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100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING A World of Letters Yale University Press, 1908–2008 Nicholas A. Basbanes Yale University Press celebrates its hundredth birthday in autumn 2008 and to mark this anniversary publishes A World of Letters. The Press has published over 8,000 volumes during the years, including many bestsellers and prize-winners, involving a host of colourful authors, editors, sales and marketing teams, directors, board members and others. In this highly engaging volume Nicholas Basbanes, one of the most accomplished writers on books and letters, presents a revealing chronicle of the Press’s first 100 years and looks forward to the initiatives that will propel it into a second century of ambitious and innovative publishing. Nicholas Basbanes is the author of A Gentle Madness, A Splendor of Letters and the bestselling Every Book Its Reader.
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■ Index Front Cover: Dita von Teese in Vogue Nippon, November 2006. Photograph: YASUNARI KIKUMA. Creative Consultant: Gene Krell. Courtesy YASUNARI KIKUMA, Vogue Nippon, and www.dita.net. From: Gothic, by Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park, see page 1. Back Cover: photography by Fred H. Berger. From: Gothic, by Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park, see page 1.
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Fashion 1
The first in-depth study of the gothic influence on fashion, this gorgeous book features designers from Alexander McQueen to Yohji Yamamoto
Main picture: Untitled. Stern magazine, 2005. Photograph courtesy Eugenio Recuenco.
Gothic Dark Glamour Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. ‘Gothic’ is an epithet with a strange history—evoking images of death, destruction and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal symbol of rebellion for a wide range of cultural outsiders.
Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where Jennifer Park is coordinator of special projects. Steele is also editorin-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture.
Popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion encompasses not only subcultural styles (from old-school goth to cyber-goth and beyond) but also high fashion by such designers as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Olivier Theyskens and Yohji Yamamoto. Fashion photographers, such as Sean Ellis and Eugenio Recuenco, have also drawn on the visual vocabulary of the gothic to convey narratives of dark glamour. As the text and lavish illustrations in this book suggest, gothic fashion has deep cultural roots that give it an enduring potency.
October 192 pp. 380x230mm. 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13694-4 £19.99*
Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
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2 Economics
A deft critique of global finance by one of the world’s leading financial commentators
Fixing Global Finance Martin Wolf “It is neither desirable nor feasible for the US to be the world’s dominant borrower forever. Indeed it is absurd for the world economy’s stability to depend on the willingness of the world’s richest consumers to borrow ever more.”—Martin Wolf “Wolf ’s informed, stimulating, incisive commentary combines professional mastery, accessible analysis and vigorous prose.” —Richard Roberts, Professor of Contemporary History, University of London Martin Wolf is a leading economic and financial journalist. Since 1996 he has been chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, having been chief economics leader writer from 1987–96. He is the author of the bestselling Why Globalization Works.
January 224 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14277-8 £18.99*
The globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits. In practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking crises in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the developing world. The failure of advanced countries and of the IMF to rescue the damaged economies of Asia, Russia or Brazil taught those countries, and the emerging Chinese giant, an overwhelming lesson: never again. Emerging economies ceased importing capital, but by keeping their exchange rates down, running huge current account surpluses, recycling capital inflows and accumulating enormous foreign currency reserves, they began to export it on a vast scale. Since several advanced countries also ran large current account surpluses, to which the oil exporters added their own massive contributions in the mid-2000s, the US emerged as the spender and borrower of last resort. The US is the world’s most creditworthy borrower. But as its external deficit exploded, so did the domestic borrowing of US households, stimulated by rising house prices. The result was the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. The challenge ahead is to promote a financial system that makes fastgrowing emerging economies comfortable as large-scale net importers of foreign capital. The key is to acknowledge that, in a world of adjustable currencies, international lending must be denominated in the currency of borrowers, not just in that of a few dominant advanced economies. Only by tackling imbalances in the international financial system is there a chance of global financial stability. Translation rights: Felicity Bryan Agency
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Av a tim ilab e i le f n or pa th pe e rb firs ac t k
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“Brilliant, irresistible: a wonderful surprise.” —Philip Pullman “Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read . . . Tolerance, reason and humanity . . . suffuse every page.” —Amanda Vickery, The Guardian “there will be many generations of future historians who will attribute to it their lifelong passion for history—and for truth.” —Lisa Jardine, The Times “I am going to buy ten copies of this book and give it to my ten favourite children . . . this is a book which teaches what it is to be civilised by its very tone, which is one of gentleness, curiosity and erudition.” —A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
E. H. Gombrich’s best-selling world history for the curious of all ages, now available in paperback
E. H. GOMBRICH A Little History of the World Translated by Caroline Mustill Illustrated by Clifford Harper In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world.
“A magical work.”—John Banville, The Irish Times
In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.
“a delight for all ages. The pages sparkle with the learned author’s wit and wisdom—and reading them, one feels as if Gombrich, one of the greatest ever art historians, is guiding one through time with a grandfatherly gleam in his eye.” —Ben Schott, The Observer
September 304 pp. 216x138mm. 40 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4 £6.99*
“retains an irresistible, boyish energy and enthusiasm . . . Here, in this little book are answers to many of the questions you never dared to ask.” —Margaret Drabble, New Statesman
Translation rights: DuMont Verlag, Cologne
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4 History
How the astronauts’ first pictures of our planet—small, beautiful and unique in space—transformed our ideas about the Earth
Earthrise How Man First Saw the Earth Robert Poole Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo ‘Earthrise’ and ‘Blue Marble’ photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its environment in a way that echoed throughout religion, culture and science. Gazing upon our whole planet for the first time, we saw ourselves and our place in the universe with new clarity.
Robert Poole is reader in history, University of Cumbria. He has written and broadcast extensively on history, from witch trials to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and has published in journals from History Today to Past and Present.
September 256 pp. 203x127mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13766-8 £18.99*
Poole delves into new areas of research and looks at familiar history from fresh perspectives. With intriguing anecdotes and wonderful pictures, he examines afresh the politics of the Apollo missions, the challenges of whole Earth photography and the story of the behind-thescenes struggles to get photographs of the Earth put into mission plans. He traces the history of imagined visions of Earth from space and explores what happened when imagination met reality. The photographs of Earth represented a turning point, Poole contends. In their wake, Earth Day was inaugurated, the environmental movement took off and the first space age ended. People turned their focus back towards Earth, towards the precious and fragile planet we call home. “What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the Moon, but that they set eye on the Earth.” —Norman Cousins, 1975 “Earthrise contextualises and reflects on a unique photographic record in a quite compelling and inspiring way.”—Sir Jonathon Porritt
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A vivid and poignant account of the struggle of French writers and artists to endure and combat the German occupation that threatened their cultural heritage
The facade of the Paris Opera covered with banners. Roger Viollet/Paris.
The Shameful Peace How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation Frederic Spotts The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation’s artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained—including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin—responded in differing ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France’s artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors.
Frederic Spotts is author of Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, published by Yale. His most recent book is Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.
October 304 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13290-8 £25.00*
Filled with anecdotes about the artists, composers, writers, filmmakers and actors who lived through the years of occupation, the book illuminates the disconcerting experience of life and work within a cultural prison. Frederic Spotts uncovers Hitler’s plan to pacify the French through an active cultural life, and examines the unexpected vibrancy of opera, ballet, painting, theatre, and film in both the Occupied and Vichy Zones. In view of the longer-term goal to supplant French with German culture, Spotts offers moving insight into the predicament of French artists as they fought to preserve their country’s cultural and national identity.
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What was it like for ordinary people to join the Crusades? How did Crusaders contend with the enormous difficulties they encountered?
Christian prisoners about to be decapitated by their Saracen captors. British Library.
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Fighting for the Cross Crusading to the Holy Land Norman Housley In a series of massive military undertakings that stretched from 1095 to 1291, Christendom’s armies won, defended and lost the sacred sites of the Holy Land. Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail what is was like to take part in medieval Europe’s most ambitious wars. This vividly written book draws on extensive research and on a wealth of surviving contemporary accounts to recreate the full experience of crusading, from the elation of taking up the cross to the difficult adjustments at home when the war was over.
Norman Housley is professor of history and Head of the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester. He is a world authority on the Middle Ages and on the Crusades in particular.
Distinguished historian Norman Housley explores the staggering logistical challenges of raising, equipping and transporting thousands of Christian combatants from Europe to the East as well as the complications that non-combatant pilgrims presented. He describes the ordinary crusader’s prolonged years of difficult military tasks, risk of starvation and disease, trial of religious faith, death of friends, and the spectre of heavy debt or stolen land upon arriving home. Creating an unprecedented sense of immediacy, Housley brings to light the extent of crusaders’ sacrifices and the religious commitment that enabled them to endure.
September 356 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11888-9 £25.00*
“In this important book Norman Housley, a leader in the field of crusade studies, reveals the experiences of the crusaders to the east in the central middle ages. He surveys the whole period and uses a mass of source material, much of it little known, to build up a convincing and revealing picture of the experience of crusading.” —Jonathan Riley Smith
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Since it was first translated from Latin, the Bible has become more and more accessible—and more and more influential
The Bible and the People Lori Anne Ferrell In the eleventh century, the Bible was available only in expensive and rare hand-copied manuscripts. Today, millions of people from all walks of life seek guidance, inspiration, entertainment and answers from their own editions of the Bible. This well illustrated book tells the story of what happened to the ancient set of writings we call the Bible during those thousand years. Anchoring the story in material evidence— hundreds of different translations and versions of the Bible—Lori Anne Ferrell discusses how the Bible has been endlessly retailored to meet the changing needs of religion, politics and the reading public while retaining its special status as a sacred text.
Lori Anne Ferrell is professor of early modern history and literature at Claremont Graduate University, California.
January 320 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w + 16 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11424-9 £19.99*
Focusing on the English-speaking world, The Bible and the People charts the extraordinary voyage of the Bible from manuscript Bibles to the Gutenberg volumes, Bibles commissioned by kings and queens, the Eliot Indian Bible, salesmen’s door-to-door Bibles, children’s Bibles, Gideon Bibles, teen magazine Bibles and more. Ferrell discusses the Bible’s profound impact on readers over the centuries, and, in turn, the mark those readers made upon it. Enjoyable and informative, this book takes a fresh look at the fascinating and little-recognised connections among Christian, political and book history.
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8 Current Affairs
The untold story of Israel’s ‘other’ Jews, and the prejudice they have faced Main picture: Yemenite Jews looking at a map of Israel, c. 1948.
Not The Enemy Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands Rachel Shabi In this remarkable, page-turning book, Rachel Shabi lays bare the painful division within Israeli society between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Eastern Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle East. Herself from an Iraqi Jewish family, Shabi explores the history of this relationship, tracing it back to the first days of the new state of Israel. In a society desperate to identify itself with Europe, immigrants who spoke Arabic and followed Middle Eastern customs were seen as inferior; David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, famously described them as lacking the most elementary knowledge.
Rachel Shabi was born in Israel to Iraqi Jews and grew up in Britain. A journalist, she has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
January 320 pp. 216x138mm. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12275-6 £18.99*
Sixty years later, Mizrahis are still much less successful than Ashkenazis, condemned, often, to substandard education, low-quality housing and mockery for their accents, tastes and lifestyles. Through a combination of archival research and personal interviews, Shabi brings to light the prejudices that permeate Israeli society and demonstrates how they affect Mizrahi lives and hopes. Even more importantly, she argues that the treatment meted out to Mizrahis reflects a wider Israeli rejection of the Middle East and its culture, a rejection that makes it impossible for Israel ever to become integrated within its own region.
Translation rights: Sheil Land Associates Limited
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With unprecedented access to extensive and private royal archives, the author draws a detailed and absorbing portrait of Jordan’s remarkable King Hussein
King Hussein gives a press conference at the end of the 1967 war with Israel
King Hussein of Jordan A Political Life Nigel Ashton King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne in 1953, at the age of seventeen. He inherited a country that was riven with instability; the entire Middle East was in disarray following the 1948 war and the creation of Israel, and across the region traditional regimes were being overthrown by Arab nationalists. In this absorbing biography Nigel Ashton tells how Hussein managed not only to survive but to flourish in the half-century that followed. Clever political management enabled him to thwart the numerous threats to his life and kingdom, and his charm and diplomatic savvy made him a favourite in the West. Most strikingly, he conducted a covert dialogue with Israeli leaders for more than thirty years, culminating in the historic 1994 peace treaty between Jordan and Israel.
Nigel Ashton is senior lecturer, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War.
Ashton has had unique access to Hussein’s private papers, including his secret correspondence with US, British and Israeli leaders, and has conducted numerous interviews with members of Hussein’s circle and immediate family. The resulting book brings new depth to our understanding not only of the King himself but of the entire Middle East during the second half of the twentieth century. “a thorough, readable, and incisive account of King Hussein’s life” —Professor Roger Louis, University of Texas
October 464 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-09167-0 £25.00*
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A vivid personal portrait by a writer whose close friendship with the renowned artist has given him a unique insight into his work Francis Bacon, 1960, with Red Cardinal (Seated Figure) and Head of a Woman. Photo: Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, Sotheby’s.
Francis Bacon Studies for a Portrait Michael Peppiatt One of the most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of modern times, Francis Bacon was a man of endless contradictions and facets. In this invaluable book Michael Peppiatt, a major art critic and close friend of Bacon, offers an entertaining and uniquely well-informed portrait of this complex artist. Peppiatt’s collection of interviews and essays spans more than forty years—from 1963, when the two men met, to 2007, when Peppiatt wrote an essay explaining Bacon’s passionate involvement with Van Gogh. The pieces in between include discussions of Bacon’s working methods and techniques, his unlikely relationship with his London dealer, his attitude toward Christian belief and classical myth, and his defining friendship with the eminent French writer Michel Leiris. Peppiatt also provides fascinating anecdotes about the artist’s early life, his intimate relationships, and his connections with the artists who were his contemporaries and friends. In addition, among the interviews reproduced for the book are new transcripts of two interviews presenting previously omitted material that brings out many littleknown aspects of Bacon’s presence and personality. Michael Peppiatt is the leading authority on Francis Bacon. He has written the definitive biography of the artist and curated several influential exhibitions of his work. September 288 pp. 234x156mm. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14255-6 £18.99*
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A renowned critic and historian offers a radically new account of the meaning of ambitious art photography since the Bechers
Thomas Demand, Archive, 1995. Chromogenic process print.
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before Michael Fried From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems— associated with notions of theatricality, literalness and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his controversial essay ‘Art and Objecthood’ (1967)—have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the photographic ‘ghetto’ no longer exists; instead photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art as never before. Among the photographers and video-makers whose work receives serious attention in this powerfully argued book are Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions. October 320 pp. 275x195mm. 90 b/w + 70 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13684-5 £30.00*
Michael Fried is J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University.
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A captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries
The Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread Maria Balinska If smoked salmon and cream cheese bring only one thing to mind, you can count yourself among the world’s millions of bagel mavens. But few people are aware of the bagel’s provenance, let alone its adventuresome history. This charming book tells the remarkable story of the bagel’s journey from the tables of seventeenth-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today, a story of often surprising connections between a cheap market-day snack and centuries of Polish, Jewish and American history. Research in international archives and numerous personal interviews uncover the bagel’s links with the defeat of the Turks by Polish King Jan Sobieski in 1683, the Yiddish cultural revival of the late nineteenth century, and Jewish migration across the Atlantic to America. There the story moves from the bakeries of New York’s Lower East Side to the Bagel Bakers’ Local 388 Union of the 1960s, and the attentions of the mob. For all its modest size, the bagel has managed to bridge cultural gaps, rescue kings from obscurity, charge the emotions and challenge received wisdom. Maria Balinska weaves together a rich, quirky and evocative history of East European Jewry and the unassuming ringshaped roll the world has taken to its heart.
October 224 pp. 178x140mm. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11229-0 £15.00*
Maria Balinska is an American of Polish Jewish origin. She graduated from Princeton University and spent a year in Krakow studying Polish language and culture. She is currently the Editor of BBC Radio’s World Current Affairs Department, and an experienced researcher, journalist and documentary maker specialising in Eastern Europe and the United States.
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An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents
Plumes Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce Sarah Abrevaya Stein The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. She discovers that Jews fostered and nurtured the trade across the global commodity chain and throughout the far-flung territories where ostriches were reared and plucked, and their feathers were sorted, exported, imported, auctioned, wholesaled and finally manufactured for sale. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is professor of history, University of Washington, and author of Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, winner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies for 2003.
January 224 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. + 1 map ISBN 978-0-300-12736-2 £18.00*
From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York’s Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture. This is a singular story of global commerce, colonial economic practices and the rise and fall of a glamorous luxury item. “One of the most imaginative books in modern Jewish history that I have read in a very long time.”—Todd Endelman, professor of history, University of Michigan
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The first authoritative account of the Hell-Fire Clubs, who joined them and which notorious legends about them are true
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‘He and His Drunken Companions Riot in the Streets’. © The Trustees of The British Museum.
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The Hell-Fire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies Evelyn Lord The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalised eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed. This thoroughly researched book sets aside the exaggerated gossip about the secret Hell-Fire Clubs and brings to light the first accurate portrait of their membership (including John Wilkes, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prince of Wales), beliefs, activities and the reasons for their proliferation, first in the British Isles and later in America, possibly under the auspices of Benjamin Franklin.
Evelyn Lord was course director of the masters in local and regional history, University of Cambridge. She has published widely on local history and is the author of The Knights Templar in Britain and The Stuart Secret Army.
September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11667-0 £19.99*
Hell-Fire Clubs operated under a variety of titles, but all attracted similar members—mainly upper-class men with abundant leisure and the desire to shock society. The book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then religious blasphemy and later sexual indulgence; and the countermovement that eventually suppressed them. Uncovering the facts behind the Hell-Fire legends, this book also opens a window on the rich contradictions of the Enlightenment period. “This looks like the last word on the mystery of the Hellfire Clubs, those manifestations of irrational alcoholic and sexual exuberance which reached their peak in the eighteenth century. By a careful sifting of all the evidence Lord has cracked the code.” —Fergus Linnane, author of The Lives of the English Rakes
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An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading and enjoying books in Britain and America
Reading Matters Five Centuries of Discovering Books Margaret Willes It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and megabookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period—most of which have survived—showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women.
Margaret Willes was Publisher for the National Trust, where she began its own imprint, in addition to writing and producing illustrated books.
September 304 pp. 234x156mm. 83 b/w + 16 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12729-4 £19.99*
Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its many illustrations will inform, entertain and inspire. “Through a series of chapters based on detailed and expert knowledge of important book collections, Willes opens up a wide range of matters connected to reading. This is a fascinating book.” —C. M. Woolgar, The Hartley Library, University of Southampton
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An absorbing account of America’s captivation with the British monarchy, from the Founding Fathers to the present
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The Eagle and the Crown Americans and the British Monarchy Frank Prochaska This book tells the intriguing and paradoxical story of a nation that overthrew British rule only to become fascinated by the glamour of its royal family. Examining American attitudes towards British royalty from the Revolutionary period to the death of Princess Diana, The Eagle and the Crown penetrates the royal legacy in American politics, culture and national self-image.
Frank Prochaska is lecturer and senior research scholar in the Department of History, Yale University, and author of Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy, published by Yale.
September 288 pp. 234x156mm. 60 b/w + 10 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14195-5 £25.00*
Frank Prochaska argues that the United States is not only beguiled by the British monarchy but has itself considered the idea of a presidency assuming many of the characteristics of a monarchy. He shows that America’s Founding Fathers created what Teddy Roosevelt later called an ‘elective king’ in the office of the president, conferring quasi-regal status on the occupant of the Oval Office. Prochaska also contends that members of the British royal family who visit the United States have been key players in the emergence of America’s obsession with celebrity. America’s complex relationship with the British monarchy has for more than two hundred years been part of the nation’s conversation about itself, a conversation that Prochaska explores with wit and panache. “Frank Prochaska probably knows as much about the British monarchy as any man alive. Writing with lucidity and wit, he handles an enormous amount of material with an impressive mastery.” —Philip Ziegler, author of King Edward VIII: The Official Biography
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Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father’s achievements as a leader were greater still
Main picture: Portrait of Philip on a silver tetradrachm. Left: Lion of Chaeronea.
Philip II of Macedonia Ian Worthington Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time and conquered and annexed Greece? This landmark biography is the first to bring Philip to life, exploring the details of his life and legacy and demonstrating that his achievements were so remarkable that it can be argued they outshone those of his more famous son. Without Philip, Greek history would have been entirely different.
Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History, University of Missouri–Columbia. Among his previous books are Alexander the Great: Man and God and Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator.
August 352 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12079-0 £25.00*
Taking into account recent archaeological discoveries and reinterpreting ancient literary records, Ian Worthington brings to light Philip’s political, economic, military, social and cultural accomplishments. He reveals the full repertoire of the king’s tactics, including several polygamous diplomatic marriages, deceit, bribery, military force and a knack for playing off enemies against one another. The author also inquires into the king’s influences, motives and aims, and in particular his turbulent, unravelling relationship with Alexander, which may have ended in murder. Philip became in many ways the first modern regent of the ancient world, and this book places him where he properly belongs: firmly at the center stage of Greek history. “Professor Worthington is a leading expert on later fourth-century BCE Greek history. In this valuable study, he argues that Philip may be considered a greater king even than Alexander, reviving an argument that is destined to run and run, as long as the factors ultimately shaping Eurasian history are a matter of living concern to a broad public.”—Paul Cartledge
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Fred Astaire Joseph Epstein Joseph Epstein’s Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer’s magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions and above all his accomplishments. Written with the wit and grace the subject deserves, Fred Astaire provides a remarkable portrait of this extraordinary artist and how he came to embody for Americans a fantasy of easy elegance and, more complicatedly, of democratic aristocracy.
Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, Snobbery, Friendship, and Fabulous Small Jews. He has been editor of American Scholar and has written for the New Yorker.
November 224 pp. 210x140mm. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11695-3 £14.99*
Tracing Astaire’s life from his birth in Omaha to his death in his late eighties in Hollywood, the book discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, his gifts as a singer (Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern all delighted in composing for Astaire) and his many movie dance partners, among them Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse and Betty Hutton. A key chapter of the book is devoted to Astaire’s somewhat unwilling partnership with Ginger Rogers, the woman with whom he danced most dazzlingly of all. What emerges from these pages is a fascinating view of an American era, seen through the accomplishments of Fred Astaire, an unassuming but perfectionist performer who transformed entertainment into art and gave America a new and yet enduring standard for style.
Icons of America Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
Mozart’s Operas A Companion Mary Hunter This wise and friendly guide to Mozart’s operas encompasses the full range of his most popular works—Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così, Magic Flute, Seraglio, Clemenza di Tito—as well as lesser known works like Mitridate and Il re Pastore. Music historian Mary Hunter provides a lively introduction to each opera for any listener who has enjoyed a performance, either on the stage or in a video recording, and who wishes to understand the opera more fully.
Mary Hunter is A. Leroy Greason Professor of Music, Bowdoin College, and author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna.
October 354 pp. 234x156mm. 14 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11833-9 £25.00*
The Companion includes a synopsis and commentary on each work, as well as background information on the three main genres in which Mozart wrote: opera seria, opera buffa and Singspiel. An essay on the ‘anatomy’ of a Mozart opera points out the musical conventions with which the composer worked and suggests nontechnical ways to think about his musical choices. The book also places modern productions of the operas in historical context and explores how modern directors, producers and conductors present Mozart’s works today. Filled with factual information and interesting issues to ponder while watching a performance, this guide will appeal to newcomers and seasoned opera aficionados alike. “The book achieves its aims wonderfully and easily betters any other work I know on the subject”—Cliff Eisen, King’s College London
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Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver With Maps and Peak Sketches by Dee Molenaar
The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa team-mate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Maurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History, Hamilton College. Stewart Weaver is professor of history, University of Rochester.
