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subject ■ Architecture
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■ Art ■ Biography & Memoir ■ Current Affairs & Economics ■ Environment & Nature ■ Fashion & Design ■ History ■ Jewish Studies ■ Literary Studies ■ Paperback Reprints ■ Photography ■ Politics & Philosophy
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■ Science, Technology & Health
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FRONT COVER Turban ornament, Northern India, 1700–1750. Victoria & Albert Museum, given by Col. Charles Seton Guthrie. From: History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000, edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber, see page 41
From an illustrated letter sent by Leonard Bernstein to his mother from Israel, 1948. Reproduced by permission of the Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. From: The Leonard Bernstein Letters, edited by Nigel Simeone, see page 2
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This catalogue contains details of all Yale books scheduled for publication between July 2013 and February 2014.
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A landmark biography revealing the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The last harvest or British Threshers makeing French crops, 1808. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Wellington The Path to Victory, 1769–1814 Rory Muir The Duke of Wellington was Britain’s greatest soldier, whose victories turned the tide of Napoleon’s conquests and played a crucial role in his downfall. Wellington went on to be a major figure in British politics, twice serving as Prime Minister. Often the centre of controversy, he was at times feted and celebrated as a national hero, at others reviled in the press and abused in the streets. He was a far more complicated man than the paragon of virtue celebrated by Victorian biographers. Rory Muir’s masterly new biography, the first of a two volume set, is the result of thirty years research into the Duke of Wellington and his times. The author brings Wellington into much sharper focus than ever before, critically examining every aspect of his life from his unhappy childhood, his baptism into British and Irish politics and his remarkable successes in India, to the setbacks and triumphs of the Peninsular War. This is the first biography to address the significance of Wellington’s political connections and the way they both helped and hindered his campaigns. The work also gives fresh insight into Wellington’s character: his many strengths and the flaws that together made him a complex and interesting man as well as a great soldier.
October 672 pp. 234x156mm. 32 pp. illus., maps & plans
Rory Muir is visiting research fellow, University of Adelaide. His previously published books include a highly praised study of Wellington’s great triumph at Salamanca and the edited letters of Alexander Gordon, Wellington’s confidential aide-de-camp.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-18665-9 £30.00* Translation rights: A. M. Heath & Company, London
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From an illustrated letter sent by Leonard Bernstein to his mother, Jennie. Israel, 1948
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An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music
The Leonard Bernstein Letters Edited by Nigel Simeone Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront) and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life – musical and personal – and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities.
Nigel Simeone is well known as a writer and speaker on music and is the author of several books including Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story.
October 480 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17909-5 £25.00*
Bernstein’s letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein’s musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail and humour. ‘What terrifying letters you write: fit for the flames is what they are. Just imagine how much you would have to pay to retrieve such a letter forty years from now when you are conductor of the Philharmonic.’ – Aaron Copland to Bernstein in 1940
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A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all ages
Author photo © UCL
A Little History of Literature John Sutherland This ‘little history’ tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having taught and written on every area of literature. His infectious passion for books and reading has defined his own life. Now he guides young readers and adults alike on an entertaining journey revealing how literature from across the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human. Sutherland introduces great classics in his own irresistible way, enlivening his offerings with humour as well as learning: Beowulf, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the Romantics, Dickens, Moby Dick, The Waste Land, Woolf, 1984 and dozens of others. He adds to these a less-expected, personal selection of authors and works, including literature usually considered well below ‘serious attention’ – from the rude jests of Anglo-Saxon runes to The Da Vinci Code. With masterful digressions into various themes – censorship, narrative tricks, self-publishing, taste, creativity and madness – Sutherland demonstrates the full depth and intrigue of reading. John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature, University College London. A trenchant critic and columnist, he has taught students at every level and is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives.
October 288 pp. 216x138mm. 40 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18685-7 £14.99*
NOW AVAILABLE in paperback see page 29 www.littlehistory.org
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Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career Main image: Susan Sontag. Photograph by Thomas Victor Left: Jonathan Cott. Photograph by Rachel Popo
Susan Sontag The Complete Rolling Stone Interview Jonathan Cott Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the 20th century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their many hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections. Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described ‘besotted aesthete’ and ‘obsessed moralist’. Sontag proclaims a personal credo, declaring: ‘Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking’. Jonathan Cott is the author of numerous books, including most recently Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
October 176 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18979-7 £15.99*
Susan Sontag gained immediate prominence with the publication of her first book of essays, Against Interpretation, in 1966. She went on to write many more books, including On Photography and Illness as Metaphor which were translated into more than two dozen languages. She died in December, 2004.
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An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day Author photo: Mykel Nicolaou/Rex Features
Friendship A. C. Grayling A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyse it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating exploration of friendship through the ages, one of the most thought-provoking philosophers of our time tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves and the role of friendships in an ethical life. A. C. Grayling roves the rich traditions of friendship in literature, culture, art and philosophy, bringing into his discussion familiar pairs as well as unfamiliar – Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Huck Finn and Jim. Grayling lays out major philosophical interpretations of friendship, then offers his own take, drawing on personal experiences and an acute awareness of vast cultural shifts that have occurred. With penetrating insight he addresses internet based friendship, contemporary mixed gender friendships, how friendships may supersede family relationships, one’s duty within friendship, the idea of friendship to humanity and ultimately the universal value of friendship.
September 256 pp. 216x138mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17535-6 £12.99*
A. C. Grayling is founder and master, New College of the Humanities, London. A multi-talented and prolific author, he has written over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects while regularly contributing to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Literary Review and other publications. He is also a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes.
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From a master biographer and leading scholar of 18thcentury literature comes a major new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
Swift in Informal Attire: Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, graphite on paper, by Isaac Whood (1730), National Gallery of Ireland
Jonathan Swift His Life and His World Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public version of his life – the one accepted until recently – was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets.
November 568 pp. 234x156mm. 94 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16499-2 £25.00*
Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the scents, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters. Leo Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of nine books, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius and most recently Tocqueville’s Discovery of America.
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The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unity Faisal observing battle during the Arab Revolt, 1918. Lowell Thomas Archives, Marist College
Faisal I of Iraq Ali A. Allawi Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a great figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Arab states, Faisal was a central player. His life traversed each of the important political, military and intellectual developments of his times. This major life is the first to provide a fully rounded picture of Faisal the man and Faisal the monarch. Ali A. Allawi recounts the dramatic events of Faisal’s life and provides a reassessment of his crucial role in developments in the pre- and post-World War I Middle East and of his lasting but underappreciated influence in the region even 80 years after his death. A battle-hardened military leader who, with the help of Lawrence of Arabia, organised the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire; the leading representative of the Arab cause at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; a founding father and king of the first independent state of Syria; and championed by Gertrude Bell and Lawrence, the first king of Iraq – in his many roles Faisal overcame innumerable crises and opposing currents while striving to build the structures of a modern state. This book is the first to afford his contributions to Middle East history the attention they deserve.
January 560 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-12732-4 £30.00*
Ali A. Allawi is research professor, National University of Singapore. He was appointed Iraq’s first postwar civilian Minister of Defense in 2004 and in 2005 was appointed Minister of Finance. This is his third book.
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From one of the world’s most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word ‘God’ functions in the world’s great faiths
The Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss David Bentley Hart Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifully written contribution to reasoned discussion, a revered religious thinker clarifies how the word ‘God’ functions in various religious traditions. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, various paganisms, Buddhism and Taoism, David Hart explores how the world’s major theistic traditions treat divine mysteries. One cannot fail to notice, he contends, that on a host of philosophical issues, and especially the issue of divine transcendence, areas of accord among the great faiths are vast. Hart takes pointed issue with those who refute ideas they have not even examined with care and with simplistic assertions designed to mislead. He demolishes modern aetheist arguments, including the blatant misconception of God as puppeteer, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective record of historical data. Instead, the author plumbs the depths of humanity’s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God. Offering a bold corrective to careless or incoherent treatments of his subject, Hart captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine. October 376 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16684-2 £18.99*
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, writer and cultural commentator. He is the author of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies, which won the 2011 Michael Ramsey prize, presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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A lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world Priest Ricardo Rezende celebrates an outdoor mass for squatters and landless workers, Brazil, 1990 (BrazilPhotos/Alamy Images)
Earthly Mission The Catholic Church and World Development Robert Calderisi With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organisation and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth control, and the child abuse scandal has alienated many Catholics, especially in the West. Yet in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Church is highly esteemed for its support of education, health and social justice. Author of the bestselling The Trouble with Africa, Robert Calderisi has travelled through Africa, Asia and Latin America, talking to cardinals in the hallowed halls of the Vatican, nuns staffing clinics in grimy squatter settlements in Latin America and priests struggling to speak up for poor people in Africa – not to mention local and Western critics of the Church’s work. In this absorbing and deeply informed book, he explores the tensions within the Church – complicity with genocide in Rwanda and dictatorship in Argentina versus the defence of human rights in Brazil and El Salvador, the refusal until very recently to countenance condom use in Africa versus determined support for girls’ education. This is a fascinating, often eye-opening investigation that will engross readers of all faiths and none.
August 304 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17512-7 £20.00*
Robert Calderisi, a former World Bank economist concerned with issues of international development, lectures widely on Africa, development and foreign aid. His book The Trouble with Africa was named one of the best books of 2006 by The Economist. A committed but by no means uncritical Catholic, the author has often differed with Church policies.
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A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home Ernest Smith’s sketch of his billet at Bailleul in March 1915, when, aged twenty-two, he was in training with the Artists Rifles
Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front Anthony Fletcher This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters and one diary survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five Tommies.
September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 pp. b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19553-8 £20.00*
The book explores the training, journey to France, fear, shellshock, and life in the trenches as well as the leisure, love and home leave the soldiers dreamed of. Fletcher discusses the psychological responses of 18- and 19-year-old men facing appalling realities and considers the particular pressures of those who survived their fallen comrades. While acknowledging the horror and demands for endurance these soldiers experienced, the author shows another side to the story, focusing new attention on the loyal comradeship, robust humour, and strong morale that uplifted the men at the Front and created a powerful bond among them. Anthony Fletcher is a historian of the early modern period. He is a former professor at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham, Essex and London.
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From D-Day to VE-Day – a radical re-examination of Britain’s military prowess in the last years of the Second World War Winston Churchill speaks to some troops who led the assault on D-Day, with General Sir Bernard Montgomery in the background, 22 July 1944. © Bettmann/CORBIS
Monty’s Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe John Buckley John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during the Second World War, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany. Following Britain’s military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from D-Day to VE-Day, from the Normandy beaches to Arnhem and the Rhine, and, ultimately, to the Baltic, Buckley’s provocative history demonstrates that the British Army was more than a match for the vaunted Nazi war machine. This fascinating revisionist history of the campaign to liberate Northern Europe in the war’s final years features a large cast of colourful unknowns and grand historical personages alike, including Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and the prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill. By integrating detailed military history with personal accounts, it evokes the vivid reality of men at war while putting long-held misconceptions finally to rest. John Buckley is professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton and the author and editor of six books on the military history of the Second World War.
October 368 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-13449-0 £20.00*
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This beautiful and highly original book explores the recent history of St Petersburg, one of the world’s most alluring cities Left: ‘Leningrad selection’ patisseries (2004) Right: ‘Kamchatka’, the boiler-house where Viktor Tsoi (pioneer of Russian rock music) had once worked, became a full-scale people’s museum
St Petersburg Shadows of the Past Catriona Kelly Fragile, gritty and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities – a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past. In this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg’s residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Ranging from rubbish dumps to promenades, from the city’s glamorous centre to its grimy outskirts, this ambitious book offers a compelling and always unexpected panorama of an extraordinary and elusive place. Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the author of many books about Russian literature and culture.
January 416 pp. 234x156mm. 80 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16918-8 £25.00*
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A celebrated art historian who has spent a lifetime looking at art writes about looking as a way of being in the world
Photograph by Michael Baxandall
Roof Life Svetlana Alpers This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father’s place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one’s attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all. Svetlana Alpers is Professor Emerita, History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Fine Arts, New York University. August 176 pp. 210x150mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18275-0 £18.99*
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The Struggle for Iraq’s Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy Zaid Al-Ali Since the withdrawal of US occupying forces, international attention has shifted away from Iraq – but life for Iraqis has become no easier. Deadly bombings are still all too common, sectarian violence has soared and all-pervading corruption means that massive inflows of aid and oil income have made very little difference to crucial issues like security, healthcare and power availability.
January 320 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18726-7 £18.99*
Now, Iraqi lawyer Zaid Al-Ali sets out why and how the post-occupation Iraqi government has failed to achieve legitimacy or improve its citizens’ lives. He argues that the ill-planned US intervention destroyed the Iraqi state, creating a black hole which corrupt and incompetent members of the elite have now made their own. In particular, Al-Ali demonstrates how Iraqi politicians and the political system have failed to address Iraq’s problems. The system of government put in place after 2003 has made Sunni/Shia/Kurd divisions worse rather than better, and created a dysfunctional state where the legal system is in crisis, human-rights abuses are commonplace and the natural environment, already degraded by Saddam Hussein’s destructive projects, is worsening every day. This is a vivid, informed and ultimately very sad book. Zaid Al-Ali is senior advisor on constitution building for International IDEA, Cairo, and was a legal adviser to the United Nations in Iraq from 2005 to 2009.
Naturalists at Sea Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin Glyn Williams On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the ‘long 18th century’, naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world.
September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 36 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18073-2 £25.00*
This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalists’ difficulties end upon returning home, where gaining recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science – among them Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook and Charles Darwin – this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travellers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world. Glyn Williams is Emeritus Professor of History, University of London. He is the author of more than a dozen books on European voyages of exploration and was historical consultant for the BBC television series, The Ship.
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The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world
The Shoes on the Danube Promenade, memorial to Jewish victims shot in 1944–45, Budapest © Meleah Reardon
The Danube A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest Nick Thorpe The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe’s account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate and uniquely observant – everything a reader expects in the best travel writing. Immersing himself in the Danube’s waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river’s ecological conditions, some discouraging and others hopeful, and encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary and extraordinary people along the way – the ferrymen and fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique and treasured guide. October 336 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18165-4 £20.00*
Nick Thorpe is East and Central European Correspondent for the BBC, a journalist and film-maker. He has lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary for over a quarter of a century. Translation rights: Sara Menguc Literary Agent, Middlesex
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The Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World Jeremy Black Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country’s ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and demonstrating how the understanding and use of information have been the primary factors in the development and character of the modern age. Black suggests that the West’s ascension was a direct result of its institutions and social practices for acquiring, employing, and retaining information and the technology that was ultimately produced. His cogent and well-reasoned analysis looks at cartography and the hardware of communication, armaments and sea power, mercantilism and imperialism, science and astronomy, as well as bureaucracy and the management of information, linking the history of technology with the history of global power while providing important indicators for the future of our world. October 448 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16795-5 £30.00*
Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. A writer, lecturer and broadcaster, he is the author of six books published by Yale, among them Maps and History and George III.
Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins John Gurche What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationallyrenowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient humans ancestors.
January 320 pp. 254x216mm. 163 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18202-6 £30.00*
Inspired by a lifelong fascination with all things pre-historic and gifted with a unique artistic vision, Gurche has studied fossil remains, comparative ape and human anatomy and forensic reconstruction for over three decades. His artworks appear in world class museums and publications ranging from National Geographic to the journal Science, and he is widely known for his contributions to Steven Speilberg’s Jurassic Park and a number of acclaimed television specials. For the Smithsonian Institution’s groundbreaking David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, opened in 2010, Gurche created fifteen sculptures representing six million years of human history. In Shaping Humanity he relates how he used sculpture to depict human evolution in the new hall. He reveals the debates and brainstorming that surrounds these often controversial depictions, and along the way he enriches our awareness of the various paths of human evolution and humanity’s stunning uniqueness in the history of life on Earth. Award-winning paleo-artist John Gurche is artist-in-residence, Museum of the Earth, Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY.
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Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It Jennifer Michael Hecht Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew the person and even among strangers who feel some connection. In this highly original book Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act. Hecht recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyses how ideas about suicide have changed over time. She explains several puzzling aspects of attitudes toward suicide, including the strange fact that secular philosophy has long been associated with a pro-suicide attitude. In our own times, when the influence of religious prohibitions has waned, Hecht finds that we lack shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. But there are such arguments, and she focuses new attention on these forgotten ideas that offer hope in the face of despair and powerful reasons to stay when suicide seems a tempting choice. January 288 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18608-6 £20.00*
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books, including the best-selling Doubt: A History, and three volumes of poetry. Her work has won major awards in intellectual history and in poetry. Hecht teaches poetry at the New School University in Manhattan.
The Nostalgia Factory Memory, Time and Ageing Douwe Draaisma You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the name of that famous film you’ve watched so many times? These are common experiences, and as we grow older we tend to worry about these lapses. Is our memory failing? Is it dementia? Douwe Draaisma, a renowned memory specialist, here focuses on memory in later life. Writing with eloquence and humour, he explains neurological phenomena without becoming lost in specialist terminology. His book is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks’s work, and not coincidentally this volume includes a long interview with Sacks, who speaks of his own memory changes as he entered his sixties. Draaisma moves smoothly from anecdote to research and back, weaving stories and science into a compelling description of the terrain of memory. He brings to light the ‘reminiscence effect’, just one of the unexpected pleasures of an ageing memory. The author writes reassuringly about forgetfulness and satisfyingly dismantles the myth that mental gymnastics can improve memory. He presents a convincing case in favour of the ageing mind and urges us to value the nostalgia that survives as recollection, appreciate the intangible nature of past events and take pleasure in the consolation of reminiscing. September 192 pp. 216x138mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18286-6 £16.99*
Douwe Draaisma is Heymans Professor of the History and Theory of Psychology, University of Groningen. He is the author of several internationally acclaimed books, including Disturbances of the Mind and Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older. Translation rights: Historische Uitgeverij, Groningen
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Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film Jonathan Faiers When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer’s attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fashion in film goes far beyond glamorous costumes on glamorous stars, as Jonathan Faiers proves in Dressing Dangerously, a pioneering study of the ‘cinematic negative wardrobe’ revealed in mainstream movies. The book emphasises how problematic, even shocking depictions of dress, until now largely overlooked, play pivotal roles in shaping film narrative.
November 320 pp. 280x240mm. 50 colour + 200 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18438-9 £35.00*
Integrating fashion theory, film analysis and literature, the insightful text investigates the ways cinema influences fashion and, conversely, how fashion speaks to film. The book also reveals how clothing, imbued with its own symbolic meaning, can be read much like a text; when used to provocative effect, for example, in films such as Villain, Leave Her to Heaven and Casino, the stars’ costumes as well as their actions elicit a complex set of emotional responses. Dressing Dangerously brings together a wealth of illustrations, from glossy publicity photos featuring immaculately dressed stars to film stills that capture ‘dangerously’ fashionable moments. Jonathan Faiers is reader in fashion theory at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971 Judith Clark and Amy de la Haye With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Fashion: An Anthology by Cecil Beaton, revealing it to be symptomatic of a shift in museological attitudes. The authors’ combined experience of more than forty years, one in architecture and exhibition design and the other in fashion history and curating, informs their detailed account of the exhibition. Accompanied by photographs of Beaton’s museum work published here for the first time, their narrative establishes a perspective from which to view working practices today. Research into international exhibitions from the early 20th century to the present results in some 150 stunning illustrations, including previously unpublished exhibition photographs and out-of-print documents. Through this research and the testimony of curators, exhibition designers and mannequin manufacturers, the authors discover striking continuity in the development of the fundamental equation of mannequin, dress and mise-en-scène. A comprehensive chronology from 1971 illustrates the exponential rise in exhibitions of Western dress on an international scale. October 192 pp. 280x230mm. 100 colour + 50 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-12579-5 £30.00*
Judith Clark is professor of fashion and museology, and Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship, Rootstein Hopkins Chair, both at the London College of Fashion. Clark is author of, and de la Haye a contributor to Handbags: The Making of a Museum published by Yale.
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An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture Main image: Marlene Dietrich in the film Morrocco, 1930. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee/ John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images. Below: Lady Gaga wearing dress by Alexander McQueen, arrives at the 2010 MTV Music Awards. Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage
A Queer History of Fashion From the Closet to the Catwalk Edited by Valerie Steele From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.
Exhibition The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 13/09/13 – 04/01/14
Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion – including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil and Elizabeth Wilson – investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader ‘gay’ history; the ‘archaeology’ of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich (which inspired Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘Le Smoking’) to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
September 192 pp. 280x230mm. 100 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19670-2 £30.00*
Published in association with The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
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The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot Frank Prochaska Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly ‘Bagehot’ column. His analyses of politics, economics and public affairs were nothing short of brilliant. Sadly, he left no memoir. How, then, does this book bear the title, The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot? Frank Prochaska explains, ‘Given my longstanding interest in Bagehot’s life and times, I decided to compose a memoir on his behalf ’. And so, in this imaginative reconstruction of the memoir Bagehot might have written, Prochaska assumes his subject’s voice, draws on his extensive writings (Bagehot’s Collected Works fill 15 volumes), and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered that most unpardonable of faults – dullness. A faux autobiography allows for considerable license, but Prochaska remains true to Bagehot’s character and accurate in his depiction of the times. The memoir immerses us in the spirit of the Victorian era and makes us wish to have known Walter Bagehot. He is, Prochaska observes, the Victorian with whom we would most want to have dinner. August 224 pp. 203x127mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19554-5 £18.99*
Frank Prochaska, the author of more than a dozen books, has taught, researched and published British history throughout his career. He is Honorary Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Primo Levi The Matter of a Life Berel Lang In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company specialising in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon after his return to Turin, he also began writing – memoirs, essays, novels, short stories, poetry – and it is for this work that he has won international recognition. His first book, If This Is a Man, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the 20th century.
