Georgians
The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300270563,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
488 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
488 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times?
The Georgian era (1714-1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world's first industrial revolution, and de...
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12.99 GBP
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Moving Crops and the Scales of History
ISBN: HB: 9780300257250,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape" – the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop.
Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops h...
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35.00 GBP
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On Parchment
Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300260212,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 164 colour illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 164 colour illus.
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia.
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of s...
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30.00 GBP
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Islands and Cultures
How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability
ISBN: PB: 9780300253016,
ISBN: HB: 9780300253009,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records.
Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between approximately 3,000 and 800 year...
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29.00 GBP
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65.00 GBP
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Story of Tutankhamun
An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King
ISBN: HB: 9780300267433,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 40 colour illus.
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 40 colour illus.
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun – published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery.
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania g...
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16.99 GBP
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Story of Work
A New History of Humankind
ISBN: PB: 9780300267068,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
544 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 6 maps
544 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 6 maps
We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs.
Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive...
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Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300267754,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
492 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 32 black&white illus.
492 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinv...
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18.99 GBP
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Pagan Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300268348,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 103 black&white illus.
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 103 black&white illus.
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughl...
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14.99 GBP
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"Vaudeville Indians" on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s
ISBN: HB: 9780300257052,
Yale University Press,
July 2022
400 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
400 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Uncovering hidden histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and in the creation of western modernity and popular culture.
Drawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaude...
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50.00 GBP
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Going to Church in Medieval England
ISBN: PB: 9780300266436,
Yale University Press,
July 2022
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 51 colour illus., 8 maps
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 51 colour illus., 8 maps
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century.
Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth ce...
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