October 592 pp. 254x178mm. 65 photos & 15 maps ISBN 978-0-300-11501-7 £25.00*
The book recounts the adventures of such figures as Martin Conway, who led the first authentic Himalayan climbing expedition in 1892; Fanny Bullock Workman, the pioneer explorer of the Karakoram range; George Mallory, the romantic martyr of Mount Everest fame; Charlie Houston, who led American expeditions to K2 in the 1930s and 1950s; Ang Tharkay, the legendary Sherpa and many others. Throughout, the authors discuss the effects of political and social change on the world of mountaineering, and they offer a penetrating analysis of a culture that once emphasised teamwork and fellowship among climbers, but now has been eclipsed by a scramble for individual fame and glory. Translation rights: Elaine Markson Literary Agency
Dolphin Mysteries Unlocking the Secrets of Communication Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D. and Toni Frohoff, Ph.D. Foreword by Mark Bekoff, Ph.D.
Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling book, Kathleen Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins’ aquatic world to witness first-hand how they live their lives, communicate and interact with one another and with other species, including people.
Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D., is director of the Dolphin Communication Project. Toni Frohoff, Ph.D., is director of TerraMar Research and research director of Whale Stewardship Project.
November 288 pp. 234x178mm. 49 b/w + 23 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12112-4 £18.99*
Kathleen Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff are scientists who have collectively dedicated more than 40 years to studying dolphins beneath the ocean’s surface, frequently through a close-up underwater lens. Drawing on their own experiences and on up-to-the-minute research, the authors show that dolphins are decidedly not just members of a group but distinct individuals, able to communicate with one another and with humans. Dudzinski and Frohoff introduce a new way of looking at, and listening to, the vocabulary of dolphins in the sea, and they even provide an introductory ‘dolphin dictionary’, listing complex social signals that dolphins use to share information among themselves and with people. Unveiling an intimate and scientifically accurate portrait of dolphins, this book will appeal to everyone who has wanted a closer glimpse into the hearts and minds of these amazing creatures.
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Anna Freud A Biography Second Edition Elisabeth Young-Bruehl This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes—among other new features—a major retrospective introduction by the author. “Young-Bruehl’s description of one of the most complex but brilliant lights in psychoanalytic history has stood as a beacon to students of psychoanalytic history. It is the best, most carefully crafted biography of any psychoanalyst, and it illuminates the entire tradition with a clarity that only the exploration of the life of the daughter of the founder of the movement could possibly provide. It is a beautifully written, insightful, and remarkably edifying piece of work. The best has just got better.”—Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a practicing psychoanalyst.
November 544 pp. 210x140mm. 41 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14023-1 £12.99*
“A gem of biographical writing.”—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune “Lucid, erudite, briskly authoritative, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl . . . has given us the insight into character that makes biography an art.” —James Atlas
Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice Janet Malcolm Unlocking the truth of the mystifying relationship between Gertrude Stein, brilliant and affable, and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas. “Malcolm’s research into those murky war-time and post-war events reads like a great detective story . . . This short, cogently argued, wholly original book will irrevocably alter history’s view of Stein and Toklas” —Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail “The most touching parts of Malcolm’s book are those in which she addresses a matter tactfully skirted round in standard short tours of Gertrude Stein—the unreadability of most of what she wrote, and certainly everything in her ‘modernist’ mode.”—Alexander Cockburn, The Sunday Times
Janet Malcolm is the author of The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Reading Chekhov.
“Janet Malcolm also has the gift of keeping her readers glued to the page, and she peppers a fascinating story with her insights into biographical form.”—Frances Wilson, The Sunday Telegraph “I ended feeling that Malcolm’s brief, complex, contradictory, and multi-layered anti-narrative narrative had, magically, brought her subjects to life.”—Carlo Gebler, The Irish Times Also by Janet Malcolm: Burdock, see page 46.
September 240 pp. 197x134mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14310-2 £7.99*
Yale edition not for sale in Australia and New Zealand. Rights sold: German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
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The First Day of the Blitz September 7, 1940 Peter Stansky On September 7, 1940, the long-feared attack by the Luftwaffe plunged London into a cauldron of fire and devastation. This book recreates that day in all its horror, using rich archival sources and first-hand accounts, many never before published. Peter Stansky weaves together the stories of people who recorded their experiences of the opening hours of the Blitz. Then, exploring more deeply, he examines what that critical day meant to the nation at the time, and what it came to mean in following years. “From the ruins of the buildings levelled on that first night, the myth of the Blitz, still potent today, arose. Stansky makes well-judged use of eyewitness accounts to highlight the reality behind the myth.” —Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times “He offers a vivid account of how Londoners withstood attack. Recent events have shown how that resilient spirit lives into our own day.”—William Hay, The Literary Review Peter Stansky is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University.
September 224 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14335-5 £8.99*
“Stansky has trawled both the available British and American Blitz literature—especially writer-witnesses such as George Orwell and Vera Brittain—and the unpublished accounts of humbler folk.” —Nigel Jones, The Sunday Telegraph “There is no shortage of books about the Blitz, but Peter Stansky’s is up there with the best.”—John O’Connell, Time Out Yale edition not for sale in Australia & New Zealand
The Uses of Disorder Personal Identity and City Life Richard Sennett Richard Sennett is one of the world’s leading sociologists, and this book, first published in 1970, was his first single-authored work. It launched his exploration of communities and how they live in cities, and outlined his view that order breeds narrow, violence-prone lives, while an ‘equilibrium of disorder’ brings vigour and diversity to urban life. The New York Times described it as ‘the best available contemporary defence of anarchism’. The Uses of Disorder followed the student and urban rebellions of the late 1960s. But it remains uncannily apposite to the problems of city life forty years on. In a new preface Sennett considers the response to the book over those years, and relates it to the circumstances faced by the inhabitants of cities in the twenty-first century. The body of the text remains unchanged, ready for a new generation of readers. Richard Sennett is professor of social and cultural theory at the London School of Economics, and Bemis Professor of Social Science at MIT. Among his books is The Culture of the New Capitalism, published by Yale.
September 224 pp. 216x138mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14827-5 £10.99*
“The issues [Sennett] raises are fundamental and profound. The book is utopian in the best sense—it tries to define a radically different future and to show that it could be constructed from the materials at hand”—New York Times Book Review “We are prompted to think and dream and question old and tired clichés and some more recent ones, too, by an author whose mind is rich, wide-ranging, and, best of all, not afraid of life ambiguities, not tempted to banish them all with ideological rhetoric”—Robert Coles
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Blood Sport Hunting in Britain since 1066 Emma Griffin Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. But the battle over the future of hunting is not yet resolved, and polarising right-or-wrong debates continue undiminished. This lively book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain and offers a fresh perspective on today’s conflicts. “Griffin’s book commands admiration because it attempts to be scrupulously fair. She is no friend of big-bag game shooting, and has no delusions about the demerits of both sides in the contemporary battle about hunting.”—Max Hastings, The Sunday Times “[a] serious, intelligent and readable history of blood sport.”—Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph “thorough and insightful . . . [A] fascinating piece of cultural history”—James Delingpole, The Literary Review “Emma Griffin’s forensic account of the history of hunting on these isles is welcome, because its historical perspective and self-imposed boudaries allow her to place a difficult subject in its rightful context, stripping away much of the emotion and prejudice from an activity which has an unparalleled ability to divide opinion.”—Richard Bath, Scotland on Sunday Emma Griffin is Lecturer in History, University of East Anglia.
November 296 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14545-8 £12.00* Translation rights: Conville & Walsh, London
The Great Partition The Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan One of the first events of decolonisation in the twentieth century, the Great Partition of 1947, was also one of the most bloody. In this sweeping reappraisal of India’s liberation from British rule and the emergence of Pakistan, Yasmin Khan uncovers the recklessness of the Partition plan, its catastrophic human toll and the unshakable animosity left in its wake. “an elegant, scholarly analysis of the chaotic severing of two Pakistans (now Pakistan and Bangladesh) from India in 1947. Khan’s book is splendidly researched, and she has an eye for illuminating details of how Partition affected everyday lives.”—Alex von Tunzelmann, The Daily Telegraph “[A] highly intelligent and moving reappraisal of the Partition, weaving together stories of everyday life with political analysis.”—Soumya Bhattacharya, The Observer “Khan’s angry, unsparing analysis of catastrophe is provocative and painful.”—The Times “Yasmin Khan, a British historian, has written a riveting book on this terrible story.”—The Economist Yasmin Khan is Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London.
October 250 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14333-1 £9.99* Yale edition not for sale in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Rights sold: Hindi and Urdu
Bears A Brief History Bernd Brunner • Translated by Lori Lantz This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature and science, Bernd Brunner presents a delightfully illustrated compendium of information about different cultures’ attitudes toward bears, the central place of bears in our myths and dreams, how our images of bears do and do not mesh with reality and more. “Bears is a veritable fount of arcane ursulania and a delight on every page, not least in the plethora of engravings and illustrations; the perfect Christmas book.”—Philip Hoare, The Sunday Telegraph “a wonderful book, a vivid cultural history of interaction between human beings and bears. It is full of glorious period illustrations.”—Simon Barnes, The Times Bernd Brunner, a graduate of the Free University of Berlin and Berlin School of Economics, is an independent scholar, freelance writer and editor of non-fiction books.
January 272 pp. 203x120mm. 105 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14312-6 £9.99*
Translation rights: held by author
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George III America’s Last King Jeremy Black The first new assessment of King George III in more than a generation, this biography harnesses rich unpublished sources in Britain, Germany and the U.S., as well as the king’s prolific correspondence, to reveal much about the monarch himself and how he influenced the conflict with the Thirteen Colonies and other critical events in modern world history. “Jeremy Black is something of a phenomenon; easily the most prolific historian writing in Britain today, he consistently publishes learned and worthwhile books and articles on major subjects. This one proves that he is on top of his form.”—Andrew Roberts, History Today “A meticulous, impressively researched study.”—Jane Robins, The Daily Telegraph “The most useful and substantial biography of George III now available.”—H. T. Dickinson, Times Literary Supplement “Jeremy Black’s richly researched and thought provoking biography steers a judicious course between praise and criticism, examining George’s life in the round”—Peter Borsay, BBC History Magazine Jeremy Black is professor of history at Exeter University. He is author of five previous books published by Yale University Press, including most recently The British Seaborne Empire.
The English Monarchs Series October 448 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13621-0 £14.99*
Garibaldi Invention of a Hero Lucy Riall Handsome and flamboyant, Italian revolutionary hero Giuseppe Garibaldi was a popular figure in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882. This fascinating book is the first to examine how Garibaldi and others contributed to the making of his cult and to assess how the Garibaldi myth has affected national politics not only in Italy but around the world. “Absorbing and scholarly.”—David Gilmour, The Spectator “Armed with an exuberance and energy worthy of a true Garibaldino, Lucy Riall gives us a book which is about rather more than the myriad fantasies projected onto the most famous of Italy’s nation-builders . . . I have no hesitation in naming this among my books of the year.” —Jonathan Keates, The Literary Review “An impressively researched, authoritative, intelligent and thoughtful book . . . [and] also a compelling read, full of fascinating new material.”—Adam Zamoyski, The Sunday Telegraph Lucy Riall is professor of modern European history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
October 496 pp. 234x156mm. 33 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14423-9 £12.99* Translation rights: Johnson & Alcock Limited, London
The Jewel House Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution Deborah E. Harkness This captivating book is the first to focus on the array of ordinary men and women who shared a keen interest in nature and scientific inquiry in Elizabethan London. “a significant contribution to the history of science, but also to that of London, and an exciting portrait of life in the swarming, spreading city during the reign of the first Elizabeth.” —Ronald Hutton, The Independent on Sunday “thrilling and unexpected”—John O’Connell, Time Out “a truly wonderful book, deeply researched, full of original material, and exhilarating to read.” —John Carey, The Sunday Times Deborah E. Harkness is associate professor of history, University of Southern California.
November 384 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14316-4 £12.99*
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Haunted City Nuremberg and the Nazi Past Neil Gregor Nuremberg—a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher—has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Nazism. This book explores how the Nuremberg community has confronted the implications of the genocide in which it participated, while also dealing with the appalling suffering of ordinary German citizens during and after the war. Neil Gregor’s compelling account of the painful process of remembering and acknowledging the Holocaust offers new insights into post-war memory in Germany and how it has operated. Gregor takes a novel approach to the theme of memory, commemoration and remembrance, and he proposes a highly nuanced explanation for the failure of Germans to face up to the Holocaust for years after the war. His book makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Germany. October 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10107-2 £25.00
Neil Gregor is reader in modern German history, University of Southampton, and author of the prize-winning Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich, published by Yale.
Selling the Tudor Monarchy Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England Kevin Sharpe The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first century politics. Here a leading historian reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech. Deploying what we might now describe as ‘spin’, Tudor rulers worked actively as patrons and popularisers to present themselves to the best advantage.
“A landmark project, of abiding interest to both scholars and more general readers . . . a very major piece of scholarship”—Peter Lake, Princeton University
October 512 pp. 234x156mm. 65 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14098-9 £30.00*
Familiarity, however, brought risk. The art of royal representation was a delicate balance between mystification and popularisation, and those rulers who most used it—notably Henry VIII and Elizabeth I—enjoyed the longest reigns and, at most times, wide support. Yet even in Elizabeth’s case successful image-making tended to surrender her authority to popular construction. By the end of the sixteenth century, the Tudors had survived reformations and rebellions, strengthened the crown and imprinted themselves on the imaginations and lives of their subjects. Yet relentless promotion of the royal image had desacralised it, leaving a difficult legacy to their Stuart successors. This first sustained analysis of the verbal and visual representations of Tudor power embraces art history, literary studies and the history of consumption and material culture. It reflects years of study of the texts, images, modes and forms of representation which circulated images of authority to a public increasingly eager to acquire them. Kevin Sharpe is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. His books include The Personal Rule of Charles I and Reading Revolutions, both published by Yale. Translation rights: Robinson Literary Agency
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A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Christian strands that are woven into its fabric
‘Muslim Rider’ from the Gerona Beatus, 974. Gerona Cathedral. Photo: Oronoz.
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The Arts of Intimacy Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale
This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their contacts with one another transformed them all. It chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian capture of the Islamic city of Tulaytula, now Toledo, in the eleventh century and traces the development of Castilian culture as it was forged in the new intimacy of Christians with the Muslims and Jews they had overcome. The authors paint a portrait of the culture through its arts, architecture, poetry and prose, uniquely combining literary and visual arts. Concentrating on the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book reveals the extent to which Castilian identity is deeply rooted in the experience of confrontation, interaction, and at times union with Hebrew and Arabic cultures during the first centuries of its creation. Abundantly illustrated, the volume serves as a splendid souvenir of southern Spain; beautifully written, it illuminates a culture deeply enriched by others.
November 416 pp. 254x178mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10609-1 £25.00*
Jerrilynn D. Dodds is distinguished professor and senior faculty advisor to the provost for undergraduate education, City College of New York. María Rosa Menocal is director, Whitney Humanities Center, and Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University. Her previous book, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, has been translated into seven languages. Abigail Krasner Balbale is a candidate for the Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University, where she focuses on the cultural history of medieval Iberia. This is her first book. No French rights
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Dance in the Renaissance
Peter’s War
European Fashion, French Obsession
A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
Margaret M. McGowan
Joyce Lee Malcolm
Dance was at the core of Renaissance social activity in France and had important connections with major issues of the period. This finely illustrated book provides the first full account of the pivotal place and status of dance in sixteenth-century French culture and society. Margaret M. McGowan examines the diverse forms of dance in the Renaissance, contemporary attitudes towards dance, and the light this throws on moral, political and aesthetic concerns of the time. Among the subjects she covers are: expectations of dance; style, costume, music and social coding; court dance versus social dancing; dance and the Valois dynasty; professional dancers, virtuosos and choreographers; burlesque; opposition to dance; and dance and the people. Remarkably, McGowan’s sophisticated analysis of formal dance treatises enables her to recreate a sense of the actual practice of Renaissance dance and the mechanics of making a ballet. Nearly one hundred illustrations, many of them rare, accompany the engrossing text. Margaret M. McGowan is research professor of French at the University of Sussex and an internationally known scholar of sixteenth-century French culture. She is the author of The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France, published by Yale.
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter’s small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender at Saratoga. Joyce Lee Malcolm describes Peter’s home life in rural New England, which became increasingly unhappy as he grew aware of racial differences and prejudices. She then relates how he and other blacks, slave and free, joined the war to achieve their own independence. Malcolm juxtaposes Peter’s life in the patriot armies with that of the life of Titus, a New Jersey slave who fled to the British in 1775 and reemerged as a feared guerrilla leader. A remarkable feat of investigation, Peter’s biography illuminates many themes in American history: race relations in New England, the prelude to and military history of the Revolutionary War and the varied experience of black soldiers who fought on both sides. Joyce Lee Malcolm is professor of law at George Mason University School of Law.
September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 82 b/w + 15 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11557-4 £35.00
February 256 pp. 234x156mm. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11930-5 £16.99
Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain
Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain
Hugh Thomas
Scott K. Taylor
Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919–1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a Spanish entrepreneur in English, Hugh Thomas recounts Barreiros’s origins as an auto mechanic, his success in the motor industry, his tragic alliance with the Chrysler Corporation and his little-known role as a motor industry founder in 1980s Cuba. Drawing on an unrivalled knowledge of Spanish history, Lord Thomas also brings to light Barreiros’s critical role in the modernisation of the Spanish economy in the post–Civil War years.
Early modern Spain has long been viewed as having a culture obsessed with honour, where a man resorted to violence when his or his wife’s honour was threatened, especially through sexual disgrace. This book—the first to closely examine honour and interpersonal violence in the era—overturns this idea, arguing that the way Spanish men and women actually behaved was very different from the behaviour depicted in dueling manuals, law books and ‘honour plays’ of the period.
“Hugh Thomas has succeeded admirably in linking the story of an individual entrepreneur to the national and international context in which he was operating; the drama of this man is skillfully tied in to the drama of Spain during a tempestuous period in that country’s history.”—Sir Geoffrey Owen, Department of Management, London School of Economics Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous books on the history of the Spanish world, including most recently Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo (see page 74).
January 416 pp. 234x156mm. 74 illus. + 6 maps ISBN 978-0-300-12109-4 £30.00* Translation rights: The Wylie Agency
Drawing on criminal and other records to assess the character of violence among non-elite Spaniards, historian Scott K. Taylor finds that appealing to honour was a rhetorical strategy, and that insults, gestures and violence were all part of a varied repertoire that allowed both men and women to decide how to dispute issues of truth and reputation. “Refusing to accept the prevailing view of theatre as mirroring reality, Taylor heads for the archives. These tell a different story, showing early modern Spanish society and culture in a new and much more credible light.” —James S. Amelang, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid Scott K. Taylor is associate professor of history at Siena College.
January 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12685-3 £30.00
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The Long Parliament of Charles II Annabel Patterson Charles II’s first and most important parliament sat for eighteen years without a general election, earning itself the sobriquet ‘Long’. In 1661 this parliament began in eager compliance with the new king. Gradually disillusioned by Charles’s manoeuvres, however, its members came to demand more control of the economy, religion and foreign policy, starting a struggle that led to the Exclusion crisis. This lively book is the first full study of this Restoration Parliament.
Annabel Patterson is Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University.
Using parliamentary diaries, newsletters, memoirs, letters from members of parliament, scofflaw pamphlets and the king’s own speeches, Annabel Patterson describes this second Long Parliament in an innovative and challenging way, stressing that how its records were kept and circulated is an important part of the story. Because the parliamentary debates of this age were jealously guarded from public knowledge, unofficial sources of information flourished. Often these are more candid or colourful than official records. Eighteenth-century historians, especially if Whiggish, recycled many of them for posterity. The book, therefore, not only recovers a crucial period of parliamentary history, one that helps to explain the Glorious Revolution, it also opens a discussion about historiographical method.
August 304 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13708-8 £30.00
Paracelsus Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time Charles Webster Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day. This elegantly written book is the defining account of the man known as ‘Paracelsus the Great’. Drawing on the whole range of relevant manuscript and printed sources, Charles Webster considers Paracelsus’s life and works, explores his advocacy for total reform of the clerical, legal and medical professions, and describes his precise expectations for the Christian church of the future, focusing on his affinity with the spiritualist Anabaptists. The author concludes with the apocalyptic speculations of Paracelsus, who vividly portrayed the sense of endtime crisis that constituted one of the defining characteristics of his era. “A marvellous book . . . which sets Paracelsus the thinker and practitioner more convincingly in the context of the radical social and religious reforms of his time than hitherto”—Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck College, University of London Charles Webster is emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. October 352 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13911-2 £30.00
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Master of the House
Guns and Rubles
Stalin and His Inner Circle
The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State
Oleg V. Khlevniuk Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia’s political hierarchy of the 1930s—the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party—and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin’s rise. Khlevniuk’s research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov’s murder, the implementation of the Great Terror and much more. The author analyses Stalin’s mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history. “I have no doubt that this brilliant book will supplant all others as an analytical account of the Stalinist political system in the 1930s.”—Robert Service, St. Antony’s College, Oxford Oleg V. Khlevniuk is senior research fellow at the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
Edited by Mark Harrison For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians —R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov and Mark Harrison—scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defence industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume’s contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin’s dictatorship, military and economic planning and the industrial organisation of the Soviet economy. Previously unknown details about Stalin’s command system come to light, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private sectors. “This volume covers a hugely important topic and is bursting with findings. It marries rich empirical detail with sophisticated theoretical treatment.”—Yoram Gorlizki, University of Manchester Mark Harrison is professor of economics, University of Warwick; honorary senior fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European studies, University of Birmingham; and distinguished visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University.
No Russian rights
September 304 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12524-5 £27.50
The Lost Politburo Transcripts
Terror by Quota
From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship
State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11066-1 £25.00*
Edited by Paul Gregory and Norman Naimark In this book, prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the ‘lost’ transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication, these records (known as stenograms in Russia) reveal the actual process of decisionmaking at the highest levels of the Soviet communist party. The contributors to the volume explore the power struggles among the Politburo members, their methods of discourse and propaganda and their economic policies. Taken as a whole, the essays shed light on early Soviet history and on the individuals who supported or opposed Stalin’s consolidation of power. “This book, the first to focus on the ‘working arrangements’ of security agencies under Stalin, unlocks a number of issues in Soviet history that have until now been classified as instances of the dictator’s irrationality or excess.” —Mark Harrison, University of Warwick Paul Gregory is Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston. Norman Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University.
January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13424-7 £35.00
Paul Gregory This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in waves or cycles? Why were economic and petty crimes regarded as political crimes? What was the reason for relying on extra-judicial tribunals? And what motivated the extreme harshness of punishments, including the widespread use of the death penalty? Through an approach that synthesises history and economics, Paul Gregory develops systematic explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. The book draws on extensive, recently opened archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo and state security agencies themselves to illuminate in new ways terror and repression in the Soviet Union as well as dictatorships in other times and places. Paul Gregory is Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 28 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13425-4 £25.00
The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism and the Cold War
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The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
History’s Greatest Heist The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks
Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko show how the atomic bomb pushed the United States and the Soviet Union not towards co-operation but towards deep bipolar confrontation. Joseph Stalin, sure that the Americans meant to deploy their new weapon against Russia and defeat socialism, would stop at nothing to build his own bomb. Harry Truman, initially willing to consider cooperation, discovered that its pursuit would mean political suicide, especially when news of Soviet atomic spies reached the public. Both superpowers, moreover, discerned a new reality of the atomic age: now, cooperation must be total. The dangers posed by the bomb meant that intermediate measures of international cooperation would protect no one. Yet no two nations in history were less prepared to pursue total co-operation than the United States and the Soviet Union. The logic of the bomb pointed them toward immediate Cold War. Campbell Craig is professor of international relations at the University of Southampton. Sergey Radchenko is a tutorial fellow in international history at the London School of Economics.