Jewish Lives
January 224 pp. 210x140mm. 7 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-13723-1 £18.99*
Berel Lang’s groundbreaking biography shines new light on Levi’s role as a major intellectual and literary figure – an important Holocaust writer and witness but also an innovative moral thinker in whom his two roles as chemist and writer converged, providing the ‘matter’ of his life. Levi’s writing combined a scientist’s attentiveness to structure and detail, an ironic imagination that found in all nature an ingenuity at once inviting and evasive, and a powerful and passionate moral imagination. Lang’s approach provides a philosophically acute and nuanced analysis of Levi as thinker, witness, writer and scientific detective. Berel Lang is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, State University of New York, Albany. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books.
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Pagan Britain Ronald Hutton Britain’s pagan past, with its astonishing number and variety of mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artefacts, bloodthirsty legends and cryptic inscriptions, has always enthralled and perplexed us. Pagan Britain is a history of religious beliefs from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity. This ambitious book integrates the latest evidence to survey our transformed – and transforming – understanding of early religious behaviour; and, also, the way in which that behaviour has been interpreted in recent times, as a mirror for modern dreams and fears. From the Palaeolithic era to the coming of Christianity and beyond, Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression and enduring cultural significance of paganism. Woven into the chronological narrative are numerous case studies of sacred sites both well-known – Stonehenge, Avebury, Seahenge and Maiden Castle – and more unusual far-flung locations across the mainland and coastal islands. Celebrating the powerful challenge and stimulus offered to our imagination by relics of Britain’s deep past, this rich book reveals much about archaeological and historical endeavour and our modern quest to know. November 400 pp. 234x156mm. 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19771-6 £25.00*
Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol and a leading authority on ancient, medieval and modern paganism. Among his many previous books is Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, published by Yale.
Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World Billy G. Smith It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith recounts the saga of the Hankey, that began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. When the colony failed, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey travelled from one port to the next was catastrophic. In the United States, tens of thousands died in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston. The few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to London, hopes dashed and numbers decimated. Smith links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some of the most significant events of the era – the success of the Haitian slave revolution, Napoleon’s decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical situation of the new United States – and spins a captivating tale of unintended consequences. January 320 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus.
Billy G. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Letters and Science in the History Department of Montana State University. He is the author or editor of eight books and dozens of articles.
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If Mayors Ruled the World Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities Benjamin R. Barber In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time – climate change, terrorism, poverty and trafficking of drugs, guns and people – the nations of the world seem paralysed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy’s best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nationstates mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the world – courageous, eccentric or both at once – If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracy’s best hope in a globalising world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so. January 256 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16467-1 £20.00*
Benjamin R. Barber is senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is also president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the author of seventeen books, including Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy.
Nation of Devils Democracy and the Problem of Obedience Stein Ringen Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thoughtprovoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from levying taxes to enforcing laws and monitoring compliance to regulations. The challenge, Ringen argues, is that power is not enough; the populace must also be willing to be led. Ringen addresses this political conundrum unabashedly, using the United States and Britain as his prime examples, providing sharp opinions and cogent analyses on how the culture of national obedience is created and nurtured. He explores the paths leaders must choose if they wish to govern by authority rather than power, or, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant put it, to ‘maintain order in a nation of devils’. Stein Ringen is professor emeritus of sociology and social policy at Oxford University. October 224 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19319-0 £20.00
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The App Generation How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World Howard Gardner and Katie Davis No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be ‘app-dependent’ versus ‘app-enabled’ and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era. Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations. January 224 pp. 210x140mm. 3 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19621-4 £16.99*
Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior director of Harvard Project Zero, an educational research group. Katie Davis is assistant professor, University of Washington Information School. Translation rights: Kneerim, Williams & Bloom Agency, Boston
Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age Alice Marwick Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, ‘Web 2.0’ only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research – which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, internet celebrities and Silicon Valley journalists – explores the culture and ideology of San Francisco’s tech community in the period between the dot com boom and the App Store, when the city was the world’s centre of social media development.
November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17672-8 £17.99*
Marwick argues that early revolutionary goals have failed to materialise: while many continue to view social media as democratic, these technologies instead turn users into marketers and self-promoters, and leave technology companies poised to violate privacy and to prioritise profits over participation. Marwick analyses status-building techniques – such as self-branding, micro-celebrity and life-streaming – to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class and gender. Alice Marwick is assistant professor, communication and media studies, Fordham University. Previously a researcher at Microsoft Research, she has written for the New York Times, the Daily Beast and the Guardian.
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The Second Arab Awakening Marwan Muasher This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the 19th century and extending into future decades when – if the dream is realised – a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, asserts that all sides – the United States, Europe, Israel and Arab governments alike – were deeply misguided in their thinking about Arab politics and society when the turmoil of the Arab Spring erupted. He explains the causes of the unrest, tracing them back to the first Arab Awakening, and warns of the forces today that threaten the success of the Second Arab Awakening, ignited in December 2010. Hope rests with the new generation and its commitment to tolerance, diversity, the peaceful rotation of power and inclusive economic growth, Muasher maintains. He calls on the West to rethink political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he discusses steps all parties can take to encourage positive state-building in the freshly unsettled Arab world. February 256 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18639-0 £20.00*
Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, overseeing research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. He has served as Jordan’s ambassador to the United States, foreign minister and deputy prime minister.
Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War Peter R. Mansoor In February 2007, US Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the surge. This penetrating book provides a uniquely intimate view of the unfolding of the surge and its impact on the violence that was devastating Iraq. Colonel (Ret.) Peter R. Mansoor, an acclaimed historian and a member of General Petraeus’s inner circle during the surge, offers the first comprehensive and fully researched account of the years preceding the surge, the execution of the strategy, and its outcome written by a person who lived through it.
January 416 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. + 2 maps HB ISBN 978-0-300-17235-5 £18.99*
After exploring the dynamics of the Iraq War during its first three years, Surge takes us to the critical sites where the controversial counterinsurgency strategy was developed, struggled over, implemented and argued about: Fort Leavenworth, the Pentagon, Baghdad and the halls of Congress. Mansoor employs newly declassified documents and an array of other sources, including his own recollections, to illuminate how President George W. Bush, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker, General Petraeus, and other leaders shaped the surge and successfully altered Iraq’s downward spiral into chaos. Peter R. Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason, Jr., Chair of Military History, Ohio State University, and a retired US Army colonel.
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The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, now available in paperback
The Richard Burton Diaries Edited by Chris Williams Chris Williams is professor of Welsh history, director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities, and deputy director of the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University. He was formerly director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales.
‘Burton loved literature, and how proud he’d have been to know that in his diaries he demonstrates considerable literary gifts. His observations about his peers are brilliant … This indispensable book is meticulously edited by Professor Chris Williams.’ – Roger Lewis, Financial Times ‘Forensically detailed, uncynical and unsentimental … The Richard Burton Diaries is an addictive, articulate compendium that dazzles and delights throughout its immense length … Most present-day actors would read this and weep at the level of sheer damned glamour and sexiness flooding his daily life … Every page provides a glittering revelation. It is the cinema book of the year.’ – Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday ‘This is an absolute treat. Burton’s mass of meditations is swamped by his love for Elizabeth Taylor.’ – Jonathan Dean, The Sunday Times ‘Vivid and curiously touching, Burton’s diaries are a telling, often painfully truthful addition to the social history of the years between 1960 and 1974.’ – Frederic Raphael, Times Literary Supplement
June 704 pp. 198x129mm. 16 pp. b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19728-0 £12.99*
‘His diaries are not those of a man afraid to take a harsh look at himself … he is much more likely, in dealing with his fights with Taylor, to record his own bad behavior than hers. Conversely, the diaries are remarkably free of self-congratulation, either for his achievements as an actor or for his great generosity with money.’ – Fintan O’Toole, New York Review of Books Rights sold: German
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Strindberg
Leon Trotsky
A Life
A Revolutionary’s Life
Sue Prideaux
Joshua Rubenstein
This mesmerising biography of Strindberg, named the ‘greatest genius of all modern dramatists’ by Eugene O’Neill, uncovers the full story of his chaotic life and his revolutionary writings. Winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for 2012 ‘[A] rich and absorbing biography … Writing the biography of a frenzied, unstable genius like Strindberg is an enormous challenge, and Prideaux rises to it with fine authority.’ – John Carey, The Sunday Times ‘What an absolutely extraordinary man August Strindberg was, and what a tormented, demented life he led! I haven’t read such a fascinating biography for ages.’ – Sam Leith, Spectator ‘Prideaux is a deft guide to the absinthe-heavy bohemian underworlds of Berlin and Paris which Strindberg inhabited for much of the 1890s.’ – Claudia FitzHerbert, Daily Telegraph Sue Prideaux is a writer living in Sussex. Her book Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography and is published by Yale.
July 352 pp. 234x156mm. 20 colour + 50 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19806-5 £12.99*
Leon Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. In Joshua Rubenstein’s interpretation, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man – mentally acute and impatient with others, a fine student of politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organisation in the 1920s when Stalin was manoeuvering towards Trotsky’s own political oblivion. ‘Achieves the mixture of empathy and critical distance that a good biographer needs.’ – Sheila Fitzpatrick, Guardian ‘Rubenstein handles complex issues sensitively in this accessible introduction to a flawed but fascinating 20thcentury giant.’ – John McIlroy, Times Higher Education Joshua Rubenstein is the northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Jewish Lives
October 240 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19832-4 £10.99* Rights sold: Romanian and Spanish
John Keats
Robespierre
A New Life
A Revolutionary Life
Nicholas Roe
Peter McPhee
Filled with revelations and insights, this definitive book presents a portrait of the beloved Romantic poet and shows how previously unrecognised turning points in his life provide fresh keys to his works.
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? McPhee reevaluates ‘the Terror’, what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
‘Roe’s is a remarkable achievement, authoritative and imaginative to a degree that should make all future Keats biographers quail.’ – John Carey, The Sunday Times ‘Roe reconstructs beautifully the milieu from which [Keats] and his friends all came, on the northern edge of the city where they had their day jobs and dreamed of fame.’ – Ferdinand Mount, Spectator ‘[Keats] is recast in this highly energetic life not as the ‘sickly boy’ of tradition but as a much more ‘vigorous, colourful and animated’ figure … Roe is sensitive about the poetry, and writes with real panache, in a book that is driven by his contagious enthusiasm for his subject.’ – Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times Nicholas Roe is professor of English, University of St. Andrews. He is the author of numerous biographical and critical works on writers of the Romantic period.
June 480 pp. 198x129mm. 65 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19727-3 £10.99*
‘Peter McPhee’s fine new life of Robespierre relies on the first hand, day-to-day accounts rather than the posthumous vilification and hagiography, and in it emerges a quite different portrait of the man.’ – Stuart Kelly, Scotsman ‘McPhee brilliantly evokes the weaknesses as well as the strengths of this thin-skinned, diminutive figure, who suffered recurrent bouts of nervous exhaustion and withdrew from the fray at vital moments. As this stimulating book shows, those who come to play a leading part in times of upheaval are shaped by events rather than controlling them.’ – Malcolm Crook, BBC History Magazine Peter McPhee is a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely, including most recently Living the French Revolution, 1789–1799.
October 320 pp. 198x129mm. 32 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19724-2 £12.99* Rights sold: Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish
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The Carbon Crunch
Good Italy, Bad Italy
How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix It
Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
Dieter Helm
In this analysis, now updated to cover events up to the election of February 2013, Bill Emmott explores Italy’s fascinating dual national character, the nation’s descent into economic malaise and political corruption, and what can be done to ensure a return to more prosperous, and more democratic times.
Bill Emmott
Dieter Helm looks at how we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy – from transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a focus on new technologies. ‘A powerful and heartfelt plea for hard-nosed realism.’ – Fred Pearce, New Scientist ‘[Helm] is far from being the first to tackle [this] issue, but he is among the more influential and … one of the more readable.’ – Pilita Clark, Financial Times ‘A provocative analysis and well worth the discomfort it will likely engender.’ – Steve Yearley, Times Higher Education Dieter Helm CBE is professor of energy policy, University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
August 288 pp. 198x129mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19719-8 £8.99*
‘[A] lucid and thoughtful book … it is written in a graceful style that is stronger for its careful – even delicate – illumination of personal and national failure than simply offering a wilderness of denunciations.’ – Financial Times ‘An excellent account of what is rotten in the state of Italy.’ – Charles Grant, Literary Review Bill Emmott was editor-in-chief of The Economist and is now a freelance commentator on international affairs. He is a regular columnist for The Times in London and La Stampa in Italy. He is the author of several books, including The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan’s Economic Power.
Available 312 pp. 198x129mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19716-7 £8.99* Translation rights: AWG Literary Agency, London
The End of the Chinese Dream
Syria The Fall of the House of Assad
Why Chinese People Fear the Future
David W. Lesch
Gerard Lemos This pathbreaking study reveals the truth behind exaggerated headlines about China’s rapid rise. In fact Chinese people face immense personal, family, and financial anxieties that destroy their aspirations and communities. This edition includes a new preface. ‘A fascinating insight into what the Chinese actually think.’ – Stephen Robinson, The Sunday Times Gerard Lemos is a British expert on social policy. He advises governments, businesses and charities. His first book, in collaboration with the celebrated sociologist Michael Young, was The Communities We Have Lost and Can Regain. He is Acting Chairman of the British Council, in succession to Lord Kinnock, a member of the British Board of Censors, and holds a number of other public positions in British institutions. He speaks Mandarin and is Visiting Professor at Chongqing Technical University in south-west China.
October 312 pp. 198x129mm. 9 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19721-1 £10.99* Translation rights: AWG Literary Agency, London
One of the only Westerners well acquainted with Assad sheds new light on the ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant and how his regime failed Syria. ‘Detailed and thoughtful in the potential outcomes for this key Middle Eastern state.’ – Bookseller ‘In a thoughtful, often persuasive book, [Lesch] lays a useful foundation for our fuller understanding of the Syrian crisis.’ – The Times ‘This is a fluent, well-organised piece of work that offers clear insight into the workings of the Syrian regime.’ – Vincent Durac, Irish Times David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East history, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He has written numerous books on the Middle East and has travelled widely there on scholarly, business and diplomatic endeavours. He is a frequent consultant to US government departments on Middle East issues.
June 288 pp. 198x129mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19722-8 £9.99* Rights sold: Arabic
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The Woman Reader Belinda Jack This engaging book is the first to address the controversies associated with women’s reading throughout history, and to show how vastly different women’s reading experiences have often been compared to those of men. ‘A lively and erudite history of the many and ingenious covers thrown over women’s minds to keep us in the dark, Jack’s absorbing story describes and deconstructs the endlessly remade cover versions that men (mostly) have told to women, and to themselves, about the reasons why books and women should be kept apart.’ – Jeanette Winterson, The Times ‘Jack has done an impressive job of synthesising the scholarly work on book-history that has radically changed what we know about women’s reading habits through the ages … thorough and informative.’ – Hermione Lee, Guardian Belinda Jack is tutorial Fellow in French, Christ Church, University of Oxford. She is the author of George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large and Beatrice’s Spell.
August 344 pp. 198x129mm. 60 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19720-4 £9.99* Translation rights: Felicity Bryan, Oxford
The Late Medieval English Church Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome G. W. Bernard The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book, historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome. ‘A sumptuous account of religious life inside the heads of late medieval men and women … It is very much a ‘yes, but’ complement … to the work of Eamon Duffy, but it has all of the latter’s vitality and vividness to boot. It is massively researched and packed with startling detail.’ – John Morrill, BBC History Magazine ‘Bernard has again achieved what he does best: making us go back to an old problem and start thinking afresh.’ – Lucy Wooding, Times Higher Education G. W. Bernard is professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton.
July 320 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19712-9 £14.99*
The Making of the English Gardener
Galileo
Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560–1660
David Wootton
Margaret Willes A fascinating account of the people, ideas and publications that revolutionised the nation’s gardens in the 16th and 17th centuries, from courtiers’ grand estates to the humble kitchen plots of housewives. ‘The most successful of the year’s garden history books is Margaret Willes’s The Making of the English Gardener … She deserves a good readership both in and outside England.’ – Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times ‘A heady, brilliant period, well documented by Margaret Willes’s The Making of the English Gardener ... [An] excellent study.’ – Anna Pavord, Independent Magazine
Watcher of the Skies A provocative and penetrating biography of Galileo as author, inventor and astronomer, revealing both his centrality to the scientific revolution and the Renaissance, and his godlessness, failures and obstinacy. ‘Vivid and compelling … [An] engaging subtle and arresting story.’ – Eileen Reeves, Times Higher Education ‘Wittily challenging ... Wootton boldly presents his book as an intellectual biography which cannot be isolated from contemporary attitudes to tradition and innovation, and which cannot focus on Galileo’s ideas without considering his personality and personal relations.’ – Claudio Vita-Finzi, Times Literary Supplement
Margaret Willes spent her career in book publishing, before becoming the publisher at the National Trust until 2005. Her books include Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books also published by Yale.
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. He delivered the Raleigh Lecture in History at the British Academy in 2008 and will give the Carlyle Lectures in Oxford in 2013. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, his previous books include Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment and Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates.
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October 344 pp. 198x129mm. 24 b/w illus.
‘Winter evenings were made for books like this.’ – Rachel De Thame, The Sunday Times
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A Little History of Science
A Little History of the World
William Bynum
Illustrated Edition
Filled with stories of men and women who asked endless questions about the world and found answers through scientific discovery, this engaging book takes us on a journey through the amazing history of science.
E. H. Gombrich
‘A Little History of Science delivers a far heavier punch than its modest title would suggest. Ranging from Babylon to bosons, from astrology to astrophysics, this chatty account for teenagers covers not only the world of science but also the scientific history of the world. To enjoy this book you need know nothing about history and little about science.’ – Patricia Fara, History Today ‘A thoughtful, elegantly presented volume with the younger reader in mind, although it’s an inspiring reminder to anyone of our extraordinary journey from ignorance to knowledge.’ – Dallas Campbell, BBC Focus William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine, UCL, London.
August 272 pp. 216x138mm. 40 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19713-6 £9.99* Rights sold: Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Turkish
The New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production Peter Marsh The world is on the cusp of a manufacturing revolution, and opportunities abound for countries and companies who understand the changes, says the author of this upbeat analysis. ‘A fizzing analysis of the history and geography of manufacturing and where it is heading.’ – The Economist ‘What is so useful about Marsh’s contribution in The New Industrial Revolution is that he has made an objective assessment of the evidence. And there are few people in Britain who are better equipped to do so.’ – Evan Davis, Financial Times ‘An easy-to-read history of industrialisation since Adam Smith’s time … A light and useful trawl through the five industrial revolutions.’ – Guy Arnold, North South
Blending high-grade design and fine paper, this is both a lovely gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history. ‘It certainly couldn’t be done more agreeably … a perfect birthday present for a child with an enquiring mind. I wish it had been available when I was young.’ – Allan Massie, Literary Review ‘A perennial favourite, this is the illustrated edition of Gombrich’s brilliant history and contains 200 pictures, nearly all of them full colour.’ – Sonali Chapman, Oldie E. H. Gombrich, author of the classic The Story of Art, was born in Vienna in 1909. He moved to London in 1936, where he later became Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at London University. Winner of the Erasmus Prize, the Hegel Prize, the Wittgenstein Prize and the Goethe Prize, he was admitted to Britain’s highest honour, the Order of Merit, in 1988.
October 304 pp. 234x189mm. 200 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19718-1 £14.99* Translation rights: Dumont Verlag, Cologne
Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power John France This major history encompasses warfare around the world from 3100 B.C. to the Gulf War and challenges accepted ideas about the development of military strength, the impact of culture on war, the future of Western dominance and much more. ‘This is a powerful book, opinionated but crisply argued, and packed with information … It’s hard to think of a more impressive single-volume history of the not-only Western way of war.’ – Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph ‘An absorbing account of the history of warfare that does not shy away from challenging the reader’s preconceptions … A worthy addition to any military history collection.’ – Jonathan Eaton, Military Times ‘This book deserves attention.’ – Jeremy Black, BBC History Magazine
Peter Marsh is a journalist who reports on developments in manufacturing-related industries. He received the UK Business Journalist of the Year Award in the manufacturing category in 2002.
John France is professor emeritus, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University. His books include The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom.
September 320 pp. 198x129mm.
September 456 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus.
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This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 Charles Carlton In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death. Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the period, as well as war’s enduring corollaries – camaraderie, courage, fear and grief – to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples. ‘This Seat of Mars deserves to become a classic text on war itself and on Britain’s martial ancestry.’ – Allan Mallinson, The Times
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre Patrick Carnegy Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes the great productions of Wagner’s operas that have influenced our understanding not only of the composer but also of modern theatre. ‘It’s rare that I fall in love with a book early in its Introduction, but Patrick Carnegy’s Wagner and the Art of the Theatre is such a work … essential reading.’ – William Fregosi, Wagner Notes ‘One of the most marvellous books I have read this year ... Patrick Carnegy recounts with deep scholarship combined with good humour, Wagner’s obsession with special effects.’ – A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph ‘Well produced and illustrated, and fairly priced – for opera fans this is a must.’ – Malcolm Hayes, Classic FM Magazine
‘Readable, thought-provoking, and humane.’ – Barbara Donagan, Times Literary Supplement
Winner of the Creative Communication Award awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society
Charles Carlton is professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State University.
Formerly a music critic for The Times and dramaturg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Patrick Carnegy has lectured, broadcast and published widely on Wagner, opera and the theatre.
September 360 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. + 10 maps PB ISBN 978-0-300-19714-3 £14.99*
August 352 pp. 244x168mm. 100 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19715-0 £15.99*
The Art of Robert Frost
The Bride and The Dowry
Tim Kendall
Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
A wonderfully accessible guide to the work of Robert Frost, this hybrid anthology presents a selection of poems from across the poet’s career and places each poem in its social, biographical, historical, and literary context with insightful and astute commentary. ‘Kendall’s ‘readings’ are lucid, persuasive, and blessedly jargon-free. One hopes that others will adopt his brilliant and innovative model when introducing other poets’ Selected Poems.’ – Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University ‘[An] immensely pleasurable anthology … Tim Kendall’s commentary is exemplary: locally attentive and widely informed, it should prove both helpful to the newcomer and a good companion to those many readers for whom these striking poems are already a part of their inner landscape.’ – Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement Tim Kendall is professor of English literature and Head of English, University of Exeter. He was founding editor of Thumbscrew, an international poetry magazine, and is the author of several books, including Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study.
