Memory of '76
The Revolution in American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300270877,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries.
Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolut...
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£30.00
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Interbellum Constitution
Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
ISBN: HB: 9780300223217,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
576 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
576 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision.
Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent...
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£35.00
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Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba
ISBN: HB: 9780300267945,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined.
In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island's n...
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£50.00
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Yale and Slavery
A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300273847,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
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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£25.00
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Great New York Fire of 1776
A Lost Story of the American Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300276688,
ISBN: HB: 9780300246957,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?
New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1...
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£16.99
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£25.00
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Not in My Back Yard
How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
ISBN: HB: 9780300253788,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
How a woman-led citizens' group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development.
This social history of local political activism tells the story of the...
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£30.00
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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 44
March 16 through September 12, 1785
ISBN: HB: 9780300267952,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
752 pp., 20,4x14,6 cm, 45 black&white illus.
752 pp., 20,4x14,6 cm, 45 black&white illus.
This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin's final days as minister to France and his voyage home.
Volume 44 of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers Franklin's final months as min...
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£110.00
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Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Alien Encounters and the Fragmentation of America
ISBN: HB: 9780300251388,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s.
In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft aga...
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£25.00
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Becoming Irish American
The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
ISBN: HB: 9780300126273,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
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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£25.00
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War on Record
The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300234145,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A history of the United States' greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War.
The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records – documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what future gene...
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£30.00
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