October 232 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11028-9 £16.99*
Sean McMeekin Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and producing nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia’s early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewellery, icons, antiques and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin’s regime accomplished history’s greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia and impose their brutal will on millions. Sean McMeekin is assistant professor of international relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
The Warsaw Ghetto A Guide to the Perished City
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13558-9 £25.00
Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak Without question, the establishment and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience. Remarkably, a full history of the Ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English. The authors explore the history of the ghetto’s evolution, the actual daily experience of its thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation following the uprising of 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the Judenrat’s administration. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka and the famous uprising. A series of original maps, along with biographies, a glossary and a bibliography, completes this masterful work. Barbara Engelking is associate professor and chief of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Jacek Leociak is head of the Research Team for Holocaust Literature Study at the Institute for Literary Researches, Polish Academy of Sciences.
October 960 pp. 234x156mm. 250 b/w + 39 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11234-4 £40.00* No Polish rights
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History Museum of the Revolution Evgeny Dobrenko Evgeny Dobrenko, a leading scholar of Soviet cultural history, asserts that both Lenin and Stalin valued cinema as the most effective form of propaganda and ‘organisation of the masses’. Dobrenko looks at Stalinist historical films and the novels from which they drew and shows that they transformed the experience and trauma of the past into a legitimising historical narrative, the basis of a new mythology. He examines the works of the great film directors of the revolutionary period in Stalinist cinema, including Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler, Mark Donskoi and Mikhail Romm and explains how they worked with time, the past and memory to construct the Soviet political imagination. Evgeny Dobrenko is professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Political Economy of Socialist Realism and co-editor with Katerina Clark of Soviet Culture and Power, both published by Yale.
September 272 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14160-3 £35.00*
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King’s Dream
Baghdad at Sunrise
Eric J. Sundquist
A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq
“I have a dream”—no words are more widely recognised, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. King’s speech, elegantly structured and commanding in tone, has become shorthand not only for his own life but for the entire civil rights movement. In this new exploration of the “I have a dream” speech, Eric J. Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial justice— debates as old as the nation itself—and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expressed the story of African American freedom. This book is the first to set King’s speech within the cultural and rhetorical traditions out of which the civil rights leader drew in crafting his oratory, from the early days of the republic to the Supreme Court rulings of the present. At a time when the meaning of the speech has been obscured by its appropriation for every conceivable cause, Sundquist clarifies the transformative power of King’s “Second Emancipation Proclamation” and its continuing relevance in contemporary aspirations for equality. Eric J. Sundquist is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature, UCLA. He is author or editor of eight books on American literature and culture.
Icons of America
Peter R. Mansoor This book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after US forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003. Army Colonel Peter R. Mansoor, the on-theground commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armoured Division— the ‘Ready First Combat Team’— describes his brigade’s first year in Iraq, from the chaotic summer after the Ba’athists’ defeat to the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government a year later. Uniquely positioned to record and assess the events of that fateful year, Mansoor now explains what went right and wrong as the US military confronted an insurgency of unexpected strength. Drawing not only on his own daily combat journal but also on observations by reporters, news reports, combat logs, archived e-mails and other sources, Mansoor offers a contemporary record of the valour, motivations and resolve of the 1st Brigade and its attachments during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yet this book has a deeper significance. Baghdad at Sunrise provides a detailed, nuanced analysis of US counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, and along with it critically important lessons for America’s military and political leaders of the twenty-first century. Peter R. Mansoor is the General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History, Ohio State University.
Yale Library of Military History
February 320 pp. 210x140mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11807-0 £16.99*
Defying Empire Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Thomas M. Truxes This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behaviour was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists. Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, Thomas Truxes brings eighteenthcentury New York and the Atlantic world to life. He traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and New Yorkers. Thomas M. Truxes is a senior lecturer in history, Trinity College, Hartford.
November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w maps ISBN 978-0-300-11840-7 £20.00*
October 432 pp. 234x156mm. 25 b/w illus. + 4 maps ISBN 978-0-300-14069-9 £16.99*
The Myth of American Exceptionalism Godfrey Hodgson The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and highly respected British commentator, argues that America is not as exceptional as it would like to think; its blindness to its own history has bred a complacent nationalism and a disastrous foreign policy that has isolated and alienated it from the global community. Tracing the development of America’s high self regard, Hodgson demonstrates how its exceptionalism has been systematically exaggerated and corrupted. While there have been distinct and original elements in America’s history and political philosophy, these have always been more heavily influenced by European thought and experience than Americans have been willing to acknowledge. Godfrey Hodgson is associate fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
February 224 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12570-2 £16.99*
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A fascinating look at this contemporary artist-provocateur, including the first exploration of his early career in Chicago
Jeff Koons Edited by Francesco Bonami With an essay by Francesco Bonami and a conversation between Jeff Koons and Lynne Warren
In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $1 an hour; and socialised with many of the city’s most talented artists. This handsome book takes a fresh look at the rise and career of Jeff Koons, who is now arguably one of the world’s most famous artists. Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 31 May – 21 September 2008
July 128 pp. 254x254mm. 4 b/w + 111 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14194-8 £25.00*
Koons collaborated extensively on this book, which accompanies the first solo museum exhibition in the US in 16 years and offers a survey of nearly thirty years of his work, beginning with iconic sculptures from 1979 to new paintings completed in 2007. Francesco Bonami reconsiders Koons’s career, making intriguing connections to the work of Andy Warhol, A. A. Milne, Marcel Duchamp and Gustave Courbet, among others. This is the first publication to explore a little-known but highly influential period in the artist’s career—his time in Chicago in the 1970s. It also provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Koons’s work for new audiences and short texts about each of his series and many major works. Francesco Bonami is Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery and a former Manilow Senior Curator at the MCA. He served as chief curator of the 50th Venice Biennale. Lynne Warren is Curator at the MCA and editor of Art in Chicago, 1945–1995.
Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Tom Friedman 1989–2008 Essays by Arthur Danto and Ralph Rugoff This book is devoted to Tom Friedman’s exceptional body of work over the past nineteen years. Starting with commonplace objects like plastic cups, construction paper and ‘Hefty’ brand garbage bags, this prolific artist transforms the often overlooked into playfully philosophical works that are ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. Friedman forces his viewers to reconsider the criteria for what is called ‘art’ by exploring the material qualities of the object and the experiential process of making art through repetition, mutation and dimension. While his work can demand a level of trust and reflection, it often rewards the viewer by sparking a childlike curiosity that sets one free to the beautifully endless potential of the everyday. A survey of the highly inventive work of an artist who transforms common objects into extraordinary works of art
October 350 pp. 311x254mm. 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14258-7 £40.00*
The book features over 250 colour illustrations and encompasses 200 artworks that reflect Friedman’s humour, his painstaking craftsmanship, and the unending inventiveness that distinguishes his work. Arthur Danto, an art scholar and philosopher, is the author of more than twenty books, including the 1984 essay entitled ‘The End of Art’. He is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Ralph Rugoff is the author of several celebrated monographs and publications and currently serves as the director of the CCA Watt Institute for Contemporary Arts and the Hayward Gallery, London.
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Blinky Palermo Abstraction of an Era Christine Mehring Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colourful and playful abstract artworks ‘Palermo’ in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank ‘Blinky’ Palermo. This handsome book, an historical and critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977, explores his significance for postwar and abstract art. Untitled (Wvz 76). © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
February 320 pp. 254x203mm. 99 b/w + 62 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12238-1 £35.00*
Christine Mehring notes that over the course of Palermo’s brief career he created five concurrent but distinct bodies of work: objects, clothpictures, wall-paintings, metal-pictures and collaborative projects, primarily with his friend and colleague Gerhard Richter. Mehring shows how each of these groups demonstrates Palermo’s efforts to lead German art out of its international isolation and to transform modernist painting into historically resonant abstraction by incorporating artifice, humour, period colours and play. Christine Mehring is associate professor of art history at The University of Chicago.
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A gorgeous book that offers a fresh interpretation of the watercolours of one of our most beloved artists Cézanne: Bathers, 1894–1906. Oskar Reinhardt Collection, am Römerholz, Winterthur. Photo © Oskar Reinhardt Collection, am Römerholz, Wintertur.
Cézanne’s Watercolors Between Drawing and Painting Matthew Simms Cézanne’s watercolours exhibit not only kaleidoscopic arrays of translucence but also very light graphite pencil lines that contrast strikingly with the soft watery touches of colour. These drawn lines have been largely overlooked in previous studies of Cézanne’s work in this medium. In this ravishing book, Matthew Simms argues that it was the dialogue between drawing and painting—the movement between the pencil and the paintbrush—that attracted Cézanne to watercolour. The technique allowed Cézanne to express what he termed his ‘sensations’ in two distinct modes that become a record of his shifting and spontaneous responses to his subject. Combining close visual analysis and examination of historical context, Simms focuses on the counterpoint of drawing and colour in Cézanne’s work over the course of his career and as viewed in relation to his oil paintings. More than a tool for sketching or preparing for oil paintings, Simms contends, watercolour was a unique means of expression in its own right that allowed Cézanne to combine in one place the two otherwise opposed mediums of drawing and painting. Matthew Simms is associate professor of art history at California State University, Long Beach.
September 256 pp. 285x245mm. 80 b/w + 65 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14066-8 £30.00*
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Exhibition The National Gallery, London, 15 October 2008 – 17 January 2009 Museo Nacional del Prado, 3 June – 7 September 2009
A comprehensive look at the relationship between Northern and Southern European Renaissance portrait painting
Renaissance Faces Van Eyck to Titian Lorne Campbell, Miguel Falomir, Jennifer Fletcher and Luke Syson
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This comprehensive survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness—at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titian, all magnificently illustrated. This beautiful book is rich in information about portrait types, styles, techniques and iconographies, the function of portraits, and the connections between painting, sculpture and portrait medals. The authors provide a fascinating account of the relationships of patrons, artists and sitters, as well as the process of making portraits, while also exploring complex notions of beauty, spiritual belief and the portrait as a mirror of the soul. Lorne Campbell is Beaumont Senior Research Curator and Luke Syson is Curator of Italian Paintings 1460–1500, both at the National Gallery, London. Miguel Falomir is Head Curator of Italian Renaissance Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado. Jennifer Fletcher was until recently Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute.
Translation rights: The National Gallery Company Limited, London
October 272 pp. 324x241mm. 190 colour illus. ISBN 978-1-85709-411-4 £35.00*
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A timely and abundantly illustrated re-evaluation of a sometimes overlooked Dutch master
Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. With contributions by Lloyd DeWitt, Stephanie Dickey, Melanie Gifford, Greg Rubinstein and Jaap van der Veen
Exhibition National Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 October 2008 – 11 January 2009 Milwaukee Art Museum, 7 February – 26 April 2009 Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 17 May – 9 August 2009
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens’s career, features more than 50 paintings, many of them newly discovered in private collections, and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art. Lievens began his career in his native Leiden, where he worked closely with his compatriot Rembrandt, who admired and collected Lievens’s works. Lievens then moved to London, Antwerp and Amsterdam, and his peripatetic career and multitude of working styles, say the authors of this book, may explain why his reputation today is not as high as it should be. This book offers a necessary corrective, returning to Lievens the esteem he deserves. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., is curator of Northern baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and professor of art history at the University of Maryland.
October 352 pp. 254x216mm. 76 b/w + 230 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14213-6 £40.00*
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Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace Jacqueline Marie Musacchio Although we live in an era when vast sums of money are lavished on wedding festivities, we are not unique: in Renaissance Italy, middleand upper-class families spent enormous amounts on marriages that were intended to establish or consolidate the status and lineage of one or both of the respective families.
A beautifully illustrated account of life behind the walls of a Florentine Renaissance home
September 320 pp. 280x230mm. 80 b/w + 120 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-09563-0 £35.00*
This lavishly illustrated book explores the social and economic background to marriage in Renaissance Florence and discusses the objects—paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewellery, clothing and household items—associated with marriage and ongoing family life. By analysing urban palaces and their furnishings, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio shows how families interacted with art on a daily basis. This began at marriage, when the bride brought a dowry and the groom provided the home and its furnishings. It continued with the accumulation of objects during the marriage and the birth of children. And it ended with the redistribution of these same objects at death. Through the examination of art, documents, literature and more, this lively book traces the life cycle of the Florentine Renaissance family through the art and objects that surrounded them in their home. Jacqueline Marie Musacchio is associate professor of art at Wellesley College, US. She is the author of The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy, published by Yale.
Federico Barocci Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting Stuart Lingo Federico Barocci was among the most admired painters in sixteenthcentury Italy, but the distinctive nature of his compelling altarpieces and their historical importance have never been fully understood. This important study relates Barocci’s achievements to transformations in the theory and practice of painting during an era in which pictorial developments generated deep tensions for ecclesiastical art. Barocci was celebrated as one of the only painters whose religious works combined the sensuous allure increasingly desired in modern art with profound devotion. Through a close study of Barocci’s work and of documents ranging from letters to art theory, Stuart Lingo reconstructs how the painter accomplished his artistic and cultural miracle. In so doing, he offers new insights into critical artistic issues in the late Renaissance, from the cultural significance of stylistic choices to the early development of analogies between painting and music as affective arts.
October 384 pp. 290x248mm. 100 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12125-4 £45.00*
Stuart Lingo is assistant professor of Renaissance Art in the Division of Art History, School of Art at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Edited by Andrea Bayer Andrea Bayer, Beverly Brown, Nancy Edwards, Everett Fahy, Deborah Krohn, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Luke Syson, Dora Thornton, James Grantham Turner and Linda Wolk-Simon With contributions by Sarah Cartwright, Jessie McNab, J. Kenneth Moore, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Wendy Thompson and Jeremy Warren
Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinary objects or exchanging them as gifts. This important volume is the first to examine the entire range of works to which Renaissance rituals of love and marriage gave rise and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. Some 140 works of art, dating from about 1400 to 1600, are discussed by a distinguished group of scholars and are reproduced in full colour. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11 November 2008 – 16 February 2009 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 15 March – 14 June 2009 November 352 pp. 304x228mm. 50 b/w + 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12411-8 £40.00*
Marriage and childbirth gifts are the point of departure. These range from maiolica, glassware and jewellery to birth trays, musical instruments and nuptial portraits. Bonds of love of another sort were represented in erotic drawings and prints. From these precedents, an increasingly inventive approach to subjects of love and marriage culminated in paintings by some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, including Giulio Romano, Lorenzo Lotto and Titian. Andrea Bayer is Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Beyond Babylon Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. Edited by Joan Aruz, Kim Benzel and Jean Evans
Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18 November 2008 – 15 March 2009 November 600 pp. 304x228mm. 125 b/w + 325 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14143-6 £45.00*
The impact of these far-flung connections is documented in the precious materials sent to royal and temple treasuries and, most dramatically, in objects discovered on merchant shipwrecks off the shores of southern Anatolia. The history of the period and the artistic creativity fostered by interaction among the powers of the ancient Near East, both great and small, are discussed by an international group of scholars in essays and entries on the more than 350 objects included in the exhibition, continuing the fascinating story begun in the landmark catalogue Art of the First Cities (2003). Joan Aruz is Curator in Charge and Kim Benzel and Jean Evans are Assistant Curators in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York
This important volume describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples and tombs, from Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt and the Aegean. Objects of the highest artistry reflect the development of a sophisticated trade network throughout the eastern Mediterranean region and the resulting fusion of Near Eastern, Aegean and Egyptian cultural styles.
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The Art of Illumination The Limbourg Brothers and the ‘Belles Heures’ of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna Nathalie Strasser and a team of international scholars
One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum, counted among the duke’s large collection of prized possessions. The luminous scenes depicting the legends of the saints, the Hours of the Virgin, and the like, many with elaborately designed borders, exemplify the transcendent splendour of the Limbourg brothers’ talents.
This handsome catalogue features approximately 120 drawings dating from the late 15th to the early 20th century and comprises excellent examples of European draftsmanship over the past 500 years. Featured works include an exquisite study by Raphael, Domenichino’s masterfully composed Study for Saint Andrew Being Led to Martyrdom, views of Venice by Canaletto, landscapes by Claude Lorrain, beautiful studies by Jean-Antoine Watteau, pastel portraits by Jean-Siméon Chardin, lovely red chalk studies by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and varied subjects by Théodore Gericault. Drawings by Parmigianino, Rembrandt, Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Redon are additional highlights of this collection.
Exhibition J. Paul Getty Museum, 18 November 2008 – 8 February 2009 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, opens 22 September 2009
Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21 January – 26 April 2009 National Gallery of Scotland, 5 June – 6 September 2009
Timothy Bates Husband is Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nathalie Strasser is Curator of Drawings and Prints, the Collection of Jean Bonna.
January 400 pp. 279x216mm. 350 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13671-5 £35.00*
February 272 pp. 279x216mm. 50 b/w + 140 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14207-5 £40.00*
Timothy Bates Husband
Cameo Appearances James David Draper
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Raphael to Renoir
The engraving of hardstones is a time-honoured practice that goes back several millennia. The Greeks refined the art, and they introduced in about the fifth century B.C. what we now call cameos: precious and semi-precious stones carved in projected relief. As fanciful curiosities and as miraculous unions of art and nature, cameos have been prized and collected since ancient times. This book presents a selection of more than one hundred magnificently carved gems from the unparalleled collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The text traces the origins of cameos in classical antiquity, their rare occurrences in the Middle Ages, their efflorescence from the 16th to the 19th century, and their spread to the New World. James David Draper is Henry R. Kravis Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
September 56 pp. 279x216mm. 126 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14145-0 £12.99*
Choirs of Angels Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500 Barbara Drake Boehm This book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precious paintings in miniature, with their compelling narrative, brilliant colour and shining gold, bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment. The choir books they illuminate are a rich source of information about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have abiding appeal today. They also serve as primary sources for the study of the lives of religious communities and of the philosophy and faith that infused medieval Europe, offering a glimpse of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008 – March 2009 Barbara Drake Boehm is Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 56 pp. 279x216mm. 70 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14142-9 £11.99*
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Landscapes Clear and Radiant The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717) Edited by Maxwell K. Hearn With contributions by Wen C. Fong, Chin-Sung Chang, Maxwell K. Hearn and Shiyee Liu
Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. An artist of protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China. This comprehensive study of the painter’s career, the first published in English, features essays examining his life and achievements as well as his masterwork, the monumental scroll depicting the Kangxi emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour. Twenty-seven of Wang Hui’s paintings, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum and from museums in Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai and Tokyo, are supplemented by a wealth of images ranging from ancient Chinese paintings to works by Wang’s contemporaries. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
November 272 pp. 304x228mm. 125 b/w + 160 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14144-3 £40.00
Maxwell K. Hearn is Douglas Dillon Curator and Shiyee Liu is Research Associate, both in the Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wen C. Fong is Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, and Curator Emeritus, Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chin-Sung Chang is Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University.
How to Read Chinese Paintings Maxwell K. Hearn
Spanning a thousand years of Chinese art, these landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, religious subjects and calligraphies illuminate the main goal of every Chinese artist: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but also its inner essence. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 March – 10 August 2008 Maxwell K. Hearn is Douglas Dillon Curator, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. August 184 pp. 305x235mm. 175 colour illus. + 1 map Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14187-0 £18.00*
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The Chinese often use the expression du hua, ‘to read a painting’, in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition. Using accessible texts and numerous large colour details, this book examines multiple layers of meaning: style, technique, symbolism, past traditions and the artist’s personal circumstances. A dynastic chronology, map and list of further readings supplement the text.
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Warhol’s Jews Ten Portraits Reconsidered Richard Meyer With contributions by Gabriel de Guzman When it first appeared in 1980, Andy Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century was adored by Jewish audiences even as it aroused antagonism from critics. Why did Warhol create this series? How did he select the figures to be portrayed? How has the passage of time reshaped the meaning of these portraits?
Exhibition The Jewish Museum, New York, 16 March – 3 August 2008 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 12 October 2008 – 25 January 2009
Now available 64 pp. 267x241mm. 20 b/w + 50 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14115-3 £9.99*
This handsomely illustrated book examines the history of these silkscreen paintings and prints, delving into Warhol’s re-fashioning of portraiture, his deep interest in repetitive art forms, and his embrace of commercialism. Richard Meyer shows how Warhol’s unorthodox approach to portrait painting was a product of both his seriousness as an artist and his avowed interest in making money, and he explains how Warhol selected ten figures—from Bernhardt and Buber to Freud and Kafka—who would ensure the timelessness of his series. The volume, which also includes discussions of the celebrated subjects of Ten Portraits, images of related prints and a timeline, offers new insights into a significant series by an iconic American artist. Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California. Gabriel de Guzman is curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum.
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Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater Susan Goodman With essays by Zvi Gitelman, Ivanov Vladislav, Jeffrey Veidlinger and Benjamin Harshav Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theatres became catalysts for modernist experimentation. Working with avant-garde playwrights, actors and producers in a new political environment, artists such as Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, Robert Falk and Aleksandr Tyshler combined Russian folk art with elements of Cubo-Futurism and Constructivism into a bold new style.
Exhibition The Jewish Museum, New York, 9 November 2008 – 22 March 2009 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 19 April – 7 September 2009 November 256 pp. 285x222mm. 84 b/w + 146 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11155-2 £30.00*
From the Jewish mythical and folkloric plays produced at Habima to the daring, expressionistic Yiddish dramas presented at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre (GOSET), this beautifully illustrated book chronicles the flourishing of Soviet Jewish theatre in the 1920s and 1930s. Spanning such topics as Jewish culture and history in the Soviet Union, the volume includes stunning reproductions of Chagall’s celebrated murals; fascinating archival materials such as posters, prints and playbills; designs for costumes and sets; and many other breathtaking works. Susan Tumarkin Goodman is senior curator at The Jewish Museum. Her books include Marc Chagall: Early Works from Russian Collections and The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York
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An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories Volume 2 Edited by Ivan Brunetti Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. These outstanding cartoonists, selected by Brunetti for their graphic sophistication and literary style, are both expanding and transforming the vocabulary of their genre.
Also available by Ivan Brunetti An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories, Volume 1 ISBN 978-0-300-11170-5 £16.99*
October 400 pp. 254x187mm. 385 b/w + colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12671-6 £16.99*
The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Brunetti arranges the book to reflect the creative process itself, connecting stories and art to each other in surprising ways: non-linear, elliptical, sometimes whimsical, even poetic. He emphasises continuity from piece to piece, weaving themes and motifs throughout the volume. As gorgeously produced as Brunetti’s previous anthology of graphic fiction, this book does full justice to the creative work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter and the other prominent or emerging comic artists who are currently at work at the cutting edge of their medium. Ivan Brunetti teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the University of Chicago. He has published four issues in his comic book series Schizo; two collections of cartoons, Haw! and Hee!; and numerous comics and illustrations for magazines.