November 408 pp. 229x152mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19827-0 £14.99*
Avi Raz This is the first comprehensive study of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the crucial years after the Six Day War. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British and UN archives, Avi Raz uncovers how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed. ‘The story of Israeli policy in the late 1960s has been told before. But no one has provided as thorough – or as damning – an account as Avi Raz. The Bride and The Dowry is a work of meticulous scholarship.’ – Adam Shatz, London Review of Books ‘Avi Raz’s readable, scholarly, and engaging volume is situated firmly within the ‘new’ history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Raz deserves congratulations for his study of Israeli policies after June 1967.’ – Matthew Hughes, Middle East Journal Avi Raz is member of the faculty of Oriental studies, University of Oxford, research associate at Oxford’s Centre of International Studies and research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
October 480 pp. 234x156mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19850-8 £14.99*
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Of Africa
The Forgotten Palestinians
Wole Soyinka
A History of the Palestinians in Israel
In search of a deeper understanding of Africa, its identity, its current crises and its future, Wole Soyinka explores a wide range of topics, including culture, religion, history, imagination and identity. ‘An intellectually robust, book-length essay that attempts to unravel the paradoxes and contradictions plaguing Nigeria and, by extension, Africa.’ – George Ayittey, Wall Street Journal ‘Among the Africans who deserve some kind of secular sainthood is Wole Soyinka … Vast injustices remain [in Africa], but the continent is lucky to have fearless men and women of conscience, like Soyinka, who are so acutely aware of them.’ – Adam Hochschild, New York Times Book Review Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He is the author of more than twenty plays and ten volumes of poetry. For his implacable resistance to political tyranny he has been imprisoned, threatened with assassination and at times forced to live in exile.
Ilan Pappé In this book, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Palestinians with Israeli citizenship have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel’s attitude toward minorities and Palestinians’ attitudes toward the Jewish state. ‘Pappé, in highly readable prose, gives us details and perspective about the history of the Arab community in the state’s early years.’ – David B. Green, Haaretz ‘Ilan Pappé has few peers in courage and integrity in the world of scholars on history … He should shame our academics and media men who cannot bring themselves to face historical truths… The lot of … [Israel’s] Palestinian Arab minority … is described in meticulous and welldocumented detail.’ – A. G. Noorani, Frontline The bestselling author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé is currently Professor of History at Exeter University, and previously taught at Haifa University, Israel.
June 344 pp. 198x129mm. 8 b/w illus.
January 224 pp. 203x127mm.
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Translation rights: Melanie Jackson Agency, New York
Islamic Imperialism
Egypt on the Brink
A History • Second Edition
From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood
Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh, a widely respected expert in Middle Eastern affairs, challenges the way we understand Middle Eastern history and politics in this provocative book. This new edition brings Karsh’s analysis up to date through the events of the Arab spring. ‘A vigorous refutation of the oversimplified analysis of Middle Eastern woes which piles responsibility for all these troubles on the West and its imperialist policies, past and continuing.’ – Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement ‘If Islamic history features on your to-do list, then you couldn’t hope for a more up-to-date teacher than Efraim Karsh, who offers a new approach to the place of Islam in today’s world, and a fresh look at the Crusades, with Islamic Imperialism: A History.’ – Sunday Telegraph
Tarek Osman In this thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This new edition takes events up to summer 2013, looking at how Egypt has become increasingly divided under its new Islamist government. ‘A colourful and convincing picture of the decline of Mubarak’s rule … A compelling account of how the various combustile ingredients of revolution came together, awaiting the final spark.’ – Gerald Butt, Times Literary Supplement ‘Tarek Osman writes with feeling, backed up by an impressively broad list of sources as well as sharp critical insight and astute judgement.’ – The Economist
Efraim Karsh is professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies, King’s College, University of London. His books include Palestine Betrayed and Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923.
Tarek Osman is an Egyptian political economist with fifteen years’ experience in strategy consulting, private equity and political-economy advisory. He writes for several international publications and frequently comments on Egypt and the Arab world for think tanks and news media.
September 304 pp. 198x128mm.
July 304 pp. 198x129mm. 20 illus.
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Emma Goldman
The Leningrad Blockade
The Most Musical Nation
Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick
A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
October
Richard Bidlack & Nikita Lomagin
James Loeffler
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The Lair The Margellos World Republic of Letters
The First Thousand Years
Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
Norman Manea, translated by Oana Sânziana Marian
Robert Louis Wilken
November
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A Global History of Christianity January Rights sold: Italian
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André Vauchez, translated by Michael F. Cusato August PB ISBN 978-0-300-19837-9 £14.99* Translation rights: Arthème Fayard, Paris
Belonging and Genocide
The Very Hungry City
Childism
Hitler’s Community, 1918–1945
Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
Confronting Prejudice Against Children
Thomas Kühne September
Austin Troy
October
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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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The Voting Wars
Ancient Rome
Geronimo
From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
From Romulus to Justinian
Robert M. Utley
Thomas R. Martin
September
Richard L. Hasen
October
October
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Orderly and Humane
The Science of Human Perfection
The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
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A Living Man from Africa
R. M. Douglas
How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
September
Nathaniel Comfort
Roger S. Levine
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October
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The Golden Ass Apuleius, translated by Sarah Ruden
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19829-4 £20.00*
October PB ISBN 978-0-300-19814-0 £9.99*
Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991–2011 Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Hoyt Rogers
Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives Agency, New York
November PB ISBN 978-0-300-19818-8 £12.99*
The Cost Disease Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t William J. Baumol, with contributors October PB ISBN 978-0-300-19815-7 £14.99* Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West Daniel Justin Herman October PB ISBN 978-0-300-19826-3 £20.00*
Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt David Hempton September PB ISBN 978-0-300-19825-6 £14.99*
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah November PB ISBN 978-0-300-19840-9 £9.99* Rights held by the author
The Parties Versus the People How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans Mickey Edwards September PB ISBN 978-0-300-19821-8 £10.99* America the Possible Manifesto for a New Economy James Gustave Speth October PB ISBN 978-0-300-19834-8 £11.99* Rights sold: German
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Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition J. Arch Getty In old Russia, patron/client relations, ‘clan’ politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the 20th-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of the Second World War, remained secret until now. In this book, Middle East scholars Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz uncover for the first time the complete story of this dangerous alliance and explore its continuing impact on Arab politics in the 21st century. Drawing on unprecedented research in European, American and Middle East archives, the authors offer new insight on the intertwined development of Nazism and Islamism and its impact on the modern Middle East.
The book’s chapters examine a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the communist party’s personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans (‘family circles’) after the 1917 revolutions. Stalin’s conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements in the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relation, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center, Israel. He is the author of many books. Middle East historian Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is visiting professor at the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center, and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum of Pennsylvania.
J. Arch Getty is professor of history at UCLA.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 31 b/w illus.
September 384 pp. 234x156mm.
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Myth, Memory, Trauma
The Archaeology of Jerusalem
Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70
Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn
Polly Jones Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries’ attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism. Polly Jones is the Schrecker-Barbour Fellow and University Lecturer in Russian at University College, University of Oxford. Eurasia Past and Present
From the Origins to the Ottomans In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city’s material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic and domestic architecture. Distinctive finds such as paintings, mosaics, pottery and coins highlight each period. Their book provides a unique perspective on the emergence and development of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the relationship among the three religions and their cultures into the modern period. Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University and an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture and the Department of Architecture. Hanswulf Bloedhorn is an expert on Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine architecture and decoration of public and sacred buildings, and a leading authority on the archaeology of Jerusalem.
September 384 pp. 234x156mm.
November 320 pp. 229x152mm. 20 colour + 185 b/w illus.
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The Allure of the Archives
The Field of Cloth of Gold
Arlette Farge • Translated by
Glenn Richardson
Thomas Scott-Railton Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis Arlette Farge’s Le gout de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundredyear-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in preRevolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into previously unknown dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. Arlette Farge is director of research in modern history at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Thomas Scott-Railton has translated for Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales and New Global Studies. Natalie Zemon Davis is professor of history at the University of Toronto. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war or on the brink of it. In 1520, in an effort to bring conflict to an end, England’s monarch, Henry VIII, and Francis I of France agreed to meet at ‘the Field of Cloth of Gold’. In the midst of a spectacular festival of competition and entertainment, the rival leaders hoped to secure a permanent settlement as part of a Europeanwide ‘Universal Peace’. Richardson offers a bold new appraisal of this remarkable historical event, describing the preparations and execution of the magnificent gathering, exploring its ramifications, and arguing that it was far more than the extravagant elitist theatre and cynical charade it historically has been considered to be. Glenn Richardson is reader in early modern history at St. Mary’s University College, London.
October 150 pp. 210x140mm.
November 288 pp. 234x156mm. 16 pp. b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17673-5 £18.99
HB ISBN 978-0-300-14886-2 £35.00
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A Restatement of Religion Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism Jyotirmaya Sharma
Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958–1962 An Oral History Zhou Xun
In this third instalment of his comprehensive history of ‘India’s religion’ and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma’s work focuses on Vivekananda’s reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as ‘Hinduism’ and how it served to create, distort and justify a national self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West in Vivekananda’s vision, as well as the systematic marginalisation of alternate religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers with an incisive entryway into 19th- and 20th-century Indian history and the rise of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement.
In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a programme designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme – like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century – proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction of China’s agriculture, industry and trade, while leaving large portions of the countryside forever scarred by man-made environmental disasters. The resulting three-year famine claimed the lives of more than 45 million people in China.
Jyotirmaya Sharma is professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India.
Zhou Xun is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Essex. She is the author of The Great Famine in China, 1958–1962: A Documentary History.
September 328 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19740-2 £25.00
In this remarkable oral history, survivors of the cataclysm share their memories of devastation and loss. Powerful and deeply moving, this unique remembrance of an unnecessary and unhindered catastrophe illuminates a dark recent history that remains officially unacknowledged by the Chinese government.
January 288 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18404-4 £25.00*
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The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders Galbert of Bruges Translated by Jeff Rider On March 2, 1127, while praying in the church of Saint Donatian in Bruges, Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins and killed by a sword blow to the forehead. The murder of Charles, who had no progeny, nor named successor, upset the balance of power among England, France and the Holy Roman Empire, giving rise to a prolonged struggle for the countship and bloody civil war, impacting the commercial life of the most prosperous regions of medieval Europe. The eyewitness account by the Flemish cleric Galbert of Bruges of the scandalous assassination and struggle for power that ensued is the only journal to have survived from 12thcentury Europe. This new translation by medieval studies expert Jeff Rider greatly improves upon all previous versions, substantially advancing scholarship on the Middle Ages while granting new life and immediacy to Galbert’s candid narrative.
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition Edited by Robert Harms, Bernard Freamon and David Blight While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the 19th century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading. ‘The focus on the abolition period marks the volume as unique. It is valuable for that purpose, besides vetting very fine scholarship. I would recommend it to anyone interested in slavery, the Indian Ocean, the Islamic world, and abolition.’ – Paul Lovejoy, author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
Jeff Rider is a professor of Romance languages and literature at Wesleyan University.
Robert Harms is the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies at Yale University. Bernard Freamon is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School and director of the Law School’s Zanzibar Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking. David Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus.
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. + 3 maps
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Female Alliances
The Christian Monitors
A Plague of Informers
Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730
Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England
Amanda E. Herbert
Brent S. Sirota
Rachel Weil
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, cultural, economic and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long 18th century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England’s key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernisation of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelising and educating merchants, seamen and slaves throughout the British empire – all leading to what has been termed the ‘age of benevolence’.
Stories of plots, sham plots and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil’s compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or longterm effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk.
Amanda E. Herbert is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University.
Brent S. Sirota is an assistant professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University, Durham, NC.
February 224 pp. 234x156mm. 27 b/w illus.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History
February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 15 b/w illus.
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February 352 pp. 234x156mm.
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Rachel Weil is associate professor of history at Cornell University. The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History
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An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siècle Vienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity Broncia Koller (1863–1934), Seated Nude (Marietta), 1907. Oil on canvas, 107.5 x 148.5 cm. © Eisenberger Collection, Vienna
Facing the Modern
Contributions by Tag Gronberg, Julie Johnson, Doris Lehmann, Elana Shapira, Sabine Wieber and Mary Costello
Gemma Blackshaw is associate professor of history of art and visual culture at Plymouth University.
Exhibition The National Gallery, London, 09/10/13 – 12/01/14
November 192 pp. 279x229mm. 140 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-1-85709-561-6 £35.00*
During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siècle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects’ shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to the end of the First World War. This is viewed as a time when the avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a more complex story, through thoughtprovoking texts by leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele alongside those of their predecessors, blurring the conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and early-20thcentury art, and revealing surprising continuities in the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book also features works by lesser-known female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the time.
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The National Gallery • London
The Portrait in Vienna, 1900 Gemma Blackshaw With a foreword by Edmund de Waal
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A great art historian recounts the dramatic events surrounding the acquisition and loss of the incomparable art collections of Charles I and his courtiers
Titian, Cardinal Georges d’Armagnac and his Secretary Guillaume Philandrier, Duke of Northumberland Collection
The King’s Pictures The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers Francis Haskell With a foreword by Nicholas Penny Edited and with an introduction by Karen Serres The greatest paintings in today’s most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of fervent pursuit by art connoisseurs. Francis Haskell traces the fate of collections extracted from Italy, Spain and France by King Charles I and his circle which, after a brief stay in Britain, were largely dispersed after the Civil War to princely galleries across the Continent. From vivid case studies of individual collectors, advisers and artists, and acute analysis of personality and motive, Haskell challenges ideas about this episode in British cultural life and traces some of the factors that forever changed the artistic map of Europe.
September 256 pp. 270x217mm. 80 colour + 40 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19012-0 £30.00*
Francis Haskell (1928–2000) was one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century. He expanded the discipline to include the study of patronage and collecting, the formation of museums and canons of taste, the idea of revival and of illustration. He was professor of art history at the University of Oxford from 1967 until his retirement in 1995.
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A complete survey of Kent the architect, designer and ‘father of modern gardening’ The Temple of British Worthies at Stowe
William Kent Designing Georgian Britain Edited by Susan Weber The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685–1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens and exquisite furniture. Among his creative innovations are bold combinations of elements from Palladian, rococo and gothic design, anticipating the intermingling of architectural styles we see today. William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain is the first comprehensive exploration of this important designer and his extraordinary creations.
Exhibition Bard Graduate Center, New York, 09/09/13 – 16/02/14 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 22/03/14 – 13/07/14
An international team of the foremost experts in the field examines the entire spectrum of Kent’s oeuvre, including the interiors at Kensington Palace and Houghton Hall. Essays illuminate issues about the authorship of Kent’s furniture and metalwork, situate his contributions in relation to architectural discourse and classify the characteristics of his designs. Copiously illustrated, including many stunning new photographs, this handsome volume celebrates the work and career of one of the most influential figures in the history of architecture and design. Susan Weber is founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center.
September 656 pp. 305x230mm. 624 colour illus.
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Matisse’s Sculpture The Pinup and the Primitive Ellen McBreen Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse’s sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working from these two radically different depictions of the body – one hand carved, the other mechanically made – was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist ‘discovering’ Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse’s Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. The book examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica and the visual culture of French. In addition, it repositions Matisse’s sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career. November 288 pp. 280x230mm. 50 colour + 100 b/w illus.
Ellen McBreen is assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
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The Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish Marquard Smith Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term ‘heterosexual’ as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity and animism. Their convergence, and the demands of a growing consumer society resulted in a proliferation of waxworks, shop-window dummies and customised love dolls, which also began to appear in art. Oskar Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll of his former lover Alma Mahler; Hans Bellmer crafted poupées; and Marcel Duchamp fabricated a nude figure in his environmental tableau Étant donnés. The Erotic Doll is the first book to explore men’s complex relationships with such inanimate forms from historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. Challenging our commonsense grasp of the relations between persons and things, Marquard Smith examines these erotically charged human figures by interweaving art history, visual culture, gender and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, offering startling insights into heterosexual masculinity and its discontents. December 288 pp. 234x156mm. 20 colour + 110 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15202-9 £35.00*
Marquard Smith is director, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, and editor-in-chief of Journal of Visual Culture.
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A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years Left: Turban ornament, Northern India, 1700–1750. Victoria & Albert Museum, given by Col. Charles Seton Guthrie. Above: Three Shaker-made oval storage boxes with original paint, mid-18th century. Jane Katcher Collection of Americana
History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000 Edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated, the volume covers interiors, furniture, textiles and dress, glass, graphics, metalwork, ceramics, exhibitions, product design, landscape and garden design, and theatre and film design. Divided into four chronological sections, each of which is subdivided geographically, the authors elucidate the evolution of style, form, materials and techniques, and address vital issues such as gender, race, patronage, cultural appropriation, continuity versus innovation, and high versus low culture. Leading authorities in design history and decorative arts studies from both scholarly and museum backgrounds present hundreds of objects in their contemporary contexts, demonstrating the overwhelming extent to which the applied arts have enriched customs, ceremony and daily life worldwide over the past six hundred years. This ambitious, landmark publication is essential reading, contributing a definitive classic to the existing scholarship on design, decorative arts and material culture, while also introducing these subjects to new readers in a comprehensive, erudite book with widespread appeal. October 704 pp. 300x248mm. 760 colour & b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19614-6 £50.00*
Pat Kirkham is a professor at the Bard Graduate Center, where Susan Weber is founder and director. Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, New York Translation rights: Bard Graduate Center, New York
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The City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London Christine Stevenson The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two momentous events: the restoration of the monarchy, in 1660, and the Great Fire six years later. Spotlighting little-known projects alongside such landmarks as Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, it explores how they were made to bear meaning. It draws on a range of evidence wide enough to match architecture’s resonances for its protagonists: paintings, prints and poetry, sermons and civic ceremony mediated and politicised buildings and built space, as did direct and sometimes violent action. The City and the King offers a nuanced understanding of architecture’s place in early modern English culture. It casts new light not only on the reign of Charles II, but on the universal mechanisms of construction, decoration and destruction through which we give our monuments significance. September 304 pp. 256x192mm. 23 colour + 115 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19022-9 £45.00*
Christine Stevenson is senior lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Magnificent Entertainments Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals Melanie Doderer-Winkler A thoroughly original study of ephemeral architecture and design, Magnificent Entertainments examines the spectacular displays created for large-scale public celebrations in the Georgian period. The book focuses on a number of specific events – including royal weddings, coronations, battle victories and birthday fêtes – that employed elaborate decorative measures to outshine the typical festivities of the day. Some of these elements, ranging from floral displays and scenery to music and light shows, transformed existing venues into unfamiliar marvels; other times, completely new settings were devised for short-lived occasions. Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts and diary entries, the book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust or chalk lent luster and colour to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint and paste. Melanie Doderer-Winkler is an independent scholar and a former furniture specialist at Christie’s, London. September 320 pp. 292x241mm. 133 colour + 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18642-0 £40.00*
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The Origins of Classical Architecture Temples, Orders and Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Greece Mark Wilson Jones Greek temples captivate anyone with an interest in antiquity, and the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columnar orders that clad them launched the classical architectural tradition down to modern times. The Origins of Classical Architecture proposes groundbreaking new theories in both areas as it elucidates the nature and function of Greek architecture. While contextualising past debate and prevailing, frequently evolutionary assumptions, Mark Wilson Jones explains how the orders emerged over a relatively short period in response to cultural developments, human agency and artistic inspiration. Temples were houses for the gods while also considered as offerings to them, and thus made appropriately from enduring materials and grandly scaled. These structures, furthermore, sheltered votive offerings of great artistic quality, the design of which influenced that of the temples and the creation of the new architectural forms. Temples and their orders thereby symbolised the dedication of effort and artistry to the cause of religious expression and collective identity. December 288 pp. 285x220mm. 30 colour + 230 b/w illus.
Mark Wilson Jones is an architect and architectural historian. He is director of postgraduate research, department of architecture and civil engineering, at the University of Bath.
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The Sheldonian Theatre Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford Anthony Geraghty A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building’s construction, this meticulously researched book takes a fresh look at the historical influences that shaped the Sheldonian’s development, including the Restoration of the English monarchy and the university’s commitment to episcopal religion. The book explains just how novel Wren’s design was in its day, in part because the academic theatre was a building type without precedent in England, and in part because the Sheldonian’s classical style stood apart in its university context. The author also points to a shift in the guiding motivation behind the architecture at Oxford: from a tradition that largely perpetuated medieval forms to one that conceived classical architecture in relation to late Renaissance learning. Newly commissioned photographs showcase the theatre’s recently restored interior. Anthony Geraghty is senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of York. September 168 pp. 256x192mm. 40 colour + 10 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19504-0 £35.00*
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Landscapes of London The City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660–1840 Elizabeth McKellar The idea of a ‘Greater London’ emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city’s suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. This transitional zone was occupied and shaped by the urban middle class as much as by the elite who built villas there. McKellar provides the first major interdisciplinary cultural history of this area, analysing it in relation to key architectural and planning debates and to concepts of national, social and gender identities. She draws on a wide range of source materials, including prints, paintings, maps, poetry, songs, newspapers, guidebooks and other popular literature, as well as buildings and landscapes. The author suggests that these suburban landscapes – the first in the world – were a new environment, but one in which the vernacular, the rustic and the historic played a substantial part. This fascinating investigation shows London as the forerunner of the complex, multifaceted modern cities of today. December 256 pp. 285x245mm. 24 colour + 120 b/w illus.
Elizabeth McKellar is Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art History at the Open University.
