I Have Avenged America
Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
ISBN: HB: 9780300255478,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule.
"My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery", declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines...
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Joseph Smith
The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9780300255164,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder.
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishin...
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Religion in the Lands That Became America
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221480,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English set...
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Reluctant Conquest
American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic
ISBN: HB: 9780300272215,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
A compelling history of U.S. involvement in and toward the Arctic from the American Revolution through the acquisition of Alaska to the present day.
What drives American foreign relations in the Arctic? It is difficult to give a unified answer to t...
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Politics and Memory
Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300256499,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
304 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 54 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
304 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 54 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
A rich history of Gilded Age partisan politics, aesthetics, and the creation of New York City's Civil War monuments.
In the decades following the Civil War, New York City built more monuments to the Union cause than any other city in the nation out...
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Vigilance Is Not Enough
A History of United States Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9780300269291,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
832 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
832 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
A broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present.
Every nation has an intelligence apparatus – some means by which its top officials acquire needed information on sensitive issues. But each nation does it d...
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Business of Killing Indians
Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300275285,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America.
From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mu...
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Becoming Irish American
The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
ISBN: PB: 9780300281972,
ISBN: HB: 9780300126273,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century.
As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish no...
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Little History of the United States
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283433,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
352 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
352 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life.
The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning with the first contact between the old world and th...
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Yale and Slavery
A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300281842,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273847,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University.
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with...
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