Graphic Thought Facility Zoë Ryan London-based Graphic Thought Facility (GTF) has emerged as one of today’s most progressive and versatile design firms. Established in 1990, it has a reputation for a nonconformist approach to graphic design. The firm’s originality results from its combination of a handmade aesthetic, knowledge of digital technology and an interest in new materials and production methods. This handsomely designed and produced catalogue includes photographs and essays that highlight GTF’s most notable projects and commissions, which range from graphic identity to marketing materials to exhibition and catalogue design. Whether providing innovative design materials for London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Tate Museum, Habitat or designers such as Ron Arad and Tord Boontje, GTF encourages us to appreciate the visual richness of the world around us. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 27 March – 17 August 2008 Zoë Ryan is Neville Bryan Curator of Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now available 96 pp. 216x134mm. 85 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14060-6 £9.99*
A+D Series Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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Brighton and Hove Pevsner City Guide Nicholas Antram and Richard Morrice Few cities can boast such an exotic diversity of buildings as Brighton and Hove, from the outlandish Pavilion—playground of the Prince Regent—to genteel Regency squares and terraces, Victorian architecture both serious and whimsical and landmarks of twentieth-century modernism. This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of the city, the greatest of England’s seaside resorts. A series of walks traces its development from late medieval fishing settlement to the ‘Queen of the Watering Places’, with a lively and critical commentary on its unique architectural character. Nicholas Antram lived in Brighton for many years. He is co-author of the Leicestershire volumes of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and was formerly on the staff of English Heritage. Richard Morrice also works for English Heritage.
September 256 pp. 215x115mm. 120 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12661-7 £9.99*
Nottingham Pevsner City Guide Elain Harwood A lively, authoritative and practical guide to the buildings of Nottingham, from its medieval beginnings to the innovative architecture of the 21st century. Outstanding buildings range from the famous Castle, a Baroque palace on an unforgettable cliff-top site, to the internationally important 1930s complex for Boots at Beeston. A rich legacy also remains from Nottingham’s Georgian and Victorian prosperity, explored here in a series of walks around the regenerated city centre and its distinctive and varied inner suburbs. Illustrated throughout in colour with specially commissioned photographs, augmented by a wealth of maps and historic views, Nottingham is at once the indispensible visitor’s companion and an essential reference work. Elain Harwood is a historian with English Heritage and a native of Nottinghamshire.
November 256 pp. 215x115mm. 120 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12666-2 £9.99*
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Unseemly Pictures Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England Helen Pierce This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism and debate. Helen Pierce demonstrates that graphic satire formed an integral part of a wider culture of political propaganda and critique during this period, and she presents many witty and satirical prints in the context of such related media as manuscript verses, ballads, pamphlets and plays. She also challenges the commonly held notion that a visual iconography of politics and satire in England originated during the 1640s, tracing the roots of this iconography back into native and European graphic cultures and traditions. Helen Pierce is a postdoctoral research fellow based at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.
September 224 pp. 256x192mm. 100 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14254-9 £35.00*
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The White Tower Edited by Edward Impey The White Tower, the gigantic structure at the heart of the building complex known as the Tower of London, gave that famed landmark its name. One of the most celebrated buildings of the London cityscape for nearly 1000 years, it is also the most complete eleventh-century palace in Europe. This book is a complete architectural, archaeological and historical study of White Tower and its context. Edward Impey and other distinguished experts integrate the most recent archaeological evidence with documentary research in order to trace the building’s structural development, its original and subsequent functions and its architectural and historical significance. The book will be an important resource for scholars of European Romanesque castle architecture. Edward Impey is an Executive Board Director of English Heritage and was formerly Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, the body responsible for the care and display of the five palaces no longer occupied by the royal family.
September 256 pp. 310x248mm. 120 b/w + 40 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11293-1 £45.00*
Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces
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The National Gallery in Wartime Suzanne Bosman On August 23, 1939, with World War II looming, the National Gallery in London temporarily closed its doors to the public to take down the bulk of its collection and transport it to secret locations in Wales for safe-keeping. By May 1940, the collection had been transferred to Manod Quarry, a slate mine in the mountains, beneath 200 feet of solid rock. The Gallery, meanwhile, remained ‘open for business’ despite being bombed several times during the Blitz. This enthralling and richly documented book recounts for the first time the story of how the National Gallery functioned during this eventful period. With extensive archive photographs, many of which are published here for the first time, it celebrates the Gallery’s decision to keep the building open for temporary exhibitions and lunchtime concerts fronted by internationally renowned pianist Myra Hess. It also recalls director Kenneth Clark’s role as chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee, whose aim was to commission and exhibit pictures recording the war, and the institution of the Picture of the Month, which exhibited in succession 43 of the Gallery’s best-known pictures during the war, and which continues today. Suzanne Bosman is senior picture researcher at the National Gallery Company.
September 128 pp. 265x245mm. 200 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-424-4 £12.95*
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The National Gallery in Wartime Throughout World War II, and despite the Blitz, the National Gallery building remained open for business, with temporary exhibitions, canteens and concerts. This unique film includes archive footage of the paintings’ removal to safe storage (a slate mine in Wales); their return to London in1945; Myra Hess’s legendary wartime concerts; and first-hand accounts of these dramatic events. September Region free • Widescreen • English subtitles ISBN 978-1-85709-439-8 £15.00* inc. VAT
Sisley in England and Wales Christopher Riopelle and Ann Sumner Although born and raised in France, Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was in fact from an English family and retained links with his ancestral homeland all his life. In 1874––after his participation in the first Impressionist Exhibition in Paris––Sisley enjoyed a summer break in London, where he painted lively studies of life and leisure along the River Thames, while fellow artists including Monet and Pissarro conducted similar studies in Paris and along the Seine. When Sisley travelled to Wales in 1897, principally to marry his long-term partner, he was enthralled by the dramatic scenery he encountered along the South Wales coastline. The pictures resulting from this trip were among his most free and boldly painted works. Bringing together for the first time the beautiful paintings that Sisley created in England and Wales, this book provides an introduction to the artist and examines the impact his connection with these two countries had on his career as a French Impressionist.
The National Gallery • London
Exhibition National Gallery, London, 12 November 2008 – 15 February 2009; Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 7 March – 14 June 2009 Christopher Riopelle is curator of post-1800 painting at the National Gallery, London. He is author of Manet to Picasso and Tim Gardner and co-author of Renoir Landscapes. Ann Sumner is director of the Barber Institute of Fine Art, Birmingham.
November 56 pp. 229x216mm. 40 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-413-8 £7.95*
If the Paintings Could Talk Michael Wilson If the Paintings Could Talk reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait that appeared in a James Bond film, among many other entertaining events and stories. An engaging, accessible and highly original gallery guide that cross-references entries throughout, the book provides a unique tour of this remarkable collection. Michael Wilson is former head of exhibitions and display at the National Gallery and author of numerous books on 18th- and 19th-century French art.
October 196 pp. 210x140mm. 150 colour illus. Flexibound ISBN 978-1-85709-425-1 £12.95*
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One Hundred Details from the National Gallery Kenneth Clark Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, this book presents Clark’s favourite details from paintings in the museum’s collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtaposes pairs of details rarely viewed together––such as cupids from Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus and Correggio’s The School of Love––to illuminate fascinating analogies and contrasts between paintings and artists. Clark’s erudite but accessible responses to these works are broad in scope and approach, and range from a few lines to an entire history of the still life. Featuring all new colour reproductions, One Hundred Details serves as an introduction to art history and offers a unique and intimate look at these paintings through the discerning eye of a world-renowned art historian and director. Kenneth Clark is widely known for his television programmes on art, especially Civilization, and the many works of art criticism he wrote during his lifetime. He was director of the National Gallery, from 1934 to 1945, before becoming Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford and later Chairman on the Arts Council. He was made a life peer in 1969 and died in 1983.
Now available 160 pp. 265x245mm. 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-1-85709-426-8 £15.95*
Tiger Seen on Shaftesbury Avenue The National Gallery’s Grand Tour Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon In June 2007, full-size colour reproductions of 44 of the National Gallery’s most famous paintings were hung––complete with frames and wall texts––on street walls and in alleys throughout London. From Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne and Holbein’s The Ambassadors to Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières and Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond, these masterpieces presented the public with a ‘Grand Tour’ of the collection, inviting them to consider the meaning, power and subtlety of art. This delightful book records this exhibition and viewers’ effusive reactions to it. Organised into three sections––Soho, Covent Garden and Chinatown to Piccadilly—the book features photographs of the paintings taken by passers-by, including Rousseau’s Surprised! on Shaftesbury Avenue, along with insightful and witty comments from Londoners, tourists and museum curators alike. Also included are reviews fromThe Observer, The Independent and Guardian Unlimited—which declared the Grand Tour the Gallery’s ‘best show ever’––that together capture and convey the excitement of this unique project. Andrew Graham-Dixon is an art historian, writer and broadcaster.
Now available 96 pp. 220x210mm. 82 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-428-2 £10.95*
The National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Volume 29
Series Editor: Ashok Roy CONTENTS Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne’s Paintings in the National Gallery Elisabeth Reissner
Annibale Carracci’s Montalto Madonna Larry Keith The Technique and Restoration of The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Four Angels by Quinten Massys Jill Dunkerton The Use of Gilded Tin in Giotto’s Pentecost Rachel Billinge and Dillian Gordon September 80 pp. 297x210mm. 124 illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-419-0 £25.00
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Alison Watt
Phantom
This film records the Associate Artist Alison Watt as she created new paintings inspired by masterpieces in the National Gallery. Through a series of interviews with Watt in the National Gallery studio, Phantom documents the formation of this exhibition. Now available PAL • Widescreen • English subtitles ISBN 978-1-85709-429-9 £15.00* inc. VAT Translation rights, pages 44 & 45: The National Gallery Company Limited, London
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Two Versions of The Fountain of Love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: A Comparative Study Mark Leonard, Ashok Roy and Scott Schaefer
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Westward the Course of Empire Mark Ruwedel • With an essay by Jock Reynolds Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954) has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narratives—both geological and human—contained within the landscape. This stunning book presents more than 70 prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869. The grades, cuts, tunnels and trestles depicted in Ruwedel’s photographs speak to a past triumph of technology over what was often perceived as hostile terrain, as well as to the desire and struggle to create wealth and power from the land. Long abandoned (and in some cases never completed), the railroads also evoke the futility of the enterprise. This book is thus a sublime yet restrained elegy to the land and to the follies and wonders of human ambition. Mark Ruwedel lives and works in Long Beach, California, where he teaches photography at the California State University at Long Beach. Jock Reynolds is the Henry J. Heinz II Director at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery September 180 pp. 279x356mm. 72 tritone illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14134-4 £40.00*
Burdock Janet Malcolm Over the course of three summers in New England, Malcolm gathered leaves of the burdock plant, a “large rank weed” with medicinal properties “that grows along roadsides and in waste places and around derelict buildings”. Influenced by Richard Avedon’s unsparing portraits of famous people, Malcolm is drawn to “uncelebrated leaves” on which “life has left its mark” through the ravages of time, weather, insects or blight. In her introduction, Malcolm reminds us that writers like Chekhov and Hawthorne have used burdock “to denote ruin and desolation”. And yet, for Malcolm, Burdock is an homage to the botanical illustrators who recognised “the gorgeousness of the particulars of the things that are alive in the world”. “Burdock consists of a series of large colour photographs portraying a single, unusual kind of leaf in various stages of growth and decay. As such, it is a work of botanical and indeed philosophical interest as well as an art book. Like all of Malcolm’s work, this project entails looking with a steely but sympathetic and extremely intelligent eye at the world around her, zeroing in on the oddities that others might miss and using them as clues through which she solves the larger mystery.”—Wendy Lesser, art critic, novelist and founding editor of The Threepenny Review Exhibition Malcolm’s leaves will be shown at the Lori Bookstein Fine Arts Gallery in New York, 9 September – 11 October 2008 Janet Malcolm is the author of Diana and Nikon, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (see page 20) and other books. She writes for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
October 64 pp. 304x254mm. 27 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12861-1 £35.00*
First Doubt Optical Confusion in Modern Photography: Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection Essay by Joshua Chuang • With contributions by Allan Chasanoff and Steven W. Zucker Many photographers have been intrigued with the baffling distortions, both subtle and disquieting, that can occur when the camera ‘captures’ the real world. Not always intentional, some images dazzle with impossible juxtapositions or disorienting spatial orders, while others confound the viewer’s belief in the documentary promise of photography. Drawn from the highly respected collection of Allan Chasanoff, the photographs in this intriguing volume confront viewers with the challenge of doubt and confusion in so-called ‘straight’ pictures. Featured are perceptually provocative images by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Clarence John Laughlin, Imogen Cunningham and Lee Friedlander, among others. The book’s essays raise awareness of the interpretive nature of the lens and the interpolative nature of the medium. Exhibition Yale University Art Gallery, 6 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 Joshua Chuang is the Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery. Allan Chasanoff is a conceptual photographer, collector and protagonist. Steven W. Zucker is the David and Lucille Packard Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery November 156 pp. 273x203mm. 77 b/w + 9 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14133-7 £27.50*
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Seeing Mexico Photographed The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti and Álvarez Bravo Leonard Folgarait This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935. The works of these photographers—American Walter H. Horne, Italian Tina Modotti and Mexicans Agustín Víctor Casasola and Manuel Álvarez Bravo—are discussed not just as windows on to events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylised expression.
October 208 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14092-7 £25.00*
The twenty-five years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico, from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to forge a new nation and a new government. During this period, the work of the four photographers, two primarily documentary, one propagandistic and one artistic and personal, enabled Mexicans to understand the forces that had brought their nation to armed conflict and social transformation. Leonard Folgarait is professor of art history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
River of No Return Laura McPhee • Preface by Robert Hass With an essay by Joanne Lukitsh The idea of the American wilderness has long captivated artists fascinated by the ways in which its unspoiled natural beauty embodies the nation’s identity. This lavishly produced volume celebrates the unsurpassed splendour of a fabled region, while also presenting the environmental complexities of managing a vast landscape in which the needs of ranchers, biologists, miners, tourists and locals seek a finely delineated balance.
Exhibition National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 20 February – 24 May 2009
Photographer Laura McPhee follows in the tradition of nineteenthcentury artistic approaches toward the sublime, relying on a largeformat view camera to capture images of exquisite colour, clarity and definition. In images spanning all seasons, McPhee depicts the magnificence and history of the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho. Her subject matter includes the region’s spectacular mountain ranges, rivers and ranchlands; its immense spaces and natural resources; the effects of mining and devastating wildfires; and the human stories of those who live and work there. Featured texts set McPhee’s photographs in the context of the work of American predecessors including Frederick Sommer and J. B. Jackson, and discuss her working methods and experiences photographing the evolving landscape.
October 160 pp. 254x318mm. 6 b/w + 94 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14100-9 £35.00*
Laura McPhee is professor of photography and Joanne Lukitsh is professor of art history at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. McPhee’s books include No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment, Forces of Change: A New View of Nature and Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Lukitsh is the author of Julia Margaret Cameron and other publications. Robert Hass was United States poet laureate from 1995 through 1997. His most recent collection of poems, Time and Materials, won the 2007 National Book Award in poetry.
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Chinese Calligraphy
Art and China’s Revolution
Ouyang Zhongshi and Wen C. Fong
Edited by Melissa Chiu and Zheng Shengtian
Translated and edited by Wang Youfen Cao Baolin, Cong Wenjun, Huang Dun, Wang Jingxian, Wang Shizheng, Wang Yuchi, Ye Peigui, Zhou Junjie and Zhu Guantian • Qianshen Bai, Uta Lauer and Craig Shaw Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English-language readers for the first time a full account of calligraphy in China, including its history, theory and importance in Chinese culture. Representing an unprecedented collaboration among leading Chinese and Western specialists, the book provides a definitive and up-todate overview of the visual art form most revered in China. With more than 600 illustrations, including examples of extremely rare Chinese calligraphy from all over the world, and an informative prologue by Wen C. Fong, this book will make a welcome addition to the library of every Western reader interested in China and its premiere art form. Ouyang Zhongshi is professor at Capital Normal University, Beijing. Wen C. Fong is chair and professor at the Center for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University and professor emeritus in the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University.
The Culture & Civilization of China • Foreign Languages Press October 520 pp. 305x229mm. 75 b/w + 550 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12107-0 £40.00* No Chinese rights
Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyse the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership, and argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Previously, historians have tended to dismiss the art of the Cultural Revolution as pure propaganda. The authors of this volume argue that while much art produced during this time was infused with politics, it is short sighted to overlook the aesthetic sophistication, diversity and accessibility of much of the imagery. Bringing together more than 200 artworks, including oil paintings, ink scroll paintings, artist sketchbooks, posters and objects from daily life, as well as primary documentation that has not been published outside China or seen since the mid20th century, this invaluable volume sheds new light on one of the most controversial and critical periods in history. Exhibition Asia Society Museum, 5 September 2008 – 4 January 2009 Melissa Chiu is director of the Asia Society Museum. Zheng Shengtian is an independent curator.
Published in association with the Asia Society Museum November 280 pp. 305x229mm. 50 b/w + 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14064-4 £40.00*
New Bamboo
The Art of Japanese Craft
Contemporary Japanese Masters
1875 to the Present
Joe Earle
Felice Fischer
While woven bamboo containers have been common in Asia for thousands of years, it is only in the past 150 years that basketry has become widely regarded as an art form. This stunning book celebrates contemporary Japanese bamboo masters whose breathtakingly beautiful and imaginative new works are changing the definition of basketry.
From Japan’s first forays onto the international stage of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920s and 1930s, from the heady post–World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich diversity of media and techniques. One of the first illustrated surveys in English of modern-era Japanese crafts, including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft and wood, this book is an invaluable guide for the collector and scholar.
Focusing on contemporary bamboo artists working in sculptural forms, the book is based on recent interviews and critical analysis. In his compelling and accessible text, Joe Earle argues that today’s bamboo sculpture reaches beyond its craft roots to abandon functionality, while maintaining meticulous attention to the rigorous technical skill on which Japanese basketry was founded. Exhibition Japan Society Gallery, New York, 3 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
Focusing on a collection of Japanese crafts destined for the Philadelphia Museum, the text discusses the artists and ideas that shaped and defined the aesthetic of twentieth-century Japan, noting that this nation—which so deeply appreciates and fosters its crafts traditions—hails its artists as ‘living national treasures’. Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 6 December 2008 – autumn 2009
Joe Earle is vice president and director of the gallery at Japan Society, New York City.
Felice Fischer is The Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Distributed for the Japan Society
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 128 pp. 229x241mm. 75 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14141-2 £16.00*
November 60 pp. 279x216mm. 70 b/w + 70 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14212-9 £11.99*
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State of the Axe Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words Ralph Gibson • With an introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker • Preface by Les Paul In this book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than sixty intimate black-and-white portraits of guitarists playing their instruments. Focusing on musicians who have lent their unmistakable voices to virtually every musical genre—jazz, funk, rock, acoustic, blues, fusion, classical and experimental —Gibson reveals in each photograph the intense relationship of the player with his instrument. State of the Axe features guitarists across several generations, from early jazz greats to modern rockstars, as they play their widely varied guitars, including traditional six-strings, double necks, ten-strings and fretless models. Gibson’s images capture the enduring appeal of the instrument and the intense, often rapturous expressions of those who play it. Fusing his own passions for photography and music, Gibson generates a rhythm of words and images that creates a compelling view of the ‘state of the axe’ today. Among the featured artists are: Adrian Belew, Nels Cline, Jim Hall, Mary Halvorson, Allan Holdsworth, Bill Frisell, John McGlaughlin, Lou Reed, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Andy Summers and James Blood Ulmer. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 20 September 2008 – 19 January 2009 Ralph Gibson is an award-winning photographer. Anne Wilkes Tucker is Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Les Paul is a revered guitarist.
Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston September 192 pp. 298x210mm. 80 duotone illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14211-2 £14.99* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
End Game British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection Richard Cork and Elliott Zooey Martin British artists such as Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley have transformed the art world with their visually volatile investigations into states of being. This book, whose title takes its name from a work by Hirst, draws from an important private collection to highlight the best of today’s art from Britain. The volume focuses on thirteen major works by the Young British Artists, a dynamic association of painters, sculptors, video artists and photographers, whose irreverent and genre-bending art first took London by storm in the late 1980s. Featuring six masterpieces by Hirst, including multimedia constructions that confront the fragility of life and the certainty of death; Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (Fire Escape), a monumental and ghostly negative stairway cast in plaster; and stills from Sam Taylor-Woods’s haunting video A Little Death, the book also includes a selection of provocative works by Gormley (Feeling Material XXVII) and other established figures as well as emerging artists. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 14 June – 28 September 2008 Richard Cork is an award-winning art critic, author and curator. Elliott Zooey Martin is curatorial assistant of contemporary art and special projects, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston September 80 pp. 216x140mm. 30 colour illus., including 1 gatefold Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14201-3 £8.99* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Plains of Mars European War Prints, 1500–1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation James Clifton and Leslie Scattone • With Emine Fetvaci, Ira Gruber and Larry Silver From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed images also proliferated during this time, serving a variety of functions—commemorative, propagandistic, iconic, narrative, eulogistic, critical or instructional. This volume is the first graphic print survey of the theme of war in the early modern period. Featuring work by such artists as Dürer, Goya and Géricault, the book presents varied images of soldiers; battles (including specific historical events); production, innovation and instruction in arms and armour; and representations of abstract concepts related to war and peace. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 24 January – 19 April 2009 James Clifton is the director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and curator of Renaissance and Baroque painting at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Leslie Scattone is assistant curator at the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
Published in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 280 pp. 305x248mm. 164 b/w + 5 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13722-4 £35.00*
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Collected Writings on Velázquez Jonathan Brown In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velázquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown’s distinguished career, include some which are published in English for the first time and one which has never before been published. Two themes unite them. The first concerns the changing relationship between Velázquez and his patron Philip IV, which provides a framework for Brown to interpret the painter’s career. The centrepiece of this relationship is Veláquez’s masterpiece, Las Meninas, and this painting is the subject of two essays. The second theme is the problem of attributions and the related issue of Velázquez’s innovative technique. Since Velázquez was not a prolific painter, questions of authenticity become increasingly contentious. Brown considers this matter in its widest dimensions and participates in the debate about individual attributions. Jonathan Brown is the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is the author of the standard biography on Velázquez, Velázquez, Painter and Courtier.
May 410 pp. 260x195mm. 170 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14493-2 £35.00*
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Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Volume 1 Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600 Jonathan Bikker, Yvette Bruijnen, Gerdien Wuestman, Everhard Korthals Altes, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Taco Dibbits This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world’s largest and most representative collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Focusing on 445 works by such masters as Hendrick Avercamp, Balthasar van der Ast, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Esaias van de Velde, Volume I presents the work of some 100 painters who together provide a comprehensive overview of the dawn of seventeenth-century Dutch art.
January 584 pp. 292x244mm. 440 colour illus. Slipcased two-volume set ISBN 978-90-8689-027-9 £265.00*
An up-to-date biography is provided for each artist as is the complete known provenance for each painting. The paintings have been fully researched and described, and all are reproduced in full colour. An appendix of photographed signatures is also included. For every admirer of the Dutch masters, this set is both a treasure trove of information and a delight to the eye. Distributed outside The Netherlands for the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Sun, Wind, and Rain The Art of David Cox Scott Wilcox Born in Birmingham in 1783, David Cox was destined to become a major figure in the linked worlds of landscape painting and watercolour painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. Remarkably, no significant study of the artist has been undertaken in more than a century. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses muchneeded attention on Cox, filling in the details of his biography and illuminating his contributions to British landscape painting.