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SURVEY OF LONDON Battersea Volume 49: Public, Commercial and Cultural Edited by Andrew Saint November 520 pp. 286x222mm. 200 colour + 250 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19616-0 £75.00*
Volume 50: Houses and Housing Edited by Colin Thom November 520 pp. 286x222mm. 200 colour + 250 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19617-7 £75.00*
2-volume set HB ISBN 978-0-300-19813-3 £135.00*
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London and the author of Richard Norman Shaw. Colin Thom is senior historian, Survey of London, English Heritage. Published for English Heritage by Yale University Press on behalf of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The south London parish of Battersea has roots as a working village, growing produce for London markets, and as a high-class suburb, with merchants’ villas on the elevated ground around Clapham and Wandsworth Commons. Battersea enjoyed spectacular growth during Queen Victoria’s reign, and railroads brought industry and a robust building boom, transforming the parish into another of London’s dense, smoky neighbourhoods, though not without its unique and distinguishing features. Among these are Battersea Park, which was created by the Crown in the 1850s; the monumental Battersea Power Station, completed in 1939; and Clapham Junction railway station, which is, by measure of passenger interchanges, the busiest station in the UK. The two latest volumes of the Survey of London, 49 and 50, trace Battersea’s development from medieval times to the present day. Offering detailed analysis of its streets and buildings both thematically and topographically, and including copious original in-depth research and investigation, the books are a trove of architectural and British history. Profusely illustrated with new and archival images, architectural drawings and maps, these volumes are welcome additions to the acclaimed Survey of London series.
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Kent: North East and East The Buildings of England John Newman The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated and expanded edition of John Newman’s classic survey, first published in 1969. The city of Canterbury is the county’s greatest treasure, and its glorious cathedral is the first mature example of Gothic architecture in England. The influence of Canterbury appears also in the remains of St Augustine’s seventh-century mission churches, and in sophisticated Norman carved work at churches such as Barfrestone. Kent is also a maritime county, and its coastal towns are excitingly diverse: the royal stronghold of Dover with its mighty medieval castle; the medieval port of Sandwich; and resorts large and small, from genteel Folkestone to lively Margate, with its bold new art gallery. John Newman’s other volumes for the Pevsner Architectural Guides include Kent: West and the Weald (2012), Shropshire (2006), and Glamorgan and Gwent/Monmouthshire in the Buildings of Wales series.
October 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18506-5 £35.00*
Northamptonshire The Buildings of England Some of England’s grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor’s stately Baroque Easton Neston and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton and the evocative New Beild at Lyveden. Of no less interest are the fine churches, from Anglo-Saxon Brixworth to the noble Gothic of Warmington, Rushden and Finedon and from All Saints, Northampton, one of the grandest 17th-century churches outside London, to Comper’s St Mary’s, Wellingborough. Chief among the towns, Northampton has not only distinguished Victorian and Edwardian public, commercial and industrial buildings but also the principal work in England by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Bruce Bailey is a Northamptonshire man and has contributed to both of the previous editions of the guide to the county in this series. He serves as archivist at Drayton House and for the Althorp Estate.
September 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18507-2 £35.00*
Powys The Buildings of Wales Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire are described in this final volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979. Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampments, Early Christian monuments, ruined castles and the enigmatic remains of early industry enhance the landscapes of this wild and beautiful region. Atmospheric medieval churches survive in quantity, together with diverse Nonconformist chapels. Vernacular traditions are represented by robust medieval cruck-framed houses, and by the manor houses and farmhouses of the Tudors and Stuarts. Other highlights include Montgomery, with its beguiling Georgian heritage, the Victorian spa at Llandrindod Wells, and Powis Castle, with its Baroque interiors and terraced gardens. Robert Scourfield is Buildings Conservation Officer for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, and co-author of Pembrokeshire (2004) and Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (2006) in the Buildings of Wales series. Richard Haslam is the author of the first edition of Powys, and co-author of the Buildings of Wales volume on Gwynedd (2009).
November 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18508-9 £35.00*
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Generation Dada The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War Michael White For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective – Club Dada, to members – was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader – renamed Propaganda Marshall, Monteurdada, Dadasoph and Oberdada within the organisation – have remained largely unexamined until now. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group’s beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era’s chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves as a new generation – in contrast to their pacifist forebears, the Expressionists – the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. It also offers the first serious consideration of the group’s role in constructing its own legacy, even as the works were deliberately rooted in the ephemeral. Michael White is reader in the history of art at the University of York and is best known internationally for his research on the early-20th-century De Stijl group in the Netherlands.
Edited by Anna Vallye • With contributions by Christian Derouet, Maria Gough, Stuart Liebman, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye and Jennifer Wild With his landmark 1919 painting The City, Fernand Léger inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theatre, dance, film and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Léger’s fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualises a network of international avant-gardes – including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amédée Ozenfant, Francis Picabia and Theo van Doesburg – in relation to Léger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art. Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 14/10/13 – 05/01/14 Anna Vallye is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 256 pp. 305x254mm. 238 colour + 11 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19766-2 £45.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Erwin Blumenfeld Edited by Ute Eskildsen Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld’s peripatetic career took him first to Amsterdam and then to Paris, where his work in fashion photography began at Vogue in 1938. After two years in a French concentration camp, he made his way to the US and established himself as an eminent fashion photographer. Over one hundred of his photographs featured on the covers of prominent fashion and general interest magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Life and Cosmopolitan. Often minimalist, mainly in colour, these photographs testify to Blumenfeld’s lifelong interest in experimentation. This landmark publication broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld’s innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career: drawing, photography, photomontage and collage. The motifs of his experimental, sometimes overtly political, black and white photographs appear alongside numerous self-portraits and celebrity portraits, as well as the fashion photographs for which he is most known. Presenting some 150 images, this book provides a fresh understanding of Blumenfeld’s photography for the commercial worlds of fashion and advertising, as well as of his full creative scope. Ute Eskildsen is deputy director and head of the photography collections for the Museum Folkwang, Essen. Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris • Translation rights: Editions Hazan, Paris
October 240 pp. 275x215mm. 90 colour + 90 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19938-3 £30.00*
Erwin Blumenfeld, Audrey Hepburn, c. 1955. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld
Fernand Léger and the Modern City
Fernand Léger, The City (La ville),1919. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952-61-58 © Artists Rights Society, NY
October 288 pp. 256x192mm. 20 colour + 130 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16903-4 £40.00*
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History Annette Carruthers
Annette Carruthers is a senior lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. October 468 pp. 285x245mm. 100 colour + 250 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19576-7 £60.00*
This authoritative book is the first to chronicle the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among the wider public. The heyday of the movement occurred between 1890 and 1914, a time when Scotland’s art schools energetically promoted new design and the Scottish Home Industries Association campaigned to revive rural crafts. Across the country the movement influenced the look of domestic and church buildings, as well as the stained glass, metalwork, textiles and other furnishings that adorned them. Art schools, workshops and associations helped shape the Arts and Crafts style, as did individuals such as Ann Macbeth, W. R. Lethaby, Robert Lorimer, M. H. Baillie Scott, Douglas Strachan, Phoebe Traquair and James Cromar Watt, among other wellknown and previously overlooked figures. Together, these architects, artists, and designers contributed to the expansion and evolution of the movement both within and beyond Scotland’s borders. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
From Still Life to the Screen Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London Joseph Monteyne From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. The desire for goods emerged in tandem with modern notions of identity, in which things were seen to mirror and symbolise the self. Prints, particularly graphic satires by such artists as Matthew and Mary Darly, James Gillray, William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and Paul Sandby, were actively involved in this shift. Many of these images play with the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, self and thing. They also reveal the recurring motif of image display, whether on screens, by magic lanterns, or in ‘raree-shows’ and print-shop windows. The author links this motif to new conceptions of the self, specifically through the penetration of spectacle into everyday experience. Joseph Monteyne is associate professor in the history of art at the University of British Columbia. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 55 colour + 101 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19635-1 £35.00*
Exhibiting Englishness John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic Rosie Dias In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With its very name, the Shakespeare Gallery signalled to Londoners that the artworks on display shared an undisputed quality and a national spirit. Exhibiting Englishness explores the responses of key artists of the period to Boydell’s venture and sheds new light on the gallery’s role in the larger context of British art. Tracking the shift away from academic and Continental European styles of history painting, the book analyses the works of such artists as Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, James Northcote, Robert Smirke, Thomas Banks and William Hamilton, laying out their diverse ways of expressing notions of individualism, humour, eccentricity and naturalism. Exhibiting Englishness also argues that Boydell’s gallery radically redefined the dynamics of display and cultural aesthetics at that time, shaping both an English school of painting and modern exhibition practices. Rosie Dias is associate professor in the history of art at the University of Warwick. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 50 colour + 95 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19668-9 £45.00*
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Cripplewood Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Biennale di Venezia J. M. Coetzee and Herman Parret Berlinde De Bruyckere is a Belgian artist who specialises in sculpture using various media, including wax, wood, wool, and horse skin and hair. Published to coincide with De Bruyckere’s participation in the 2013 Venice Biennale, this richly illustrated catalogue traces her work from conception to installation, providing a multifaceted introduction to the artist’s complex and compelling work. Struck by the passion and fierce beauty in the writings of J. M. Coetzee, De Bruyckere asked the acclaimed writer to curate the Belgian Pavilion’s exhibition. A previously unpublished text by Coetzee is included in this volume, as well as correspondence that the two exchanged throughout their collaborative process. The book is also enriched by writings by Herman Parret, who explores Saint Sebastian – the dual incarnation of sensuality and mystical suffering, and Venice’s quintessential symbol – and his particular significance to De Bruyckere’s oeuvre.
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Cripplewood © Mirjam Devriendt
August 92 pp. 254x216mm. 50 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19657-3 £20.00* Trilingual edition: Dutch, English, French
J. M. Coetzee is a novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Herman Parret is professor emeritus at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Leuven University (Belgium).
Printmaking in Paris The Rage for Prints at the Fin de Siècle Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho and Marije Vellekoop In the years between 1890 and 1905, Paris witnessed a revolution in printmaking. Before this time, prints had primarily served reproductive or political ends, but, as the century came to a close, artistic quality became paramount, and printmaking blossomed into an autonomous art form. This gorgeously illustrated and accessibly written book looks at the circumstances in which this terrific new enthusiasm for prints unfolded; the principal players in its development; and the various printmaking techniques being used. Featuring highlights from the Van Gogh Museum, which houses a superb collection of prints from fin-de-siècle Paris, this enlightening volume shows how the most influential artists of the day turned their hands to making beautiful ‘impressions’ – prints that were works of art in themselves. Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho is curator of prints and drawings and Marije Vellekoop is head of collections, research and exhibitions, both at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
July 184 pp. 267x203mm. 205 colour + 5 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19730-3 £40.00*
En Atendant and Cesena A Choreographer’s Score Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Bojana Cveji´c Record book by Michel François Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have created an impressive series of choreographic works that have been described as ‘pure writing with movement in time and space’. In these two volumes and accompanying set of 3 DVDs, De Keersmaeker offers wide-ranging insights into choreography and into the making of her two most recent large-scale works: En Atendant and Cesena. In addition to sketches, notes and photographs, interviews with De Keersmaeker, as well as dance demonstrations and extensive video clips, are featured. A second volume is a book of photographs by Michel François. Bojana Cveji´c is performance theorist and maker, working in contemporary dance and performance also as dramaturge and performer.
August 304 pp. 273x191mm. 100 colour + 50 b/w illus. 2 volumes in slipcase with 3 DVDs PB ISBN 978-0-300-19732-7 £45.00*
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Edvard Munch Works on Paper Edited by Magne Bruteig and Ute Kuhlemann Falck This superb book is dedicated to Edvard Munch’s vast and fascinating oeuvre of works on paper. Featured in beautiful colour reproductions are key images related to well-known prints and drawings, as well as lesser known works, such as childhood drawings and caricatures. Essays by critically acclaimed art historians examine, among other things, the various techniques that Munch used for his prints and drawings; charming examples of childhood drawings featuring his family and their daily life; his interaction with contemporary artists and the intellectual milieu of the so-called ‘Kristiania Bohemia’ and Oslo’s night life; and the impact of his volatile romantic relationship with Tulla Larsen. In sum, this invaluable book reveals many new insights into the life and work of one of the world’s best-known yet enigmatic artists.
Exhibition Munch Museet, Oslo, 01/11/13 – 02/02/14
November 288 pp. 248x279mm. 130 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19731-0 £45.00*
With contributions by Michelle Bonnefoy, Magne Bruteig, Dieter Buchhart, Arne Eggum, Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaatten, Magdalena Godzimirska, Sidsel Helliesen, Stein Olav Henrichsen, Frank Høifødt, Lasse Jacobsen, Ute Kuhlemann Falck, Gry Landro, Erik Mørstad, Atle Næss, Petra Pettersen, Stefan Pucks, Sivert Thue and Gerd Woll. Magne Bruteig and Ute Kuhlemann Falck are both senior curators in the prints and drawings department at the Munch Museum.
In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914–1918 Birger Stichelbaut Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of the First World War and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometer by kilometer, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front. Birger Stichelbaut is a postdoc researcher based in the department of archaeology, Ghent University, Belgium.
January 396 pp. 254x298mm. 532 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19658-0 £40.00*
This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of the First World War and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to First World War history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before. Distributed for Mercatorfonds; In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres; the Imperial War Museum, London; and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels
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The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence Megan Holmes In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these ‘miraculous images’ in the city and surrounding countryside beginning in the late 13th century. In The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence, Megan Holmes questions what distinguished these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images, looking closely at their material and formal properties, the process of enshrinement, and the foundation legends and miracles associated with specific images. Whereas some of the images presented in this fascinating book are well known, such as Bernardo Daddi’s Madonna of Orsanmichele, many others have been little studied until now. Holmes’s efforts centre on the recovery and contextualisation of these revered images, reintegrating them and their related cults into an art-historical account of the period. By challenging prevailing views and offering a reassessment of the Renaissance, this generously illustrated and comprehensive survey makes a significant contribution to the field. September 400 pp. 280x220mm. 80 colour + 170 b/w illus.
Megan Holmes is professor of the history of art at the University of Michigan.
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Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Joanna Cannon The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners – Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini – are here set in a wider Dominican context. The contents of major foundations – Siena, Pisa, Perugia and Santa Maria Novella in Florence – are studied alongside less well-known centres. For the first time these frescoes and panel paintings are brought together with illuminated choir books, carved crucifixes, goldsmith’s work, tombs and stained glass. At the heart of the book is the Dominicans’ evolving relationship with the laity, expressed at first by the partitioning of their churches, and subsequently by the everincreasing sharing of space, and of the production and use of art. Joanna Cannon’s magisterial study is informed by extensive new research, using chronicles, legislation, liturgy, sermons and other sources to explore the place of art in the lives of the friars and the urban laity of Central Italy. Joanna Cannon is reader in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. December 368 pp. 280x230mm. 80 colour + 200 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18765-6 £45.00*
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Painting under Pressure Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence Michelle O’Malley In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O’Malley analyses the lives and works of four artists: Alessandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi and Pietro Perugino. She considers network systems, production practices, economic concepts, and workshop input to demonstrate the consequences of high demand on some of the most respected artists of the time.
October 256 pp. 241x170mm. 25 colour + 100 b/w illus.
In this fascinating and incisive book, O’Malley asks how painters approached the manufacture of large bodies of commissioned work, how they made day-to-day decisions about design and the application of pigments, and how serial production related to creating work for commissions, in addition to questions of economics. Using documentary evidence about price, scientific evidence about production and formal analysis about appearance, the book demonstrates Renaissance business practices and shows the individual approaches artists took to producing excellence and meeting high demand. Michelle O’Malley is reader in art history and head of the department of art history, University of Sussex, Brighton.
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The Making of Assisi The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica Donal Cooper and Janet Robson For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis. Putting to one side the long debate about whether the Saint Francis cycle was or was not painted by Giotto, The Making of Assisi takes a fresh approach and treats the cycle as part of a larger, integrated and far-reaching programme of renewal at the Basilica. In this deeply researched, illuminating and beautifully illustrated book, Donal Cooper and Janet Robson investigate the particular historical moment in which the frescoes were made, casting new light on their patronage and iconography. Donal Cooper is an associate professor (lecturer) in the History of Art Department, University of Warwick. Janet Robson is an independent scholar. August 288 pp. 280x230mm. 60 colour + 134 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19571-2 £45.00*
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JFK A Photographic Memoir Lee Friedlander The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual component: likenesses of the president were framed in shop windows, pinned to living room walls and plastered in public spaces across the nation. Fifty years after Kennedy’s death, this book observes the public’s reaction to the president’s election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanised the nation and continues to resonate today. Lee Friedlander is a photographer based in New York City. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
September 60 pp. 216x235mm. 49 tritone illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19108-0 £35.00* Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery
A Conspiracy of Images Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War John J. Curley In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned to the silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard Richter, who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East Germany, painted blurred versions of personal and media photographs. In A Conspiracy of Images, author John J. Curley explores how the artists’ developing aesthetic approaches were informed by the political agency and ambiguity of images produced during the Cold War, particularly those disseminated by the mass media on both sides. As the first scholarly consideration of the visual conditions of the Cold War, A Conspiracy of Images provides a new and compelling transatlantic model for Cold War art history. John J. Curley is assistant professor of art history at Wake Forest University.
October 296 pp. 254x203mm. 32 colour + 136 b/w illus.
Portraits
Robert Indiana
Luc Tuymans
Beyond LOVE
Essays by Robert Storr and Toby Kamps
Barbara Haskell
With contributions by Susan Sutton and Clare Elliott Luc Tuymans is a painter engaged with ‘figuration’, using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources – photographs, film stills, mirror images – with a spare palette, unexpected cropping, obscured spaces and blurring to reinforce the painted image’s status as a replica. Perhaps more than any other genre, portraiture allows Tuymans to explore the balance between revealing and concealing. Portraits: Luc Tuymans presents about 30 paintings from bodies of work ranging over the artist’s entire career. Most seem conventional portraits – Himmler, 1997/98, A Flemish Intellectual, 1995 – but others, such as Bloodstains, 1993, and Fingers, 1995, exhibit the artist’s elliptical approach to re-presentation. Exhibition The Menil Collection, 27/09/13 – 05/01/14 Robert Storr is an art critic and dean of the Yale University School of Art. Toby Kamps is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection. Distributed for The Menil Collection
November 128 pp. 292x235mm. 65 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19644-3 £35.00* Translation rights: Menil Foundation, Houston
With essays by René Paul Barilleaux and Sasha Nicholas Robert Indiana’s popular LOVE works have made the esteemed Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually charged work. Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE is a compelling reassessment of the artist’s contributions to American art during his long and prolific career. Indiana has explored the power of language, American identity and personal history for five decades. Although visually dazzling and apparently cheerful on the surface, his imagery has a depth and a darkness that draws on his own biography as well as on the myths, history and literature of the United States. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, 26/09/13 – 5/1/14 McNay Art Museum, Spring 2014 Barbara Haskell is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
November 256 pp. 279x241mm. 175 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19686-3 £40.00* Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Robert Indiana, EAT/DIE, 1962. Oil on canvas, 2 panels; 182.9 x 152.4 cm each. Private collection. © 2013 Morgan Art Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Wunderkammer, installation, 2012. Photo by Michael Moran
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Wunderkammer Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Inspired by the idea of the ‘wunderkammer’ – ‘wonder-room’ or ‘cabinet of curiosities’ – that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 42 celebrated architects and designers from around the world to create their own wunderkammers, filling boxes with objects that inspire them. This delightful book gathers together the varied, evocative wunderkammers along with accompanying statements by their architect-creators, including such luminaries as Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Murray Moss, Diébédo Francis Keré, Juhani Pallasmaa, Elias Torres and Peter Zumthor. An introduction by Williams and Tsien explains their fascination with the wunderkammer and looks at their own history of collecting. The boxes, each spotlighted in its own section, are explored through each architect’s essay; working drawings and sketchbook pages; construction and installation photos; a list of the items contained; and a photograph of the final box. Wunderkammer offers a new way to think about art and inventiveness, collection and meaning in everyday objects. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are the founding members of the New York-based architecture firm in their name. Their built works include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
November 240 pp. 146x216mm. 300 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19798-3 £20.00*
The Houses of Louis Kahn George H. Marcus and William Whitaker Louis Kahn is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of his houses has been largely overlooked. This book is the first to look at Kahn’s nine major private houses. Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect’s thinking, which began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors, a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his admiration for vernacular building traditions. Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of the most remarkable expressions of the American house. George H. Marcus is adjunct assistant professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. William Whitaker is curator of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the Louis I. Kahn Collection.
