Origins of Judaism
An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal
ISBN: PB: 9780300276657,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism.
Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the...
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£20.00
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World of Songye
Passions and Collections
ISBN: HB: 9780300267020,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
October 2023
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging.
This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the C...
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£160.00
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Early Modernity and Mobility
Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300247534,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
584 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
584 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period.
"Early Modernity and Mobility" explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, w...
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£60.00
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Revolutionary Things
Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300259018,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 46 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 46 black&white illus.
How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals.
Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the Americ...
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£40.00
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Amongst the Ruins
Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
ISBN: HB: 9780300259285,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 80 colour illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 80 colour illus.
"Amongst the Ruins" explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising...
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£25.00
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Development of Complex Societies in Southeastern Shandong, China
Settlement Patterns from the Neolithic to the Han Period
ISBN: PB: 9780913516331,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
352 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 222 black&white illus.
352 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 222 black&white illus.
A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of regional settlement patterns.
From 1995 to 2007, researchers from China and the United States conducted a systematic, full-...
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£30.00
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Language of Beauty in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300260045,
Yale University Press,
March 2022
368 pp., 32,3x22,9 cm, 315 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
368 pp., 32,3x22,9 cm, 315 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Displacing Western values in scholarship and museum interpretation over the past century through an exploration of traditional African artworks and aesthetic vocabularies.
This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional art...
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£50.00
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Ancient DNA
The Making of a Celebrity Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300240122,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Ancient DNA research – the recovery of genetic material from long-dead organisms – is a discipline that developed from science fiction into a reality between the 1980s and today. Drawing on scientific, historical, and archival material, as well as or...
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£30.00
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Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714-1820
ISBN: HB: 9781913107215,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
1120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
1120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and also those who engraved book illustrations for medical, technical and literary works, all of which played a more important part than...
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£75.00
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Social Constellations and Settlement Practice
The Archaeology of Non-Urban Complexity in Southeastern Burkina Faso
ISBN: PB: 9780913516324,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
320 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 82 black&white illus.
320 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 82 black&white illus.
This volume explores the relationships among political strategies, economic practices, and land use in a region inhabited by precolonial West African Gulmance kingdoms. It proposes that variability in farming practices and landscape use was driven by...
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£20.00
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