Exhibition Yale Center for British Art, 16 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 31 January – 3 May 2009
November 272 pp. 280x240mm. 220 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11744-8 £40.00*
Cox’s widely-known Sun, Wind, and Rain, painted in 1845, is emblematic of his connections with J. M. W. Turner and other contemporary Romantic landscape painters—artists who shared a concern with the representation of light and atmosphere and weather. Scott Wilcox’s chapter in this book investigates Cox’s artistic identity and his legacy. Other chapters address such topics as Birmingham’s cultural milieu; myths about Cox’s life; the papers he chose; his painting in oils; and the fakes, forgeries and misattributions that have challenged attempts to identify his oeuvre with certainty. Scott Wilcox is curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. He is the author of British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art and Edward Lear and the Art of Travel and co-author of Victorian Landscape Watercolors, The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century and Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in EighteenthCentury Britain: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill.
Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
English Embroidery in the Metropolitan Museum 1575–1700 ’Twixt Art and Nature Melinda Watt and Andrew Morrall
Exhibition The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York City, 10 December 2008 – 15 March 2009
January 256 pp. 285x245mm. 280 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12967-0 £40.00*
This book centres around the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England’s late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, some eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives and pastoral imagery, to create a superb and comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history. Melinda Watt is assistant curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Andrew Morrall is professor, Bard Graduate Center. He specialises in Early Modern Northern European fine and applied arts.
Published in association with The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
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The Cosmopolitan Interior Liberalism and the Victorian Home, 1870–1914 Judith A. Neiswander Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women’s magazines and professional journals. This intriguing book examines that literature and shows how it was influenced by the widespread liberalism of the middle class. Judith Neiswander explains that during these years liberal values—individuality, cosmopolitanism, scientific rationalism, the progressive role of the elite and the emancipation of women—informed advice about the desirable appearance of the home. In the period preceding the First World War, these values changed dramatically: advice on decoration became more nationalistic in tone and a new goal was set for the interior—‘to raise the British child by the British hearth’. Neiswander traces this evolving discourse within the context of current writing on interior decoration, writing that is much more detached from social and political issues of the day. Judith A. Neiswander is an independent art historian.
October 256 pp. 254x178mm. 70 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12490-3 £35.00*
Artistic Luxury Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique Edited by Stephen Harrison • Essays by Emmanuel Ducamp and Jeannine Falino Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique—these great designers came together only once to display their goods in what was probably the most opulent exhibition ever mounted. At the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the three strove to position themselves ahead of their many competitors in the luxury market, each presenting his jewellery and home adornments as high art. Their success is explored in this splendidly illustrated catalogue, which elucidates the pre-war pinnacle of European culture. The array of displayed objects was mesmerising: Tiffany glass, Easter eggs to dazzle the Czars, realistic insects created in precious materials as sinister decorations. Many of these bore influences of the advanced art of the time, such as Art Nouveau, Viennese modernism and symbolism and of styles from around the world. Four essays discuss the works in the context of their times, illuminate the high societies served by the three masters and trace the cultural trends behind their extraordinary creations. Exhibition Cleveland Museum of Art, 19 October 2008 – 19 January 2009; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 14 February – 31 May 2009 Stephen Harrison is curator of decorative arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Emmanuel Ducamp has written and lectured widely on Russian and French decorative arts. Jeannine Falino is an independent curator.
Published in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art January 288 pp. 267x244mm. c. 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14224-2 £40.00*
John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur • Studies in British Art, Volume 19 Edited by Cinzia Maria Sicca Contributions by Christopher Baker, Cristina Borgioli, Louisa M. Connor Bulman, Antonella Capitanio, Marco Collareta, Peter Davidson, Francisco Freddolini, Cristiano Giometti, John Harris, Elisabeth Kieven and Cinzia Maria Sicca This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677–1726), first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history of Talman’s acquisitions, shedding light on the competitive nature, social practices and aesthetic ideas of connoisseurship both in England and abroad. Talman’s collection, amassed in England, Florence and Rome between the 1690s and 1719, focused on Italian medieval art, architecture and textiles, as well as Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture. It reflected the tastes and preoccupations of artistic and intellectual élites in pre-enlightenment Europe. A vehicle for disseminating aesthetic and historical ideas, the collection became not only an extraordinary document of the state of ancient and modern Italian monuments but also a history of architecture and culture at large that provided visual evidence of buildings and rituals lost through time. Cinzia Maria Sicca is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa.
Studies in British Art 19 • Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art February 304 pp. 254x178mm. 108 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12335-7 £45.00*
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William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Interlacings Caroline Arscott The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates in 1853 and lasted until Morris’s death in 1896, despite their differences in temperament and in attitudes to political engagement. This friendship was one of the defining features of both their lives, and yet the overlap in their artistic projects has not previously been considered in detail. In this deeply thoughtful book, Caroline Arscott explores particular aspects of the paintings of Burne-Jones and the designs of Morris and concludes that there are close interconnections in theme, allusion and formal strategy between the works of the two men. She suggests that themes of bodily pain, desire and appetite are central to their vision. Through careful readings of Burne-Jones’s painting and Morris’s designs for printed wallpapers and textiles, she shows that it is possible to bring together fine art and design in a linked discussion that illuminates the projects of both artists. Caroline Arscott is senior lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art October 224 pp. 279x241mm. 40 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14093-4 £40.00*
G. F. Watts Victorian Visionary Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant Widely regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a ceaseless experimenter throughout his seventy-year career. He was not only the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age but also a sculptor, landscape painter and symbolist. This beautifully illustrated book encompasses the work of his entire career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 and first exhibited painting in the Royal Academy in 1837 to his most iconic work, Hope, and the remarkable, almost abstract painting, Sower of the Systems, completed in 1903. In addition, the book includes historic photographs and archival materials, especially concerning the establishment in 1904 of the Watts Picture Gallery in Compton, Surrey, for the permanent exhibition of his art. Essays by leading scholars examine the artist’s output, life, reception and legacy. Exhibition Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 11 November 2008 – April 2009 Mark Bills is curator, Watts Gallery, and formerly senior curator of paintings, prints and drawings, the Museum of London. He is co-editor of William Powell Frith, Painting the Victorian Age. Barbara Bryant is an art historian, writer, and consultant specialising in the work of G. F. Watts. She wrote the exhibition catalogue G. F. Watts Portraits: Fame & Beauty in Victorian Society.
October 224 pp. 280x240mm. 220 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14257-0 £40.00*
William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision Edited by Katharine Lochnan and Carol Jacobi This abundantly illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition of William Holman Hunt’s work. It explores the nature and significance of the artist’s vision and its relevance to modern audiences. Despite the great interest in Pre-Raphaelitism, it has been nearly forty years since the last exhibition devoted to Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the movement. His vision, which inspired the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, has lost neither its timeliness or relevance. The book illustrates paintings by Hunt and his associates, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Hughes, and also includes drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes and archival material. It examines Hunt’s work in the context of the Brotherhood, and his ideas in relation to the artistic, spiritual, intellectual, emotional and social crises of his age. By focussing on themes that remain relevant in the twenty-first century, the book sheds new light on Victorian neuroses, anxiety and the crisis of faith. Katharine Lochnan is Deputy Director of Research and The R. Fraser Elliott Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Carol Jacobi is Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Exhibition Manchester City Galleries, 11 October 2008 – 11 January 2009 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14 February – 10 May 2009 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 13 June – 6 September 2009 Published in association with The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto October 224 pp. 280x230mm. 100 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14832-9 £40.00*
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Frank Gehry
Deborah Berke
On Line
Tracy Myers Introduction by Amy Hempel
Esther da Costa Meyer World-renowned architect Frank Gehry considers drawing a conceptual tool: his fluid, unpredictable sketches demonstrate how he searches for ideas with his pen. This book, slipcased in a cardboard box that itself recalls Gehry’s furniture, offers an in-depth analysis of his drawings during the two decades since computergenerated design began to dominate architectural practice. Esther da Costa Meyer analyses his idiosyncratic style, his inspiration in the art of the past and of the present and his contributions to the art of architectural draftsmanship. Da Costa Meyer argues that Gehry’s sketches are only the first link in a long chain that passes through numerous models and computer renderings until the building is finally completed. She notes, however, that these whimsical works powerfully express Gehry’s critique of the dogmatic strains of modernism prevalent when he began his career and his own attempts to bring humour, emotion and drama back to architecture. Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 4 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 Esther da Costa Meyer is associate professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University.
Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum November 110 pp. 184x140mm. 30 b/w + 16 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12214-5 £17.99* Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Félix Candela Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist Maria E. Moreyra Garlock and David P. Billington Spanish-born Félix Candela (1910–1997) is acknowledged as a master builder who designed and built innovative thin shell concrete roof structures in Mexico. This book goes further, however, hailing Candela as a structural engineer whose elegant forms should be considered works of art. This is the only publication on Candela currently in print. Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 10 October 2008 – 22 February 2009 Maria E. Moreyra Garlock is assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton University. David P. Billington is Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Program in Architecture and Engineering at Princeton University.
Published in association with the Princeton University Art Museum November 224 pp. 254x254mm. 200 b/w & colour illus. Flexibound ISBN 978-0-300-12209-1 £30.00*
She has designed banks and hotels, college master plans and retail spaces, homes and studios for leading artists, and her work has appeared in Vogue, Newsweek and Vanity Fair. Hailed as one of her generation’s only true modernists, architect Deborah Berke has, perhaps ironically, made a name for herself by creating what she calls an ‘architecture of the everyday’. This book is the first to explore Berke’s remarkable career as an architect, interior designer, teacher and writer who has forged a strong and evolving aesthetic. Her style, as examined in a series of engaging essays, blends energy, simplicity, functionality and keen sensitivity to site—without the forced distinctiveness common in contemporary architecture. Through newly commissioned photographs, twenty-one of Berke’s most celebrated projects appear in this beautifully produced book, including the Irwin Union Bank, Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, 21c Museum Hotel and Marianne Boesky Gallery. Also featured are Berke’s reflections on her growing interest in the ‘here and now’—a site-specific architecture designed to counteract banal, uncaring placelessness. Tracy Myers is curator of architecture at the Heinz Architectural Center of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Amy Hempel is a short story writer, journalist and professor at Bennington College.
October 240 pp. 279x248mm. 100 b/w + 175 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13439-1 £40.00*
Revisiting the Glass House Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture Edited by Jessca Hough and Monica Ramirez-Montagut Essays by Anthony Vidler, Peter Halley and David Auburn This book explores the ways in which contemporary artists incorporate images of modern buildings in their work as a means to explore the utopian potential of architecture and to provide an antidote to the cynicism of our time. The book features painting, photography, video art and other twodimensional work by twenty-two artists from around the world. Exhibition The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 9 March – 27 July 2008; Yale School of Architecture, Architecture Gallery, 11 February – 9 May 2008; Mills College Art Museum, 14 January – 22 March 2009 Jessica Hough is director of the Mills College Art Museum. Monica Ramirez-Montagut is assistant curator of architecture and design at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Published in association with The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Mills College Art Museum November 144 pp. 254x241mm. 130 colour illus. Flexibound ISBN 978-0-300-13587-9 £25.00*
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William Eggleston, Untitled (From 10.D.70.V2), 1972. Dye transfer print. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust.
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William Eggleston Democratic Camera • Photographs and Video, 1958–2008 Elisabeth Sussman, Thomas Weski, Tina Kukielski, Stanley Booth and Donna De Salvo Elvis’s Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscape—these are only a few of the iconic images captured by the ‘democratic camera’ of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of colour that have helped elevate this entire field of photography to a fine art, especially since his 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Drawing together Eggleston’s famous and lesser-known works, this lavishly illustrated catalogue is the first to examine both his photography and videos. Of particular relevance are his black-and-white images from the late 1950s and 1960s, which helped shape his colour photography, as well as the relationship between his provocative video recordings of 1970s Memphis nightlife and his later work. Included are reproductions of newly restored prints, executed specifically for the exhibition. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, opens November 2008; Haus der Kunst, Munich, opens January 2009 Elisabeth Sussman is curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art. Thomas Weski is chief curator of the Haus der Kunst, Munich. Tina Kukielski is senior curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art. Stanley Booth is an independent music critic and writer. Donna De Salvo is chief curator and associate director of programs, Whitney Museum of American Art, and coeditor of Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art November 272 pp. 305x229mm. 250 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12621-1 £35.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840–1900 Corey Keller, Jennifer Tucker, Tom Gunning and Maren Gröning Brought to Light invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and the public alike. In this book, accounts of scientific experimentation blend with stories of showmanship to reveal how developments in nineteenth-century technology could enlighten as well as frighten and amaze. Through a series of 200 vintage images, produced by photographers, scientists and amateur inventors, this book ultimately traces the rise of popular science. Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 Albertina Museum, Vienna, 20 March – 6 June 2009 Corey Keller is associate curator of photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jennifer Tucker is associate professor of History at Wesleyan University. Tom Gunning is professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Maren Gröning is Curator of the Photographic Collection at the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art October 208 pp. 257x229mm. 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14210-5 £35.00*
John Gutmann The Photographer at Work Sally Stein • Introduction by Douglas R. Nickel • Contribution by Amy Rule John Gutmann (1905–1998) was one of America’s most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. This book acknowledges Gutmann’s place in the history of photography. Drawing on his archive of photographs and papers at the Center for Creative Photography, it presents both unfamiliar works and little-known contexts for his imagery, linking his photography to his interest in painting and filmmaking, his collections of non-Western art and artefacts and his pedagogy. Exhibition Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 15 November 2008 – 7 February 2009 Sally Stein is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Published in association with the Center for Creative Photography January 176 pp. 279x254mm. 150 duotone illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12331-9 £35.00*
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Paris Portraits Artists, Friends, and Lovers Kenneth E. Silver
Picasso and the Allure of Language Susan Greenberg Fisher With Mary Ann Caws, Jennifer Gross, Patricia Leighten, S. Zelda Roland and Irene Small
The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentiethcentury Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to re-imagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits—Fauve, Cubist, Dada, Surrealist and Expressionist—unlike any seen before.
Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso had close friendships with writers and an abiding interest in the written word. This groundbreaking book, which draws on the collections of Yale University, traces the relationship that Picasso had with literature and writing in his life and work.
This remarkable book focuses on a rich variety of these portraits, presenting paintings, sculpture and works on paper by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Duchamp, Brancusi, Lipchitz, Gris, Rivera, Modigliani, Dubuffet, Laurencin and Soutine. A major essay explores the fascinating network of personal and aesthetic relationships that existed at the time, as artists depicted themselves and their friends, collectors, critics, spouses and romantic partners. There is also a formal and iconographic discussion of each featured work, as well as relevant biographical, cultural and historical information.
Beginning with the artist’s early associations with such writers as Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy, the book continues until the postwar period, by which time Picasso had become a worldwide celebrity. Distinguished authorities in art and literature explore the theme of Picasso and language from historical, linguistic and visual perspectives and contextualise Picasso’s work within a rich literary framework. Presenting fascinating archival materials and written in an accessible style, Picasso and the Allure of Language is essential reading for anyone interested in this great artist and the history of modernism.
Kenneth E. Silver is professor of modern art at New York University and adjunct curator at the Bruce Museum.
Exhibition Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 20 January – 21 May 2009; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, 20 August 2009 – 3 January 2010
Published in association with the Bruce Museum, Greenwich September 224 pp. 305x240mm. 30 b/w + 165 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14543-4 £30.00*
Susan Greenberg Fisher is the Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Caspar David Friedrich, Chasseur in the Woods, c.1813. Oil on canvas, Kunstsammlung Rudolf August Oetker, Bielefeld.
Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery
Caspar David Friedrich Nature as Revelation Thomas Kellein Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is renowned for highly symbolic compositions that reveal his extraordinary sensitivity to the cycles of nature, the effects of seasonal changes and the ephemeral qualities of light. This beautiful book focuses on Friedrich’s extraordinary works on paper: landscapes characterised by their atmosphere of isolation and stillness, rural cityscapes and penetrating self-portraits. The featured works reveal Friedrich’s experimentations with pictorial devices that are prominent as well in his painterly oeuvre. One such is the rückenfigur, an isolated individual seen from behind who is contemplating the landscape and who emphasises both man’s private search for meaning and the unity of humanity with nature. Noted scholar Thomas Kellein explicates this and other topics, including the political significance of Friedrich’s drawings, the artist’s designs for the Marienkirche in Stralsund and some recently discovered Friedrich drawings.
January 176 pp. 254x203mm. 62 b/w + 156 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13546-6 £25.00*
La Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jehanne de France Blaise Cendrars, with illustrations by Sonia Delaunay Edited by Timothy Young This is the first full-colour, full-size facsimile of the original 1913 collaboration between the poet Blaise Cendrars and the artist Sonia Delaunay that came to define the modern artist’s book and stands as one of the most beautiful books ever created. Blaise Cendrars’ narrative about his life-changing journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway is a poem of memory and movement. Sonia Delaunay’s designs create a parallel path as the reader slips down the palette while swimming through a river of words. Curator Timothy Young provides a new English translation accompanied by notes.
Thomas Kellein is director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
Blaise Cendrars was the model of the 20th- century avantgarde man, travelling widely, befriending and inspiring artists and fellow writers, and writing poems, novels and memoirs. Sonia Delaunay, one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, was known for her experiments with colour and textile designs. Timothy Young is associate curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Published in association with the American Federation of Arts
Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
January 144 pp. 292x260mm. 15 b/w + 120 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13673-9 £30.00*
August 191x102mm. Boxed folded poster ISBN 978-0-300-14189-4 £22.50*
Pablo Picasso, lithograph from Le chant des morts (1948). Yale University Art Gallery, The Ernest Steefel Collection of Graphic Art.
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Prato Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State Alick M. McLean This handsome book recounts the historical development of one city republic, Prato in Tuscany, from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. In telling the story of Prato’s origins, construction and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, art, architecture, politics, faith and daily life of Prato and its citizens, showing how major historical events and trends in the Italian middle ages were experienced within the architecture and streetscapes of this particular place. McLean’s meticulous research is supported by a rich array of stunning new photography, plans and maps. Together they provide a clear picture of what differentiates Italy’s medieval communes from its ancient cities: the interest in economic growth rather than exclusively centralised military and administrative hegemony. This history of urban form in Prato shows how the commune sought to fashion a democratic version of urban life, one based primarily on rational, systematic and legislative order, rather than religious belief and private interests, and it examines what happened to that experiment. Alick M. McLean teaches medieval architecture and European and Mediterranean urban history at Syracuse University in Florence.
November 272 pp. 254x203mm. 102 b/w + 32 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13714-9 £40.00*
European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago Koenraad Brosens Christa C. Mayer Thurman, general editor Contributions by Pascal-François Bertrand, Charissa Bremer-David, Elizabeth Cleland, Guy Delmarcel, Nello Forti Grazzini, Yvan Maes De Wit and Christa C. Mayer Thurman This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of production in many of the foremost workshops. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 1 November 2008 – 4 January 2009 Koenraad Brosens is visiting associate professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation-Flanders. Christa C. Mayer Thurman is Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator, the Department of Textiles, the Art Institute of Chicago.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago September 400 pp. 305x248mm. 200 b/w + 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11960-2 £40.00* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Reconstructing the Renaissance ‘Saint James Freeing Hermogenes’ by Fra Angelico Laurence B. Kanter Saint James Freeing Hermogenes, an important painting by one of the world’s most beloved Renaissance artists, was privately owned and rarely seen until two decades ago, when it was acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Now an eminent authority reviews previous studies on this beautiful Fra Angelico painting and draws on new technical and archival research to provide a more precise reconstruction of its original format and context. In analysing this painting, Laurence Kanter re-examines and confirms Fra Angelico’s status as a pioneer of the new representational style championed in Florence in the early fifteenth century by Brunelleschi, Masaccio and Donatello, and he shows why he was one of the great artistic minds of his age. Kanter presents both detailed information for students and an introduction for the general reader to the methods and procedures of reconstructing and interpreting history when little contemporary written testimony survives. Laurence B. Kanter is the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Kimbell Masterpiece Series Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum November 96 pp. 235x191mm. 3 b/w + 55 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12136-0 £10.99*
Drawn to Italian Drawings The Goldman Collection Nicholas Turner • With contributions by Jean Goldman This lovely book features drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including works by Guercino, Parmigianino, Raphael and other Italian masters. These 130 working drawings, preparatory sketches and finished compositions offer insights into the varied approaches to drawing, the artists’ developing styles and the different regional approaches to the medium. Highlighting works from the distinguished collection of Jean and Steven Goldman, the volume enables the reader to study the drawings in dialogue with one another. With compelling images, many never before published, executed in a variety of media, exciting new attributions and important analyses, this book is essential for anyone who admires the bravura and beauty of Old Master drawings. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 October ’08 – 18 January 2009 Nicholas Turner, an independent art historian, was formerly Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings and Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jean Goldman is a scholar specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago November 320 pp. 305x241mm. 75 b/w + 175 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14104-7 £40.00* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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Thomas Chambers
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808–1869
American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
Kathleen A. Foster Labelled as a travelling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-twentieth century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive sea- and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and disappeared from the record in the mid-1860s, leaving many paintings that later resurfaced in rural New York and Massachusetts. In this richly illustrated work, Kathleen Foster shows, however, that far from being simply an itinerant painter of folk art, Chambers actually enjoyed a professional, even entrepreneurial, relationship to the art world. Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 27 September – 28 December 2008; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 8 February – 19 April 2009; American Folk Art Museum, New York, 29 September – 7 March 2010; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 26 March – 30 May 2010 Kathleen A. Foster is The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the author of Thomas Eakins Rediscovered and editor of A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins, both published by Yale.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art October 160 pp. 229x279mm. 25 b/w + 110 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14105-4 £35.00*
James Castle A Retrospective Edited by Ann Percy With essays by Ann Percy, Jacqueline Crist, Brendan Greaves, Nancy Ash and Scott Homolka and Beth Anne Price, Kenneth Sutherland, Daniel Kirby and Maarten van Bommel Interview with Terry Winters by Jeffrey Wolf James Castle (1899–1977) never learned to speak, read or write, nor did he ever leave his native state of Idaho, and yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with much of twentieth-century art. This book offers the first critical exploration of the many creative genres of this selftaught artist, who first came to notice in the 1950s and 1960s but has only recently been recognised by major museums.
Edited by Helen A. Cooper With Robin Jaffee Frank, Elisabeth Hodermarksy and Patricia E. Kane, with the assistance of Amy Kurtz Lansing Introduction by David McCullough • Essays by Jon Butler, Joanne B. Freeman, Howard R. Lamar and Jules D. Prown The American experience, from its colonial beginnings to the modern age, has captured the imagination of all Americans, including its artists. This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American paintings, decorative arts, prints and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and creates a vivid portrait of a young country defining itself culturally, politically and geographically. Exhibition Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 9 September 2008 – 4 January 2009; Seattle Art Museum, 26 February – 24 May 2009; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 4 October 2009 – 10 January 2010 Helen A. Cooper is the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery. David McCullough, American historian and bestselling author, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery October 384 pp. 248x292mm. 65 b/w + 315 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12289-3 £40.00
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs Joseph Cunningham Foreword by Bruce Barnes Introduction by Sarah Fayen Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and protomodernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information. Exhibition Various US venues
Ann Percy is curator of drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Joseph Cunningham is the curator of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. Bruce Barnes is director of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. Sarah Fayen is assistant curator of the Chipstone Foundation and adjunct assistant curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published with American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation
November 280 pp. 298x229mm. 30 b/w + 320 colour illus. Includes free DVD ISBN 978-0-300-13730-9 £40.00*
October 304 pp. 305x254mm. 16 b/w + 321 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13909-9 £45.00*
Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 2008 – January 2009
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Gather Up the Fragments The Andrews Shaker Collection Mario S. De Pillis and Christian Goodwillie Struck by the beauty of every visible object in a Shaker kitchen they chanced to visit in 1923, young Edward Deming Andrews and his wife, Faith Young Andrews, embarked on a collection that became the passion of their lives. During the following decades, at a time when the art and artefacts of the Shakers were considered ‘low’ art and unworthy of collecting or exhibiting, the Andrewses energetically collected objects, studied sources and eventually mounted exhibits and published books on Shaker culture. This beautiful book is the first to document their unparalleled collection, presenting some 600 photographs, most never before published. In addition, the book brings to light the extraordinary story of the Andrewses’ collecting and scholarship. Exhibition Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, May, 2008 – October, 2008; Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA, October, 2009 – December, 2009; Frist Museum, Nashville, TN, May, 2011 – August, 2011 Mario S. DePillis is professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Christian Goodwillie is curator of collections, Hancock Shaker Village.