November 280 pp. 267x235mm. 100 colour + 150 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17118-1 £40.00*
Lina Bo Bardi Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima • With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll Lina Bo Bardi, one of the most important architects working in Latin America in the 20th century, was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil with her husband in 1946. In Brazil, her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work with industrial materials like concrete and glass, she added popular building materials and naturalistic forms to her design palette, striving to create large, multiuse spaces that welcomed public life. Lina Bo Bardi is the first comprehensive study of Bo Bardi’s career and showcases author Zeuler Lima’s extensive archival work in Italy and Brazil. The leading authority on Bo Bardi, Lima frames the architect’s activities on two continents and in five cities. The book examines how considerations of ethics, politics and social inclusiveness influenced Bo Bardi’s intellectual engagement with modern architecture and provides an authoritative guide to her experimental, ephemeral and iconic works of design. Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima is an architect and associate professor of history, theory and design at the School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Barry Bergdoll is professor of architectural history in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
January 296 pp. 267x216mm. 81 colour + 95 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15426-9 £40.00* Portuguese rights held by the author
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Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet Simon Kelly and April M. Watson • With essays by Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialised or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining in particular the works of artists such as Edouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères, Edouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre and Camille Pissarro. Exhibition Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 19/10/13 – 09/02/14; Saint Louis Art Museum, 16/03/14 – 06/07/14 Simon Kelly is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. April M. Watson is associate curator, photography, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Distributed for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art
October 320 pp. 279x241mm. 359 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19695-5 £25.00*
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden Guillaume Fonkenell • With essays by Laura D. Corey, Paula Deitz, Bruce Guenther and Sarah Kennel The Tuileries Garden is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world’s most iconic public art spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape architect André Le Nôtre, it served the now-destroyed Tuileries Palace. It was opened to the public in 1667, becoming one of the first public gardens in Europe. The garden has always been a place for Parisians to convene, celebrate and promenade, and art has played an important role throughout its history. Monumental sculptures give the garden the air of an outdoor museum, and the garden’s beautiful backdrop has inspired artists from Edouard Manet to André Kertész. The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden brings together 100 works of art, including sculpture, painting, as well as documentary photographs, prints and models illuminating the garden’s rich history. Beautifully illustrated essays by leading scholars of art and garden studies highlight the significance of the Tuileries Garden to works of art from the past 300 years and reaffirm its importance to the history of landscape architecture. Exhibition High Museum of Art, 29/10/13 – 19/01/14; Toledo Museum of Art, 13/02/14 – 11/05/14; Portland Art Museum, 14/06/14 – 28/09/14 Guillaume Fonkenell is curator of sculpture and museum historian at the Louvre. Laura D. Corey is consulting curator at the High Museum of Art. Paula Deitz is editor of the Hudson Review. Bruce Guenther is chief curator at the Portland Art Museum. Sarah Kennel is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Published in association with the High Museum of Art
January 160 pp. 254x305mm. 100 colour & b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19737-2 £35.00* Translation rights: High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series Edited by Heather MacDonald • With essays by Richard R. Brettell, André Dombrowski, Stephen F. Eisenmann, Paul Galvez, John House, Richard Kendall, Dorothy Kosinski, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Nancy Locke, Belinda Thomson, Richard Thomson and Paul Hayes Tucker Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, the volume comprises twelve beautifully illustrated essays from leading academics and museum specialists. Opening with a new reading of one of Gustave Courbet’s great hunting scenes, The Fox in the Snow, and ending with an exploration of a group of interior scenes by Edouard Vuillard, each essay stands alone as a richly contextualised reading of a single work or group of works by one artist. The authors approach their subjects from a range of methodological perspectives, but all pay close attention to the experience of making and viewing works of art. Heather MacDonald is Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
September 144 pp. 254x178mm. 150 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18757-1 £16.99* Translation rights: The Dallas Museum of Art
Camille Pissarro, The Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1900. Oil on canvas. 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 inches. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 2811
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Chagall Love, War, and Exile Susan Tumarkin Goodman • With an essay by Kenneth E. Silver Marc Chagall, one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, created his unique style by blending richly coloured folk art with Cubism, Surrealism and imagery drawn from the Russian Christian icon tradition. Chagall: Love, War, and Exile explores a significant but neglected period in the artist’s career, from the rise of fascism in the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, which he spent in Paris and then in exile in New York. Chagall’s paintings from this time express the horror of the Holocaust as well as hope for the survival of his people and belief in the ultimate triumph of love. Works of this dark period use many of Chagall’s familiar figures – the Artist, the Bride, the Clown, the Wandering Jew – set in unexpected, often wrenching scenes. These contrast with lavish flower paintings that reflect the artist’s adoration of his wife, Bella. Less well known are Chagall’s many canvases depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus, often depicted explicitly as a Jew, and his rarely seen, dreamlike poems, eleven of which are published here. Susan Tumarkin Goodman and Kenneth E. Silver perceptively analyse Chagall’s complex iconography and phantasmagorical style, tracing their Jewish, Christian, autobiographical, French and Russian sources. Exhibition Jewish Museum, New York, 13/09/13 – 02/02/14 Susan Tumarkin Goodman is senior curator at The Jewish Museum. Kenneth E. Silver is professor of art history at New York University. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York
André Le Notre, La grande cascade de Marly
October 160 pp. 235x203mm. 72 colour + 27 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18734-2 £30.00*
André Le Nôtre in Perspective Edited by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat André Le Nôtre, principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France’s greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener’s life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre’s output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world’s leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields. Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin is Research Associate, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles and Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles and the author of the biography André Le Nôtre. Georges Farhat is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and a founding member of the Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles. He is the editor of André Le Nôtre: Fragments d’un paysage culturel. Institutions, arts, sciences et techniques. Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris • Translation rights: Editions Hazan, Paris
October 440 pp. 310x250mm. 180 colour + 170 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19939-0 £45.00*
Van Gogh Repetitions Eliza Rathbone and William Robinson • With Elizabeth Steele and Marcia Steele Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist’s method was more often controlled and deliberate. Van Gogh Repetitions is the first book to focus on the artist’s ‘repetitions’, a term he used to describe his process of producing multiple versions of a composition. Van Gogh ultimately developed a conceptual framework that distinguished his répétitions from copies, études, tableaux and décorations, balancing modernist aspirations towards originality with the creation of multiples. The artist’s practice of producing repetitions was far more extensive and vital to his creative process than is commonly recognised. Exhibition The Phillips Collection, 12/10/13 – 26/01/14; Cleveland Museum of Art, 02/03/14 – 26/05/14 Eliza Rathbone is chief curator at the Phillips Collection. William Robinson is curator of modern European art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Published in association with the Phillips Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art
November 208 pp. 241x241mm. 125 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19082-3 £35.00* Translation rights: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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Silla
Past as Present in Contemporary China
Korea’s Golden Kingdom
Maxwell K. Hearn With contributions by Wu Hung
Soyoung Lee and Denise Patry Leidy • With contributions by Juhyung Rhi, Insook Lee, Ham Soon-seop, Yoon Sang-deok, Yoon Onshik and Her Hyeong Uk
The Chinese tradition of ‘ink art’ stretches far beyond works in ink, to embrace a set of aesthetic principles centred on renewal and reinterpretation of the past. The 80 works, by 40 contemporary artists, featured in Ink Art range from variations on the written word to radical abstractions to contemporary landscapes, and represent media as diverse as photography, video, ceramic, wood, bronze and stainless steel – as well as traditional ink (which might be on cardboard, polyester or the human body). They include such iconic pieces as Book from the Sky by Xu Bing and Han Jar Overpainted with Coca Cola Logo by Ai Weiwei, ‘pseudo-characters’ by Gu Wenda, handscrolls by Liu Dan, and videos and animation by Qiu Anxiong and Chen Shaoxiong.
The Silla Kingdom, which flourished in Korea from 57 B.C. to 935 A.D., is known for its intricately crafted ornaments, many in resplendent gold, and for the creation of prominent Buddhist temples. Silla focuses on the striking artistic traditions of the Old and Unified Silla Kingdoms (4th–8th century), and is the first publication in English to explore the artistic and cultural legacy of this ancient realm. Among the topics explored are Korea’s position as the eastern culmination of the Silk Road in the first millennium A.D. and the character and evolution of Buddhism, as illuminated by objects from major monuments, temples and tombs. The book also presents new research about Silla’s ancient capital, Gyeongju, which is known for the Gyerim-ro Dagger, as well as the pottery, glass and beads discovered in tombs located there.
Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/12/13 – 06/04/14
Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29/10/13 – 23/02/14
Maxwell K. Hearn is Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge, department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Soyoung Lee is assistant curator and Denise Patry Leidy is curator, department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 304 pp. 267x229mm. 250 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19703-7 £40.00*
Jewels by JAR Adrian Sassoon Called ‘the Fabergé of our time’ by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant colour and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewellery as ‘belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory’, while JAR himself has characterised his work as ‘somewhere between geometry and a bouquet of flowers’. This book, featuring nearly 40 pieces from throughout JAR’s career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewellery creations, and is the only book of its kind on his work available in English. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19/11/13 – 09/03/14
Gold Crown, from the Northern chamber of the Great Tomb of Hwangnam, Silla Kingdom. Gyeongju National Museum, Korea
Ink Art
October 256 pp. 254x229mm. 220 colour & b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19702-0 £45.00*
The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925 Thomas Brent Smith and Thayer Tolles With contributions by Carol Clark, Brian Dippie, Peter H. Hassrick, Karen Lemmey and Jessica Murphy Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Fascinating texts offer a fresh look at the roles that artists played in creating interpretations of the ‘vanishing West’ – whether based on fact, fiction or something in-between. These artists, including Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, embody a range of life experiences and artistic approaches. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17/12/13 – 13/04/14; Denver Art Museum, 09/05/14 – 31/08/14; Nanjing Museum, October 2014 – January 2015
Adrian Sassoon is a renowned gallerist and critic living in London.
Thomas Brent Smith is director, Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum. Thayer Tolles is curator, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
November 120 pp. 229x203mm. 65 colour illus.
January 256 pp. 254x229mm. 245 colour & b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19868-3 £25.00*
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Translation rights, pages 56 & 57: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Left: Butterfly brooch, 1994, JAR. Sapphires, fire opals, rubies, amethysts, green garnets, black diamonds, silver, gold. Private collection, Switzerland Right: Frederic Remington, The Broncho Buster, 1895
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Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000. Lent by Yale University Gallery, New Haven
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Imran Qureshi With an introduction by Sheena Wagstaff and an interview with the artist by Ian Alteveer and Navina Najat Haidar Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference both the miniature painting of the Mughal tradition, in which he was trained, and large, sitespecific installations in architectural space, which address both the building itself and its historical and political meanings. In May 2013, Qureshi will create the latest rooftop installation for the Metropolitan Museum. This volume discusses the interplay between the artist’s vision and the space for which the work was created. An interview with Qureshi highlights the traditions from which his work derives, as well as the political and aesthetic connotations that inform this latest creation. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14/05/13 – 03/11/13
July 64 pp. 229x203mm. 100 colour illus.
Light Crossbow with Lever, 1728. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19775-4 £9.99*
Edited by Perrin Stein With essays by Charlotte Guichard, Rena M. Housington, Elizabeth Rudy and Perrin Stein Over the course of the 18th century a great number of artists, ranging from established painters and sculptors to amateurs, experimented with etching, an accessible form of printmaking akin to drawing. In a period when artists strained to navigate the highly regulated Académie Royale and the increasingly discordant public spheres of the marketplace and the Salon, etching afforded them stylistic freedom and allowed them to produce exquisite works of art in a spirit of collaboration and experimentation. Featuring works by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Hubert Robert and many others, Artists and Amateurs embarks on a fresh exploration of how etching flourished in ancien régime France, shedding new light on artistic practice and patronage at that time. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 01/10/13 – 04/01/14 Perrin Stein is Curator, department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
August 240 pp. 267x229mm. 189 colour & b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19700-6 £45.00*
The Devil’s Invention
Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim
European Crossbows, 1250–1850
Edited by Peter Barnet and Michael Brandt
Dirk Breiding The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. The Devil’s Invention presents a lively, accessible survey of the crossbow’s ‘golden age’, along with detailed descriptions of twenty-four remarkable examples. Beginning in the middle ages, the European aristocracy’s enthusiasm for the crossbow heralded shooting competitions and pageants that featured elaborately decorated weapons bearing elegant embellishments of rare materials and prized artistry. In addition to being highly functional, these weapons were magnificent works of art. The Devil’s Invention includes fascinating descriptions of crossbows used by Margaret of Savoy and Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V, among others. Dirk Breiding is J. J. Midveckis Curator of Arms and Armor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
October 144 pp. 216x241mm. 100 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19704-4 £16.99*
Etching in EighteenthCentury France
Hildesheim, Germany, was a leading centre of art between 1000 and 1250, when outstanding precious works, such as the larger-than-life size Ringelheim Crucifix, illuminated manuscripts lavishly bound in jewelled covers and a monumental bronze baptismal font, were commissioned for its churches and cathedral. In 1985, UNESCO designated St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Michael’s Church in Hildesheim a world cultural heritage site, recognising them as monuments of medieval art with rich treasures. Despite its significance, Hildesheim’s incomparable collection of medieval church furnishings is little known outside of Germany. This book provides the first comprehensive examination in English of the city’s leading role in the art of the Middle Ages. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17/09/13 – 05/01/14 Peter Barnet is Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael Brandt is director, Hildesheim Cathedral Museum.
August 176 pp. 267x235mm. 100 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19699-3 £16.99*
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Distributed by Yale University Press
Sheena Wagstaff is chairman of the department of modern and contemporary art; Ian Alteveer is assistant curator in the department of modern and contemporary art; and Navina Najat Haidar is curator and administrator in the department of Islamic Art, all at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artists and Amateurs
Joseph Marie Vien the Elder, The Arrival of the Wine Vat (detail), c. 1755. Etching. 18 x 44.2 cm. 2011.540
Imran Qureshi applying gilt. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Corvi-Mora, London
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination
Volume 34, Titian’s Painting Technique before 1540
History, Faith, and the Sacred Landscape
Series Editor Ashok Roy
Jonathan W. Unglaub
Edited by Jill Dunkerton and Marika Spring Titian is acclaimed as the greatest of the Venetian masters. His technique has long fascinated painters and collectors, and his use of oil paints and the richly coloured pigments available to him in Venice influenced the subsequent history of European painting. The National Gallery, London, is home to an outstanding group of Titian’s paintings, and this special edition of its annual Technical Bulletin is dedicated to the study of the artist’s technique in the first part of his career. An introductory essay focuses on Titian’s painting technique, from its origins in the workshops of Venice and the Veneto, through close examination of nine works in the gallery’s collection, including the stunning Bacchus and Ariadne. The authors also discuss significant early works from other collections, such as Christ and the Adulteress and The Triumph of Love. New research and discoveries, published here for the first time, will be essential reading for Titian scholars and enthusiasts alike. Ashok Roy is director of collections, Jill Dunkerton is senior restorer and Marika Spring is principal scientific officer, all at the National Gallery, London.
Painted by Nicolas Poussin, The Sacrament of Ordination is a major milestone of FrancoItalian classicism of the 17th century. The magisterial painting depicts Christ’s charge to Saint Peter and offers a profound meditation on nature, faith and the epochal unfolding of sacred history. This lovely book celebrates the work, recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Jonathan W. Unglaub, esteemed authority on the topic, shows how Poussin ingeniously employed the landscape setting and seemingly incidental figures to imbue the apparently conventional but deceptively meaningful painting with a broad sweep of sacred history. The author also considers the painting in the context of Poussin’s two series of the Seven Sacraments and makes the case that the artist redefined the ambitions of narrative painting and landscape, sowing the seeds of pictorial classicism. Jonathan W. Unglaub is chairman and associate professor of fine arts at Brandeis University. Kimbell Masterpiece Series
Published by National Gallery Company Distributed by Yale University Press
Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
November 128 pp. 298x210mm. 120 colour illus.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19591-0 £9.99*
PB ISBN 978-1-85709-552-4 £40.00*
October 100 pp. 235x191mm. 75 colour + 5 b/w illus. Translation rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Francesco Vanni
Violence and Virtue
Art in Late Renaissance Siena
Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’
John Marciari and Suzanne Boorsch With contributions by Jamie Gabbarelli and Alexa A. Greist Francesco Vanni was the most important artist in Siena at the turn of the 17th century. His works combine dazzling technical virtuosity and brilliant colouring with the naturalistic approach employed by his more famous contemporaries Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. He painted altarpieces for every significant church in Siena, as well as for Saint Peter’s and other churches in Rome. Beautifully illustrated and featuring new research, Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena is the definitive resource on the artist. Exhibition Yale University Art Gallery, 27/09/13 – 05/01/14 John Marciari is the curator of European art and head of provenance research at the San Diego Museum of Art. Suzanne Boorsch is the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery. Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery
August 256 pp. 279x216mm. 154 colour + 33 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-13548-0 £40.00* Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer Violence and Virtue examines a single, uniquely powerful painting: Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. A quintessential example of early Baroque painting, this work has, more than any other picture in her oeuvre, come to define Gentileschi as an early modern woman and a superb Baroque painter. Eve Straussman-Pflanzer explores the circumstances surrounding the painting’s creation and the meanings conveyed by the image itself. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 15/10/13 – 06/01/14 Eve Straussman-Pflanzer is the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1750 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
January 40 pp. 254x203mm. 20 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18679-6 £8.99* Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620. Oil on canvas. 199 × 162.5 cm. Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820 From Conquest to Independence Luisa Elena Alcala and Jonathan Brown Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and adapted throughout Latin America, colonial painting is not a derivative extension of Europe. The ongoing debate over what to call it – mestizo, hybrid, creole, indo-hispanic, tequitqui – testifies to a fundamental yet unresolved question of identity. Comparing and contrasting the Viceroyalties of New Spain, with its centre in modern-day Mexico, and Peru, the authors explore the very different ways the two regions responded to the influence of the Europeans and their art. A wide range of art and artists are considered, some for the first time. Rich with new photography and primary research, this book delivers a wealth of new insight into the history of images and the history of art. Luisa Elena Alcala is a professor titular at the department of history and theory of art, Universidad Autónoma Madrid. Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University. Published in association with Ediciones El Viso
October 480 pp. 298x235mm. 250 colour + 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19101-1 £45.00*
Giovanni Busi, called Cariani, The Lute Player, c. 1515, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Photo: M. Bertola
Translation rights: Ediciones El Viso, Madrid
Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque Edited by Hilliard T. Goldfarb Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex polyphony in musical composition. Accordingly, notable composers, including Antonio Vivaldi and Adrian Willaert, developed styles that were distinct from those of other Italian cultures. The Venetian music scene, in turn, influenced visual artists, inspiring paintings by artists such as Jacopo Bassano, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Bernardo Strozzi, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Tintoretto and Titian. Together, art and music served larger aims, whether social, ceremonial or even political. Lavishly illustrated, Art and Music in Venice brings Venice’s golden age to life through stunning images of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, textbooks, illuminated choir books, musical scores and instruments, and period costumes. New scholarship into these objects by a team of distinguished experts gives a fresh perspective on the cultural life and creative output of the era. Exhibition Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 12/10/13 – 19/01/14; Portland Art Museum, 07/03/14 – 18/06/14 Hilliard T. Goldfarb is associate chief curator and curator of Old Masters at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris • Translation rights: Editions Hazan, Paris
October 240 pp. 355x245mm. 200 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19792-1 £40.00*
Goya in the Norton Simon Museum Juliet Wilson-Bareau • Edited by Leah Lehmbeck During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist’s oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble monographic holdings of work by several masters, chief among them Francisco de Goya. This book examines the extraordinary Goya collection, which includes more than 1,400 prints, a drawing and three paintings, in the founder’s namesake museum. Simon’s enduring interest in serial images led him to acquire prints from various series and editions, and to compare and contrast seemingly identical ones. Spotlighting rare proofs and single prints, the catalogue also presents a complete set each of Los Caprichos, Disasters of War and other seminal series. Juliet Wilson-Bareau is a pre-eminent scholar of Goya’s work. Leah Lehmbeck is curator at the Norton Simon Museum, where she oversees the 19th- and 20th-century collections. Distributed for the Norton Simon Art Foundation
January 264 pp. 280x255mm. 354 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19626-9 £45.00* Translation rights: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
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62 Art Edited by Barry Rosen With a foreword by Susan Fisher Sterling and contributions by Jo Applin, Todd Alden and Kirsten Swenson In 1964 the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt invited Eva Hesse and her husband, Tom Doyle, to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse’s practice. The artist’s studio space was located in an abandoned textile factory that contained machine parts, tools and materials that served as inspiration for her complex, linear mechanical drawings and paintings. In 1965 Hesse expanded on this theme and began using objects found in the factory and papiermâché, to produce a series of fourteen vibrantly coloured reliefs that venture into three-dimensional space with such materials as wood, metal and cord protruding from the picture plane.
New Jersey as Non-Site Kelly Baum Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era’s most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated to the state’s most desolate peripheries: its industrial wastescapes, crumbling cities, crowded highways and banal suburbs. There they produced some of the most important work of their careers. The breakthroughs in land, conceptual, performance, and sitespecific art that New Jersey helped catalyse are the subject of New Jersey as Non-Site, whose title evokes the mixed-media sculptures that Robert Smithson began to create in 1968 while driving the state’s highways with Nancy Holt. This catalogue and the accompanying exhibition examine more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta-Clark and George Segal.
With new scholarship and previously unpublished illustrations, Eva Hesse 1965 highlights key drawings, paintings and reliefs from this time, and demonstrates how the artist was able to rethink her approach to colour, materials and space, and begin moving toward sculpture, preparing herself for the momentous strides that she would take upon her return to New York.
Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 05/10/13 – 04/01/14
Barry Rosen is a curatorial consultant in New York City.
Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum
Available 240 pp. 279x241mm. 89 colour + 8 b/w illus.
September 176 pp. 279x219mm. 150 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19665-8 £40.00*
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Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum
Kelly Baum is the Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Volume Two: 1975–1986
Edited by Carlos Basualdo
Edited by Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari’s work from 1975-86. It covers his photobased works such as the ‘Strobe’, ‘Word Chain’ and ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ series from 1975; the ‘Violent Space’ and the seminal ‘Concerning Diachronic/Synchronic Time: Above, On, Under (With Mermaid)’, from 1976; and the ‘Blasted Allegories’ series from 1977–78, which drew heavily from the artist’s vast collection of photo stills taken from commercial television. An introductory critical essay will provide a close reading of selected works and a historical context for understanding Baldessari’s art from this period. A detailed chronology and exhibition history and bibliography are also included. This is the second in a projected four-volume series of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari. Patrick Pardo is research editor and Robert Dean is editorial director of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné.
