A Survey

Moshe Idel

The frst to ocus attention on a specifccenter o Kabbalah, Moshe Idel chartsthe ways that Kabbalistic thought andliterature developed in Italy and how itsunique geographical situation acilitatedthe arrival o both Spanish and Byzan-tine Kabbalah.






















































































































































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Religious History

New

Ancient ChristianMartyrdomDiverse Practices, Theologies, andTraditions

Candida R. MossIn this innovative study, CandidaMoss oers a radically new history o martyrdom in the frst and secondcenturies that challenges traditionalunderstandings o the spread o Christianity and rethinks the natureo Christian martyrdom itsel.

Available in June 2012The Anchor Yale Bible Reerence Library Cloth 2012 304 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00

New

Octavia, Daughter o GodThe Story o a Female Messiahand Her Followers

Jane Shaw

This book uncovers the little-knownstory o the Panacea Society, a post-

World War I utopian community o remarkable English women led by Octavia, whom they believed was thedaughter o God.


The Age o DoubtTracing the Roots o OurReligious Uncertainty

Christopher Lane

By analyzing the parallel battles overaith and reason in the nineteenthcentury and ours, scholar ChristopherLane makes a case or the benefts o religious uncertainty.


New

The Lie o the VirginMaximus the Conessor

Translated, with anIntroduction and Notes, by

Stephen J. ShoemakerThis frst English translation o theearliest complete Life of the Virgin provides a rich and crucial source orunderstanding the history o Marian piety.

Available in May 2012Cloth 2012 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17504-2 $35.00

John Henry NewmanThe Challenge to Evangelical

ReligionFrank M. Turner

One o the most controversial religiousfgures o his time, John Henry Newman(1801–1890) split rancorously romthe Church o England and convertedto Roman Catholicism. In this provocativereappraisal o Newman and the Tractarianmovement that he led, Frank Turner chal-lenges previous understandings not only o the man but also o the religious andintellectual lie in Victorian England.


Julian o Norwich,TheologianDenys Turner

This provocative book casts Julian o Norwich in a new light, revealing or thefrst time the subtlety, consistency, andoriginality o her theological thought.

Julian stands among the medieval era’soremost thinkers, the author contends.

Cloth 2011 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16391-9 $40.00

By Craig Harline:

New

ConversionsTwo Family Stories rom theReormation and Modern America

This powerul work explores the paralleldisruption o two amilies—one inseventeenth-century Holland, the otherin America today—when a beloved am-ily member converts to another religion.

New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50

New in paper

Miracles at the JesusOak Histories o the Supernatural inReormation Europe

In the musty archive o a Belgian abbey,historian Craig Harline happened upona vast collection o documents writtenin the seventeenth century by people

who claimed to have experiencedmiracles and wonders. Craig Harlinerecasts these testimonies into engaging

vignettes that open a window onto the believers, unbelievers, and religiousmovements o the Age o Reormation.

Paper 2011 336 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16702-3 $22.00

New in paper

Sunday A History o the First Day romBabylonia to the Super Bowl

Through a ascinating blend o storiesand analysis, historian Craig Harlineexamines Sunday—rom its ancient

beginnings among the early Christiansto brunch and ootball in America today.

Paper 2011 480 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16703-0 $22.00















































































































































The Middle East

New in paper

A Quiet RevolutionThe Veil’s Resurgence, rom theMiddle East to America

Leila Ahmed

This probing study o the veil’s recentreturn—rom one o the world’s ore-most authorities on Muslim women—reaches surprising conclusions aboutcontemporary Islam’s place in the Westtoday.

Paper available in May 2012Paper 2012 360 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18143-2 $22.00Cloth 2011 360 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17095-5 $30.00

New in paper

AghanistanForging Civilizations along theSilk Road

Edited by Joan Aruz andElisabetta Valtz Fino

The long, rich, and diverse history o ancient Aghanistan is seen with reshperspective through materials rom key sites along important trading corridors.

Available in May 2012Published by The Metropolitan Museum o Art/Distributed by Yale University PressPaper 2012 160 pp. 138 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17954-5 $35.00

New

Moshe DayanIsrael’s Controversial Hero

Mordechai Bar-On

This authoritative biography providesa vivid portrait o Moshe Dayan, oneo the most powerul—and complex—military and political leaders in Israel’stumultuous frst decades o statehood.

Available in June 2012Jewish LivesCloth 2012 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14941-8 $25.00

The Great CaliphsThe Golden Age o the ‘AbbasidEmpire

Amira K. Bennison

This accessible and inormative history

brings the classical Islamic world alive,illuminating its importance to the cul-tural history o Europe and America asthe inheritor and interpreter o Graeco-Roman traditions.


