Beyond Boundaries
Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
ISBN: PB: 9780300279979,
Yale University Press,
May 2026
330 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 120 colour illus.
330 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 120 colour illus.
An examination of how engagement with the nuances of Caribbean intellectual thought could reshape art history.
Despite its rich cultural and intellectual heritage, the Caribbean region has often been excluded from art history - along with essential...
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20.00 GBP
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Coming of the Railway
A New Global History, 1750-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780300284300,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267891,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white, 6 maps
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white, 6 maps
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution - one t...
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11.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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On Loss and Absence
Textiles of Mourning and Survival
ISBN: HB: 9780300284089,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
224 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 156 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
224 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 156 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
A journey through the rich histories of textiles that explores their significant cultural roles, from memorializing lost loved ones to resisting oppression.
From ancient Egyptian shrouds to medieval relics, textiles have played both functional and...
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30.00 GBP
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Medieval Moon
A History of Haunting and Blessing
ISBN: HB: 9780300278286,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
A vivid new history of how medieval people around the world perceived the moon.
When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate - and sometimes all this at once...
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20.00 GBP
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Mistress
A History of Women and their Country Houses
ISBN: HB: 9780300163810,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 29 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 29 black&white illus.
An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Grand houses can be found across the countryside of England and Wales. From the Stuart and Georgian periods to the Edwardia...
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25.00 GBP
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Franz Boas
In Praise of Open Minds
ISBN: HB: 9780300241235,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology.
Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studie...
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18.99 GBP
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Facing Down the Furies
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
ISBN: PB: 9780300281927,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 black&white illus.
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves.
In Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the Tyrant", a messenger arrives to report that J...
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12.99 GBP
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Production and Exchange in Eurasia
In Commemoration of Zeng Lingyi
ISBN: PB: 9780913516355,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
246 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 59 black&white illus.
246 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 59 black&white illus.
Commemorating the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, this volume considers production and exchange within the larger context of early Eurasian societies.
This volume commemorates the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, a PhD candidate in the Dep...
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40.00 GBP
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Intrepid Women
Adventures in Anthropology
ISBN: HB: 9781851246502,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
March 2025
240 pp., 22,4x17,0 cm, 80 colour illus.
240 pp., 22,4x17,0 cm, 80 colour illus.
True accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century.
The extraordinary women featured in "Intrepid Women" defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in dista...
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25.00 GBP
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Lost Gardens of London
ISBN: HB: 9781738487806,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
272 pp., 24,1x16,9 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.
272 pp., 24,1x16,9 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.
"Lost Gardens of London" pays tribute to the evanescence of London's vast and varied garden legacy. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan explores gardens that range in date from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, and from the capital's humble allotments and...
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