History Books
Pennsylvania State University Press A Sensory History Manifesto
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the past, present, and future of sensory history.Trade Review“Mark M. Smith’s masterful command of sensory history is everywhere on display in this timely, insightful manifesto. Small in size but capacious in scope, this agenda-setting examination of the ‘state of the field’ surveys a wide range of historical work on the senses while identifying new directions for future scholarship. Conveying complex ideas with enviable simplicity, A Sensory History Manifesto is both an essential guide to the field and a compelling argument for its transformation.”—Peter Denney,coeditor of Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700–1850“A Sensory History Manifesto is an impressively wide-ranging synthesis of some of the key developments in the field, covering the entire globe and all periods from antiquity to the present. It offers many excellent ideas for future interdisciplinary research, including engaging more fully with emerging animal–human interaction studies and with the hard sciences.”—Tim Lockley,author of Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874“The field of sensory history is ready for a book like this, and Smith is the historian to write it. It is a model of keen insight and good advice.”—Andrew J. Rotter American Historical Review
£17.06
Pennsylvania State University Press Luxury After the Terror
Book SynopsisExplores the production, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of Louis XVI by focusing on makers of decorative art objects who had strong ties to the monarchy and how they navigated the French Revolution. Trade Review“In Luxury After the Terror, Moon demonstrates the fascinating and subtle ways in which the decorative arts were shaped by the contradictory politics of the French Revolution. She measures this influence less in terms of iconography and the new emblems such as Phrygian bonnets and tricolour cockades that came to adorn many surfaces; rather, she reflects on the expressive limits and materiality of different genres of cultural production, from wallpaper and assignat banknotes (including a remarkable prototype stitched on silk), to lime-wood carving and hard-paste porcelain. Her analysis balances a meticulous attention to the physical properties and aesthetics of objects from across the 1790s with a refreshing willingness to speculate about how they articulated collective fantasies and anxieties.”—Tom Stammers Apollo Magazine“The robust history of artisans provides new vantage points from which to understand the French Revolution. Moon encourages her readers to adopt a critical lens on ‘survival’: not only of artisans in a changing economy, but also of physical objects in a new world of collecting and museums.”—Delanie J. Linden Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“Esthetically pleasing, meticulously researched, and engagingly written, the range of topics Moon explores is impressive and sometimes daunting. . . . Challenging traditional scholarship, Moon introduces new perspectives on this fascinating period of French and European history.”—Felicia B. Sturzer New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century“Luxury After the Terror brings a criticality, a poetics, and a politics to this material that is truly exciting to see. Offering a vital new reading of the place of the decorative arts in the wake of revolution and reorienting our understanding of the period toward a range of captivating and unfamiliar objects, this meticulously researched and brilliantly argued book is an exhilarating rethinking of the field.”—Richard Taws,author of The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France
£74.76
SPCK Publishing God and Churchill
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Churchill to focus on the Christian motivation behind his style of leadership, his inspiring speeches and his eventual success in preventing the collapse of Christian civilization in Europe.Trade ReviewA fascinating and well-argued book that adds a vital, missing component to understanding Churchill. As a lifelong admirer who as a boy met Churchill and who has read widely on his life, I was curious to know what Sandys and Henley would present as evidence. I was not only convinced but delighted at the realism and relevance of their portrayal of Churchill. He emerges as anything but ardently religious, but he was more personally aware of his destiny and more biblically literate and attuned to the Christian worldview and Christian civilization than many Christians today. * Os Guinness, author, social critic and founder of the Trinity Forum, Washington, DC *What a wonderfully enthusiastic book, written with the insights of a great-grandson of Winston Churchill who . . . grasps the spiritual dimensions of Churchill’s life and the struggle against the pure evil of Nazi tyranny . . . And there is no doubt: it was Churchill as prime minister in 1940 who not only saved Britain from defeat but saved Christian civilization itself, as Jonathan and Wallace make so very clear. This is a book for Christians as well as for Churchill enthusiasts. * Christopher Catherwood FRHS, historian and Churchill Archives By-Fellow Emeritus, Churchill College, Cambridge *I cannot imagine anyone better suited to tell the story of God’s work in the life and times of Churchill than Churchill’s own flesh and blood. Jonathan Sandys brings an unparalleled vibrancy and perspective on the great man and his times. He and Wallace Henley have artfully woven together the best-known and most obscure pieces of history to present the beautiful and compelling tapestry that is God and Churchill. An absolute must-read. * Joanne King Herring, international diplomat, author and President of the Marshall Plan Charities *A graphic portrayal of the life and legacy of Winston Churchill, with emphasis on his guiding belief in divine providence. Long before "the clash of civilizations" had become a common term, Churchill knew what it meant and spent his life defending the civilization so decisively shaped by the Christian faith. A fascinating study! * Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School, Samford University *
£11.39
SPCK Publishing Julian of Norwich
Book SynopsisConcise historical introduction to Julian of Norwich and her continuing influence on the world and how we see itTrade ReviewIn this lively and appealing introduction, we are enabled to meet a figure who is not a stereotypical 'mystic' from an alien cultural world, but a vigorous, warm and deeply imaginative writer, quietly but firmly turning inside out a number of conventional understandings of the nature and work of God. Nina Ramirez presents a Julian who is very much of her own age, yet for that very reason speaks to us as a three-dimensional personality. * Rowan Williams *A delight because it gives such a great understanding to the life and times of this inspired woman. * Towards Wholeness, Spring 2017 issue *
£10.44
SPCK Publishing Josephine Butler
Book SynopsisConcise historical introduction to Josephine Butler and her continuing influence on the world and how we see it.Trade Review‘This is an important book about a social reformer of the Victorian era in danger of being forgotten. . . . A story of a woman who defied what was expected of her to make a difference – told in a wonderfully engaging way.’ * Helen Pankhurst *‘Josephine Butler challenged the contempt levelled at women who sold sex, and the unjust laws passed and enforced by men to punish them. Sharp, authoritative and eye-opening.’ * Helen Lewis *‘A brilliantly readable account of the remarkable Josephine Butler, who turned the Victorian patriarchy on its head and changed the world for women at immense personal cost. If there is a canon of feminist heroines, Butler should be right at the top.' * Daisy Goodwin *
£14.39
SPCK Publishing The Naked Hermit
Book SynopsisThis colourful travelogue takes the reader on a journey into some of the foundational stories and enigmatic places that have shaped Britain's sacred landscape.Trade Review‘Nick Mayhew-Smith takes us on a journey through labyrinths of ancient texts into lost worlds of living and believing. This book is an invitation to encounter the God of all creation in the raw and naked majesty of nature, and to recognize in that encounter an ancient and forgotten faith calling to us from the depths of our wounded planet.’ * Professor Tina Beattie, Digby Stuart Centre for Religion, Society and Human Flourishing, University of Roehampton *‘The author of Britain’s Holiest Places has done us all a favour in this new book. Mayhew-Smith invites us to celebrate the riches of our spiritual heritage. He does so, uninhibitedly, nakedly! Prepare for full immersion into chilly realities around the Celtic soul. Expect to come out quickened to the marrow.’ * Professor Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul and Poacher’s Pilgrimage *‘I want to thank Nick for writing this book. I am with him every step of the way as we feel together the enormous power of the planet, channelled through one man’s drive to understand the connection between people, nature and God. And I also want to thank him for doing so with such humility and humour, for making me laugh and marvel in equal measure. It is a wonderful book.’ * Mary Colwell, television producer and author of Curlew Moon *
£20.69
SPCK Publishing TwiceRescued Child The boy who fled the Nazis