New

Limits o DetenteThe United States, the SovietUnion, and the Arab-IsraeliConfict, 1969–1973

Craig Daigle

In the frst book-length analysis o theorigins o the October 1973 Arab-IsraeliWar, Craig Daigle shows how the warresulted not only rom tension andcompeting interest between Arabs andIsraelis, but also rom policies adopted

in both Washington and Moscow.

Available in July 2012Cloth 2012 384 pp. 35 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16713-9 $55.00

New in paper

Islam, Science, and theChallenge o History Ahmad Dallal

Ahmad Dallal examines the signifcanceo scientifc knowledge and situates theculture o science in relation to othercultural orces in Muslim societies.

The Terry Lectures SeriesPaper 2012 256 pp. 2 line illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17771-8 $19.00Cloth 2010 256 pp. 2 line illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50Available as eBook 978-0-300-15914-1

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Turkey, Islam,Nationalism, andModernity A History

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Odd CoupleInternational Trade and LaborStandards in History

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The Woman ReaderBelinda Jack

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The Future o History John Lukacs

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An Empire o IceScott, Shackleton, and the HeroicAge o Antarctic Science

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Milk A Local and Global History

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Abernethy, 28

Ahmed, 33

Aldhouse-Green, 14

Allitt, 11

Allmand, 20

Allport, 24

Alpañes &Wilcox, 22

Ames-Lewis, 16

Anderson, 31

Applebaum, 29

Aron, 29

Aruz & Fino, 33

Barlow, 20

Bar-On, 33

Barratt et al., 11

Bauer, 26Baumgarten, 2

Beeley, 31

Begley, 26

Bell, 12

Belova &Lazarev, 29

Bennison, 33

Bentham, 21

Bercovitch, 2

Berebitsky, 11Berenson, 4

Berger, 8

Bernard, E., 8

Bernard, G.W., 16

Bidlack &Lomagin, 29

Blair, 16

Bockstoce, 6

Bosworth, 28

Branch, 35

Brandenberger, 29

Braudy, 8

Brown, K., 2

Brown, D., 23

Brunner, 37

Burke, 21

Campbell, 14

Carlton, 12

Carmichael, 31

Carp, 2

Chan, 35

Charlesworth, 31

Charyn, 8

Christiansen &Weppelmann, 16

Cohen, 2

Coke & Borg, 24

Coleman, 6

Colley, 21

Cornell, 16

Cowan, 21

Crouch, 16

Crystal, 37

Cumings, 4

Cunlie, 14

Daigle, 33

Dallal, 33

Dalton, 36

Davies, 12

Davis, 26

de Tocqueville, 5

DeLay, 6

Delbo, 27

Dormandy, 37

Douglas, 26

Douglass, 4

Duy, 17, 31

Dwyer, 26

Eagleton, 37

Edwards,Jonathan, 2

Edwards,John, 20

Elliott, 1Eltis &

Richardson, 1

Faragher, 6

Faulkner, 15

Faye, 27

Feiner, 25

Fergusson, 17

Field, 8

Findley, 33

Flavell, 21

Foner, 8

Foot, 20

France, 12

Francis, 4

Frank &Goldberg, 6

Franklin, 2

Fredriksen, 31

Freeman, 31

Friedrich, 27

Frierson &Vilensky, 29

Garton Ash, 27

Geiger, M., 4

Geiger, A., 6

Gerwarth, 27

Gilbert, 33

Gitlin, 6

Glasser, 8

Glaurdic, 27

Goldsworthy, 15

Gombrich, 37

Gordon, 17

Gornick, 8

Gottlieb, 26

Greiner, 12

Guy &Britschgi, 36

HaCohen, 17

Hagenstein, 11

Hämäläinen, 6

Hamilton, A.,et al., 2

Hamilton, N., 9

Hancock, 1Harline, 32

Harris, J., 17

Harris, J.W., 3

Haslam, 29

Hatch, 3

Haynes et al., 29

Her, 27

Herman, 6

Hicks, 17

Hine &Faragher, 7

Hobsbawm, 37

Hodgson, 9

Hoganson, 4

Holmes, 12

Hornblum, 9

Huang, 36

Huberman, 37

Hunter, 17

Hutton, 15

Idel, 31

Jablonsky, 12

Jack, 37

Jackson, 11

Jay, 21

Jeal, 23, 35

Jones, 23

Kaledin, 4