January 496 pp. 292x251mm. 500 colour + 20 b/w illus. HB with Slipcase ISBN 978-0-300-19810-2 £140.00* Translation rights: Marian Goodman Gallery Inc., New York
The Malcolm X Steles Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969, Chase-Riboud’s series is explored in terms of developing artistic practice; her travels to China and North Africa; and her experiences in Europe, particularly during the cultural, political and social upheavals of the 1960s. The volume also includes a fascinating analysis of the Malcom X sculptures in light of critical debates on abstract art’s role in memorialising the past. This book presents an illustrated checklist of the 13 sculptures in the series, related drawings and sculptures, and a chronology of Chase-Riboud’s life and career. Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 14/09/13 – 08/12/13 Carlos Basualdo is The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 120 pp. 279x229mm. 75 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19640-5 £25.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #3, 1970. Polished bronze and silk. Height 300 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with funds contributed by Regina and Ragan A. Henry, and with funds raised in honour of the 125th Anniversary of the Museum and in celebration of African American art, 2001-92-1
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Mariko Mori, White Hole VII, 2009. Mixed media on Plexiglas panel. 50 x 55 in. Collection of the artist
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Rebirth Recent Work by Mariko Mori Edited and with a foreword by Miwako Tezuka • Essays by Brett Littman and Takayo Iida Contemporary artist Mariko Mori has transformed herself many times since her memorable debut onto the international art scene in the mid1990s. Over the past two decades, Mori has made a significant shift in the focus of her work, moving away from self-obsessive motifs and performance pieces to a diametrically opposite approach of self-effacement. Her own image has disappeared from her Pop-oriented work, and her interest now inclines toward the prehistoric world in which everything existed in an amorphous state without text, religion, nation, or division between humankind and nature. This fascinating book features over 35 immersive installations, sculptures, drawings (including previously unpublished works) and videos produced by the artist between 2003 and 2012. Exhibition Japan Society Gallery, 11/10/2013 – 12/01/2014 Miwako Tezuka is director of Japan Society Gallery. Brett Littman is executive director of The Drawing Center, New York. Takayo Iida is chief curator of Aomori Museum of Art in Japan. Distributed for Japan Society
September 176 pp. 279x203mm. 80 colour + 15 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19688-7 £40.00* Translation rights: Japan Society, New York
God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty The Object in Islamic Art and Culture Edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom The Islamic world, spanning centuries and far-flung regions, is renowned for its diverse cultural and artistic traditions. This sumptuous book delves into that vast creative output, examining a dozen exquisite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and opened in 2008. Twelve prominent scholars from across the globe select works representing various centres of Islamic life, from early Spain to 17th-century India, as well as a range of media including textiles, ceramics, metalwork and miniature paintings. Authoritative texts put the objects into context, exploring the relationships to those people who produced and lived among them. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, wife and husband scholars, share the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University as well as the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. Published in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar
November 496 pp. 290x230mm. 400 colour + 20 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19666-5 £45.00*
Iran Modern
An American Style
Edited by Fereshteh Daftari and Layla S. Diba
Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1927
Supported by a thriving art market in the Persian Gulf, interest in Iranian modern art has intensified in recent years. Iran Modern offers a timely exploration of the cultural diversity and production of avant-garde art in Iran after the Second World War and up to the revolution – from 1950 through 1979. Ten essays by distinguished scholars of art and history elucidate the early development of Iranian artists, patrons, galleries, art schools, architects, and writers who influenced and participated in the dynamic decades of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The essays describe a time when Iran experienced an outpouring of original and creative modern art and when the country was very much a part of the international art world. Exhibition Asia Society Museum, 07/09/13 – 05/01/14 Fereshteh Daftari is an independent scholar who was a curator with The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1988–2009. Layla S. Diba is an independent scholar who was Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the director and chief curator of the Negarestan Museum in Tehran from 1975–1979.
Ann Marguerite Tartsinis In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energise the American textile industry. Curators sought to innovate a distinctly ‘American’ design idiom drawing on a more universal ‘primitive’ language. Ethnographic objects were included in study rooms; designers gained access to storage rooms; and museum artifacts were loaned to design houses and department stores. In order to attract designers and reluctant manufacturers, who quickly responded, collections were supplemented with specimens including fur garments from Siberia, Persian costumes and Javanese textiles. This book positions the project at the AMNH in the broader narrative of early 20th-century design education in New York which includes the roles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Newark Museum. Exhibition Bard Graduate Center, 27/09/13 – 19/02/14 Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center.
Distributed for Asia Society Museum
Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, New York
August 324 pp. 305x229mm. 150 colour + 25 b/w illus.
October 136 pp. 222x178mm. 30 colour + 70 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19736-5 £40.00*
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Eduardo L. Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles With contributions by Joan Fontcuberta, Valeria Gonzalez, Tom Keenan, Mauricio Lissovsky and John Mraz While photographs have been exchanged and appropriated in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at unprecedented speed. This book examines photography’s capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across media, such as art, literature and cinema. Taking its point of departure from Latin American and Spanish photographic archives, the volume offers an alternative history of photography by focusing on the transnational dimension of technological traffic and image production at a time when photography is at the centre of debates on the role of representation, authorship and reception in global culture. Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 07/09/13 – 19/01/14 Eduardo L. Cadava is professor of English at Princeton University. Gabriela Nouzeilles is professor and chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.
Rituals of Rented Island Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama – Manhattan, 1970–1982 Jay Sanders with J. Hoberman This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: ‘object theatre’ (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); ‘loft performance’ (where artists performed in lofts, storefronts and the alternative spaces of New York’s SoHo); and ‘new psychodrama’ (in which artists drew on formal performance modes to explore everyday experience). By tracing the paths of such artists as Stuart Sherman, Julia Heyward, Jared Bark and Jill Kroesen, this catalogue makes newly visible a critical period in the development of performance art. Rituals of Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of the artists mentioned above alongside those of the notorious Kipper Kids; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, 31/10/13 – February 2014 Jay Sanders is curator of performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. J. Hoberman is a writer and critic.
Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
November 224 pp. 279x229mm. 70 colour + 80 b/w illus.
January 176 pp. 229x178mm. 140 colour + 30 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17436-6 £30.00* Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum
Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn Edited by Jill H. Casid and Aruna D’Souza • With essays by Esra Akcan, Jill H. Casid, Talinn Grigor, Ranjana Khanna, Kobena Mercer, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Parul Dave Mukherji, Steven Nelson, Todd Porterfield, Raqs Media Collective, Kishwar Rizvi, David Roxburgh and Alessandra Russo With globalisation steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history’s largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, brings together voices from various disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, each proposing ways to remap, decentre and reorient what is often assumed to be a unified field.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19586-6 £35.00* Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Made in the U.S.A. American Masterworks from The Phillips Collection Edited by Susan Behrends Frank With essays by Susan Behrends Frank and Eliza Rathbone American art has been essential to The Phillips Collection since its founding by Duncan Phillips in 1921. Phillips acquired the work of living American artists when it was unpopular to do so and promoted diversity, as seen in works by self-taught artists, artists of colour, and naturalised Americans, resulting in a rich assembly of independent-minded artists. The Phillips Collection’s superb collection of American art, acquired over half a century, is presented here for the first time in a comprehensive overview, featuring 160 works from heroes of the late 19th century – such as William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, who set the course for modern art in America – to abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, whose efforts to create a new visual language following the Second World War brought a new global significance to American art.
Jill H. Casid is professor of visual studies in the department of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Aruna D’Souza is the former associate director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark, and a scholar of modern and contemporary European visual culture and feminist theory.
Exhibition The Phillips Collection, 22/02/14 – 31/08/14
Clark Studies in the Visual Arts Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Susan Behrends Frank is associate curator for research and Eliza Rathbone is chief curator, both at The Phillips Collection.
January 256 pp. 241x178mm. 105 b/w illus.
Published in association with the Phillips Collection
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19685-6 £16.99*
January 256 pp. 254x229mm. 143 colour + 92 b/w illus.
Translation rights: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19615-3 £20.00* Translation rights: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Jared Bark performing Lights: on/off, The Clocktower, New York, June 21, 1974. Photograph by Babette Mangolte
The Itinerant Languages of Photography
Charles Sheeler, Skyscrapers, 1922. Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Acquired 1926
Joan Fontcuberta, Googlegram: Niepce, 2005. Type C print, 120 x 160 cm. Collection Joan Fontcuberta. © Joan Fontcuberta
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Strange Eggs Claes Oldenburg and Michelle White In 1957–58, after he moved to New York’s Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg began making collages he has described as ‘mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode’. Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the Strange Eggs are enigmatic, surrealistic, and vastly different from the Pop art of the 1960s for which he soon became famous.
Antonio Berni, Carnaval de Juanito, 1962, collage, private collection
Inspired by the original avant-garde collage artists, these works are characterised by self-contained forms, or ‘eggs’, the artist made by melding cut fragments of photographic reproductions. While many of the pieces are unrecognisable, within the amalgamations some original references are discernible: a piece of pie, the hind leg of a horse, the creased skin of a clenched fist and the texture of concrete. These eighteen collages were first shown in their entirety at the Menil Collection in 2012 and are being published here for the first time, close to actual size and with a short text by Menil curator Michelle White.
Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe Works 1970–2011 Klaus Ottmann, Terrie Sultan and Jennifer Bartlett A critical and commercial success since the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett has become one of the most visionary and influential artists of our time. In the words of New York Times critic John Russell, Bartlett’s art ‘enlarges our notion of time, and of memory, and of change, and of painting itself ’. Her abundant intelligence and inventiveness allow her to synthesise diverse sources and styles, and imbue her paintings with expressive life and moral imagination. Also included are an intimate interview with the artist, and an excerpt from History of the Universe, Bartlett’s first novel, giving further insight into the thought processes of the artist. Exhibition Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 29/06/13 – 13/10/13 Parrish Art Museum, 20/04/14 – 14/07/14
Claes Oldenburg is a world-famous sculptor and Pop artist. Michelle White is curator at the Menil Collection.
Klaus Ottmann is director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and curator at large, The Phillips Collection. Terrie Sultan is director of the Parrish Art Museum.
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Distributed for the Parrish Art Museum
November 56 pp. 356x279mm. 18 b/w illus.
June 104 pp. 254x254mm. 50 colour + 110 b/w illus.
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Translation rights: Menil Foundation, Houston
Translation rights: The Parrish Art Museum, New York
Antonio Berni Juanito and Ramona Mari Carmen Ramírez and Marcelo E. Pacheco Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Through the stories of Juanito, a denizen of Argentina’s shantytowns, and Ramona, who rises from the working class to the upper echelons of society, Berni addressed topics from industrialisation to neocolonialism to economic backwardness and their effects on the population of underdeveloped countries. Written by leading scholars of Latin American art, this volume presents the first comprehensive survey of the acclaimed Juanito and Ramona series. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 10/11/13 – 02/02/14 Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Marcelo E. Pacheco is chief curator at MALBA–Fundación Costantini.
Intersecting Modernities Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection Edited by Mari Carmen Ramírez • With contributions by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, María C. Gaztambide, Marcela Guerrero, Abigail McEwen, Rachel Mohl, James Oles, Mari Carmen Ramírez and Michael Wellen Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg has assembled one of the most superb collections of modern Latin American art in the world. Including masterworks by some of the most inventive artists of our time, this volume offers beautiful illustrations accompanied by essays that offer a context for the rarely exhibited work. The volume features paintings, wood constructions and collages by Joaquín Torres-García, Francisco Matto and Emilio Pettoruti, Argentinean and Uruguayan contributions to South America’s early avant-garde; works by Mexican artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, that reflect elements of cinema and politics, mysticism and modern design; and paintings by Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 23/06/13 – 02/09/13
Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
January 464 pp. 305x248mm. 270 colour illus.
August 280 pp. 292x267mm. 180 colour illus.
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Translation rights: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Tell It With Pride
Art and Appetite
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial
American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine
Sarah Greenough and Nancy Anderson With contributions by Lindsay Harris and Reneé Ater Foreword by Richard J. Powell On July 18, 1863, six months after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment suffered great losses, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry legitimised the idea of blacks serving in the military, and Lincoln considered their sacrifice a turning point in the Civil War. Twenty years later, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens began work on a bronze memorial for this heroic troop, which was installed on the Boston Common in 1897. Tell It With Pride explores the enduring significance of this beloved monument. Exhibition National Gallery of Art, 15/09/13 – 05/01/14 Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs and Nancy Anderson is head of the department of American and British paintings both at the National Gallery of Art. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington
October 240 pp. 279x241mm. 210 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19773-0 £35.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Edited by Judith A. Barter With essays by Judith A. Barter, Annelise K. Madsen, Sarah Kelly Oehler, Ellen E. Roberts and Nancy Siegel Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that the artists’ representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic and social moments in which they were created. Using food as an emblem, artists were able to both celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating to politics, race, class, gender and commerce. Focusing on the late 18th century through the Pop artists of the 20th century, this book investigates meanings and interpretations of eating in America and features still life, trompe l’oeil painting, sculpture and other works, by artists such as William Merritt Chase, John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Paxton, Norman Bel Geddes, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein and many more. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 03/11/13 – 20/01/14 Amon Carter Museum, 22/02/14 – May 2014 Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator, Department of American Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
November 256 pp. 305x229mm. 200 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19623-8 £35.00* Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago
Kimbell Art Museum
Dreams and Echoes
Guide
Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection
Kimbell Art Museum Completely updated, this comprehensive guide covers the Kimbell Art Museum’s worldrenowned collection of masterpieces. Its publication is timed to coincide with the highly anticipated opening of the museum’s new building, designed by Renzo Piano. The book highlights more than 250 works of art from the museum’s collection, which ranges from ancient to modern times and includes European works by artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Cézanne and Matisse; important Egyptian and classical antiquities; and exquisite Asian, Precolumbian and African works. The handsomely designed book features new photography of all of the museum’s recent acquisitions, including Michelangelo’s Torment of Saint Anthony and Nicolas Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination. Each work in the book will be illustrated and accompanied by informative text written by the Kimbell’s curatorial staff and leading scholars. Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
Edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century and modern drawings, and of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vignon, George Romney, Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, James Ensor, Jan Toorop, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Jacques Feuchère, August Rodin and Jean Carriès, among many others. Dreams and Echoes features 90 of the most extraordinary pieces from this collection, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century British drawings and French drawings and sculptures of the 19th century. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 20/10/13 – 12/01/14 Suzanne Folds McCullagh is the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
November 368 pp. 248x171mm. 330 colour illus.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19633-7 £16.99*
September 224 pp. 305x229mm. 180 colour + 20 b/w illus.
Translation rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
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William Glackens, At Mouquin’s, 1905. Oil on canvas. 122.4 x 92.1 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection, 1925.295
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks Edited by Daphne Barbour and E. Melanie Gifford The National Gallery of Art, Washington, introduces a journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for ‘the manner in which things are made’, Facture addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art history to scientific research. The inaugural volume focuses on great works of the Renaissance, studying sculpture, painting and drawing from various points of view. With the publication of this biennial journal, the National Gallery maintains a tradition of fostering dialogue among art historians, scientists and conservators working in the international museum community. Facture presents peer-reviewed articles by highly respected authorities aimed at the specialist as well as the general reader. Daphne Barbour is senior object conservator and E. Melanie Gifford is research conservator for paintings technology at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington Distributed by Yale University Press
September 192 pp. 279x203mm. 115 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19742-6 £40.00*
Thomas Moran, Golden Gate, Yellowstone National Park, 1893. Oil on canvas. 36 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Museum purchase, 4.75
Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
American Adversaries West and Copley in a Transatlantic World Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber With contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, James Clifton, Leo Costello, Christopher Lloyd, Donna Pierce and Martin Postle American artists and innovators Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century. Initially friends but eventually rivals, the artists painted events as they happened, illustrating the transformation of imperial power through diplomacy between British Americans and the Iroquois, and through transatlantic trade, exploration and the natural history of the West Indies. Focusing on two iconic works, West’s The Death of General Wolfe and Copley’s Watson and the Shark, American Adversaries charts the rise of contemporary history painting, and offers a compelling examination of American history and New World exploration. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 29/09/13 – 05/01/14 Emily Ballew Neff is curator of American painting and sculpture, and Kaylin H. Weber is assistant curator of American painting and sculpture, both at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
August 320 pp. 305x248mm. 220 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19646-7 £55.00* Translation rights: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art of the American Frontier
Thomas Sully
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West
William Keyse Rudolph and Carol Eaton Soltis
Stephanie Mayer Heydt With essays by Mindy A. Besaw and Emma Hansen The visual history of the American West calls to mind iconic artworks and nostalgia for the past. Art of the American Frontier presents more than 300 artworks and artefacts from 1830 to 1930, showcasing the premier collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The complicated history of westward expansion is presented through the iconography of the frontier, spanning Plains Indian materials, government survey photographs and paintings by early artist-explorers. Exhibition High Museum of Art, 02/11/13 – 02/03/14 Stephanie Mayer Heydt is Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High Museum of Art. Mindy A. Besaw is John S. Bugas Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and Emma Hansen is curator of the Plains Indian Museum, both at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Published in association with the High Museum of Art
January 160 pp. 254x305mm. 320 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19738-9 £30.00* Translation rights: High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Painted Performance
Thomas Sully painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century. Although he created more than two thousand portraits and subject paintings, his full production has never before been examined in depth. The child of actors, Sully’s lifelong connection to the theatre informed his imagination. His portraits of 19th-century actors, celebrities, royalty and politicians established his reputation, and would mark all his works, particularly his ‘fancy pictures’, portraits evoking scenes from literature, fairy tales, Shakespeare, or of his own devising. Exhibition Milwaukee Art Museum, 11/10/13 – 05/01/14 San Antonio Museum of Art, 07/02/14 – 04/05/14 William Keyse Rudolph is the Dudley J. Godfrey Jr. Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts and Director of Exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Carol Eaton Soltis is project associate curator at the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum
September 192 pp. 305x241mm. 160 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19741-9 £40.00*
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Interaction of Color Josef Albers Yale University Press is proud to announce the landmark release of the digital edition of Interaction of Color. One of the most influential books on colour ever written, now in the 50th anniversary year of its publication, Josef Albers’s masterwork achieves its full, interactive potential in this groundbreaking new application. FEATURES OF THE APP INCLUDE: • Full text and plate commentary, featuring the original set of over • 140 colour studies • Over 40 interactive plates that allow users to experiment with • • • colour and find their own solutions to Albers’s famous problems • The ability to create, save and export final designs • A stunning new colour palette tool • Original video commentary by experts explaining Albers’s principles iPad App
iPad format Available from the App Store autumn 2013 www.itunes.com/appstore
• Interviews with contemporary practitioners Created by Yale in partnership with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and developed by Potion Design, this captivating interactive experience is inspired by Albers’s teaching methodologies and will transform the way colour is taught and understood among teachers, students, designers, artists and anyone interested in learning how we perceive and use colour.
Yale Quotables The Yale Book of Quotations app brings together a collection of over 13,000 quotations and proverbs from Yale University Press’s awardwinning title The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, and the companion edition The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, compiled by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder and Fred R. Shapiro. The app’s content, unique in its focus on American quotations and proverbs, covers topics ranging from literature and history to popular culture, sports, computers, science, politics, law and the social sciences. The app allows users to seek specific quotes, search by subject or just enjoy browsing. It provides a fun, highly functional experience for lovers of words and language everywhere. FEATURES OF THE APP INCLUDE: • Full-text searchability for all entries within The Yale Book of • Quotations and The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs • Sharing of favourite quotations and proverbs via social media • Quotation of the Day Finding the right words has never been easier
• Complete offline use – no internet connection required • Universal app design, rendering it usable on multiple devices • Hyperlinked cross-references for easy navigation
Now available from the App Store www.itunes.com/appstore
• Bookmarks and personal folders for organisation of entries • The capacity to browse by author last name or by proverb keyword
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Diasporas of the Mind Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Bryan Cheyette In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers – some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal – to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he examines – among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark – as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries. January 336 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-09318-6 £30.00
Bryan Cheyette is professor of modern literature at the University of Reading. Translation rights: Curtis Brown, London
Swann’s Way In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 The C. K. Scott Moncrieff Translation Marcel Proust • Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and fine translation of the novel from Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. With the passage of time, however, the need for corrections, revisions and annotations to the Scott Montcrieff translation has become apparent. Esteemed Proust scholar William C. Carter celebrates the publication centennial of Swann’s Way with a new, more accurate and illuminating edition of the first volume of In Search of Lost Time. Carter corrects previous translating missteps to bring readers closer to Proust’s intentions while also providing enlightening notes to clarify biographical, historical and social contexts. Presented in a readerfriendly format alongside the text, these annotations will enrich and deepen the experience of Proust’s novel, immersing readers in the world of an unsurpassed literary genius. January 480 pp. 234x156mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18543-0 £12.99*
William C. Carter is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of landmark biographical works on Proust and is currently at work on subsequent volumes of the Yale annotated edition of In Seach of Lost Time, to be published annually in coming years.
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Dream in Shakespeare
Reading Dante
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Marjorie Garber With a new preface by the author Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination – one’s deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer towards a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating study, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Marjorie Garber skillfully charts the development of Shakespeare’s use of dream from the opening lines of Richard III to the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy. Drawing on the works of Freud and other psychologists, but basing its argument on the language and dramatic structure of the plays themselves, Dream in Shakespeare presents a coherent and innovative reading of the plays and their developing concept of dream. Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the committee on Dramatic Arts.
August 248 pp. 234x156mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19543-9 £12.99*
A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early 14th century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu and his unendingly fascinating works. Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem – Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise – within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical and theological topics with which Dante was particularly concerned. Giuseppe Mazzotta is Sterling Professor of Humanities in Italian, Yale University. A specialist in medieval literature, he also addresses all periods of Italian literature and culture in his extensive writings. The Open Yale Courses Series
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19135-6 £16.99
An Inspiration to All Who Enter
Beautiful Province Clarence Coo Foreword by John Guare
Fifty Works from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Edited by Kathryn James With contributions by Raymond Clemens, Nancy Kuhl, George Miles, Kevin Repp, E. C. Schroeder and Timothy Young In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others. Kathryn James is Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
September 128 pp. 222x210mm. 61 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19642-9 £16.99*
The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo’s mesmerising new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark corners. Wildly inventive and heartbreakingly sad, the strange odyssey of Jimmy and the unpredictable Mr. Green takes many surprising turns, crossing the border from reality into unreality and back again while encountering displaced characters from history, literature and the mundane, often dangerous world. Selected by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare from over 1,000 submissions from 29 countries, Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province is the sixth winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize. Clarence Coo is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a 2012–2013 Dramatists Guild fellow. Yale Drama Series
January 144 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19546-0 £12.99*
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The African Shore
The Hooligan’s Return
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
A Memoir
Translated by Jeffrey Gray
Norman Manea
In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux and V. S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new instalment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today’s Guatemalan literary world and an author of growing international reputation, presents a tale of alienation, misrecognition, and intrigue set in and around Tangier. He weaves a double narrative involving a Colombian tourist pleasurably stranded in Morocco and a young shepherd who dreams of migrating to Spain and of ‘riches to come’. At the centre of their tale is an owl both treasured and coveted. Rey Rosa generates a powerful reality within his imagined world, and he maintains a narrative tension to the haunting conclusion, raising small and large questions that linger in the reader’s mind long after the final page.