Book SynopsisThe story of Thomas Graumann, rescued first as a child from the Nazis and then a second time when he gave his life to Christ. It would be the start of a lifelong mission.Trade ReviewMoving and inspiring! Twice-Rescued Child shows how one person’s actions can ripple through time. Rescued from the Holocaust by the principled courage of one man and the sacrificial love of his mother, Thomas Graumann was again rescued through faith in Christ—and dedicated his life to missions. Tricia Goyer recounts the amazing life of this incredible man. Not to be missed! * Sarah Sundin, best-selling and award-winning author of The Sea Before Us and The Sky Above Us *"Poignant. Powerful. Achingly real. Twice-Rescued Child is a portrait of suffering and surrender that beckons the reader to examine his or her heart, and ask: ‘Where is God in the midst of darkness?’ From escaping the reach of Hitler’s death camps and surviving the depths of grief and loss in a post-war world, to a fully surrendered life in worldwide missions, Thomas Graumann recounts his life experiences with authenticity, wisdom, and uncommon depth. Holocaust historians will find value in the journey, as will those contemplating the call to ministry— anyone ready to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with a broken world." -- Kristy Cambron, bestselling author of The Butterfly and the Violin and the Lost Castles series"Open the pages of the Twice-Rescued Child and you will be swept into an intimate, first-person account of a Czech Jew who was rescued via the Kindertransport during the early days of the Second World War. His story is told in a way that feels like you’re sharing coffee with him, hunched over a small table; you will see the war through a child’s eyes, feel his confusion and experience each emotion with him. It’s a simple story of a complex time that demonstrates the miracle of being rescued not just once but twice." -- Cara Putman, ECPA bestselling and award-winning author of Shadowed by Grace and Imperfect Justice
£14.24
University of Washington Press Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an eye-opening book. . . . Kawamura’s research reveals the real Hirohito." -- Geoffrey Wawro * History Book Club *"Noriko Kawamura’s Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War provides a convincing reappraisal of Japan’s Hirohito few Westerners would recognize whenever they are reminded of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific conflict." -- Norm Haskett * The Daily Chronicles of World War II *"A well-balanced analysis of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War, drawing on previously unavailable primary sources. . . . Kawamura does a fine job of describing Emperor Hirohito’s complex positions and his historical situation." -- Takeshi Suzuki * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1933 2. Crises at Home and Abroad: From the February 26 Incident to the Sino-Japanese War 3. The Road to Pearl Harbor 4. An Uneasy Commander in Chief 5. Imbroglio: Moves to End the War 6. The “Sacred Decision” to Surrender Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£35.89
University of Washington Press Resisting Disappearance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This theoretically sophisticated and politically powerful book marks a groundbreaking moment in the anthropological study of Kashmir and South Asia that will also make an excellent text in undergraduate and graduate seminar on various themes and topics." * New Books in Islamic Studies (NBN) *"By focusing on the embodiment of kinship ties and mobilization of ritual that sustain those left behind, Resisting Disappearance sensitively shows how the political reality of ongoing occupation transforms everyday lives. Ather Zia’s compelling book will be of interest to students of militarization, occupation and colonization, gender politics and kinship, ritual, everyday life, and activism, at all levels." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"An indispensable text...Ather Zia weaves together a haunting, collective memoir of Muslim women’s organizing in Kashmir." * South Asian History and Culture *"The depth and familiarity of Zia’s analysis is inspiring...This is a truly marvellous book—it is a key contribution to anthropology and feminism." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *"Resisting Disappearance is about what all of our society forgets: How Kashmiri women are continually resisting, striving every day and resisting the disappearances of family members,usually, sons, husbands or fathers...remarkable as it makes us understand the nuances and the multiple dynamics within Kashmir." * Feminism in India *"[A]n important and successful addition to both ethnographic works and works of feminist political theory on South and Central Asia." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[W]ith its engaging conversations on enforced disappearances... Zia’s work goes beyond Kashmir and is a testimony to the thousands of lives left un-grieved in conflict zones." * The India Forum *"The work pushes the boundary of ethnographic writing by recovering the aesthetics of poetry in the context of doing fieldwork in violent sites." * Borderlines *"[A]m imperative and urgent text... very lucid in style and structure and stands as evidence of Zia’s deeply reflective and introspective scholarship." * Doing Sociology *
£29.66
University of Washington Press The Shamans Wages
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is in short an extraordinary book, a corrective for anyone who Orientalizes shamanic ritual." * European Journal of Korean Studies *"[A]n interesting encounter with popular religion in the changing circumstances of Cheju." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A] welcome contribution to an arena that has long needed to study monetary transactions in ritual." * Asian Ethnology *"[T]he book is inspiring and innovative in terms of the deep and detailed analysis of the multiple meanings of reciprocity in the context of shamanistic rituals." * Acta Koreana *"An insightful and valuable contribution to the study of Korean shamanism, it should find a place on the shelf of anyone who wants to have a better and more complete understanding of this living tradition." * Journal of American Folklore *"[C]learly one of the best books on musok out there." * Religious Studies Review *
£81.90
University of Washington Press The Way of the Barbarians
Book SynopsisShao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (8001127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, barbarism, were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral valuTrade Review"[A]n important contribution to an evolving discourse on a critical era in both Chinese history specifically and East Asian history more broadly." * Journal of Chinese Studies *"The book would be worth reading just for its thoughtful accounts of how various writers (Han Yu, Sun Fu, Liu Chang, Cheng Yi, etc.) addressed the distinction in their studies of the Annals, but it has a much larger argument to make." * Journal of Chinese History *"[A]n important contribution to the study of ethni‐city and changing rhetorical strategies involving the ever-evolving construction of Chinese identity in premodern China." * H-Net *"Yang has expertly painted a picture of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy, the rise of Neo-Confucianism, and the subsequent intellectual discourse that took place during the Tang-Song transition period. Those with an interest in Chinese religion have much to gain from this." * Religious Studies Review *
£27.99
University of Washington Press Herring and People of the North Pacific
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exceptionally interesting, carefully written, and well-reasoned examination of the role the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) has played in the history and culture of the peoples of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska." * Choice *"[A]n interesting read: a current fishing issue with a historic and anthropologic context, well documented and annotated, with references, photographs, charts, and a timeline of the Southeast herring fishery." * Alaska History *"A profoundly hopeful work. If it is taken seriously in high places, it will save the herring and the Tlingit fishery. It is such a stunningly well-done, scholarly, tightly argued work that it will be impossible to dismiss." * Ethnobiology Letters *"The critical element and clear strength of the book is that it is not just a chronicle of herring decline or diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Rather, it provides a way forward from the profoundly alarming situation we are confronted with. The authors’ way forward is a call to draw on traditional and local knowledge concerning sustainable harvesting practices and managerial strategies...[T]his volume offers the kind of rich, compelling and well-argued study that has significant potential to fuel transformational change." * Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology *"Integration of Indigenous knowledge into understanding and management of natural resources and the ecosystems they belong to has been a desired goal of anthropology for decades. Likewise, the use of archaeological data to provide deep diachronic perspective in studies of historical ecology is a growing objective/rational for the pursuit of archaeological research. This book, which considers the past, present, and future of an often-overlooked, but critical keystone species, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), represents a timely and impressive step toward attainment of those goals." * Journal of Anthropological Research *
£23.74
University of Washington Press Pushed Out Contested Development and Rural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book...combines narrative storytelling, historical research and sociological theory to paint a complete and compelling picture." * Sandpoint Reader *"In clean and engaging prose, Pilgeram describes the heartache of a disenfranchised population, while also delivering a tough scholarly analysis." * Bookmonger *"Through extensive interviews and archival work, this sociological study draws on the descriptive power of ethnographic writing to trace the path of rural development in an engaging and accessible book." * Choice *"[I]t speaks to urgent changes in the contemporary West...the book's closing reminder that we can imagine, and enact, different futures is a hopeful and necessary one." * Western American Literature *"Pilgeram’s work constitutes an excellent intervention into the problems associated with rural gentrification." * Contemporary Sociology *"Pilgeram's book is a thoroughly engaging, well researched, and important exploration of a type of gentrification often ignored and misunderstood in the broader social discussion of displacement." * Growth and Change *
£22.79
University of Washington Press Underflows