Scrapbooks An American History Jessica Helfand Combining pictures, words and a wealth of personal ephemera, scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books a moment, a day or a lifetime. Highly subjective and rich in emotional content, the scrapbook is a unique and often quirky form of expression in which a person gathers and arranges meaningful materials to create a personal narrative. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to focus attention on the history of American scrapbooks—their origins, their makers, their diverse forms, the reasons for their popularity and their place in American cultural life. Jessica Helfand, a graphic designer and scrapbook collector, examines the evolution of scrapbooks from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present, concentrating on the first half of the twentieth century. She includes colour photographs from more than two hundred scrapbooks, some made by private individuals and others by the famous, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Anne Sexton, Hilda Doolittle, Carl Van Vechten and Stan Brakhage. Jessica Helfand is a partner at Winterhouse, a design collaborative in New England. She teaches in the graduate programme in graphic design at Yale University.
Distributed for Hancock Shaker Village
A Winterhouse Edition Published with assistance from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
July 400 pp. 254x254mm. 69 b/w + 599 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13760-6 £40.00*
November 256 pp. 241x279mm. 400 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12635-8 £25.00*
Bordertown
Paul McCarthy
The Odyssey of an American Place
Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films
Benjamin Heber Johnson and Jeffrey Gusky Mexico and America have met for eight generations on their shared border. In this compelling book, photographer Jeffrey Gusky and historian Benjamin Johnson capture this encounter through their mesmerising portrayal of Roma, Texas. At a time when the border is a source of controversy and division, Johnson’s unexpected stories and Gusky’s haunting photographs demonstrate how deeply the story of the border is also the story of America itself. Benjamin Heber Johnson is associate professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, published by Yale. Jeffrey Gusky is an emergency physician, a fine art photographer and a documentary film producer. He is the author of Silent Places: Landscapes of Jewish Life & Loss in Eastern Europe.
The Lamar Series in Western History November 224 pp. 254x178mm. 147 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13928-0 £35.00*
Chrissie Iles This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning and ‘neurotic’ architecture—a feeling of psychological breakdown—in the work of one of America’s most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Whitney, for which McCarthy is creating new installations to appear alongside his Bang Bang Room and two rediscovered film loops. An interview with McCarthy himself offers an unprecedented discussion of the influences on his art. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, June – October 2008 Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrendranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art September 80 pp. 241x222mm. 5 b/w + 25 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14138-2 £10.99* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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After Many Springs
Art and Activism
Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest
Projects of John and Dominique de Menil
Debra Bricker Balken Introduction by Jeff Fleming
Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi
After Many Springs is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book—taking the name of this work by Benton—examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography and film during the Great Depression. It is commonly believed that Regionalist artists Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood reacted to the economic and social devastation of their era by harking back in tranquil bucolic paintings to a departed utopia. However, this volume compares their work to that of photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn and filmmakers such as Josef von Sternberg, all of whom documented the desolation of the Depression, and finds surprising commonalities. The book also notes intriguing connections between Regionalist artists and Modernists Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston, countering prevailing assumptions that Regionalism was an anathema to these New York School painters and showing their shared fascination with the Midwest. Exhibition Des Moines Art Center, 30 January – 17 May 2009 Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator and scholar. Jeff Fleming is director of the Des Moines Art Center.
Distributed for the Des Moines Art Center February 125 pp. 279x229mm. 25 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13586-2 £27.50* Translation rights: Des Moines Art Center
Through the Seasons Japanese Art in Nature Miyeko Murase The arts of Japan have been inextricably linked with nature, whether through traditional themes of seasonal change or through objects whose shape, materials or decorative elements evoke natural motifs. This book provides an overview of the history of Japanese paintings of nature, demonstrating not only the importance of seasonal imagery but also the range of painting styles popular during the period from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Published to accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Clark’s Stone Hill Center, Through the Seasons features a broad range of works from the rich Edo period (1615–1868). Exhibition Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 22 June – 13 October 2008 Miyeko Murase is former Special Consultant for Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Professor Emerita at Columbia University.
Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts July 64 pp. 229x229mm. 23 colour illus. + 3 gatefolds Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14188-7 £10.99* Translation rights: The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, MA
This fully illustrated book is the first to examine the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture and the civil and human rights movements. The de Menils, who moved to Houston from France in 1941, amassed one of the world’s great private art collections and became passionately involved in the cause of human rights. The volume includes a discussion of the building of the de Menils’ art collection; their patronage of modern architecture in Houston; their embrace of modernism; their leadership in Houston’s civil rights movement and in human rights projects worldwide; their commissioning of works of art and catalogue raisonnés; and their establishment of the Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Dan Flavin Installation and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. Vintage photographs, many taken by Henri Cartier Bresson, previously unpublished correspondence with artists, and an illustrated chronology all add to this textured tribute to the de Menils’ extraordinary achievements. Josef Helfenstein is director of The Menil Collection. Laureen Schipsi is publisher at The Menil Collection.
Distributed for The Menil Collection November 350 pp. 305x229mm. 210 b/w + 106 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12377-7 £45.00*
What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter Edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith With essays by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Marc Gotlieb, Serge Guilbaut, Michael Ann Holly, Akira Mizuta Lippit, W. J. T. Mitchell, Joanne Morra, Sina Najafi, Alexander Nemerov, Celeste Olalquiaga, Alexander Potts and Reva Wolf The discipline of art history is in a moment of selfconsciousness, and art historians are increasingly more selfreflexive about their practices. In this volume, thirteen authors address both the philosophical and practical issues now facing those in the visual arts field by investigating the ever-pressing issue of research. Their essays explore the remarkable nature of art historians’ personal, political, aesthetic, creative and emotive curiosity and the process of doing research in the archive, library, studio, gallery, museum and beyond. Michael Ann Holly is director of the Research and Academic Programme at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Marquard Smith is course director for the master’s programme in art and design history at Kingston University, London.
Clark Studies in the Visual Arts • Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA January 224 pp. 241x178mm. 61 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13413-1 £15.99* Translation rights: The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, MA
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African Art from The Menil Collection
Writing the Word of God
Edited by Kristina Van Dyke
David J. Roxburgh
Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artefacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book, the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils’ collection of African art, features 120 of the museum’s finest pieces.
Calligraphy and the Qur’an The art of Islamic calligraphy developed from the 7th to the 14th century, beginning in western Arabia, spreading south to the Yemen and north to the Near East, and continuing east and west to Iran, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. This book demonstrates the breadth and beauty of Islamic calligraphy across centuries and continents, as seen in rare early folios of the Qur’an.
An essay by scholar Kristina Van Dyke discusses the formation of the collection, which was inspired in part by its relationship to modernist works and by the couple’s interest in human rights. This insightful text also explains how the de Menils’ visionary spirit was influenced by African art and places those objects within the context of the whole of the de Menils’ collection, in which works from ancient, Byzantine, medieval, modern, Oceanic and Native American cultures speak to the universal struggle for human understanding. Entries for the selected works were written by leading scholars in the field and are grouped into sections based on regions.
Noted scholar David J. Roxburgh begins by discussing the Qur’an, which Muslims believe to be the written record of a series of divinely inspired revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. He then analyses Kufic script, the pre-eminent vehicle for writing early manuscripts of the Qur’an; reforms of calligraphy in the tenth century; and the great master Islamic calligraphers, in particular Yaqut al-Musta‘simi. The beautiful reproductions of folios and bifolios validate Roxburgh’s conclusion that “the miracle of the text of the Qur’an found its equal in the technical mastery of the calligrapher’s practice, a miracle in its own right”.
Kristina Van Dyke is associate curator for collections, The Menil Collection, Houston.
David J. Roxburgh is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Distributed for The Menil Collection September 248 pp. 305x229mm. 40 b/w + 135 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12376-0 £40.00*
Exhibition Asia Society Museum, autumn 2008
Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston September 64 pp. 279x216mm. 31 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14200-6 £8.99* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Benin Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom
Rethinking Recarving
Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the ‘Wu Family Shrines’ and Han China
In the late fifteenth century, the Kingdom of Benin (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria) established a mercantile relationship with Portugal, significantly increasing its wealth and might. Benin became a regional powerhouse and under a long lineage of divine rulers, or obas, it wielded great economic and political influence. The obas also supported guilds of artists, chief among them brass casters and ivory carvers, whom they employed to produce objects that honoured royal ancestors, recorded history and glorified life at court. The sophisticated creations of Benin’s royal artists stand among the greatest works of African art. This stunning book features a selection of Benin’s extraordinary artworks that range from finely cast bronze figures, altar heads and wall plaques to ivory tusks, pendants and arm cuffs embellished in detailed bas relief. An insightful essay outlines the kingdom’s history and sheds light on these masterworks by describing their production and function in the context of the royal court. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 10 July – 21 September 2008 Kathleen Bickford Berzock is Curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago August 40 pp. 219x241mm. 35 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13677-7 £6.99*
Cary Y. Liu et al. The Wu Family Shrines pictorial carvings from Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) are among the earliest works of Chinese art examined in an international arena. Since the eleventh century, the carvings have been identified by scholars as one of the most valuable and authentic materials for the study of antiquity. This important book presents essays by archaeologists, art and architectural historians, curators and historians that re-examine the carvings, adding to our understanding of the long cultural history behind them and to our knowledge of Han practices. The authors offer a thorough analysis of surviving physical and visual sources, invoking fresh perspectives from new disciplines. Essays address the ideals, practices and problems of the Wu Family Shrines and Han China; Han funerary art and architecture in Shandong and other regions; architectural functions and carved meanings; and Qing Dynasty Reception of the Wu Family Shrines. Cary Y. Liu is curator of Asian art, Princeton University Art Museum, and coauthor of Recarving China’s Past.
Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum September 368 pp. 279x216mm. 169 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13704-0 £40.00* Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
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The Great Age of the English Essay An Anthology Edited by Denise Gigante From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenthcentury England: the periodical essay. Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English essay challenged the borders between fiction and non-fiction prose and helped forge the tastes and values of an emerging middle class. This authoritative anthology is the first to gather in one volume the consummate periodical essays of the period. Included are The Spectator co-founders Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, literary lion Samuel Johnson and Romantic recluse Thomas De Quincey, addressing a wide variety of topics from the oddities of virtuosos to the private lives of parrots and the fantastic horrors of opium dreams.
“This is a splendid project. No other collection of its scope and variety exists.”—James Engell, Harvard University
October 464 pp. 234x156mm. 1 map Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-11722-6 £35.00 Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14196-2 £16.00*
In a lively and informative introduction, Denise Gigante situates the essayists in the context of the contemporary Republic of Letters and highlights the stylistic innovations and conventions that distinguish the periodical essay as a literary form. Critical notes on the essays, a chronology, descriptions and a map of key London sites, and a glossary of eighteenth-century English usage complete the anthology—a uniquely pleasurable survey of the golden era of British essays. “This collection puts the reader into the warm, snug world of the periodical essay as it self-consciously develops over two centuries. I’m not sure when I’ve had so much pure reading pleasure.” —Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia Denise Gigante is associate professor of English at Stanford University and the author of Taste: A Literary History, published by Yale.
Dante’s Two Beloveds Ethics and Erotics in the ‘Divine Comedy’
Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
Olivia Holmes
Joseph Luzzi
Re-examining key passages in Dante’s oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women—Beatrice and the ‘other woman’. Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dante’s two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he re-imagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same. This visionary insight sheds new light on Dante’s corpus and on the essential paradox at the poem’s heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dante’s turn away from the earthly in favour of the divine.
In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.
Olivia Holmes is visiting associate professor of Italian, Dartmouth College. Her previous book, Assembling the Lyric Self, won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award in 2000.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12542-9 £35.00
The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the “world’s university” (Goethe) and “mother of arts” (Byron), the influence of Dante’s Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical re-evaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters—Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni—profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present. Joseph Luzzi is assistant professor of Italian and director of the Italian Studies programme, Bard College.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12355-5 £30.00
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS • THE MARGELLOS WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Yale University Press is proud to announce the inaugural volumes of the Margellos World Republic of Letters series. The series is dedicated to making literary works from around the globe available in English through translation. It brings to the English-speaking world the work of leading poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers and playwrights from Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, to stimulate international discourse and creative exchange.
Five Spice Street Can Xue Five Spice Street is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the street; others think she is a common trickster playing mind games with the common people. Who is Madam X? How has she brought the good people of Five Spice Street to their knees either in worship or in exasperation? The unknown narrator takes no sides in the endless dialectic of visions, arguments and opinions. The investigation rages, the street becomes a Walpurgisnacht of speculations, fantasies and prejudices. Madam X is a vehicle whereby the people bare their souls, through whom they reveal themselves even as they try to penetrate the mystery of her extraordinary powers. Five Spice Street is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. Exploring the collective consciousness of this little street of ordinary people, Can Xue penetrates the deepest existential anxieties of the present day, whether in China or in the West, where the inevitable impermanence of identity struggles with the narrative within which identity must compose itself. February 320 pp. 197x127mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12227-5 £14.99*
Can Xue, meaning ‘dirty snow, leftover snow’, is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua (b.1953), author of many novels and short works of fiction in Chinese, most recently Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories. No Chinese, Japanese or German rights
Songbook The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba Translated by George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Hochfield Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in 1957, and today he is positioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three most important Italian poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Until now, however, English-language readers have had access to only a few examples of this poet’s work. This bilingual volume at last brings an extensive and exquisitely translated collection of Saba’s poems to English-speaking readers. Both faithful and lyrical, George Hochfield’s and Leonard Nathan’s translations do justice to Saba’s rigorous personal honesty and his profound awareness of the suffering that was for him coincident with life. An introductory essay, a translation of Saba’s early manifesto, ‘What Remains for Poets to Do’, and a chronology of his life situate his poetics within the larger context of twentiethcentury letters. With its publication, this volume provides the English-speaking world with a momentous occasion to rethink not just Italian poetry but also the larger European modernist project.
February 448 pp. 197x127mm. 1 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13603-6 £20.00*
George Hochfield is Professor of English, Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo. Among the extensive publications of Leonard Nathan (1924–2007) are seventeen volumes of poetry, as well as numerous translations, prose works and articles on poetry.
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64 Performing Arts/Music ANNOUNCING THE 2007 WINNER OF THE YALE DRAMA SERIES
The Boys from Siam John Austin Connolly • Foreword by Edward Albee John Connolly’s The Boys from Siam has been chosen as the first winner of the Yale Drama Series. This play was selected by playwright and contest judge Edward Albee, winner of the Pulitzer prize. Based loosely on the lives of nineteenth-century brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (the source of the term ‘Siamese twins’), The Boys from Siam is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. In his foreword, Edward Albee writes that the work is “a beautifully realized concentrated universe. It takes big chances along the way . . . and makes us care—really care.” For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit www.yalebooks.com John Austin Connolly lives and writes in Dublin. Previous works have been showcased at the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Dublin Temple Bar Arts Festival. A recent short story has been shortlisted for the 2008 Francis McManus short story competition in Ireland.
Yale Drama Series November 256 pp. 210x140mm. Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-14184-9 £25.00 Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14185-6 £7.99* Translation rights: William Morris Agency, LLC
Ballet’s Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925 Akim Volynsky • Selected, Translated, Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Stanley J. Rabinowitz Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist and art historian who became Saint Petersburg’s liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Stanley Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky’s articles—vivid eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognise. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky’s magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings Volynsky emphasises the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet, argues Rabinowitz in his critical introduction which sets Volynsky’s life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of the time. “An extremely important contribution to the literature on dance.”—Lynn Garafola, author of The Ballet Russes and Its World Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Henry Steele Commager Professor and professor of Russian, Amherst College, and director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.
January 352 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12462-0 £25.00* Translation rights held by Stanley Rabinowitz
Majesty and Humanity Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age Alban K. Forcione In the Golden Age of Spanish Theatre, an age of highly dramatised coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, he finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to reconcile the public and the private, society and the individual, the monarch and the man. In brilliantly reinterpreting two of Lope de Vega’s plays, long regarded as conventional royalist propaganda, Forcione places his texts in the context of political and institutional history, philosophy, theology and art history. In so doing he shows how Spanish theatre anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterised the ascendance of the absolutist state and its threat to the cultivation of individuality, authenticity and humanity. “An impressive, exciting work of criticism and scholarship.”—David Quint, Yale University Alban K. Forcione is Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of the Language, Literature and Civilization of Spain Emeritus at Princeton University, and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Emeritus at Columbia University.
February 352 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13440-7 £40.00
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Life Explained Michel Morange • Translated by Matthew Cobb and Malcolm DeBevoise Fifty years ago Francis Crick and James D. Watson proposed the double helix model for the DNA molecule. They believed they had, as Crick put it, discovered the ‘secret of life’, and many agreed. But in the intervening years, science has marched—sometimes leaped—forward, and now the question ‘What is life?’ must be posed once again. In this accessible and fascinating book, Michel Morange draws on recent advances in molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, astrobiology and other disciplines to find today’s answers to the question of life. He begins by discussing the various answers that have been formulated in the past, setting contemporary definitions of life within a rich philosophical and scientific tradition that reaches back to ancient Greece. Then, with impeccable logic and a wealth of appropriate detail, Morange proceeds to lay out the fundamental characteristics that define life. The road to an understanding of life remains incompletely charted, he concludes, but the nature of its final destination is no longer an enigma. Yale is pleased to announce a new publishing venture with France’s premier science publisher, Éditions Odile Jacob. Michel Morange is professor of biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he directs the Centre Cavaillès for the History and Philosophy of Science. Matthew Cobb is senior lecturer in animal behaviour at the University of Manchester. Malcolm DeBevoise is a translator.
November 192 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13732-3 £14.99*
Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob
Flowers and Herbs of Early America Lawrence D. Griffith • Photography by Barbara Temple Lombardi Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America’s colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a leading historic plant expert brings this botanical heritage back to life. Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial Williamsburg’s gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, Lawrence Griffith documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. For each plant, an elegant period hand-coloured engraving, watercolour or woodcut is presented along with glorious new photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi. This book is a dazzling treat for armchair gardeners and for those who have visited and admired the famous gardens of Colonial Williamsburg. It is also an invaluable companion for twenty-first-century gardeners who will appreciate the specific advice of a master gardener on how to plan, choose appropriate species for and maintain a beautiful, historic flower and herb garden. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Lawrence D. Griffith is curator of plants for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Barbara Temple Lombardi is a photographer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
November 304 pp. 267x235mm. 265 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14536-6 £30.00*
Sustainability by Design A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture John R. Ehrenfeld The developed world, increasingly aware of ‘inconvenient truths’ about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies—eco-efficiency, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually do more harm than good, says John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology. In this deeply considered book, Ehrenfeld challenges conventional understandings of ‘solving’ environmental problems and offers a radically new set of strategies to attain sustainability. The book is founded upon this new definition: sustainability is the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on Earth forever. There are obstacles to this hopeful vision, however, and overcoming them will require us to transform our behaviour, both individually and collectively. Ehrenfeld identifies problematic cultural attributes, such as the unending consumption that characterises modern life, and outlines practical steps towards developing sustainability as a mindset. By focusing on the ‘being’ mode of human existence rather than on the unsustainable ‘having’ mode we cling to now, he asserts, a sustainable world is within our reach. John R. Ehrenfeld serves as executive director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and is senior research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 1999 he became the first recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Resources Institute.
October 272 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13749-1 £16.99*
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66 Psychology/Health/Law
The Psychology of Rational Thought
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
What Intelligence Tests Miss
Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease
Keith E. Stanovich Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key non-cognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this book, Keith Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption. Stanovich shows that IQ tests, or their proxies, are radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning. They fail to assess traits that most people associate with ‘good thinking’, such as judgement and decision-making. Such cognitive skills are crucial to real-world behaviour, affecting the way we plan, evaluate, judge risks and probabilities and make decisions. IQ tests fail to assess these skills of rational thought, even though they are measurable. Rational thought is just as important as intelligence, Stanovich argues, and it should be valued as highly as the abilities currently measured on intelligence tests. “An original, well-supported, and brilliantly tied together book that reveals the misunderstood relationship between IQ, intelligence and rationality.”—David Over, Durham University, Psychology Department Keith E. Stanovich is professor of human development and applied psychology, University of Toronto.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12385-2 £16.00
You Did That on Purpose Understanding and Changing Children’s Aggression Cynthia Hudley Some children are prone to a particular kind of aggression when they are with their peers. For these children, any harm done to them, even something as inconsequential as a jostle in the lunch line, is perceived as intentional. Their style of social information processing, termed ‘hostile attributional bias’, increases the likelihood of retaliating with excessive and inappropriate physical aggression. In this valuable book, parents and professionals who work with children will learn what can be done to better understand and control children’s aggression. Beginning with a reader-friendly review of the literature, Cynthia Hudley underscores the substantial risks of long-term problems for primary-school-age children who demonstrate aggressive behaviour. Then, drawing on her work as founder of a successful school intervention programme, the BrainPower Program, Hudley describes methods for reducing children’s peer-directed aggression. She concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad social contexts in supporting non-aggressive behaviour. Cynthia Hudley is professor, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara.
October 192 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11085-2 £25.00
Alice Wexler When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind and mood her neighbours called St.Vitus’s dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington’s disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to ‘belong to the disease’; the emergence of Huntington’s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease. Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research.
October 272 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-10502-5 £18.00
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle In this book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity and scientific innovation. Boyle identifies as a major problem the widespread failure to understand the importance of the public domain. With a clear analysis of issues ranging from musical sampling, synthetic biology and Internet file sharing, this timely book brings a positive new perspective to important cultural and legal debates. James Boyle is a professor at Duke University School of Law.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13740-8 £18.00*
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THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE The Anchor Bible Series, a prestigious collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, has been acquired by Yale University Press. Yale will publish all backlist and new volumes in this series, to be renamed Anchor Yale Bible. A full list of titles in the series is available by e-mailing sales@yaleup.co.uk
The Good and Evil Serpent
No Ordinary Angel
How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized
Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus
James H. Charlesworth
Susan R. Garrett
In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist could have made such a surprising analogy, James H. Charlesworth has spent nearly a decade combing through the vast array of references to serpents in the ancient world—from the Bible and other religious texts to ancient statuary and jewellery. Charlesworth has arrived at a surprising conclusion: not only was the serpent a widespread symbol throughout the world, but its meanings were both subtle and varied. In fact, the serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasises the creativity of the biblical authors’ use of symbols and argues that we must today re-examine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity. James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, and director and editor of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project, Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library January 672 pp. 234x156mm. 143 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14082-8 £27.50*
I Corinthians A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Joseph A. Fitzmyer This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated with the epistle, including issues of its authorship, time of composition and purpose, and he also presents a complete outline.
