Nighttime Butterfly
A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism.
When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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25.00 GBP
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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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25.00 GBP
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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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25.00 GBP
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Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
ISBN: HB: 9780300278385,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic.
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calam...
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25.00 GBP
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Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300276442,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
176 pp., 29,2x22,2 cm, 103 colour illus.
176 pp., 29,2x22,2 cm, 103 colour illus.
This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century.
In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artis...
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40.00 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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Letters of Frank Loesser
ISBN: HB: 9780300250749,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The first collected correspondence of one of America's greatest songwriters – revealing a fascinating life and lasting influence.
Frank Loesser was one of the most versatile and influential figures of the Golden Age of Broadway, most famous for "Gu...
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25.00 GBP
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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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18.00 GBP
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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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35.00 GBP
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300281125,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267471,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on...
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11.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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