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Covering an impressive swath of ground, this book presents insightful and challenging departures in theory and methodology and is a worthwhile read for ecological scientists and social theorists alike." -- Dani Slabaugh * LSE Review of Books *"In insightful, inviting, and compelling ways, Underflows brings attention to possibilities beneath and beyond the surface flows of straight/settler science…[I]nnovative, collaborative approaches like Wölfle Hazard’s, particularly where they support and align with Indigenous-led stewardship and maintenance, are more crucial than ever." * H-Net Reviews *"Underflows will be deeply relevant to thinkers across and beyond academic disciplines. At various times addressed to practitioners of the ecological sciences, river workers, queer and trans theorists, ecocritics, and queer and trans folks outside academia, Wölfle Hazard’s exciting and thought-provoking study offers much-needed insight into queer and trans ecology and its affinities with Indigenous science, environmental justice, ecopoetics, and river ecosystems." * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *
£29.66
University of Washington Press The Swedish Theory of Love
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£31.38
University of Washington Press The Art of Ceremony
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£35.89
University of Washington Press Porcelain for the Emperor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Porcelain for the Emperor is a truly admirable example of interdisciplinary scholarship. Drawing upon concepts and methods from the fields of science and technology studies, literary criticism, and art history, it illuminates the heretofore neglected contributions of bannermen technocrats to the Qing imperial project. This compact and handsomely produced monograph will interest not only art historians, porcelain connoisseurs, and museum curators, but also students of early modern material and political cultures, court history, and imperial state-formations." * Journal of Chinese History *"[R]ichly illustrated and lucidly written…Chen’s fine-grained study will substantially deepen our understanding of not only the history of science and technology and the history of material and visual culture in early modern China but also global histories of imperial knowledge formation and empire building from the stimulating perspective of technocracy." * H-Net *
£76.87
University of Washington Press WideOpen Desert
Book SynopsisReveals the untold stories about New Mexico's queer pastThroughout the twentieth century, New Mexico's LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe's nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at Los Alamos. Shifting focus away from the urban gay meccas that many out queer people called home, Wide-Open Desert brings to life a vibrant milieu of two-spirit, Chicana lesbian, and white queer cultural producers in the heart of the US Southwest. Jordan Biro Walters draws on oral histories, documentaries, poetry, and archival sources to demonstrate how geographic migration and creative expression enabled LGBTQ+ people to resist marginalization and forge spaces of belonging. Significant figures profiled include two-spirit Diné artist Hastíín Klah, literary magazine editor Spud Johnson, ranchera singer Genoveva Chávez, and Cherokee writer Rollie Lynn Riggs. Biro Walters explores how land communes, art circles, and university classrooms helped createTrade Review"Centering the voices of Pueblo, Navajo, Neuvomexicanx, and white LGBTQ people, the book offers significant new insights into the role that cultural activism has played in the struggle for queer equality and should become required reading for anyone interested in U.S. queer history." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Breaking ground through its careful intersectional readings of White, Latinx, and Native two-spirit and queer lives, Wide-Open Desert compellingly expands the history of sexuality in the West." * Western Historical Quarterly *
£29.66
University of Washington Press The Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus." * Choice *"While historians have produced studies of individual polities in the region before and after the imposition of imperial rule, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is the first to situate this transition in a much larger environmental and religious perspective, thus providing a vibrant reevaluation of approaches to the Southeast Asian past." * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *
£81.90
University of Washington Press Taiwan Lives
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£33.98
University of Washington Press Cold War Deceptions
Book SynopsisInvestigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governmentsDuring the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is known about their daily internal workings. With a specific focus on the 1950s and 1960s Asia Foundation, Cold War Deceptions provides a rare view into the bureaucratic functioning of a covert operation in which most employees did not know they were working for the CIA. Drawing on the foundation's extensive surviving archival records and thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents, David H. Price examines how the foundation, secretly created and funded by the CIA, tried to shape Asian political, economic, intellectual, and cultural developments during the early years of t
£33.98
University of Washington Press The PolishLithuanian State 13861795
Book SynopsisFor four centuries, the PolishLithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, it enjoyed unusual domestic tranquility, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century and the country generally avoided civil wars. Selling grain and timber to western Europe helped make it exceptionally wealthy for much of the period.The PolishLithuanian State, 13861795 is the first account in English devoted specifically to this important era. It takes a regional rather than a national approach, considering the internal development of the Ukrainian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Prussian German nations that coexisted with the Poles in this multinational state. Presenting Jewish history also clarifies urban history, because Jews lived in thTrade Review"A masterful accomplishment. . . . This very important contribution to the English language literature on this region and these centuries is also, by its balance and perspective, a contribution unmatched in any language." * Choice *"Well-planned, well-written, and well-balanced, this work is a major contribution in English-language historiography relating the the history of Poland-Lithuania from the late Middle Ages to the third partition." * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Maps Part One: The Jagiellonian Period, 1386-1572 1. Jogaila/Jagiello 2. Jagiello’s Successors: Wladyslaw III, Kazimierz IV, Jan Olbracht, and Aleksander 3. Zygmunt I the Old 4. Zygmunt II August 5. Ecomonics & Society in the Jagiellonian Period 6. Artistic Culture & Education in the Jagiellonian Period 7. First Interlude: Henri Valois & Stefan Batory Part Two: The Vasa Period 8. Zygmunt II Vasa (Waza) 9. Wladyslaw IV 10. Jan Kazimierz 11. Noble Democracy as a Political System 12. Economics & Society in the Vasa Period 13. Culture in the Vasa Period 14. Second Interlude: Michal Wisniowiecki & Jan III Sobieski Part Three: The Eighteenth Century 15. August II 16. August III 17. Stanislaw August Poniatowski 18. Economics &Society in the Eighteenth Century 19. Culture in the Eighteenth Century Epilogue Bibliographical Essay Index
£62.03
University of Washington Press Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Book SynopsisInfluential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis' encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. This book offers Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, and accounts of its production and subsequent circulation.Trade Review"Richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable. . . . This book does us all a service by ushering Curtis’s In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century." * American Ethnologist *"Offers a stunning range of perspectives and visual materials drawing from the original production to the present. . . . Ambitious not only in its scope but in its commitment to understanding and presenting the film in its multiple indigenous contexts." * American Literary History *"A detailed and thoughtful book that brings together scholars, artists, and Kwakwaka’wakw community members in a wide-ranging discourse on the film." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"The essays provide a rare look at both the tremendous amount of planning, negotiation, and artistic work that goes into this kind of production, but also the diversity of reactions it necessarily inspires—from sturdy appreciation to charges of romanticism and exploitation." * Pacific Historical Review *"[An] accomplished critical engagement with the complicated and tumultuous nature of the place of the film in academia and in First Nations communities. . . . The volume is also testimony to the fact that 100 years after the original production, the film can still capture the imaginations and minds of scholars and the broad public." * BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly *"[This] generously illustrated anthology of essays—some decidedly academic, others more personal and anecdotal—address the film from every angle while also placing Curtis (1868–1952) and his First Nations collaborators on the film in their historical context." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsU'mista Cultural Society Statement of Participation / William T. CranmerForeword / Bill HolmPreface / Brad Evans and Aaron GlassAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. Mediating Indians / Complicating Curtis1. Edward Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts / Micky Gidley2. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamir3. Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate Flint4. A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer / Ira JacknisPhoto Essay 1. "At the Kitchen Table with Edward Curtis"/ Jeff Thomas PART TWO. Head Hunters Across Two Centuries5. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film REception / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans6. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browne7. Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism / Brad Evans8. Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters / Klisala Harrison9. Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis / Barbara Cranmer (Tlakwagila'ogwa)Photo Essay 2. "Old Images / New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis" / Dr. E. Richard Atleo, Pam Brown, Marie Clements, Karrmen Crey, Mique'l Icesis Dangeli, Andy Everson, Linc Kesler, David Neel, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and William Wasden Jr. PART THREE. Reimaging Curtis Today10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration . Jere Guldin11. In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music / David Gilbert12. Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting / Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman13. "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr. (Waxawidi)14. Cultural Interpretation / Dave Hunsaker15. The Kwakwakka'wakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World Stage / Aaron Glass Afterword. Twentieth Century Fox / Paul Chaat SmithAppendix 1. Promotional Images for In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 2. The Kwakwaka'wakw Cast and Crew of In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 3. Curtis Film Props in the Collection of the Burke Musem of Natural History and CultureAppendix 4. Title Cards from the 2008 Reconstruction of In the Land of the Head HuntersReferencesContributorsIndex
£81.90
University of Washington Press America Is in the Heart
Book SynopsisDescribes author's boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.Trade Review"America came to him in a public ward in the Los Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be immeasurably kind. . . . For Carlos Bulosan no lifetime could be long enough in which to explain to America that no man could destroy his faith in it again. He wanted to contribute something toward the final fulfillment of America. So he wrote this book that holds the bitterness of his own blood." -- Carlos P. Romulo * New York Times *"Bulosan’s gripping memoir-novel of a young Filipino immigrant long ago secured its place in Asian American literature. . . . An outstanding introductory essay extends the historical discussion (and in some ways brings it full circle) in this third edition. . . . [Bulosan’s] call to action resonates with the same urgency today as it did seven decades ago." -- Greg Lewis * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"To resist the call to heartlessness, let’s heed the call to idealism expressed by Bulosan in America Is in the Heart." -- Tyron Beason * Seattle Times *
£20.93
University of Washington Press NoNo Boy
Book SynopsisYamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. This book tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys."Trade Review"Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature." -- Gordon Hirabayashi * Pacific Affairs *"Nisei will recognize the authenticity of the idioms Okada’s characters use, as well as his descriptions of the familiar Issei and Nisei mannerisms that make them come alive." -- Bill Hosokawa * Pacific Citizen *"[This new edition] brings Okada's groundbreaking work to a new generation . . . an internee and enlisted man himself, [Okada] wrote in a raw, brutal stream of consciousness that echoes the pain and intergenerational conflict faced by those struggling to reconcile their heritage to the concept of an American dream." -- Nancy Powell * Shelf Awareness *"It is both an important document of Japanese American and Pacific Northwest history and a compelling novel." -- Emily Lutenski * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Reading No-No Boy, this week, it no longer seemed bound to its past; it felt like a prophecy, a cosmic tragedy, a message in a bottle that arrives a half century later." -- Hua Hsu * Page-Turner *"It’s incorrect to say that No-No Boy is a forgotten masterwork . . . but it isn’t often acknowledged for articulating what had never been said before. The novel was a turning point in the consciousness of Japanese-Americans, and of Asian-Americans more generally—it marked the moment when identity shifted away from the homeland, away from Japan, because Japan was a country that Nisei, like Okada, never really quite knew. It was a novel that struggled to understand the entitlement that came so easily to other Americans—to explain why so few Japanese-Americans protested what had been done to them, that explored the shame of an immigrant who doesn’t feel he has a place in the world." * T: The New York Times Style Magazine *"No-No Boy may be read as a test of character, questioning the rigid binary of loyalty—yes or no—and teaching us what makes us human and complex, what constitutes character, are all the questions and cares that exist between yes and no: ethical and political choices, our best intentions, our social and cultural being, beliefs, courage, fears, failures, and compassion. More than half a century later, Okada's novel challenges us once again with the question of character, asking us, as individuals and as a society, what we are made of." -- Karen Tei Yamashita * Atlantic *"In 2019, No-No Boy is bigger than it's ever been." -- Vince Schleitwiler * The Margins *"I think back to John Okada, who fought in World War II even though his Japanese-American family was in an internment camp. Okada came back from the war and published No-No Boy in 1957, the first novel dealing with the little-known story of Japanese-American draft resisters. . . . Thinking back to writers like Sui Sin Far, Carlos Bulosan and John Okada, it is clear that genius is too often unrecognized in its day." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen * New York Times *"A slow-building 1957 novel about a young Japanese-American who, after the Second World War, is searching for a way to express his psychological anguish. . . . Okada died in 1971, unaware that his book had been discovered by a younger generation." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"It may be one of the only true classics of Japanese fiction that most Japanophiles have never heard of. No-No Boy . . . unravels the complicated, varied perspectives of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of World War II under the shadow of the internment camps of the American northwest. . . . For the fascinating, multiple perspectives that unfold to reveal one important point in history, the novel deserves its place as a classic." * Japan Times *"Out of the brutal struggle against racism and anger, Okada finds hope." -- Martha Viehmann * NPR - Code Switch *"No-No Boy is not simply a forceful piece of Asian American literature, but also a realistic account of how war and social injustices affect the psychology of Japanese Americans across generations. . . . Presenting the trauma of Japanese Americans and their coping process, No-No Boy is itself and effort to break the silence and counter social amnesia." * Inquiries Journal *"The book is still the great Japanese American tragedy, whose power and authenticity derives from the unexpressed rage of his generation that Okada pours into his characters." -- Frank Abe * International Examiner *"The book, newly relevant today, evolves into a group portrait of immigrant parents and American children, conflicted veterans and no-no boys, those back home from the camps and those repatriated to Japan alike, all trying to move on from the same injustice." -- Nicholas Kulish * New York Times *"No-No Boy has been at the heart of the Asian American literary canon, where it is often treated as a quasi-miraculous artifact that prophesied a literary renaissance that would only come to fruition after the author's death." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"No-No Boy should be read as a salutary reminder of the tragic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, as the story of the distress of a young rebel torn between two societies, but also as a literary testimony to the mass political violence around human rights." * En attendant Nadeau *"[S]eminal novel...a significant book that influenced many Asian American writers who came after Okada." * New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword / Ruth Ozeki Introduction / Lawrence Fusao Inada Preface No-No Boy Afterword: In Search of John Okada / Frank Chin
£20.93
University of Washington Press A Place for Utopia
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Placing Timelines 1. Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia 2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City 3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta 4. Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age Conclusion | Designing and Dwelling in Place Notes References Index
£81.90
University of Washington Press Roy Anderssons Songs from the Second Floor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[O]ne of the greatest strengths of this book is how Lindqvist maintains a lively conversational style that engages the reader. Further, that so much of her book is based on personal interviews and archival material is both a testament to the depth of the background research and perhaps the book's most impressive quality." * Scandinavian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | A Troublesome Avant-Gardist Stages a Comeback 1. Aesthetics: Film as Art 2. Production: Film as Industry 3. Intermediality: Film, Poetry, Painting, Music 4. Humanism: Film as Philosophy and Social Critique Epilogue | Songs Carried On Appendix | Roy Andersson’s Eclectic Oeuvre Notes Bibliography Index
£25.32
Orion Publishing Co The Kings Queens of England Kings Queens S
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout historySpanning ten dynasties of England''s monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England''s monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to the House of Windsor, this exquisite little book captures the personalities behind the crowns and records the landmarks, traditions and events of each reign.