In this provocative, intelligent and highly original addition to the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, Susan R. Garrett argues that angelology has never been merely about angels. Rather, from ancient times until the present, talk about angels has served as a vehicle for reflection on other fundamental life questions, including the nature of God’s presence and intervention in the world, the existence and meaning of evil and the fate of humans after death. In No Ordinary Angel, Garrett examines how biblical and other ancient authors addressed such questions through their portrayals of angels. She compares ancient discussions of angels to popular depictions of angels today and considers how the ancient and modern portraits of angels relate to Christian claims about Jesus. No Ordinary Angel offers important insights into the development of angelology, the origins of Christology and popular Western spirituality ranging from fundamentalist to New Age. In doing so, it provokes stimulating theological reflection on key existential questions. Susan R. Garrett is professor of New Testament, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is coordinator of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library January 304 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14095-8 £18.99*
Philippians A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by John Reumann In Philippians John Reumann offers both classical approaches and new methods of understanding this New Testament book. With fresh commentary on the social world and rhetorical criticism, and special focus on the contributions of the Philippian house churches to Paul’s work and early Christian mission, Reumann clarifies Paul’s attitudes towards and interactions with the Philippians.
Joseph A. Fitzmyer is a Jesuit priest and professor emeritus, Biblical Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
John Reumann is Ministerium of Pennsylvania Professor of New Testament and Greek studies, emeritus, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, where he has taught for some fifty years.
The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries • The New Testament
The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries • The New Testament
October 688 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14044-6 £30.00
October 832 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14045-3 £30.00
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Evangelical Disenchantment
Landmark of the Spirit
Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt
The Eldridge Street Synagogue
David Hempton
Annie Polland
In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of wellknown individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.
New York City’s magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish community that flourished from the 1850s until the 1940s. Their synagogue served not only as a place of worship but also as a singularly important centre in the development of American Judaism. Exploring the synagogue’s rich archives, the author shines new light on the religious life of immigrant Jews and analyses the significance of this special building in the context of the larger American-Jewish experience.
David Hempton is Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, Harvard University.
Annie Polland is executive director of education, Eldridge Street Project, and adjunct assistant professor, Jewish Theological Seminary.
January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14067-5 £20.00
February 192 pp. 234x190mm. 51 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12470-5 £25.00*
Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle
Provisional Politics
Averroes (Ibd Rushd) of Cordoba Translated with Introduction and Notes by Richard C. Taylor With Thérèse-Anne Druart, Subeditor
Elisabeth Ellis
Born in 1126 to a family of Maliki legal scholars, Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, enjoyed a long career in religious jurisprudence at Seville and Cordoba while at the same time advancing his philosophical studies of the works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers the complete text of this influential work of medieval philosophy. Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126–1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician and a master of metaphysics, Islamic law, mathematics and medicine. Richard C. Taylor is professor of philosophy, Marquette University.
Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy Series January 608 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11668-7 £55.00
Prophets, Profits, and Peace The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance
Kantian Arguments in Policy Context If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging, direct style, Provisional Politics builds on Ellis’s prizewinning interpretation of Kant’s theory of provisional right to construct a new theory of justice under conditions of agency and plurality. She develops this new perspective through a series of cases ranging from the treatment of AIDS widows in Kenya to the rights of non-citizens everywhere, as well as the clash between democratic decision-making and the politics of species conservation. The book concludes with a sobering discussion of the probable limits of political agency. Elisabeth Ellis is associate professor of political science, Texas A&M University.
January 216 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12522-1 £35.00
Mortgaging the Ancestors Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Timothy L. Fort
Parker Shipton
This groundbreaking book investigates the religious issues that businesses confront as they expand their global activity and proposes that corporations can become instruments of peace. Timothy Fort discusses the newly emerging idea of ‘peace through commerce’, and he argues powerfully that today’s businesses have the capacity to foster both peace and religious harmony.
This fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker Shipton discusses how people in Africa’s interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land and to ancestral graves on the land. He goes on to explain why systems of property, finance and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa’s rural people.
Timothy L. Fort is executive director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility, coordinator of The Peace Through Commerce Program and Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics at George Washington University.
October 224 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11467-6 £25.00
Parker Shipton is associate professor of anthropology and research fellow in African studies, Boston University.
Yale Agrarian Studies Series February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 19 b/w illus. + 1 map ISBN 978-0-300-11602-1 £35.00
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Chinese Grammar Made Easy
The Works of Samuel Johnson
A Practical and Effective Guide for Teachers
Volumes 21–23 The Lives of the Poets
Jianhua Bai This book presents instructors with classroom-tested techniques for teaching 150 fundamental grammar points. Its communicative, meaning-based approach helps teachers to engage students by bringing grammar into a real-life context. Clear, concise explanations and a variety of learning activities are included to reinforce each grammar point and provide structured practice. Jianhua Bai is professor of Chinese at Kenyon College and director of the Chinese School at Middlebury College.
September 336 pp. 279x215mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12279-4 £25.00
War with Hannibal Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student Brian Beyer This edition of Book III of Eutropius’s Breviarium ab urbe condita presents authentic, unabridged Latin prose for beginning and intermediate Latin students in secondary schools and colleges.
Samuel Johnson • Edited by John H. Middendorf This carefully researched three-volume edition of Lives presents a definitive text reflecting Johnson’s final wishes for its wording, accompanied by notes of value to general readers and specialists. The late John H. Middendorf served as general editor and chair of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. He was also professor of English at Columbia University.
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson January 1344 pp. in 3 volumes 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12314-2 £180.00
The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 26 Catalogues of Books Jonathan Edwards • Edited by Peter J. Thuesen
Brian Beyer teaches Latin at Montgomery High School in Skillman, NJ.
This final volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards publishes for the first time Edwards’s ‘Catalogue’, a notebook he kept of books of interest, especially titles he hoped to acquire, and entries from his ‘Account Book’, a ledger in which he noted books loaned to family, parishioners and fellow clergy.
January 144 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13918-1 £15.00
Peter J. Thuesen is associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.
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Eine Liebe aus nichts
September 512 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13394-3 £55.00
Barbara Honigmann Edited by Marion Gehlker and Birte Christ
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Barbara Honigmann’s Eine Liebe aus nichts is the first in a series of readers that includes cultural and historical information and extensive vocabulary annotations alongside the original German text. Rich in twentieth-century German-Jewish history, this novella tells the story of a daughter’s search for an identity and the roots of a past that her parents have denied. Marion Gehlker is senior lector and language programme director for Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Birte Christ is a Ph.D. candidate in English Philology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
January 160 pp. 234x156mm. 13 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12321-0 £25.00 Translation rights: Rowohlt Verlag GMBH
Set the Stage! Teaching Italian Through Theater Edited by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature and culture through theatre. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian dramatic tradition into the curriculum. Nicoletta Marini-Maio is assistant professor of Italian at Dickinson College. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz is associate professor of Italian and director of Italian language instruction at Indiana University.
January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-10985-6 £30.00
Volume 39 January 21 through May 15, 1783 Benjamin Franklin • Edited by Ellen R. Cohn In the four months following the 20 January 1783 armistice that ended the War for American Independence, Franklin was remarkably energetic as he helped oversee the transition to peace and waged a campaign to publicise the ideals of the new nation. Though political turmoil in Britain delayed negotiations for the definitive peace treaty, Franklin deftly negotiated America’s first commercial treaty with a neutral nation, Sweden, which was signed in secret. He distributed his symbolic and influential Libertas Americana medal, worked towards the publication of his French edition of the American state constitutions and fielded scores of letters from people all over Europe who sought to emigrate, to establish trade connections with the United States, to become consuls and to offer congratulations and advice. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series January 768 pp. 219x148mm. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13448-3 £65.00
Yale French Studies, Volume 114 Writing the Image Today Special editors: Jan Baetens and Ari J. Blatt Yale French Studies Series January 224 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11821-6 £12.00 Translation rights: Yale French Studies
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70 US Studies
The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
The City’s End Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Ken Wells This gripping saga provides a close-up look at the harrowing experiences in the backwaters of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. Focusing on the plight of the Robin family, whose members trace their local roots to before the American Revolution, Wells recounts the storm and the tumultuous seventy-two hours afterwards, when the Robins’s beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded and all but forgotten by the authorities as the world focused on New Orleans. Ken Wells is a senior editor and writer for Condé Nast Portfolio magazine, as well as the author of Crawfish Mountain and the Catahoula Bayou trilogy.
October 288 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12152-0 £16.00* Translation rights: Russel & Volkening Agency, Inc
Max Page From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Max Page is associate professor of architecture and history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
October 280 pp. 254x178mm. 137 b/w + 24 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11026-5 £25.00* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
Woodrow Wilson
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love
Princeton to the Presidency
Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
W. Barksdale Maynard A vivid account of Wilson’s stormy tenure as president of Princeton University and how it foreshadowed his years as US president. W. Barksdale Maynard is lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
October 416 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13604-3 £12.00
Regulation by Litigation Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle and Andrew Dorchak In this book, three experts in regulatory law and theory offer a systematic analysis of the use of litigation to impose substantive regulatory measures, including a public choice-based analysis of why agencies choose to litigate in some circumstances. Andrew P. Morriss is H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, IL. Bruce Yandle is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University. Andrew Dorchak is Head of Reference and Foreign/International Law Specialist, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Library.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12002-8 £35.00
Out of Reach Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Rebecca Yamin This intriguing book explores eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations. Rebecca Yamin is a historical archaeologist with John Milner Associates, Inc.
November 256 pp. 241x190mm. 132 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10091-4 £25.00
Eloquence and Reason Creating a First Amendment Culture Robert L. Tsai This provocative book presents a theory of the First Amendment’s development. During the twentieth century, Americans gained trust in its commitments, turned the First Amendment into an instrument for social progress and exercised their rhetorical freedom to create a common language of rights. Robert L. Tsai is associate professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law.
January 216 pp. 234x156mm. 3 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11723-3 £25.00
Parties and Policies How the American Government Works
Scott W. Allard
David R. Mayhew
Changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. This book examines the current system and the role that geography plays in its ability to offer help.
This wide-ranging new volume investigates US political parties, politicians, elections and policymaking to discover why public policy emerges in the shape that it does.
Scott W. Allard is Mary Tefft and John Hazen White Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 13 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12035-6 £22.50
David R. Mayhew is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University.
November 384 pp. 234x156mm. 10 graphs & charts Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13762-0 £16.00
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The American Far West in the Twentieth Century
Foul Bodies
Earl Pomeroy • Edited by Richard W. Etulain Foreword by Howard R. Lamar
Kathleen M. Brown
In this insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading Western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much by events and innovations in the twentieth century. Earl Pomeroy was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Richard W. Etulain is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.
Cleanliness and the Making of the Modern Body The book explores early America’s evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analysing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering and housecleaning performed by women. Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanisation, immigration, market conditions and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Kathleen M. Brown is professor of history, University of Pennsylvania.
The Lamar Series in Western History
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World
November 608 pp. 234x156mm. 62 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12073-8 £25.00*
October 448 pp. 234x156mm. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10618-3 £25.00*
The Preemption War
Small Wonder
When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries
The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory
Thomas O. McGarity Most people are unaware of a quiet war that has been raging in America for the last decade, in courts, federal regulatory agencies and Congress, a war over federal agency preemption of state common law claims. In this comprehensive book, McGarity takes up for the first time this increasingly important subject. Thomas O. McGarity is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law, University of Texas School of Law.
January 368 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12296-1 £30.00
Between Virtue and Power The Persistent Moral Dilemma of U.S. Foreign Policy John Kane In this survey of US history, John Kane looks at the tensions between American virtue and power and how those tensions have influenced foreign policy. John Kane is professor, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane.
October 416 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13712-5 £27.50
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement Alan Houston Although Franklin is often considered ‘the first American’, his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative and engaged—a lively thinker who joined both learned controversies and political conflicts at home and abroad.
Jonathan Zimmerman This book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered—and just as often misremembered—this powerful American national icon. Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of education and history, New York University.
Icons of America February 208 pp. 210x140mm. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12326-5 £16.99* Translation rights: Fletcher & Parry Agency, LLC
William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred Edited by James Brewer Stewart Eminent scholars reflect on Garrison as a political activist, an internationalist, an advocate of feminism and more. Together they present a new appraisal of one of America’s most challenging, inspiring and controversial historical figures. James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College.
October 152 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13658-6 £25.00
War of a Thousand Deserts Indian Raids and the U.S.–Mexican War Brian DeLay Exploring Mexican, American and Indian sources, this book recovers the surprising and previously unrecognised ways in which economic, cultural and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states.
Alan Houston is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
Brian DeLay is assistant professor of history, University of Colorado, Boulder.
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Lamar Series in Western History
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12447-7 £25.00
January 488 pp. 234x156mm. 31 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11932-9 £25.00
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Stalin’s Wars From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 Geoffrey Roberts A provocative reassessment of Stalin’s military and political leadership during the most important years of his career. “Geoffrey Roberts has produced a robust defence of Stalin as wartime dictator and post-war generalissimo, but also one of the best narrative accounts we have of the real Stalin and his retinue.” —Richard Overy, The Literary Review “an astonishing defence of the Soviet dictator . . . This will provoke lively debate and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Stalin and his times.”—BBC History Magazine “a brilliant revisionist analysis of the Soviet dictator as he became a global leader.”—Kevin Myers, The Irish Independent “This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archieves, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his foreign policy and his role in instigating the Cold War.”—Military Illustrated Geoffrey Roberts is professor of history, University College Cork.
September 496 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13622-7 £14.00* Rights sold: German
The Pol Pot Regime Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79 Third Edition Ben Kiernan This edition of Ben Kiernan’s definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. “In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare.”—Richard Gough, The Times Higher Education Supplement “This is not the first account of Pol Pot’s terror . . . But Mr. Kiernan’s is perhaps the most complete and the closest to Cambodian sources.”—The Economist “Impressively researched and deeply disturbing.”—The Sunday Telegraph Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). His other books include Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur and How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975, published by Yale.
July 544 pp. 197x127mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14434-5 £14.99*
The FBI A History Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful and sometimes bitterly criticised American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on US intelligence agencies, tells the bureau’s story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI’s strengths and weaknesses as an institution. “the author . . . gives us a careful, clear, intelligent chronicle of the FBI during its first century. He neither exaggerates nor glosses over faults or blunders.”—Hugh Brogan, BBC History Magazine “Jeffreys-Jones ably sets the political context for the rise and fall of the FBI.”—Glenn C. Altschuler, Baltimore Sun Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is professor of American history, Edinburgh University. His previous books include The CIA and American Democracy, Peace Now!, American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War and Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, all published by Yale.
August 320 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14284-6 £12.99* Rights sold: Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Polish
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Matters of Exchange Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age Harold J. Cook A new and unexpected history of the Dutch pursuit of commerce in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and how it triggered the Scientific Revolution. “a collector’s delight that enriches our understanding of the travels, trade and translations that made the Golden Age possible.”—Lissa Roberts, History Today “It will undoubtedly become a standard work for anyone interested in the Dutch Golden Age.” —Jerry Brotton, BBC History Magazine “At every stage of Matters of Exchange, Cook looks beyond the facts from which his thesis is started, to the moral philosophy, culture and religious changes and tensions which influenced the impact of the new approach.” —Elizabeth Edwards, Times Literary Supplement “meticulously detailed . . . a considerable scholarly achievement.”— Steven Shapin, London Review of Books “a subtle study of ambivalence and motivation, especially where Dutch companies—the agents of conquest and expropriation —conveyed useful and accurate information back to Europe.”—Larry Stewart, The Lancet Harold J. Cook is director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and professor at University College London.
August 576 pp. 234x156mm. 60 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14321-8 £14.99* Yale edition not for sale in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, The Maldives
Smoot’s Ear The Measure of Humanity Robert Tavernor In this original book Robert Tavernor offers a brief history of the various measuring systems human beings have devised, from the time of the Great Pyramid to the era of manned space flights. “At the book’s heart is the changeover from ancient methods of measurement based like Smoot on the human body, to the metric system, derived from a more ‘scientific’ measurement of the earth’s dimensions . . . It’s a story that Tavernor tells well, with an acute awareness of the ironies and human failings it contains.”—Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times “a highly readable account of the measuring systems man devised over two millennia . . . The book explores changing attitudes to measurement focusing on art, architecture, philosophy and the development of scientific thought.”—Architectural Review “Tavernor writes with commendable clarity and economy.”—Tibor Fischer, The Sunday Telegraph “[Tavernor’s] raw material is fascinating, and his argument appealing.”—Jonathan Sale, The Independent Robert Tavernor is professor of architecture and urban design and director of the Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
September 224 pp. 210x138mm. 20 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14334-8 £10.99*
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution Wayne Franits The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists—Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou and others—have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden Age, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through the opening years of the next century. Wayne Franits, a wellknown scholar of Dutch genre painting, offers a wealth of information about these works as well as about seventeenth-century Dutch culture, its predilections and its prejudices. “This excellent survey of Dutch genre painting of the Golden Age is a measured and thoughtful work, written by a leading expert in the study of this field.”—Jane Campbell Hutchinson, Sixteenth Century Journal Wayne Franits is professor of fine arts at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books and many articles and reviews on Dutch art of the Golden Age.
July 320 pp. 285x247mm. 230 b/w + 100 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14336-2 £25.00*
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Beaumarchais in Seville
Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition
An Intermezzo Hugh Thomas
Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
A vivacious account of the journey to Spain that inspired The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville.
Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton Foreword by Peter Morville
“tremendous fun to read. It is nourished, moreover, by an extensive root system: Beaumarchais’s plays, personal correspondence and memoirs (not least his Mémoire d’Espagne), together with meticulous familiarity with earlier biographies of the dramatist, contemporary travellers’ accounts and scholarly historical work about eighteenth-century Spain.”—Eric Southworth, Times Literary Supplement “[a] delightfully readable and engrossing book, whose main intention is to relate the extraordinary circumstances that led a former watchmaker to write two of the most influential and popular plays of the eighteenth century.” —Michael Jacobs, The Literary Review “a learned and lively book.”—Raymond Carr, The Spectator Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous books, including Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain (see page 26).
February 192 pp. 210x140mm. 21 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13633-3 £9.99 Translation rights: The Wylie Agency
Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 Marci Shore The unforgettable saga of a brilliant generation of east European intellectuals who came of age at the end of the First World War, a moment when all seemed possible. These writers, Poles and often Polish Jews, bound together in that moment of hope, were friends, lovers and rivals for the next half century. They gave themselves to Marxism and lost themselves to an age of totalitarianism. “One of Marci Shore’s fine accomplishments in Caviar and Ashes is the care she bestows not only on the minute ideological and political differences among the various groups that came into being in the wake of the Russian Revolution, but on their tangled personal interrelations as well.” —Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement “An elegant portrayal of the lived experience of a group of Poles who came to communism in the 1920s . . . A page turner . . . A valuable study for all those interested in collective biography, Polish history, European Marxism and the twentieth-century experience.”—Catherine Epstein, Slavic Review Marci Shore is assistant professor of history at Indiana University.
February 480 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14328-7 £16.00* Polish rights held by author
Yale’s Web Style Guide is a concise, up-to-date reference on all aspects of web site design, from planning to production, assessment and maintenance. Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organisations and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern. Please visit www.webstyleguide.com Patrick J. Lynch is director, Special Technology Projects, Office of the Director, Information Technology Services, Yale University. Sarah Horton is director of web strategy, design and infrastructure, Dartmouth College.
February 320 pp. 229x178mm. 185 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13737-8 £15.99*
The Future of Reputation Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet Daniel J. Solove Brimming with examples of online gossip, rumour and shaming, this engrossing book explores the profound implications of personal information on the Internet. The book argues that unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free. “Brilliant . . . An honest and troubling account of the ways that we have become our own enemies.”—Siva Vaidyanathan, The Chronicle of Higher Education “Timely and provocative, The Future of Reputation explores a principal dilemma of our age and provides a workable solution that may appeal to readers on both sides of the debate.”—Harvard Law Review “Solove has crafted an interesting book that balances some frightening examples of the power of blogging and gossip with serious discussions about the right of the individual.” —Sydney Morning Herald Daniel J. Solove is associate professor, George Washington University Law School.
November 256 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14422-2 £9.99 Translation rights: A Literary Agency, New York
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Thinking Politically
Treacherous Alliance
Essays in Political Theory
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Michael Walzer Selected, Edited and with an Introduction by David Miller Thinking Politically brings together some of Walzer’s most important work to provide a wide-ranging survey of his thinking and the vision that underlies his responses to contemporary political debates. The book also includes a previously unpublished essay on human rights. David Miller’s substantial introduction presents a detailed analysis of the development of Walzer’s ideas and connects them to wider currents of political thought. In addition, the book includes a recent interview with Walzer on a range of topical issues, and a detailed bibliography of his works. “a splendid collection . . . [The essays] do justice to both words in its title: they address the enduring issues of political theory, but they also engage that thinking with the political issues of the day.”—Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. David Miller is professor of political theory and official fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford.
February 368 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14322-5 £12.99*
Trita Parsi In today’s world of conflict and threatened nuclear violence, few books, if any, could be more important than this one. Middle East expert Trita Parsi untangles the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran and the United States from 1948 to the present and spells out how American policies can avert catastrophe and lead the region towards peace. “[A] wonderfully informative account of the triangular relationship among the US, Iran, and Israel.” —Peter Galbraith, New York Review of Books “In Treacherous Alliance, Trita Parsi provides a valuable and perhaps long overdue reassessment of the Israeli-Iranian nexus”—Jewish Chronicle Trita Parsi is president, National Iranian American Council, and adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS.
November 384 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14311-9 £9.99* Rights sold: Arabic, Turkish
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Churchill’s Promised Land
Security First
The People’s State
Zionism and Statecraft
For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
East German Society from Hitler to Honecker
Michael Makovsky
Amitai Etzioni
Mary Fulbrook
A comprehensive examination of Churchill’s complex relationship with Zionism and what it reveals about his worldview and how he shaped the modern Middle East.
Few would argue against the need for change in American foreign policy, but what approach would be best? Amitai Etzioni proposes a foreign policy that is both pragmatic and morally sound —one in which basic security is the first priority.
This fascinating book offers the first full social history of Cold War East Germany.
“For an honest, but not hostile, explanation of Churchill’s stance towards the Jewish world that also sheds much light on his outlook and his conduct as a politician, Michael Makovsky’s account can hardly be bettered.”—The Literary Review “[A] solidly constructed book . . . We are introduced, carefully and respectfully, to a corner of Churchill’s mind and political behaviour that undoubtedly deserves exploration.”— David Vital, Times Literary Supplement Michael Makovsky has a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Harvard.
“Given the present debate in the US on withdrawal from Iraq, the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the continuing determination of the Bush government to foster democracy in the region, this is an important and timely book . . . valuable not least because of the hard lessons now being learnt in Iraq . . . Etzioni reminds us that even the most powerful nations need to be humble, realistic and rigorously selective in choosing their foreign policy goals.” —John Bruton, The Irish Independent
A New Republic Book
Amitai Etzioni is professor of International Relations at the George Washington University.
October 368 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. + 4 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14324-9 £14.99*
October 336 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14307-2 £12.99 Translation rights: Frederica S. Friedman & Co.
