American Contradiction
A History of Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now
ISBN: HB: 9780300282436,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
448 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama - and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.
The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has...
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Jermain Wesley Loguen
Defiant Fugitive
ISBN: HB: 9780300279573,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
320 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
320 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the "King of the Underground Railroad".
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teach...
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18.99 GBP
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Squanto
A Native Odyssey
ISBN: PB: 9780300285512,
ISBN: HB: 9780300238778,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
264 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
264 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography from the Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award
Finalist, 2025 New England Society Book Awards
Named a Best Native Studies Book of 2024 by Tribal Colle...
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War on Illahee
Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest
ISBN: HB: 9780300275735,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
400 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest.
The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocid...
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Nobody Men
Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300258899,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The story of colonists who were neither loyalists nor patriots during the American Revolution, told through the experiences of one transatlantic family.
At least one?third of the colonial population were neutrals during the American Revolution, yet...
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Republic and Empire
Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence
ISBN: HB: 9780300280180,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 17 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 17 black&white illus.
A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event.
At the time of the American Revolution (1765-1783), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellio...
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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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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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California, a Slave State
ISBN: PB: 9780300283358,
ISBN: HB: 9780300211641,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
520 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 62 black&white illus.
520 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 62 black&white illus.
The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking...
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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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