November 96 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19610-8 £9.99* Translation rights: The Wylie Agency, New York
At the centre of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the 20th century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive and sometimes cynical modern society. The Hooligan’s Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Since arriving in the West from his native Romania he has received many awards, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Angela Jianu is a translator and historian.
November 400 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19780-8 £11.99* Translation rights: The Wylie Agency, New York
The Origin of the World
Masters and Servants
Rimbaud The Son
Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays
This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon’s luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm. Yvonne. Yvonne. ‘Everything about her screamed desire … setting something in motion while settling a fingertip to the counter, turning her head slightly, gold earrings brushing her cheek while she watched you or watched nothing at all; this desire was open, like a wound; and she knew it, wore it with valor, with passion’. Michon probes the destructive powers of passion and the consuming need for love in this heartbreaking novel.
November 104 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18070-1 £9.99* Translation rights: Editions Verdier, Paris
One of Pierre Michon’s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoin Watteau, Claude Lorrain and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca. Each story is a masterpiece that transcends national boundaries and earns its place among the essential works of world literature. Pierre Michon was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. Wyatt Mason, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper’s, teaches at Bard College.
November 196 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18069-5 £9.99* Translation rights: Editions Verdier, Paris
Rimbaud The Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the life of a legend as witnessed by his contemporaries, those who knew him before the legends took hold. Michon introduces us to Rimbaud the son, friend, schoolboy, renegade, drunk, sexual libertine, visionary and ultimately poet. Michon focuses no less on the creative act: What presses a person to write? To pursue excellence? Jody Gladding, a poet and translator, has translated over twenty books from the French. Elizabeth Deshays is a teacher, translator and landscape artist.
November 96 pp. 197x127mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-17265-2 £9.99* Translation rights: Editions Gallimard, Paris
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s works of fiction have been translated and internationally acclaimed, including Dust on Her Tongue, The Beggar’s Knife and The Pelcari Project. Jeffrey Gray is professor of English, Seton Hall University, NJ.
Translated by Angela Jianu
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72 Politics & Philosophy
Philosophy of Dreams
Civil Disobedience
Christoph Türcke
An American Tradition
Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
Lewis Perry
Why has mankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion and the arts come into being? Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these questions by scrutinising the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilisation and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Türcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Türcke’s essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it. Christoph Türcke is professor of philosophy and religion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.
November 304 pp. 234x156mm.
The American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to preRevolutionary War days. Tracing the origins of the notion of civil disobedience to 18th-century evangelicalism and republicanism, Lewis Perry discusses how the tradition took shape in the actions of black and white abolitionists and antiwar protesters in the decades leading to the Civil War, then found new expression in post-Civil War campaigns for women’s equality, temperance and labour reform. Gaining new strength and clarity from explorations of Thoreau’s essays and Gandhi’s teachings, the tradition persisted through the Second World War, grew stronger during the decades of civil rights protest and antiwar struggles, and has been adopted more recently by antiabortion groups, advocates of same-sex marriage, opponents of nuclear power and many others. Perry clarifies some of the central implications of civil disobedience that have become blurred in recent times and highlights the dilemmas faced by those who choose to violate laws in the name of a higher morality. Lewis Perry is John Francis Bannon, S.J., Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Saint Louis University.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-18840-0 £20.00*
November 384 pp. 234x156mm.
Translation rights: Beck Verlag, Munich
HB ISBN 978-0-300-12459-0 £20.00
A Theory of Militant Democracy The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism Alexander S. Kirshner How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction. Alexander S. Kirshner is an assistant professor of political science at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
February 160 pp. 234x156mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18824-0 £25.00
Adam Smith’s Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments Jack Russell Weinstein In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723–1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith’s two major works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasising his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognised for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity. Jack Russell Weinstein is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life at the University of North Dakota.
October 360 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16253-0 £45.00
The Warburg Years (1919–1933) Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology Ernst Cassirer • Translated and with an introduction by S. G. Lofts with A. Calcagno The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence – the fact that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science and technology that human life realises itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. S. G. Lofts and A. Calcagno are professors of philosophy at King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada.
January 384 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-10819-4 £35.00
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Current Affairs & Economics 73
Talent Wants to Be Free
Through a Screen Darkly
Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding
Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad
Orly Lobel This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. In every industry battles to recruit, retain, train, energise and motivate the best people are fierce. Lobel uncovers factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining behavioural experiments with observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage and restrictions of their own talent than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies and national laws that will incentivise talent flow, creativity and growth. Orly Lobel is Herzog Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where she is founding member and professor of the Center for Intellectual Property and Markets.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 14 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16627-9 £25.00
Martha Bayles What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods – but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of modern authoritarians. Another reason, explored for the first time in this pathbreaking book, is the distorted picture of freedom and democracy found in America’s cultural exports. In interviews with thoughtful observers in eleven countries, Martha Bayles heard many objections to the violence and vulgarity pervading today’s popular culture. But she also heard a deeper complaint: namely, that America no longer shares the best of itself. Tracing this change to the end of the Cold War, Bayles shows how public diplomacy was scaled back, and inyour-face entertainment became America’s de facto ambassador. Martha Bayles is the author of Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music. She teaches humanities at Boston College.
November 320 pp. 229x152mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-12338-8 £18.99*
Barley, Gold, or Fiat
The Great Mirror of Folly
Unbalanced
Toward a Pure Theory of Money
Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720
The Co-Dependence of America and China
Edited by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, Timothy G. Young and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
Stephen Roach
Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading systems and the role of government authority in the exchange of consumer goods for storable money; exchanges made with durable currency, such as gold; fiat currency, which is flexible but has no consumption value; conditions under which borrowers can declare bankruptcy; and the distinctions between individuals who lend their own money, and financiers, who lend others. Thomas Quint is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Martin Shubik is Seymour Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University.
January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18815-8 £85.00
With a Foreword by Robert J. Shiller This beautifully illustrated book presents a unique cultural record of the world’s first great financial crisis – the stock market crash of 1720 in France, England and Holland – as depicted in the art, literature and commentary of the time. William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management at the Yale School of Management. Catherine Labio is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. K. Geert Rouwenhorst is Robert B. & Candice J. Haas Professor of Corporate Finance at the Yale School of Management. Timothy G. Young is curator of modern books and manuscripts at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Yale Series in Economic and Financial History
October 432 pp. 254x178mm. 240 colour + 15 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16246-2 £50.00
The modern-day Chinese and US economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship was built on a set of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable co-dependence. This insightful book lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-US economic relationship, highlighting disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the internet and the political economy of social stability. Roach describes a way out of the escalating tensions of co-dependence and insists that the Next China offers much for the Next America – and vice versa. Stephen Roach is former chairman and chief economist of Morgan Stanley Asia. He is senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and School of Management, Yale University.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18717-5 £20.00*
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74 Environment & Nature
Water 4.0 The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource David L. Sedlak Turn on the tap, and water pours out. Pull out the plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away, but these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, explains this book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing Water 1.0, the early Roman aqueducts, fountains and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the development of drinking water and sewage treatment systems – the second and third revolutions in urban water. He offers an insider’s look at current systems that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, treatment plants and storm sewers to provide water that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential reading. David L. Sedlak is the Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17649-0 £20.00*
The Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World William Nordhaus Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics and politics involved – and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using accessible language and taking care to present different points of view, he discusses the problem from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. William Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is author of the award-winning A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, published by Yale.
November 320 pp. 210x140mm. 46 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18977-3 £20.00*
The Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future Paul Sabin In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine – with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered that human welfare would flourish thanks to flexible markets, technological change and our collective ingenuity. The Bet weaves the two men’s lives and ideas together with the era’s partisan political clashes over the environment and the role of government. In a lively narrative leading from the dawning environmentalism of the 1960s through the pivotal presidential contest between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and on into the 1990s, Paul Sabin shows how the fight between Ehrlich and Simon – between environmental fears and free-market confidence – helped create the gulf separating environmentalists and their critics today. Paul Sabin is associate professor, Department of History, Yale University. He was founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program, a national nonprofit organisation.
September 320 pp. 210x140mm. 24 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17648-3 £18.99* Translation rights: McCormick & Williams, New York
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Environment & Nature 75
All the Trees of the Forest
Birds of New Zealand
Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
A Photographic Guide
Alon Tal
Paul Scofield
In this insightful and provocative book, Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands and ecosystems. Tal’s description of Israel’s trials and errors, and his exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country’s forests, will provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands. ‘Alon Tal is a wonderfully engaging writer, and he has crafted a narrative that will have considerable crossover appeal.’ – Char Miller, Pomona College ‘The book is exceptional in scope and depth – I know of nothing like it.’ – Gretchen Daily, Stanford University Alon Tal is professor of environmental policy at Ben Gurion University and founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Yale Agrarian Studies Series
November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 35 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18950-6 £40.00 No Hebrew rights
Photography by Brent Stephenson New Zealand’s birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, but thanks to recent conservation efforts, many of the country’s species of birds are now protected in parks and island sanctuaries. Illustrated with nearly a thousand new photographs from one of New Zealand’s top nature photographers and drawing on the latest information from birders and biologists, Birds of New Zealand offers a definitive introduction to the identification and behaviour of the country’s extraordinary avian life. The book includes expert and up-to-date information on the 345 bird species found in New Zealand, including species ranging from albatrosses and shearwaters to kiwi and kaka. It will be a valuable addition to the existing literature on birding. Paul Scofield is Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand.
October 500 pp. 234x156mm. 1000 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19682-5 £30.00* Not for sale in Australia or New Zealand Translation rights: Auckland University Press, New Zealand
The Future of Nature
Field Experiments and Their Critics
Documents of Global Change
Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde
Edited by Dawn Langan Teele
This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability, it shows how 21st century predictors should think about what forecasting the future means from a fully global perspective. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.
In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist that these methods carry inherent inconsistencies, limitations or ethical dilemmas that observational approaches do not. This unique collection of essays by the most influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and will provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines.
Libby Robin is professor of environmental history in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University and a Senior Research Fellow in the National Museum of Australia Research Centre. Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Paul Warde is a reader in environmental and economic history at the University of East Anglia, an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and associate research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge.
‘An excellent book on a subject that lies at the center of current methodological debates in the social sciences. The volume brings together many of the leading protagonists and antagonists (i.e., skeptics) of the experimental method and in the process illustrates the strengths, and the limitations, of this powerful method. Astute and readable. Highly recommended.’ – John Gerring, author of Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework
November 512 pp. 234x156mm. 44 b/w illus.
February 272 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-18461-7 £20.00
Dawn Langan Teele is a graduate student at Yale University. PB ISBN 978-0-300-16940-9 £14.99*
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76 Science, Technology & Health
The Proteus Paradox
Raising Henry
How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us – And How They Don’t
A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
Nick Yee Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, Nick Yee contends. In fact, though online games evoke a sense of freedom and escapism, careful research demonstrates that nothing could be farther from the truth. Yee shows that virtual worlds perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, encouraging racism, misogyny, superstitious thinking and other malicious attitudes. Further, the author finds that virtual worlds provide unparalleled – but rarely recognised – tools for controlling how players think and behave. Yee breaks down misconceptions about who plays fantasy games and the extent to which the online and offline worlds operate separately. With a wealth of entertaining and provocative examples, he explains in lay terms what virtual worlds are about and why they matter.
Rachel Adams Rachel Adams’s life had always gone to plan. She had an adoring husband, a two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment and a position at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry’s life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family’s encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today’s knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born.
Nick Yee is a senior research scientist at Ubisoft, where he studies online game player behaviour. He is widely known for the Daedalus Project, an extensive study of online role playing.
Rachel Adams is professor of English and American studies at Columbia University.
February 256 pp. 210x140mm. 15 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-18000-8 £17.99*
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19099-1 £20.00*
Translation rights: Janklow & Nesbitt Associates, New York
October 272 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus.
The Global War for Internet Governance
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Laura DeNardis
Edited by Claudia Lament and Robert A. King
The internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any one centralised system, organisation or governing body, a reality that has given rise to all manner of free-speech issues and cybersecurity concerns. The conflicts surrounding internet governance are the new spaces where political and economic power is unfolding in the 21st century. This study reveals the inner power structure already in place within the architectures and institutions of Internet governance. It provides a theoretical framework for internet governance that takes into account the privatisation of global power as well as the role of sovereign nations and international treaties. In addition, DeNardis explores what is at stake in open global controversies and stresses the responsibility of the public to actively engage in these debates. Laura DeNardis is an associate professor in the School of Communication at American University.
February 256 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18135-7 £25.00
Volume 67 This distinguished annual, containing outstanding original papers in psychoanalytic theory and practice, brings together findings from all areas of analytic research and offers a rich mixture of clinical and theoretical material. Volume 67, the latest volume in this esteemed series, features special sections devoted to sibling relationships and to working with parents of adolescents. Other contributions address the adolescent’s use of cyberspace to regulate intimacy in psychotherapy, the evolution of traumatic memories over the course of development and the role of the other in object relations models. A section tracing the evolution of child psychoanalysis includes Anna Freud’s own provocative commentary titled ‘There Has Never Been Anything Like a Classical Child Analysis’. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Series
February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19585-9 £55.00
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Jewish Studies 77
A Social History of Hebrew
Lillian Hellman
Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
An Audacious Life
William M. Schniedewind
Dorothy Gallagher
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic period, when the principles of Judaism as we know it today were formulated, to view the story of the Israelites through the lens of their language. Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites’ long history of migration, war, exile and other momentous events, is reflected in Hebrew’s linguistic evolution. An excellent addition to the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies, this fascinating work brings linguistics and social history together for the first time to explore an ancient culture. William M. Schniedewind is Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
January 288 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17668-1 £25.00
Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of 29 she had written The Children’s Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America’s first rank of dramatists. Apart from her work, Hellman lived a rich life filled with notable friendships, political activity and controversy, travel and love affairs, most importantly with Dashiell Hammett. But by the time she died, the truth about her life and accomplishments had been called into question. Scandals attached to her name to do with sex, money and with her own veracity. Dorothy Gallagher confronts the conundrum that was Lillian Hellman – a woman with a capacity to inspire outrage as often as admiration. Exploring Hellman’s leftist politics, her Jewish and Southern background and her famous testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Gallagher also undertakes a new reading of Hellman’s carefully crafted memoirs and plays, in which she is both revealed and hidden. Dorothy Gallagher’s books include Hannah’s Daughters, All the Right Enemies and The Life and Murder of Carlo Trasca.
January 224 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16497-8 £18.99*
The Formation of the Jewish Canon
Bernard Berenson
Timothy H. Lim
A Life in the Picture Trade
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period.
Rachel Cohen
Using the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament and Rabbinic literature as primary evidence he argues that throughout the post-exilic period up to around 100 CE there was not one official ‘canon’ accepted by all Jews; rather, there existed a plurality of collections of scriptures that were authoritative for different communities. Examining the literary sources and historical circumstances that led to the emergence of authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism, Lim proposes a theory of the majority canon that posits that the Pharisaic canon became the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the centuries after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Timothy H. Lim is Professor of Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Judaism at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
November 288 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16434-3 £30.00
Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston’s railyards and transformed himself into the world’s most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market, and Berenson’s work for dealer Joseph Duveen, supported a luxurious life, but came with painful costs: Berenson hid his origins, and, though his attributions remain foundational, he felt that he had betrayed his gifts as a critic and interpreter of paintings. This portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his business dealings and the importance of several women in his life and work: his sister Senda Berenson, his wife Mary Berenson, his patroness Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, his dear friend Edith Wharton, and the companion of his last forty years, Nicky Mariano. Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists.
November 288 pp. 210x140mm. 23 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14942-5 £18.99* Jewish Lives Series, see also page 26
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Charity
The Great Rent Wars
The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
New York, 1917–1929
Gary A. Anderson It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians, the poor achieved the importance they did primarily because they were thought to be ‘living altars’, a place to make a sacrifice, a loan to God that he, as the ultimate guarantor, could be trusted to repay in turn. Contrary to the assertions of Reformation and modern critiques, belief in a heavenly treasury was not just about self-interest. Sifting through biblical and postbiblical texts, Anderson shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it. Gary A. Anderson is Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, the critically acclaimed Sin: A History, won a Christianity Today Book Award.
September 256 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18133-3 £20.00
Robert M. Fogelson The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in America’s largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the postwar housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. The Great Rent Wars traces the tumultuous history of rent control in New York from its inception to its expiration as it unfolded in New York, Albany and Washington, D.C. At the heart of this story are such memorable figures as Al Smith, Fiorello H. La Guardia and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as a host of tenants, landlords, judges and politicians who have long been forgotten. Fogelson also explores the heated debates over landlord-tenant law, housing policy and other issues that are as controversial today as they were a century ago. Robert M. Fogelson is professor of urban studies and history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of several books, most recently Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1930, and Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930, both published by Yale.
November 504 pp. 241x165mm. 23 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19172-1 £30.00* Translation rights: Kneerim and Williams, Boston
Before the Door of God
Judges 1–12
An Anthology of Devotional Poetry
A New Translation
Edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson
Introduction and Commentary by Jack M. Sasson
Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional Englishlanguage poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current 21stcentury incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry – poetry that speaks to the divine – remains in vigorous practice, but also that the tradition reaches back to the very origins of poetry in English. There is a sense in these pages that the tradition of lyric poetry that developed was nearly inevitable, given the inherent concerns of the genre. Featuring the work of poets over a three-thousand-year period, Before the Door of God places the devotional lyric in its cultural, historical and aesthetic contexts. Jay Hopler is associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. He received the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2005 for his first book of poems, Green Squall. Kimberly Johnson is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and a translation of Virgil’s Georgics.
Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture’s most stirring narratives and verses. Addressed are issues about the techniques that advance the text’s objectives, the impulses behind its composition, the motivations behind its preservation, the diversity of interpretations during its transmission in several ancient languages and the learned attention it has gathered over time in faith traditions, Jewish, Christian and Muslim. In its pages is a fair sampling from ancient Near Eastern documents to illumine specific biblical passages or to bolster the interpretation of contexts. A comprehensive Introduction surveys issues and approaches in the study of Judges. Introductory Remarks identify issues of religious, social, cultural or historical significance appropriate to each segment. As such, they provide a background to the Notes and a frame for the exposition in the concluding Comments. Jack M. Sasson is Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University. The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
November 352 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus.
November 592 pp. 234x156mm.
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US Studies 79
The Worth of the University
Against the Profit Motive
Richard C. Levin
The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940
Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin’s retirement as president of Yale University, this collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university life and leadership. This collection is a sequel to The Work of the University. Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, is the twenty-second president of Yale University. Levin serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.
Nicholas R. Parrillo In this innovative book Nicholas Parrillo uses the history of how federal employees have been compensated to derive an original and important lesson about the legitimacy of government. Nicholas R. Parrillo is associate professor of law at Yale University. Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
November 576 pp. 234x156mm. 3 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19725-9 £18.99
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17658-2 £85.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-19475-3 £35.00
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward
Before L. A.
Edited by Michael O’Brien
Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781–1894
July 296 pp. 210x140mm. 5 colour illus.
C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the 20th century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters. For the first time, his sprightly, wry, sympathetic and often funny letters are published, including those he wrote to figures as diverse as John Kennedy, David Riesman, Richard Hofstadter and Robert Penn Warren. Michael O’Brien is professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge.
October 480 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18534-8 £25.00 Translation rights: The Wylie Agency, New York
Hollow Justice A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States David E. Wilkins This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
November 272 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-11926-8 £25.00
The Citizen’s Share Putting Ownership Back Into Democracy Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse Blasi, Freeman and Kruse make a compelling case for a return to the visionary economic policies of American Founding Fathers Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison.
David Samuel Torres-Rouff A bold new work of urban history explores the early development of Los Angeles, how race has always determined its social and spatial boundaries, and how a 19th-century incursion of immigrants from the US caused a profound and permanent shift in its political and physical environment. David Samuel Torres-Rouff is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Merced, CA. The Lamar Series in Western History
October 368 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14123-8 £45.00
A Mere Machine The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy Anna Harvey In this new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings. Anna Harvey is associate professor of political science at New York University.
January 320 pp. 234x156mm. 19 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17111-2 £36.00
The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses Compiled, edited and introduced by Barry Alan Shain
Joseph R. Blasi is professor and sociologist, and Douglas L. Kruse is professor of industrial relations and human resources, both at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. Richard B. Freeman is Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the mid-18th century in the American colonies, provide a different historical perspective on the Declaration of Independence.
January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus.
January 704 pp. 234x156mm.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19225-4 £30.00
Barry Alan Shain is professor and chair of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15874-8 £85.00
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80 Language
Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms
Russian Full Circle
Sophia Lubensky
Donna Oliver with Edie Furniss
This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian, and in the literature from the 19th century to the present. The Russian idioms are provided with many English equivalents. Illustrative examples are cited to show how the idioms are used in context. Each entry also contains a grammatical description of the idiom, a definition – an innovative feature for a bilingual dictionary – and stylistic and usage information.