Kamen, 18

Kao &

Lamunière, 9Kastor, 7

Katouzian, 33

Kavanagh, 25

Kern, 7

Kete, 25

Kidd, 3

King, 20

Kohut, 27

Krentz, 12

Kühne, 27

Kulka &Jäckel, 28

Kurlander, 28Kurlansky, 9

Lambert, 23

Lane, K., 1

Lane, C., 32

Larson, 38

Laurenza, 18

Ledbetter, 9

Levi, 28

Levine, 35

Lian Xi, 36Longstae-

Gowan, 24

Lowndes, 9

Lubet, 7

Lukacs, 13, 38

Lynch, 1

MacMullen, 14

Magliocca, 5

Malcolm, 3

Mansel, 34Mansoor, 12

Margolick, 9

Mark, 29

Marriott, 24

Marshall, 23

Martin, 15

Marx &Engels, 26

Mashaw, 11

Matlock, 10

Mawdsley, 13

May, 38

Maynard, 10

McGrayne, 38

McLynn, 13, 21

McPhee, S.,18

McPhee, P., 25

Meyerson, 3

Miller, 38

Mokyr, 21

Monter, 28

Morgan, 3

Morone, 5

Morris, 5

Mort, 24

Moss, 32

Müller, 28

Nash, G., 11

Nash, R., 11

Neal, 21

Oakley, 18

Ohlmeyer, 22

Ormrod, 20

Osman, 35

Özkan, 34

Ozment, 18

Paas, 25

Pappé, 34

Pargeter, 35

Parry, 18

Parsi, 34

Patch, 15

Pells, 10

Peterson, B., 34

Peterson, C., 5

Petrovsky-Shtern, 30

Pettegree, 18

Phillips, J., 18

Phillips, S., 20

Phillipson, 22

Pincus, 22

Plamper, 30

Pomeroy, 7Prior, 13

Quilley, 22

Rabb, 13

Raz, 34

Riley-Smith, 18

Roberts, 10

Robertson, 13

Rogers, 5

Ross, 20

Rubenstein, 30Rubin, 34

Satter, 30

Scarisbrick, 20

Schaeper, 3

Schofeld, 38

Schultz, 5

Schwartz, 1

Scott, 36

Shaw, 32

Shoemaker, 32Simmons, 7

Slater, 23

Smith, 5

Southern, 19

Stein, J., 10

Stein, S., 26

Steinberg, 30

Stewart, 22

Stoneman, 15

Stump, 38

Syson, 16

Taki, 10

Tanner, 19

Taylor, 19

Temkin, 10

Thomas, N., 36

Thomas, W., 5

Thompson, A., 20

Thompson, L., 35

Tibi, 34

Totten, 13

Trevor-Roper, 25

Truett, 7

Truxes, 3

Turner, R., 19

Turner, D., 32

Turner, F., 32

Valenze, 38

van Schaik, 36

VanDevelder, 10

Vickers &Walsh, 3

Vickery, 22Vidal, 4

Volkov, 28

Walkowitz, 24

Walvin, 1

Wanklyn, 13

Warburton, 37

Weber, 7

Weinstein, 19

Welch, 19

Wexler, 11Whatmore, 25

Willes, 24, 38

Wills, 19

Wilson, 30

Winner, 4

Winroth, 19

Worthington, 15

Wrightson, 19

Zaretsky &

Scott, 25Zegers &Druick, 28

Zhou Xun, 36

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B r i t A i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 1 - 2 2

n i n E t E E n t H - c E n t u r y B r i t A i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3

t W E n t i E t H - c E n

t u r y B r i t A i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

4

B r i t i s H H i s t o r y — G E n E r A l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

4

s E v E n t E E n t H - &

E i G H t E E n t H - c E n t u r y E u r o p E . . 2 5

n i n E t E E n t H - &

t W E n t i E t H - c E n t u r y E u r o p E . . . . . 2

6

t W E n t i E t H - c E n

t u r y E u r o p E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 7 - 2 8

E u r o p E A n H i s t o r y — G E n E r A l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

8

r u s s i A n & E A s t

E r n E u r o p E A n

H i s t o r y . . . . . . . .

2 9 - 3 0

r E l i G i o u s H i s t o r y … … … … … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1 - 3 2

t H E m i d d l E E A s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 - 3 4

A f r i c A n H i s t o r

y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5

A s i A n H i s t o r y . … … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6

H i s t o r y — G E n E r A l i n t E r E s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 7 - 3 8

T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s

2 0 1 2

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