£8.54
University of Wisconsin Press Teaching U.S. History through Sports
Book SynopsisProvides strategies for incorporating sports into any US history curriculum. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, the authors suggest creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Using Sports History to Teach American History Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Part One: Modernization and Globalization Organized, Team, Sport: Teaching a Powerful American Idea Marc Horger Teaching Sports Scandals Chris Elzey “Ambassadors in Short Pants”: Sport and the Cold Warriors Rita Liberti The Shifting Geography of Professional Sports Brad Austin The Globalization of American Sport Lars Dzikus and Adam Love Part Two: Gender and Sexuality Issues of Sexuality in Sport Sarah K. Fields The Shaping of “Women’s Sport” Pamela Grundy Teaching Sports and Women’s History through “The Babe” Susan E. Cayleff Black Women Face Obstacles and Opportunities Pamela Grundy and Rita Liberti Title IX: Contested Terrain Bobbi A. Knapp Part Three: Race and Ethnicity Jim Crow at Play Pamela Grundy Race and Rebellion in the Progressive Era Matthew Andrews Teaching Black College Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities Derrick E. White Sports, Civil Rights, and Black Power Lauren Morimoto Diverse Experiences of Latino/a Athletes and Their Role in U.S. Sport History Jorge Iber What’s in a Name? Teaching the History of American Indian Mascots Andrew Frank Part Four: Case Studies Colonial Sporting Cultures Brad Austin Baseball and American Exceptionalism Leslie Heaphy NASCAR 101: Moonshine, Fast Cars, and Southern Working-Class Agency Daniel Pierce The Political Olympics Derek Charles Catsam Lights, Camera, Action: Teaching American Sport through Film Ron Briley Resources and Suggestions Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Contributors Index
£21.20
Yale University Press The Fabrication of Louis XIV Paper
Book SynopsisThe money spent by the French government on the public image of Louis XIV was extensive and succeeded in making him into a god like figure. In this book the author gives an account of the contemporary representations of Louis XIV and illustrates the relationship between art and power.Table of ContentsIntroducing Louis XIV; persuasion; sunrise; the construction of the system; self-assertion; the years of victory; the reconstruction of the system; sunset; the crisis of representations; the reverse of the medal; the reception of Louis XIV; Louis in perspective.
£18.16
Yale University Press James II
Book SynopsisA study of King James II and his reign, drawing on a wide array of primary sources from France, Italy and Ireland, as well as England. It explores James's relations with the state and society, focusing on the political, diplomatic and religious issues that shaped his reign.
£18.04
Yale University Press Henry VI
Book SynopsisIn this biography of Henry VI, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent and saintly monarch and offers instead a critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on contemporary evidence, he discusses the failures of Henry's long reign.Trade Review"A brilliant biography that brings us as near as we are ever likely to come to this elusive personality." Sunday Times "A powerful, compulsively readable portrait." Observer "Much learning, skillfully deployed as here, evokes pleasure as well as admiration." R.L. Storey, Times Literary Supplement"
£23.75
Yale University Press Rethinking the Holocaust
Book SynopsisA study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He also examines topics such as the relationship between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.Trade Review"In this original and compelling book Bauer considers all the major issues of Holocaust historiography. Everything Bauer touches he illuminates." Michael Berenbaum "An eye-opening synthesis of the whole historiography of the Shoah... The meat of the book is a brilliant review of vexed issues like Jewish resistance (armed and unarmed), the role of the Judenrate, or Nazi-imposed Jewish Councils, and the plans to rescue Jews by buying their freedom... With the skill of a sleuth and the assiduous patience of a born scholar, Bauer reconstructs the schemes, characters and motives in a spirit of factual inquiry, keen empathy and, of all unlikely things, common sense." Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review "Bauer is the preeminent student of Jewish resistance and rescue efforts... Bauer's book also reaches beyond issues of rescue, offering a strong introduction to many of the analytic debates on Nazi genocide." Paul Breines, Washington Post Book World
£15.19
Yale University Press Libraries in the Ancient World
Book SynopsisThe story of Ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Lionel Casson explores the royal libraries of the Ancient Near East, the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, and the first Christian monastic libraries.Trade Review"Which came first, the book or the library? This monograph by the classicist Lionel Casson provides a detailed answer that will appeal not just to bibliophiles but to anyone who enjoys picking up odd bits of intriguing historical information."—Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe"[I]nformative. . . . [A] succinct account of the development of reading, writing and book collecting in Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Roman Empire. . . . The reader can only wish . . . that he follows this short but engaging book with a sequel."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"[A] charming and brief narrative history of the birth (and deaths) of libraries in the ancient world."—Robert Messenger, New York Times Book Review"[A] book that many readers will enjoy immensely. Yale has produced a handsome volume, well designed by Mary Valencia (off-white paper stock, inviting layout, abundant illustrations), neither too long nor too short, and written in limpid, understated prose by an expert on ancient civilization. For a quick overview of 3,000 years of book making, selling, care and preservation—from roughly 2,500 B.C. to 600 A.D.—this is the roll, or rather codex, to start with. . . . [D]iverting and instructive."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World"A wonderful book for those who love libraries and the books within."—History Magazine"Casson’s book is not limited to where and when important libraries existed, it offers a social history transcending the idea of a library as we know it. . . . As appealing to the archaeologist as the bibliophile."—Publishers Weekly"A wonderful book on a wonderful subject. Casson knows what is interesting and tells us in spellbinding style."—G.W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study
£12.34
Yale University Press Ghetto Diary
Book SynopsisJanusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak.Trade Review"Korczak's diary is a moving piece of literature and an indispensable insight into life inside the ghetto. The quality of his testimony, contemporaneous with the events he lived, is powerful, poignant, and moving." Michael Berenbaum
£15.99
Yale University Press Medieval Children
Book SynopsisWhat was childhood like for mediaeval boys and girls in England? Nicholas Orme draws on a vast range of sources to create a picture of childhood in the Middle Ages.Trade Review“Nicholas Orme’s stimulating piece of historical revisionism. . . . is one of these pleasingly, absorbingly digressive books. . . . A book whose subject is of inexhaustible interest.”—Michael Glover, Financial Times“What the book identifies again and again in medieval England is an attentiveness to children. . . . Orme is a clear and persuasive guide to the period.”—The Guardian“[Orme’s] Medieval Childrenis a determinedly empirical book, a meticulously organized, lavishly illustrated, and imaginatively presented cascade of evidence about every aspect of childhood, drawn from an astonishing range of sources from the end of antiquity to the early sixteenth century. . . . The clarity, pace, and economy of his treatment conceal an impressive depth of learning, and many of the individual thematic discussions are in fact ground-breaking forays into territory not adequately explored by anyone else. Orme is a distinguished historian of education, and he makes brilliant use here of medieval and Renaissance schoolbooks and student exercises to illuminate not only the content and character of medieval schooling, but the manner and matter of children’s conversation, recreation, and attitudes. . . . The most comprehensive, informative, and, by a long way, the most humane and delightful historical treatment of childhood in the English language.”—Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books“[An] exhaustive and fascinating portrait of medieval English childhood. . . . Orme’s is one of the most beautifully and intelligently illustrated academic works I’ve encountered; in this and in his sensitive, reasonable, and lucid weighing of confusing and generally sparse evidence, Medieval Children isa model of accessible scholarly history.”—Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly“This book is an insightful look into the lives of children and a fascinating read.”—History Magazine“[A] wise and learned book. . . . [A] delight to read, and superbly illustrated.”—John Wilson, Christianity Today “The author’s intention in writing this work was to ‘reveal the richness of the material about medieval English children.’ This he has achieved, with a lavishly illustrated and sensitively written evocation of life in later medieval England.”—Sally Crawford, Church Times“Orme’s book, amply documented, gracefully and, one must add, sympathetically, written, will become the standard study of medieval English childhood, useful to specialists as well as non-specialists.”—R.C. Finucane, English Historical Review“Nicholas Orme, author of several books on medieval English education, has produced a thorough and accessible account of the broader topic of childhood. . . . This richly illustrated volume is well suited for student use.”—Cullen J. Chandler, History: Reviews of New Books“Nicholas Orme knows more about medieval childhood than anyone living, and this substantial, hugely enjoyable book is the capstone on thirty years of scholarship.”—The Independent“Gracefully written and beautifully presented. . . . Medieval Children is likely to serve as a landmark in the literature of children’s history. It is scholarly, with a full complement of pertinent notes and an expert index. At the same time, it is so visually appealing and satisfying to hold that beginning students and armchair readers will also find it a compelling read.”—Susan Mitchell Sommers, The HistorianNamed one of the top ten books of 2001 by Christianity Today
£41.80
Yale University Press Henry I
Book SynopsisThis title paints a portrait of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror. The author vividly describes Henry's life and reign in a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world.Trade Review"The product of a lifetime's research, a monument to its author's scholarship and teaching alike, this book gives us a Henry I to relish as well as to reconsider... thorough and readable." T.N. Bisson, English Historical Review "A deeply learned, readable, and witty biography, which provides a new assessment of an important reign... a marvelous book." Marjorie Chibnall, Albion "A magisterial biography." Publishers Weekly "A work of outstanding scholarship." Fred A. Cazel, History: Reviews of New Books "A valuable volume, destined to be the standard biography." Expository Times
£23.75
Yale University Press Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisDramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. This book presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and an account of medieval life.Trade Review"'A work of immense ambition and erudition.' Daniel Snowman 'An exceptionally wide-ranging book... Dyer's mastery of his material is indeed enviable. The book abounds with a wealth of illustrative examples, which bring the discussion to life. Yet the author's learning is always worn lightly.' Nigel Saul, History Today 'This elegant account of the economic history of Britain over seven centuries is an exhilarating book - this is serious history that can be read for pleasure.' Danny Danzinger, The Sunday Times 'He has an open style, an encyclopedic knowledge of a vast sweep of over half a millennium of history, and he offers accessible and cogent introductions to an infinite range of potentially complex and obscure topics... With commendable assurance, Dyer guides his readers through all corners of the economy.' John Hatcher, Times Literary Supplement"
£17.09
Yale University Press The Gentlemans Daughter
Book SynopsisBased on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period.Trade Review"The most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years." Roy Porter; "The Gentleman's Daughter is the most important work of social history since Lawrence Stone's Family, Sex and Marriage. From now on, any historian writing about 18th-century women will have to address the arguments in Vickery's book... It is the first book to bring out into the open the debate about separate spheres. It succeeds on two levels, first as an academic argument of the highest order, and second as a fascinating and enjoyable read. Serious history is rarely this fun." Amanda Foreman, The Times; "Innovative, expertly researched and luminous in style." Linda Colley, London Review of Books; "Amanda Vickery's new history of women in Georgian England offers a revolutionary reinterpretation of the accepted script, both an academic triumph and a spell-binding read" Julie Wheelwright, The Independent
£13.29
Yale University Press Who Governs Democracy and Power in the American
Book Synopsis"A major breakthrough in American political science, and a work destined, deservedly, to influence profoundly all future investigation of our politics masterful, imaginative, and courageous. I recommend it unreservedly to the attention of all students of American politics."-Willmoore KendallTrade ReviewWinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for 1962 and widely acclaimed as a major reinterpretation of the location of political power in American communitiesWinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for 1962 and widely acclaimed as a major reinterpretation of the location of political power in American communities. "Dahl has illuminated a central question in political science, the problem of how men can govern themselves in complex societies. . . . Who Governs? will become a classic."—from the citation of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award"Dahl is never dogmatic, and never imagines that the world stands still to accommodate either the democratic ideal or his own pluralistic theory of city politics. . . . Who Governs? is Dahl’s liveliest and most remarkable book."—Douglas W. Rae, from the Foreword"A major breakthrough in American political science, and a work destined, deservedly, to influence profoundly all future investigation of our politics… masterful, imaginative, and courageous. I recommend it unreservedly to the attention of all students of American politics."—Willmoore Kendall"Magnificently conceived and beautifully executed . . . presenting a rich body of data succinctly and persuasively . . . 'They' are going to have to rewrite the texts on municipal government."—Wallace Sayre"Magnificently conceived and beautifully executed . . . presenting a rich body of data succinctly and persuasively . . . 'They' are going to have to rewrite the texts on municipal government."—Wallace Sayre
£20.90
Yale University Press Hoax
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of BritainTrade Review“Offers a timely warning. When readers look back at this world of cruel, arbitrary justice, paranoia and sectarianism, they should be wary of indulging in the ‘condescension of posterity.’ . . . As Stater points out, believing in conspiracy theories is a part of human nature. Times change, human nature does not.”—Paul Lay, The Times“Oddly, perhaps, historians often present the Popish Plot with a kind of textbookish colorlessness. Mr. Stater’s achievement is to restore the plot’s fascination and to capture—after more than three centuries—the dread and incredulity felt by those who experienced it. . . . His accounts have the compulsively fascinating quality of a true-crime podcast.”—Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal“A fascinating, entertaining study in its own right—thoroughly researched, full of colourful sketches of the leading characters, brilliant at recreating the feverish atmosphere of the times and wise in its assessment of the long-term consequences for English politics.”—Tony Barber, Financial Times“Victor Stater’s rollicking, imperious prose is both well-told history and a thought-provoking study of a world similar to our own.”—Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement“Stater tells this grim tale with a historian’s command of sources and a thriller writer’s control of narrative. He skilfully weaves the story of the plot into the fabric of England’s religious history, as well as its party-political future. His prose is crisp and his judgement sound. . . . Hoax is deeply rooted in the politics and prejudices of the seventeenth century, but it fires a warning shot across the bow of our own time.”—Jessie Childs, Catholic Herald“Gripping. . . . Reading Hoax one is constantly reminded how vulnerable even powerful institutions are to the determinedly dishonest—perhaps particularly to those who justify their dishonesty to themselves as being for a greater cause—and how readily rationality recedes before the irrational when deep-rooted beliefs are brought into play. Might Hoax, as well as being a first-rate piece of history, help alert us to any latter-day Oates and Shaftesburys among us now?”—Mathew Lyons, The Tablet“A rip-roaring narrative account of the Oates conspiracy. . . . Victor Stater’s lively new book on the so-called ‘Popish Plot’ does a wonderful job of telling this story. . . . Stater is particularly good on the big set pieces—the courtroom drama, the executions, the street pageantry—culling dialogue from trial transcripts and setting the scene with enviable brio.”—Joseph Hone, History Today“Hoax is meant to be a rollicking read, and indeed provides a richly descriptive narrative of one of the darkest chapters in English history.”—Andrea McKenzie, British Catholic History“An extraordinary story of vicious lies manipulated by desperate politicians into a frenzy of disinformation. Stater tells it with verve and a magnificently tight narrative control. It led to more than thirty innocent Catholics being tortured to death. Few conspiracy stories have been quite so lethal.”—John Morrill FBA, Selwyn College, Cambridge“A fascinating study. As well as describing the progress of the ‘plot,’ and the investigation into it, blow by blow, Stater gives us a many-sided picture of seventeenth-century London. For anyone with an interest in seventeenth-century history—this book is unmissable. Let Hoax be a lesson to us!”—Liza Picard, author of Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
