Contest for the Indian Ocean
And the Return of Great Power Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300270914,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint.
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has...
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£20.00
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780300267471,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 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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£20.00
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Adventurers
The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
ISBN: PB: 9780300276497,
ISBN: HB: 9780300250725,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the Tudor period led to a bold search for new forms of investm...
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£12.99
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£25.00
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Traders in Men
Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300257618,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade.
During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted busines...
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£25.00
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Age of Atlantic Revolution
The Fall and Rise of a Connected World
ISBN: HB: 9780300206333,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history.
The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an in...
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£30.00
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Everything Is Possible
Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism
ISBN: HB: 9780300251173,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
356 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 10 black&white illus.
356 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 10 black&white illus.
The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today.
In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across...
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£25.00
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After Nuremberg
American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals
ISBN: HB: 9780300255300,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 14 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 14 black&white illus.
How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials.
"After Nuremberg" is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminal...
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£35.00
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Twilight Struggle
What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
ISBN: PB: 9780300268058,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold War.
America is entering an era of long-term great power competition with China and Russia. In this innovative and illuminating book...
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£16.99
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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780300116908,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
392 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
392 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent.
All were complicit; the ca...
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£22.00
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Newspaper Axis
Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
ISBN: HB: 9780300256420,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II.
As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The med...
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£25.00
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