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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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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Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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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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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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No More Napoleons
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
ISBN: HB: 9780300275551,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte – manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire.
At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The cont...
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Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
Updated Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300279597,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 1 map
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 1 map
Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the isla...
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Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300281132,
ISBN: HB: 9780300179040,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library.
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what th...
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