£19.00
Yale University Press The Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain
Book SynopsisAn incisive, comparative study of the development of PostWorld War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and FranceTrade Review"It [The Postwar Moment] offers a sensitive reappraisal of the tensions and contradictions that both invigorated and stymied the post-war moment, charting a new course for comparative and transnational study."—Ben Huf, University of Sydney, Labour History"the book has unique value as the first to bring into conversation national trajectories of progressive histories in the West's largest traditional democracies."—Brian Shaev, Leiden University, Labour History ReviewSelected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List “For decades when it was unpopular to do so for both leftists and liberals alike, Isser Woloch preserved a social democratic interpretation of the French Revolution and its implications for modern history. Today the heritage of that tradition in the middle of the twentieth century seems more relevant than ever, and we are fortunate in the extreme that Woloch’s newest magisterial book reconstructs a progressive moment after World War II in three countries with such finesse and novelty.”— Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World"Written with analytical verve, The Postwar Moment combines unflinching scrutiny with narrative power. From the riveting opening through its rich national histories and bracing comparative conclusion, this absorbing work reshapes how we understand the fate of progressive and democratic ambitions."—Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the origins of Our Time"In this brilliant synthesis, Isser Woloch fulfills the promise of comparative history by illuminating both the similarities and the differences in the way British, French, and American progressives responded to the challenges of the postwar era."—James J. Sheehan, author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe
£30.88
Yale University Press Becoming Irish American
Book SynopsisThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth centuryTrade Review“Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on each.”—Terry Golway, Wall Street Journal“A sweeping work of American history that tells the story of the transformative encounter between America and the Irish, and how that encounter altered them both. Meagher shows that the America that elected John F. Kennedy can be seen as the culmination of a process which began in the seventeenth century, marked by the influx of women and men from Ireland who staked out their place in a society that did not always want them.”—Hasia Diner, coauthor of Immigration: An American History“Americans with Irish roots have played essential roles in the long drama of American history. Timothy Meagher fills his vivid narrative with rich insights about their religion, politics, work, and culture—and keeps one eye fixed on what was happening in the Ould Sod. This is the best book on the Irish-American past that has ever been written.”—Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party“In this sweeping historical narrative, Tim Meagher shows that Irish immigrants in America neither replicated old world traits nor conformed to a pattern of inevitable assimilation but, instead, created something distinctively and dynamically new.”—Kevin Kenny, New York University
£23.75
Yale University Press Blood and Soil A World History of Genocide and
Book SynopsisPresents the global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times. This book examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on colonial exterminations and 20th-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides.Trade Review"Humans have been slaughtering each other for thousands of years, but only now is the field of genocide studies blooming. This grim account of history notes remarkable parallels in the patterns of mass slaughter, from Carthage to Darfur. With references to the genocides sanctioned by the Bible, it's ghastly reading. Yet you also can't help feeling a measure of progress over the centuries. Today, we're still far too passive about stopping genocide, but even those leaders who engage in it tend to be embarrassed, rather than boastful."—Nicholas D. Kristof, New-York Historical Society series "Books That Matter," New York Times Book Review "This grim account of history notes remarkable parallels in the patterns of mass slaughter, from Carthage to Darfur. With references to the genocides sanctioned by the Bible, it's ghastly reading. Yet you also can't help feeling a measure of progress over the centuries."—Nicholas D. Kristof, New-York Historical Society series "Books That Matter," New York Times Book Review "A great advancement has been made by Ben Kiernan's monumental new book, Blood and Soil. . . . The author's perspective is global and he is interested in genocide before the twentieth century. . . . This is a comparative and temporal vision that only the world history approach can provide."—A. Dirk Moses, The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence"Illuminatingly put together, well-narrated and lucidly discussed. A comparison that comes to my mind is James Frazer's The Golden Bough. As was the case with that great classic, no scholar in the field has previously brought together such a wealth of diverse material and imposed consistent order upon it . . . Kiernan brings order—region by region, era by era, reich by reich—to the appalling catalogue of atrocity that he so impressively commands. Moreover, he does so in plain, straightforward, informative prose. . . . This is pioneering work. . . . He has signposted a way towards a global understanding of the curse of genocide. As such, this book could eventually contribute to the saving of lives—possibly countless lives. No other work in the humanities can aspire to that. This is a major achievement."—Patrick Wolfe, Melbourne Age"Remarkable but harrowing . . . the author is forever splicing unexpected and illuminating primary-source threads."—Stephen Saunders, Canberra Times "Kiernan has put a prodigious amount of research into this book, particularly on the colonial massacres, andhe has made a significant contribution to an increasingly important debate."—Tim Johnson, The Australian"This meticulously researched and voluminous book represents a first of sorts. It is the first synthetic, single-authored global history to connect state power and formation to violence through the willful extermination and attempted extermination of peoples. Its reach is not only global, it is alsotemporal, as the book examines violence through time. . . . [T]his work will be essential not only to genocide scholars, but also to historians and regional specialists. . . . Kiernan absolutely shines in some ways as a historian of ideas [and] does an exemplary job of tracing the justificatory texts. . . . Kiernan's synthesis of this material is most impressive. . . . When one reads this book, there will be conceptual and empirical quarrels, but they do not overshadow the success and tremendous value of this book."—Journal of Asian Studies". . . the first synthetic, single-authored global history to connect state power and formation to violence through the willful extermination and attempted extermination of peoples. Its reach is not only global, it is also temporal, as the book examines violence through time."—Journal of Asian Studies"Masterful."—Norman Naimark, The Conversation"As a narrative history it is well-written, impressively researched, and affords many useful comparative insights. . . . One of the book's great strengths is its truly global sweep . . . One of the services the book performs is to highlight the ubiquity of mass killings in human history. . . . Along the way, there is much revelatory, intriguing and disturbing information to be gleaned. . . . Thorough though he is in cataloguing this history of horrors, Kiernan is careful to draw distinctions among various scales of killing and diverse forms of motivation."