Host Cities
How Refugees Are Transforming the World's Urban Settings
ISBN: HB: 9780300254693,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
320 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 6 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 6 black&white illus.
A revealing study of how the arrival of refugees affects and transforms cities.
Cities all over the world experience large humanitarian influxes, and refugees and citizens alike must navigate the related risks and opportunities. Over the past twent...
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20.00 GBP
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Indigenous London
Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300284218,
ISBN: HB: 9780300206302,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...
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14.99 GBP
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30.00 GBP
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Perfect Communities
Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia
ISBN: HB: 9780300259544,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity.
Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, com...
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25.00 GBP
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Personhood
The New Civil War over Reproduction
ISBN: HB: 9780300273045,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The next phase of the war over reproduction in America.
What's next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has be...
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25.00 GBP
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Plunder of Black America
How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
ISBN: HB: 9780300258950,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations.
Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of we...
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Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300281859,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s.
In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft aga...
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11.99 GBP
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Burying the Enemy
The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300273977,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 39 black&white illus., 2 maps
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 39 black&white illus., 2 maps
A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars.
Why do societies only remember their own national war dead? Today, the enemy dead might be largely hidden from view, but this wasn't alw...
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25.00 GBP
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Immigration and Apocalypse
How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration
ISBN: HB: 9780300253184,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation's New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives have been used to exclude unwanted immigrants.
America appeared on the European horizon at a moment of apocalyptic expectation a...
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35.00 GBP
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Private Sins, Public Crimes
Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran
ISBN: HB: 9780300275681,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran.
Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that in Qajar Iran, the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public...
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50.00 GBP
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Change the Wallpaper
Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
ISBN: HB: 9780300270228,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
280 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action.
How can ordinary people fight for social justice? Can individual actions change structural ine...
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20.00 GBP
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