“[Fulbrook] is a meticulous scholar who blows away the monochromatic image of a society where some still yearn for the certainty of ‘those closed years of 1961–1989’” —Camden New Journal “One does applaud Mary Fulbrook for writing a book that is extremely rich in detail and one that is certainly different from other works on the German Democratic Republic. It provides an excellent framework for further debate on the pros and cons of the first socialist experiment on German soil.”—Peter Hylarides, Contemporary Review Mary Fulbrook is professor of German history at University College London.
October 352 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14424-6 £14.99*
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Hotel
George Kennan
An American History
A Study of Character
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
John Lukacs
A spellbinding look at the bustling and colourful world of the American hotel, from colonial days to the twentieth century.
In this account of George Kennan’s work and thought, John Lukacs explores his subject’s contributions to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, his ‘Containment’ article, his role as realist critic during the Cold War and more.
“a scholarly but scintillating account of how the hotel in America evolved . . . passionate and fluently written” —Jonathan Wright, The Glasgow Herald “A dense, ambitious, and valuable new work.” —Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review A. K. Sandoval-Strausz is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
January 384 pp. 254x178mm. 124 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14202-0 £14.99* Translation rights: Trident Media Group, New York
“What makes Lukac’s study valuable is that he has a historian’s feel for what made Kennan such a distinctive figure . . . He presents a compelling picture of a remarkable man.” —Christopher Coke, The Literary Review John Lukacs is author of more than twenty books, past president-elect of the American Catholic Historical Association and member of the Royal Historical Society.
February 224 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14306-5 £10.99 Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
Arms and Influence With a New Preface and Afterword Thomas C. Schelling This edition contains a new foreword by the author where he considers the book’s relevance over forty years after its first publication. Included as an afterword is the text of Professor Schelling’s Nobel acceptance speech. “a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.” —Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series January 320 pp. 203x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14337-9 £12.99
Foxbats Over Dimona The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez This radically innovative study redefined the epochal events of 1967 by showing that the Soviet Union instigated the crisis and launched a direct intervention to overwhelm Israel. “Ginor and Remez . . . have been trawling Soviet archives and double-agents, explain the war as a Kremlin plot gone wrong . . . It’s a terrifying story, thoroughly sourced, and much of it is entirely new.”—Norman Lebrecht, Evening Standard Isabella Ginor is a research fellow at The Harry Truman Research Institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gideon Remez was a radio journalist with Israel’s premier national network.
Science in the Service of Children, 1893–1935 Alice Boardman Smuts This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements—social and scientific—combined to transform the study of the child. “Written in an engaging style, the book richly details the movements that enabled scientific child study to gain a foothold in American science and society . . . An excellent foundation for further work in the history of scientific study of the child.”—Emily D. Cahan, Science Alice Boardman Smuts is a founding member of the Society for Research in Child Development’s History Committee, which seeks to promote research and writing in the history of the field of child development.
February 400 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. + maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14435-2 £20.00
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague Yudl Rosenberg Edited and translated by Curt Leviant “both an academic triumph and a fun read . . . Rosenberg’s book succeeds in offering a mix of suspense and Torah with a dash of humor. It’s a weird, anachronistic romp through both the mysticism of the 16th century, the sensibilities of the 19th, and the timeless humor and mysticism of Judaism.”—Matthue Roth, World Jewish Digest Curt Leviant is the prize-winning author or translator of more than two dozen books, including six novels.
September 304 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13627-2 £10.99*
September 256 pp. 178x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14320-1 £10.99
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Shyness
Stem Cell Century
How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology
Christopher Lane
Russell Korobkin with Stephen R. Munzer
“painstakingly shows how the category of ‘mental disorder’ has been expanded in recent decades, so that what were once considered normal emotions or everyday foibles . . . have been re-labelled as phobias, disorders and syndromes.” —Brendan O’Neill, New Statesman and Society
“Stem Cell Century provides a very clear analysis of the policy issues around cloning and stem cells in biomedicine, on the basis of a sound scientific understanding of the underlying biology.”—Ian Wilmut, Director, Edinburgh University Centre for Regenerative Medicine and creator of ‘Dolly’ the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal
“An important new book.”—Jerome Burne, Times Literary Supplement Christopher Lane is Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor, Northwestern University.
January 272 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14317-1 £10.99*
Russell Korobkin and Stephen R. Munzer are professors of law at the UCLA School of Law and senior fellows at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics.
February 336 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14323-2 £12.99*
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What Is Emotion?
Babies by Design
History, Measures, and Meanings
The Ethics of Genetic Choice Ronald M. Green “In this clear-eyed and generally optimistic book, both promise and risk are ably weighed and balanced. The science is clearly explained, and there are signposts to help guide us through the moral maze.”—The Economist Ronald M. Green is Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values and director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College.
January 288 pp. 210x140mm. 4 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14308-9 £10.99*
Jerome Kagan In this sophisticated and thought-provoking book, Jerome Kagan addresses the ambiguities and controversies that surround the subject of emotion, clarifying what we do know about human emotions and which popular assumptions are incorrect. Jerome Kagan is professor of psychology emeritus and former director of the Mind/Brain Behaviour Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14309-6 £10.99* Rights sold: Korean
Breathing Space
The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes
Gregory J. Feist
Gregg Mitman
An exploration of a new and richly promising discipline within science studies: the psychology of science.
A fascinating look at the ways allergic disease has shaped American culture, landscape and life. Gregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and professor of medical history and science and technology studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Feist pulls together a vast range of psychological research with clarity and insight, and he advances an intriguing framework for the cognitive origins of scientific thinking.” —David Lagnada, Science
September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 48 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14315-7 £11.99*
Gregory J. Feist is lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Davis, and has served on the faculties of the College of William & Mary and San Jose State University.
Overdose
October 336 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14327-0 £16.00
How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation
Psychotherapy without the Self
Richard A. Epstein
A Buddhist Perspective
In this level-headed analysis of the pharmaceutical industry and how we regulate it, Richard Epstein asks: are we protecting patients or blocking the development of useful new drugs?
Mark Epstein, M.D.
Richard A. Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, and Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
January 296 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14326-3 £15.00 Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, LLC
This book provides insights on the interface between Buddhist teachings and Western psychotherapy by the best-selling author of Thoughts without a Thinker. Mark Epstein, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and clinical assistant professor of psychology at New York University.
November 272 pp. 210x140mm. 2 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14313-3 £9.99* Rights sold: Italian
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The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry Edited by Mary Ann Caws “The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry feels compressed without being reductive, ample without being aimless . . .[The] brief introductions to each section are intelligent and informative.”—Patrick McGuinness, Times Literary Supplement Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School, City University of New York.
October 704 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14318-8 £18.00
Fugitive Landscapes The Forgotten History of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Samuel Truett “[A] richly textured history . . . [Truett] presents one of the most significant works on understanding the transnational process.”—F. Arturo Rosales, American Historical Review The Lamar Series in Western History Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies Samuel Truett is assistant professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico.
Secret Trades, Porous Borders Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 Eric Tagliacozzo During the years 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres and in the process created new frontiers. This book analyses the development of these frontiers in insular Southeast Asia and inquires into the growth of vast, secret economies based on smuggling forbidden cargo across the porous new borders. Eric Tagliacozzo is associate professor of history and Southeast Asian studies at Cornell University.
February 454 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14330-0 £20.00 Yale edition not for sale in S. E. Asia
Emerald City An Environmental History of Seattle Matthew Klingle An exploration of the environmental history of Seattle and what it tells us about making cities that are both scenic and just for all. “A fascinating revisionist look at the settling and shaping of this city.”—John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Matthew Klingle is assistant professor of history and environmental studies, Bowdoin College.
The Lamar Series in Western History
September 272 pp. 234x156mm. 27 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14331-7 £14.00
February 368 pp. 234x156mm. 46 illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14319-5 £14.00
Making Indian Law
Education’s End
The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory
Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Christian W. McMillen
Anthony T. Kronman
Threatened by railroad claims to their lands, Arizona’s Hualapai people engaged in a legal battle, emerged victorious and along the way introduced revolutionary new ways of thinking about all native peoples, their property and their past.
A passionate call for colleges and universities to prepare young people for lives of fulfillment, not just successful careers.
Christian W. McMillen is assistant professor of history and American studies, University of Virginia.
October 320 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14314-0 £12.00
February 304 pp. 234x156mm. 2 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14329-4 £16.00
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
Tony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School.
Rights sold: Korean
An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers Communication and Culture, Third Edition
George McKenna
Robert O. Chase and Clarisa B. Medina de Chase
“How America’s sense of national identity was formed is a fascinating question, and George McKenna goes a long way towards answering it. In this wide-ranging, deeply researched and at times revelatory book, he shows how Puritan ideas and values spread across the country from New England in the 1630s and came to define a distinctly American patriotism.” — John Gray, FT Magazine
“The exercises are practical and enjoyable, engaging students in typical situations that might occur in clinic or hospital settings.”—Anthony LaBruzza, Yale Medical School and Greater Bridgeport Community Mental Health Center
George McKenna is professor emeritus, City College of the City University of New York.
February 448 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14325-6 £16.00
Robert O. Chase is a forensic social worker at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Clarisa B. Medina de Chase is a rehabilitation therapist for Spanish-speaking patients and families at Connecticut Valley Hospital.
February 384 pp. 254x178mm. 140 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12426-2 £30.00
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African Art from The Menil: Van Dyke After Many Springs: Balken Alison Watt, DVD: NG Allard: Out of Reach American Far West in the 20th C: Pomeroy Anna Freud: Young-Bruehl Anthology of Graphic Fiction: Brunetti Antram: Brighton and Hove Arms and Influence: Schelling Arscott: William Morris and Burne-Jones Art and Activism: Helfenstein Art and China’s Revolution: Chiu Art and Love in Renaissance Italy: Bayer Art of Illumination: Husband Art of Japanese Craft: Fischer Art, Marriage and Family: Musacchio Artistic Furniture of Rohlfs: Cunningham Artistic Luxury: Harrison Arts of Intimacy: Dodds Aruz: Beyond Babylon Ashton: King Hussein of Jordan Atomic Bomb and the Cold War: Craig Averroes: Long Commentary on the De Anima Babies by Design: Green Baetens: Yale French Studies Bagel: Balinska Baghdad at Sunrise: Mansoor Bai: Chinese Grammar Made Easy Balinska: Bagel Balken: After Many Springs Ballet’s Magic Kingdom: Volynsky Bayer: Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Bears: Brunner Beaumarchais in Seville: Thomas Benin: Bickford-Berzock Benjamin Franklin: Houston Between Virtue and Power: Kane Beyer: War With Hannibal Beyond Babylon: Aruz Bible and the People : Ferrell Bickford-Berzock: Benin Bikker: Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century Bills: G. F. Watts Black: George III Blinky Palermo: Mehring Blood Sport: Griffin Boehm: Choirs of Angels Bonami: Jeff Koons Bordertown: Johnson Bosman: National Gallery in Wartime Boyle: Public Domain Boys from Siam: Connolly Breathing Space: Mitman Brighton and Hove: Antram Brosens: European Tapestries in the AIC Brought to Light: Keller Brown: Collected Writings on Velázquez Brown: Foul Bodies Brunetti: Anthology of Graphic Fiction Brunner: Bears Burdock: Malcolm Cameo Appearances: Draper Campbell: Renaissance Faces Caspar David Friedrich: Kellein Caviar and Ashes: Shore Caws: Yale Anthology of French Poetry Cendrars: La Prose du Transsiberien Cézanne Watercolors: Simms Chagall and the Artists: Goodman Charlesworth: Good and Evil Serpent Chase: Intro. to Spanish for Health Care Chinese Calligraphy: Zhongshi Chinese Grammar Made Easy: Bai Chiu: Art and China’s Revolution
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Choirs of Angels: Boehm Chuang: First Doubt Churchill’s Promised Land: Makovsky City’s End: Page Clark: One Hundred Details from the NG Clifton: Plains of Mars Collected Writings on Velázquez: Brown Connolly: Boys from Siam Cook: Matters of Exchange Cooper: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit Cork: End Game Cosmopolitan Interior: Neiswander Craig: Atomic Bomb Cunningham: Artistic Furniture of Rohlfs da Costa Meyer: Frank Gehry Dance in the Renaissance: McGowan Dante’s Two Beloveds: Holmes Danto: Tom Friedman Deborah Berke: Myers Defying Empire: Truxes DeLay: War of a Thousand Deserts DePillis: Gather Up the Fragments Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Yamin Dobrenko: Stalinist Cinema Dodds: Arts of Intimacy Dolphin Mysteries: Dudzinski Draper: Cameo Appearances Drawn to Italian Drawings: Turner Dudzinski: Dolphin Mysteries Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century: Bikker Dutch 17th-Century Genre Painting: Franits Eagle and the Crown: Prochaska Earle: New Bamboo Earthrise: Poole Eduardo Barreiros: Thomas Education’s End: Kronman Edwards: Works of Jonathan Edwards Ehrenfeld: Sustainability by Design Eine Liebe aus nichts: Honigmann Ellis: Provisional Politics Eloquence and Reason: Tsai Emerald City: Klingle End Game: Cork Engelking: Warsaw Ghetto English Embroidery in the MMA: Watt Epstein: Fred Astaire Epstein: Overdose Epstein: Psychotherapy without the Self Etzioni: Security First European Tapestries in the AIC: Brosens Evangelical Disenchantment: Hempton Fallen Giants: Isserman FBI: Jeffreys-Jones Federico Barocci: Lingo Feist: Psychology of Science Félix Candela: Garlock Ferrell: Bible and the People Fighting for the Cross: Housley First Day of the Blitz: Stansky First Doubt: Chuang Fischer: Art of Japanese Craft Fisher: Picasso and the Allure of Language Fitzmyer: I Corinthians Five Spice Street: Xue Fixing Global Finance: Wolf Flowers and Herbs of Early America: Griffith Folgarait: Seeing Mexico Photographed Forcione: Majesty and Humanity Fort: Prophets, Profits, and Peace Foster: Thomas Chambers Foul Bodies: Brown Foxbats Over Dimona: Ginor Francis Bacon: Peppiatt Franits: Dutch 17th-Century Genre Painting
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Frank Gehry: da Costa Meyer Franklin: Papers of Benjamin Franklin Fred Astaire: Epstein Fried: Why Photography Matters As Art Fugitive Landscapes: Truett Fulbrook: People’s State Future of Reputation: Solove Garibaldi: Riall Garlock: Félix Candela Garrett: No Ordinary Angel Gather Up the Fragments: DePillis George III: Black George Kennan: Lukacs G. F. Watts: Bills Gibson: State of the Axe Gigante: Great Age of the English Essay Ginor: Foxbats Over Dimona Golem and the Wondrous Deeds: Rosenberg Gombrich: Little History of the World Good and Evil Serpent: Charlesworth Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Wells Goodman: Chagall and the Artists Gothic: Steele Graham-Dixon: Tiger seen Graphic Thought Facility: Ryan Great Age of the English Essay: Gigante Great Partition: Khan Green: Babies by Design Gregor: Haunted City Gregory: Lost Politburo Transcripts Gregory: Terror by Quota Griffin: Blood Sport Griffith: Flowers and Herbs of Early America Guns and Rubles: Harrison Harkness: Jewel House Harrison: Artistic Luxury Harrison: Guns and Rubles Harwood: Nottingham Haunted City: Gregor Hearn: How to Read Chinese Paintings Hearn: Landscapes Clear and Radiant Helfand: Scrapbooks Helfenstein: Art and Activism Hell-Fire Clubs: Lord Hempton: Evangelical Disenchantment History’s Greatest Heist: McMeekin Hodgson: Myth of American Exceptionalism Holly: What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Holmes: Dante’s Two Beloveds Honigmann: Eine Liebe aus nichts Honor and Violence in Spain: Taylor Hotel: Sandoval-Strausz Hough: Revisiting the Glass House Housley: Fighting for the Cross Houston: Benjamin Franklin How to Read Chinese Paintings: Hearn Hudley: You Did That on Purpose Hunter: Mozart’s Operas Husband: Art of Illumination I Corinthians: Fitzmyer If the Paintings Could Talk: Wilson Iles: Paul McCarthy Impey: White Tower Intro. to Spanish for Health Care: Chase Isserman: Fallen Giants James Castle: Percy Jan Lievens, 1607–1674: Wheelock Jeff Koons: Bonami Jeffreys-Jones: FBI Jewel House: Harkness John Gutmann: Stein John Talman: Sicca Johnson: Bordertown Johnson: Works of Samuel Johnson
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Kagan: What Is Emotion? Kane: Between Virtue and Power Kanter: Reconstructing the Renaissance Kellein: Caspar David Friedrich Keller: Brought to Light Khan: Great Partition Khlevniuk: Master of the House Kiernan: Pol Pot Regime, 3rd edition King Hussein of Jordan: Ashton King’s Dream: Sundquist Klingle: Emerald City Korobkin: Stem Cell Century Kronman: Education’s End La Prose du Transsiberien: Cendrars Landmark of the Spirit: Polland Landscapes Clear and Radiant: Hearn Lane: Shyness Life Explained: Morange Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit: Cooper Lingo: Federico Barocci Little History of the World: Gombrich Liu: Rethinking Recarving Lochnan: William Holman Hunt Long Commentary on the De Anima: Averroes Long Parliament of Charles II: Patterson Lord: Hell-Fire Clubs Lost Politburo Transcripts: Gregory Lukacs: George Kennan Luzzi: Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy Lynch: Web Style Guide, 3rd edition Majesty and Humanity: Forcione Making Indian Law: McMillen Makovsky: Churchill’s Promised Land Malcolm: Burdock Malcolm: Peter’s War Malcolm: Two Lives Mansoor: Baghdad at Sunrise Marini-Maio: Set the Stage! Master of the House: Khlevniuk Matters of Exchange: Cook Mayhew: Parties and Policies Maynard: Woodrow Wilson McGarity: Preemption War McGowan: Dance in the Renaissance McKenna: Puritan Origins of US Patriotism McLean: Prato McMeekin: History’s Greatest Heist McMillen: Making Indian Law McPhee: River of No Return Mehring: Blinky Palermo Meyer: Warhol’s Jews Mitman: Breathing Space Morange: Life Explained Morriss: Regulation by Litigation Mortgaging the Ancestors: Shipton Mozart’s Operas: Hunter Murase: Through the Seasons Musacchio: Art, Marriage and Family Myers: Deborah Berke Myth of American Exceptionalism: Hodgson National Gallery in Wartime: Bosman National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Roy Neiswander: Cosmopolitan Interior New Bamboo: Earle NG: Alison Watt, DVD No Ordinary Angel: Garrett Not the Enemy: Shabi Nottingham: Harwood One Hundred Details from the NG: Clark Out of Reach: Allard Overdose: Epstein Page: City’s End Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Franklin Paracelsus: Webster
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Paris Portraits: Silver Parsi: Treacherous Alliance Parties and Policies: Mayhew Patterson: Long Parliament of Charles II Paul McCarthy: Iles People’s State: Fulbrook Peppiatt: Francis Bacon Percy: James Castle Peter’s War: Malcolm Philip II of Macedonia: Worthington Philippians: Reumann Picasso and the Allure of Language: Fisher Pierce: Unseemly Pictures Plains of Mars: Clifton Plumes: Stein Pol Pot Regime, 3rd edition: Kiernan Polland: Landmark of the Spirit Pomeroy: American Far West in the 20th C Poole: Earthrise Prato: McLean Preemption War: McGarity Prochaska: Eagle and the Crown Prophets, Profits, and Peace: Fort Provisional Politics: Ellis Psychology of Rational Thought: Stanovich Psychology of Science: Feist Psychotherapy without the Self: Epstein Public Domain: Boyle Puritan Origins of US Patriotism: McKenna Raphael to Renoir: Strasser Reading Matters: Willes Reconstructing the Renaissance: Kanter Regulation by Litigation: Morriss Renaissance Faces: Campbell Rethinking Recarving: Liu Reumann: Philippians Revisiting the Glass House: Hough Riall: Garibaldi Riopelle: Sisley in England and Wales River of No Return: McPhee Roberts: Stalin’s Wars Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy: Luzzi Rosenberg: Golem and the Wondrous Deeds Roxburgh: Writing the Word of God Roy: National Gallery Technical Bulletin Ruwedel: Westward the Course of Empire Ryan: Graphic Thought Facility Saba: Songbook Sandoval-Strausz: Hotel Schelling: Arms and Influence Science in the Service of Children: Smuts Scrapbooks: Helfand Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Tagliacozzo Security First: Etzioni Seeing Mexico Photographed: Folgarait Sennett: Uses of Disorder Set the Stage!: Marini-Maio Shabi: Not the Enemy Shameful Peace: Spotts Sharpe: Tudor Representation Shipton: Mortgaging the Ancestors Shore: Caviar and Ashes Shyness: Lane Sicca: John Talman Silver: Paris Portraits Simms: Cézanne Watercolors Sisley in England and Wales: Riopelle Small Wonder: Zimmerman Smoot’s Ear: Tavernor Smuts: Science in the Service of Children Solove: Future of Reputation Songbook: Saba Spotts: Shameful Peace Stalin’s Wars: Roberts
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Stalinist Cinema: Dobrenko Stanovich: Psychology of Rational Thought Stansky: First Day of the Blitz State of the Axe: Gibson Steele: Gothic Stein: John Gutmann Stein: Plumes Stem Cell Century: Korobkin Stewart: William Lloyd Garrison at 200 Strasser: Raphael to Renoir Sun, Wind and Rain: Wilcox Sundquist: King’s Dream Sussman: William Eggleston Sustainability by Design: Ehrenfeld Tagliacozzo: Secret Trades, Porous Borders Tavernor: Smoot’s Ear Taylor: Honor and Violence in Spain Terror by Quota: Gregory Thinking Politically: Walzer Thomas: Beaumarchais in Seville Thomas: Eduardo Barreiros Thomas Chambers: Foster Through the Seasons: Murase Tiger seen: Graham-Dixon Tom Friedman: Danto Treacherous Alliance: Parsi Truett: Fugitive Landscapes Truxes: Defying Empire Tsai: Eloquence and Reason Tudor Representation: Sharpe Turner: Drawn to Italian Drawings Two Lives: Malcolm Unseemly Pictures: Pierce Uses of Disorder: Sennett Van Dyke: African Art from The Menil Volynsky: Ballet’s Magic Kingdom Walzer: Thinking Politically War of a Thousand Deserts: DeLay War With Hannibal: Beyer Warhol’s Jews: Meyer Warsaw Ghetto: Engelking Watt: English Embroidery in the MMA Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Lynch Webster: Paracelsus Wells: Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Westward the Course of Empire: Ruwedel Wexler: Woman Who Walked into the Sea What Is Emotion?: Kagan What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Holly Wheelock: Jan Lievens, 1607–1674 White Tower: Impey Why Photography Matters As Art: Fried Wilcox: Sun, Wind and Rain Willes: Reading Matters William Eggleston: Sussman William Holman Hunt: Lochnan William Lloyd Garrison at 200: Stewart William Morris and Burne-Jones: Arscott Wilson: If the Paintings Could Talk Wolf: Fixing Global Finance Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Wexler Woodrow Wilson: Maynard Works of Jonathan Edwards: Edwards Works of Samuel Johnson: Johnson Worthington: Philip II of Macedonia Writing the Word of God: Roxburgh Xue: Five Spice Street Yale Anthology of French Poetry: Caws Yale French Studies: Baetens Yamin: Digging in the City of Brotherly Love You Did That on Purpose: Hudley Young-Bruehl: Anna Freud Zhongshi: Chinese Calligraphy Zimmerman: Small Wonder
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