—Aviel Roshwald, Nationalities Papers"Kiernan identifies four necessary ingredients in the making of a genocidal situation . . . [Blood and Soil] also recognises the crucial processes that underpin their combination into an explosive mixture. Genocidal phenomena, Kiernan argues insightfully, are actually inherently contradictory occurrences where an anxious perception of a specific trend, or a series of developments, produces sustained counterpoint imaginings. Reality is going, or seems to be going one way, while the imagination proceeds in the opposite direction . . . Kiernan is right: all the atrocities he deals with in his narrative – and he deals with quite a few – display all these elements . . . [A] reliable compilation of genocidal phenomena, their chronology and genealogy . . . Kiernan endeavours effectively to impose a remarkable structuring coherence on an impressive amount of data. At the same time, he convincingly emphasises discursive links and resonances between different epochs and locations. You try and write a book like this."—Lozenzo Veracini, geschichte.transnational and H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews"Genocide scholars and those with an interest in world history should be grateful for Kiernan's latest stimulating work."—Donald W. Beachler, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesWinner of the 2008 gold medal for the best book in History awarded by the Independent Publishers AssociationWinner of the 2009 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for the best book in Holocaust Studies published in 2007-2008, given by the German Studies AssociationThe German edition, Erde und Blut: Völkermord und Vernichtung von der Antike bis heute, won first place in Germany’s Nonfiction Book of the Month Prize Die Sachbücher des Monats, sponsored by Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR Kultur (June 2009)"In exploring the global 'prehistory' of the horrific forms of societal violence usually associated with the twentieth century, Kiernan identifies key factors that have been consistently associated with genocidal episodes. His book makes an original contribution to our understanding of the phenomenon."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University"Ben Kiernan’s Blood and Soil is a major work explaining myths and metaphors that have underwritten genocide for six hundred years—earlier within the bowels of the western tradition; now commonplace practice far beyond that tradition. In seeing genocide as linked to issues of land as well as race, nation, and expansion, Kiernan has opened up social, political, and economic analysis to the struggle for land and the control of property. Such an approach is unique as it is provocative. It is inspired by the author’s profound reading of Cambodia and Southeast Asia. Blood and Soil provides an angle of vision rarely found in those who start (and stop) with a European base of scholarship. The book opens up new questions and formulations on the nature of state inspired murder. It merits a close reading of the dark side of terror, often commented upon, but rarely probed."—Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University "Blood and Soil is a stunning achievement. The idea for the project was clearly a prompting of the heart, but the argument itself is a thing of pure intellect. It surveys thousands of years, visits every corner of the world, and stares with scarcely a blink at the worst horrors the world has ever known. As an act of scholarship, it simply stands alone."—Kai Erikson, Yale University"Ben Kiernan’s book is a major contribution to genocide studies—a first attempt to tell the history of genocidal events, from Sparta to Darfur, Blood and Soil is a well-researched, detailed account of many instances of mass killings and the reasons for their occurrence. It will no doubt give rise to controversy, new research, and new insights."—Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem
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Yale University Press Hitler the Germans and the Final Solution
Book SynopsisPresents historiographic research on Nazi Germany. This book brings together the important aspects of the author's research on the Holocaust. Featuring three sections: Hitler and the 'Final Solution', popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the 'Final Solution' in historiography, it provides a section on the uniqueness of Nazism.Trade Review"'this short book goes to the heart of the great debates over Nazism, then examines the progress of the debates themselves... an important contribution to the historiography of the Second World War. Plus it's a page-turner.' Andrew Roberts, The Mail on Sunday 'an excellent chance to acquire, in a single volume, Kershaw's writings on the Holocaust... The classic essays in the first two sections of the book will remain required reading for students of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust for years to come.' Dan Stone, BBC History Magazine 'To a field that is increasingly fragmented, faddish and cursed by jargon, Kershaw brings a grounded, unified perspective that is conveyed with precision and clarity. His unflashy style, personal reticence and sheer decency are, sadly, too often absent among 'celebrity historians'.' David Cesarini, Literary Review"
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Yale University Press Britons
Book SynopsisHow was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire.Trade Review"It was Colley's clinical analysis of the political and cultural construction of 18th-century Britain which did so much to kick-start our debate about national identity. The clarity of her prose and cohesiveness of her argument remain bewitching." Tristram Hunt, BBC History Magazine "Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly topical... Not only scholarly, but witty, lively and a delight to read. A book that could hardly present complex and challenging argument with greater lucidity and grace." Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph "A very ambitious book.... The general reader cannot fail to enjoy it and the professional historian will be stimulated by it." J. H. Plumb, Financial Times "A book written with such gusto and verve that even a non-academic reader drives through its pages with ease." Angela Lambert, Independent "A remarkable amount of light is shed upon current and coming events by this new study of that elusive thing, the nation... A lavishly researched and illustrated narrative." J. Enoch Powell, Spectator "In this brilliant book... Dr. Colley tells this story with scholarly punctilio, yet also with the brio of an historian who has something serious to say. Time and time again, the arresting connection or the startling detail makes one see familiar ground from a new perspective... It is a rich and stimulating work, which uses illustrations, mainly the cartoons and portraits of the day, with more precise and telling point than any history book I can remember." Hugo Young, The Guardian "A forceful and eloquent analysis of the 'subject, no citizen' mind-set which bound the English, Scots and Welsh together. Impressive prose, and sharp interpretation of visual material, compelled assent." Christopher Harvie, Times Literary Supplement "Challenging, fascinating, enormously well informed." John Barrell, London Review of Books"
£17.09
Yale University Press Power and Justice in Medieval England The Law of
Book SynopsisHow the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common lawTrade Review“A praiseworthy and original investigation of a subject that straddled the line between secular and spiritual: the early history of the English common law of advowsons.”—R. H. Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School“It has been a great pleasure to watch what began as a tentative, but intriguing, doctoral dissertation turn through a series of articles on seemingly small points into the small masterpiece that is this book.”—Charles Donahue Jr., Harvard Law School
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Yale University Press The Second Crusade
Book SynopsisThe Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. This book provides an understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history.Trade Review“This is an excellent book, which takes full account of both primary sources and the many debates in the secondary literature. No other book offers a modern synthesis of the subject in the light of recent developments in crusading studies.”—Professor Malcolm Barber, University of Reading -- Malcolm Barber"This account . . . will be valued by specialists because of its scholarly approach and by undergraduates and general readers because it is written in a clear and accessible style. . . . [A] brilliant analysis of the European situation in 1145 . . . Excellent."—John France, The International History Review -- John France * The International History Review *"[The Second Crusade] constitutes an important achievement. It synthesizes a great deal of previous scholarship while bringing new sources and new interpretations to the discussion. It fills a large historiographical gap with erudite precision."—Thomas F. Madden, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies -- Thomas F. Madden * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *
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