Russian Full Circle is a fresh approach to the Russian textbook. Deliberately ‘bare-bones’ in its design, this textbook allows instructors to deliver in one academic year a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists of ten lessons that cover all major grammar topics and provide an ample amount of essential vocabulary on a variety of themes. A rich ancillary website will provide cultural content and supplemental audiovisual materials.
Sophia Lubensky is Professor of Russian, Emerita, at the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, SUNY.
A First-Year Russian Textbook
Donna Oliver is professor of Russian at Beloit College. Edie Furniss is a doctoral student in applied linguistics at Pennsylvania State University.
October 384 pp. 254x203mm. 105 colour + 46 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18283-5 £55.00
Yale French Studies, Volume 124 Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel Edited by Hall Bjørnstad and Katherine Ibbett In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cue from that lapsed project to reread the 17thcentury French tragic canon as Trauerspiel. Hall Bjørnstad is assistant professor of French at Indiana University. Katherine Ibbett is reader in early modern studies at University College, London. Yale French Studies Series
November 1376 pp. 229x152mm.
February 192 pp. 234x156mm.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16227-1 £50.00
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19420-3 £20.00 Translation rights: Yale French Studies
Back in Print: Sun Chief
The Courage to Be
A Common Faith
The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Second Edition
Third Edition
Second Edition
Paul Tillich • With a new
Don C. Talayesva
introduction by Harvey Cox
John Dewey • With an introduction by Thomas Alexander
Edited by Leo W. Simmons Forewords by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Robert V. Hine
First published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of 20th-century religious and philosophical thought. Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new foreword that situates the book within the theological conversation from which it first emerged and conveys its continued relevance in the current century.
First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how scholars have used the book since its publication more than seventy years ago. Don C. Talayesva (1890–1985) spent the first nine years of his life raised in the village of Old Oraibi, followed by nearly ten years of training at government schools before returning home. Leo W. Simmons was a Yale anthropologist who recorded Talayesva’s autobiography. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is assistant professor of American Indian studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and enrolled with the Hopi tribe.
September 448 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19103-5 £14.99*
‘The brilliance, the wealth of illustration, and the aptness of personal application ... make the reading of these chapters an exciting experience.’ – W. Norman Pittenger, New York Times Book Review Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was a worldrenowned philosopher and theologian. Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. The Terry Lectures Series
February 256 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18879-0 £10.99* Rights sold: Arabic and Italian
In A Common Faith, eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the ‘emancipation of the true religious quality’ from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterises historical religions. He describes how the depth of religious experience and the creative role of faith in the resources of experience to generate meaning and value can be cultivated without making cognitive claims that compete with or contend with scientific ones. What Dewey advocates is ‘faith in the common’ as the ground of meaning. In a new introduction, Thomas Alexander contextualises the text for students and scholars. John Dewey (1859–1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer. Thomas Alexander is professor of philosophy at Southern Indiana University. The Terry Lectures Series
September 128 pp. 210x140mm. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18611-6 £9.99 Rights sold: French and Japanese
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Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Weinstein Adams: Raising Henry African Shore: Rey Rosa Against the Profit Motive: Parrillo Al-Ali: Struggle for Iraq’s Future Albers: Interaction of Color Alcala: Painting in Latin America All the Trees of the Forest: Tal Allawi: Faisal I of Iraq Allure of the Archives: Farge Alpers: Roof Life Alteveer: Imran Qureshi America the Possible: Speth American Adversaries: Neff American West in Bronze: Tolles An American Style: Tartsinis Ancient Rome: Martin Anderson: Charity André Le Nôtre: Bouchenot-Déchin Antonio Berni: Ramírez App Generation: Gardner Apuleius: Golden Ass Archaeology of Jerusalem: Galor Art and Appetite: Barter Art and Music in Venice: Goldfarb Art History in the Wake: Casid Art of Robert Frost: Kendall Art of the American Frontier: Heydt Art of the Tuileries Garden: Fonkenell Artists and Amateurs: Stein Arts and Crafts Movement: Carruthers Bailey: Northamptonshire Barbara Chase-Riboud: Basualdo Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World Barbour: Facture Barley, Gold, or Fiat: Quint Barnet: Medieval Treasures Barter: Art and Appetite Basualdo: Barbara Chase-Riboud Baum: New Jersey as Non-Site Baumol: Cost Disease Bayles: Through a Screen Darkly Beautiful Province: Coo Before L.A.: Torres-Rouff Before the Door of God: Hopler Belonging and Genocide: Kuhne Bernard Berenson: Cohen Bernard: Late Medieval English Church Bet: Sabin Bidlack: Leningrad Blockade Birds of New Zealand: Scofield Bjørnstad: Yale French Studies, vol. 124 Black: Power of Knowledge Blackshaw: Facing the Modern Blair: God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty Blasi: Citizen’s Share Bonnefoy: Second Simplicity Bouchenot-Déchin: André Le Nôtre Breiding: Devil’s Invention Bride and the Dowry: Raz Bruteig: Edvard Munch Buckley: Monty’s Men Bynum: Little History of Science Cadava: Itinerant Languages of Photography Calderisi: Earthly Mission Cannon: Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Carbon Crunch: Helm Carlton: This Seat of Mars Carnegy: Wagner and Art of the Theatre Carruthers: Arts and Crafts Movement Casid: Art History in the Wake Cassirer: Warburg Years (1919–1933) Chagall: Goodman Charity: Anderson Cheyette: Diasporas of the Mind Childism: Young-Bruehl Christian Monitors: Sirota Citizen’s Share: Blasi
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City and the King (The): Stevenson Civil Disobedience: Perry Clark: Exhibiting Fashion Climate Casino (The): Nordhaus Coetzee: Cripplewood Cohen: Bernard Berenson Comfort: Science of Human Perfection Common Faith: Dewey Conspiracy of Images: Curley Coo: Beautiful Province Cooper: Making of Assisi Cost Disease: Baumol Cott: Susan Sontag Courage to Be: Tillich Cripplewood: Coetzee Curley: Conspiracy of Images Daftari: Iran Modern Damrosch: Jonathan Swift Danube: Thorpe de Carvalho: Printmaking in Paris De Keersmaeker: En Atendant and Cesena Declaration of Independence: Shain DeNardis: Global War for Internet Devil’s Invention: Breiding Dewey: Common Faith Dias: Exhibiting Englishness Diasporas of the Mind: Cheyette Doderer-Winkler: Magnificent Entertainments Douglas: Orderly and Humane Draaisma: Nostalgia Factory Dream in Shakespeare: Garber Dreams and Echoes: McCullagh Dressing Dangerously: Faiers Earthly Mission: Calderisi Edvard Munch: Bruteig Edwards: Parties Versus the People Egypt on the Brink: Osman Emma Goldman: Gornick Emmott: Good Italy, Bad Italy En Atendant and Cesena: De Keersmaeker End of the Chinese Dream: Lemos Erotic Doll: Smith Erwin Blumenfeld: Eskildsen Eskildsen: Erwin Blumenfeld Eva Hesse 1965: Rosen Evangelical Disenchantment: Hempton Exhibiting Englishness: Dias Exhibiting Fashion: Clark Experience of God: Hart Facing the Modern: Blackshaw Facture: Barbour Faiers: Dressing Dangerously Faisal I of Iraq: Allawi Farge: Allure of the Archives Female Alliances: Herbert Fernand Léger and the Modern City: Vallye Field Experiments and Their Critics: Teele Field of Cloth of Gold: Richardson First Thousand Years: Wilken Fletcher: Life, Death and Growing Up Fogelson: Great Rent Wars Fonkenell: Art of the Tuileries Garden Forgotten Palestinians: Pappé Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Famine: Zhou Formation of the Jewish Canon: Lim France: Perilous Glory Francesco Vanni: Marciari Francis of Assisi: Vauchez Frank: Made in the U.S.A. Friedlander: JFK Friendship: Grayling From Still Life to the Screen: Monteyne Future of Nature (The): Robin Galbert: Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter Galileo: Wootton Gallagher: Lillian Hellman Galor: Archaeology of Jerusalem Garber: Dream in Shakespeare
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Gardner: App Generation Generation Dada: White Geraghty: Sheldonian Theatre Geronimo: Utley Getty: Practicing Stalinism Global War for Internet: DeNardis God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: Blair Goetzmann: Great Mirror of Folly Golden Ass: Apuleius Goldfarb: Art and Music in Venice Gombrich: Little History of the World Good Italy, Bad Italy: Emmott Goodman: Chagall Gornick: Emma Goldman Goya in the Norton Simon: Wilson-Bareau Grayling: Friendship Great Mirror of Folly: Goetzmann Great Rent Wars: Fogelson Greenough: Tell It With Pride Gurche: Shaping Humanity Harms: Indian Ocean Slavery Hart: Experience of God Harvey: Mere Machine Hasen: Voting Wars Haskell: King’s Pictures Haskell: Robert Indiana Hearn: Ink Art Hecht: Stay Hell on the Range: Herman Helm: Carbon Crunch Hempton: Evangelical Disenchantment Herbert: Female Alliances Herman: Hell on the Range Heydt: Art of the American Frontier History of Design: Kirkham Hollow Justice: Wilkins Holmes: Miraculous Image in Florence Hooligan’s Return: Manea Hopler: Before the Door of God Houses of Louis Kahn: Marcus Hutton: Pagan Britain If Mayors Ruled the World: Barber Impressionist Art at Dallas: MacDonald Impressionist France: Kelly Imran Qureshi: Alteveer In Flanders Fields: Stichelbaut Indian Ocean Slavery: Harms Ink Art: Hearn Inspiration to All Who Enter: James Interaction of Color: Albers Intersecting Modernities: Ramírez Iran Modern: Daftari Islamic Imperialism: Karsh Itinerant Languages: Cadava Jack: Woman Reader James: Inspiration to All Who Enter Jennifer Bartlett: Ottmann Jewels by JAR: Sassoon JFK: Friedlander John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Pardo John Keats: Roe Jonathan Swift: Damrosch Jones: Myth, Memory, Trauma Judges 1–12: Sasson Karsh: Islamic Imperialism Kelly: Impressionist France Kelly: St Petersburg Kendall: Art of Robert Frost Kent: North East and East: Newman Kimbell Art Museum: Kimbell Kimbell: Kimbell Art Museum King’s Pictures: Haskell Kirkham: History of Design Kirshner: Theory of Militant Democracy Kuhne: Belonging and Genocide Lair: Manea Lament: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Landscapes of London: McKeller
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Lang: Primo Levi Late Medieval English Church: Bernard Lee: Silla Lemos: End of the Chinese Dream Leningrad Blockade: Bidlack Leon Trotsky: Rubenstein Leonard Bernstein Letters (The): Simeone Lesch: Syria Letters of C. Vann Woodward: O’Brien Levin: Worth of the University Levine: Living Man from Africa Life, Death and Growing Up: Fletcher Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me: Zaqtan Lillian Hellman: Gallagher Lim: Formation of the Jewish Canon Lima: Lina Bo Bardi Lina Bo Bardi: Lima Little History of Literature: Sutherland Little History of Science: Bynum Little History of the World: Gombrich Living Man from Africa: Levine Lobel: Talent Wants to Be Free Loeffler: Most Muscial Nation Lubensky: Russian-English Dictionary MacDonald: Impressionist Art at Dallas Made in the U.S.A.: Frank Magnificent Entertainments: Doderer-Winkler Making of Assisi: Cooper Making of the English Gardener: Willes Manea: Hooligans Return Manea: Lair Mansoor: Surge Marciari: Francesco Vanni Marcus: Houses of Louis Kahn Marsh: New Industrial Revolution Martin: Ancient Rome Marwick: Status Update Masters and Servants: Michon Matisse’s Sculpture: McBreen Mazzotta: Reading Dante McBreen: Matisse’s Sculpture McCullagh: Dreams and Echoes McKeller: Landscapes of London McPhee: Robespierre Medieval Treasures: Barnet Memoirs of Walter Bagehot: Prochaska Mere Machine: Harvey Michon: Masters and Servants Michon: Origin of the World Michon: Rimbaud The Son Miraculous Image in Florence: Holmes Monteyne: From Still Life to the Screen Monty’s Men: Buckley Most Muscial Nation: Loeffler Muasher: Second Arab Awakening Muir: Wellington Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter: Galbert Myth, Memory, Trauma: Jones Nation of Devils: Ringen National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Roy Naturalists at Sea: Williams Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of: Rubin Neff: American Adversaries New Industrial Revolution: Marsh New Jersey as Non-Site: Baum Newman: Kent: North East and East Nordhaus: Climate Casino Northamptonshire: Bailey Nostalgia Factory: Draaisma O’Brien: Letters of C. Vann Woodward O’Malley: Painting under Pressure Of Africa: Soyinka Oldenburg: Strange Eggs Oliver: Russian Full Circle Orderly and Humane: Douglas Origin of the World: Michon Origins of Classical Architecture: Wilson Jones
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Osman: Egypt on the Brink Ottmann: Jennifer Bartlett Pagan Britain: Hutton Painting in Latin America: Alcala Painting under Pressure: O’Malley Pappé: Forgotten Palestinians Pardo: John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Parrillo: Against the Profit Motive Parties Versus the People: Edwards Perilous Glory: France Perry: Civil Disobedience Philosophy of Dreams: Türcke Plague of Informers: Weil Portraits: Storr Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination: Unglaub Power of Knowledge: Black Powys: Scourfield Practicing Stalinism: Getty Prideaux: Strindberg Primo Levi: Lang Printmaking in Paris: de Carvalho Prochaska: Memoirs of Walter Bagehot Proteus Paradox: Yee Proust: Swann’s Way Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Lament Queer History of Fashion: Steele Quint: Barley, Gold, or Fiat Raising Henry: Adams Ramírez: Antonio Berni Ramírez: Intersecting Modernities Rathbone: Van Gogh Repetitions Raz: Bride and the Dowry Reading Dante: Mazzotta Rebirth: Tezuka Religious Poverty, Visual Riches: Cannon Restatement of Religion: Sharma Rey Rosa: African Shore Richard Burton Diaries: Williams Richardson: Field of Cloth of Gold Rimbaud The Son: Michon Ringen: Nation of Devils Rituals of Rented Island: Sanders Roach: Unbalanced Robert Indiana: Haskell Robespierre: McPhee Robin: Future of Nature Roe: John Keats Roof Life: Alpers Rosen: Eva Hesse 1965 Roy: National Gallery Technical Bulletin Rubenstein: Leon Trotsky Rubin: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of Rudolph: Thomas Sully Russian Full Circle: Oliver Russian-English Dictionary: Lubensky Sabin: Bet Saint: Survey of London: Battersea Sanders: Rituals of Rented Island Sasson: Judges 1–12 Sassoon: Jewels by JAR Schniedewind: Social History of Hebrew Science of Human Perfection: Comfort Scofield: Birds of New Zealand Scourfield: Powys Second Arab Awakening: Muasher Second Simplicity: Bonnefoy Sedlak: Water 4.0 Shain: Declaration of Independence Shaping Humanity: Gurche Shapiro: Yale Quotables Sharma: Restatement of Religion Sheldonian Theatre: Geraghty Ship of Death: Smith Silla: Lee Simeone: Leonard Bernstein Letters Sirota: Christian Monitors Smith: Erotic Doll
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Smith: Ship of Death Social History of Hebrew: Schniedewind Soyinka: Of Africa Speth: America the Possible St Petersburg: Kelly Status Update: Marwick Stay: Hecht Steele: Queer History of Fashion Stein: Artists and Amateurs Stevenson: City and the King Stichelbaut: In Flanders Fields Storr: Portraits Strange Eggs: Oldenburg Straussman-Pflanzer: Violence and Virtue Strindberg: Prideaux Struggle for Iraq’s Future: Al-Ali Sun Chief: Talayesva Surge: Mansoor Survey of London: Battersea Susan Sontag: Cott Sutherland: Little History of Literature Swann’s Way: Proust Syria: Lesch Tal: All the Trees of the Forest Talayesva: Sun Chief Talent Wants to Be Free: Lobel Tartsinis: An American Style Teele: Field Experiments and Their Critics Tell It With Pride: Greenough Tezuka: Rebirth Theory of Militant Democracy: Kirshner This Seat of Mars: Carlton Thom: Survey of London: Battersea Thomas Sully: Rudolph Thorpe: Danube Through a Screen Darkly: Bayles Tillich: Courage to Be Tolles: American West in Bronze Torres-Rouff: Before L.A. Troy: Very Hungry City Türcke: Philosophy of Dreams Unbalanced: Roach Unglaub: Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination Utley: Geronimo Vallye: Fernand Léger Van Gogh Repetitions: Rathbone Vauchez: Francis of Assisi Very Hungry City: Troy Violence and Virtue: Straussman-Pflanzer Voting Wars: Hasen Wagner and Art of the Theatre: Carnegy Warburg Years (1919–1933): Cassirer Water 4.0: Sedlak Weber: William Kent Weil: Plague of Informers Weinstein: Adam Smith’s Pluralism Wellington: Muir White: Generation Dada Wilken: First Thousand Years Wilkins: Hollow Justice Willes: Making of the English Gardener William Kent: Weber Williams: Naturalists at Sea Williams: Richard Burton Diaries Williams: Wunderkammer Wilson Jones: Origins of Classical Architecture Wilson-Bareau: Goya in the Norton Simon Woman Reader: Jack Wootton: Galileo Worth of the University: Levin Wunderkammer: Williams Yale French Studies, vol. 124: Bjørnstad Yale Quotables: Shapiro Yee: Proteus Paradox Young-Bruehl: Childism Zaqtan: Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me Zhou: Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Famine
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Yale sales representatives and overseas agents Great Britain Scotland James Brook, Yale University Press Tel. 020 7079 4900 e-mail: james.brook@yaleup.co.uk North West England, inc. Staffordshire Sally Sharp 53 Southway Eldwick, Bingley West Yorkshire BD16 3DT Tel. 01274 511 536 Mobile ’phone 07803 008 218 e-mail: sally.sharp@yale.edu South Wales, South and South West England, inc. South London Josh Houston Flat 4, 28 London Road Reigate Surrey RH2 9QT Mobile ’phone 07803 012 487 e-mail: josh.houston@yaleup.co.uk London, the South East and The Midlands, inc. Birmingham Matthew Wright 5 Oak Cottages Little Stoke Oxfordshire OX10 6AU Mobile ’phone 07803 012 521 e-mail: matthew.wright@yaleup.co.uk Key Accounts Sales Executive Paul Sammut, Yale University Press Tel. 020 7079 4900 e-mail: paul.sammut@yaleup.co.uk Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland Robert Towers 2 The Crescent Monkstown, County Dublin Republic of Ireland Tel. (+353) 1 280 6532 Fax. (+353) 1 280 6020 e-mail: rtowers@indigo.ie Benelux, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Norway & Sweden Fred Hermans Academic Book Promotions Hoofdstraat 261 1611 AG Bovenkarspel The Netherlands Tel. (+31) - (0) 228-516664 Fax. (+31) - (0) 228-518384 e-mail: Hermans@acadbookprom.nl Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain & Portugal Uwe Lüdemann Schleiermacherstr. 8 D-10961 Berlin Germany Tel. (+49) 30 695 08189 Fax. (+49) 30 695 08190 e-mail: mail@uwe-luedemann.de
Central Europe Ewa Ledóchowicz PO Box 8 05-520 Konstancin-Jeziorna Poland Tel. (+48) 22 754 17 64 Fax. (+48) 22 756 45 72 Mobile ’phone (+48) 606 488 122 e-mail: ewa@ledochowicz.com website: www.ledochowicz.com Australia, New Zealand, Fiji & Papua New Guinea Inbooks Locked Bag 535 Frenchs Forest NSW 2086 Australia Tel: (+61) 2 8988 5082 Fax: (+61) 2 8988 5090 e-mail: orders@inbooks.com.au The Middle East Claire de Gruchy & Bill Kennedy Avicenna Partnership Ltd PO Box 501 Witney Oxfordshire OX28 9JL Claire de Gruchy Tel. (+44) 7771 887843 e-mail: claire_degruchy@yahoo.co.uk Bill Kennedy Fax. (+44) 1387 247375 Tel. (+44) 7802 244457 e-mail: bill.kennedy@btinternet.com Israel International Publishers Representatives PO Box 25731 1311 Nicosia Cyprus Tel. (+357) 2 2872355 Fax. (+357) 2 2872359 e-mail: iprcyp@spidernet.com.cy India Mr S Janakiraman Book Marketing Services 2-A, Ramaniyam Building 216–217, Peters Road Royapettah Chennai 600 014 India Tel. (+91) 44 2848 0220 Fax. (+91) 44 2848 0222 e-mail: bkmktg@dataone.in www.bookmarketing.org Pakistan Anwer Iqbal, Book Bird 36 - B, Abdalians Society Near Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital Nazaria - e - Pakistan Avenue Lahore Pakistan Tel. (+92) 42 3595 6200/6161 Mobile ’phone (+92) 313 8464747 e-mail: anwer.bookbird@gmail.com
China, Hong Kong & The Philippines Ed Summerson Asia Publishers Services Ltd Units B & D 17/F Gee Chang Hong Centre 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road Aberdeen Hong Kong Tel. (+852) 2553 9289/9280 Fax. (+852) 2554 2912 e-mail: aps_hk@asiapubs.com.hk Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia & Brunei APD Singapore Ptd Ltd 52 Genting Lane #06-05 Ruby Land Complex 1 Singapore 349560 Tel. (+65) 6749 3551 Fax. (+65) 6749 3552 e-mail: Ian@apdsing.com Malaysia APD Malaysia Pte Ltd 24-26 Jalan SS3/41 47300 P.J. Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia Tel. (+60) 3 7877 6063 Fax. (+60) 3 7877 3414 e-mail: customersvc@apdkl.com Southern Africa Book Promotions Office B4, the District 41 Sir Lowry Road Woodstock Cape Town Western Cape South Africa Tel. (+27) 21 469 8900 Fax: +27 021 469 8904 e-mail: enquiries@bookpro.co.za Africa, except Southern Africa & Nigeria Kelvin van Hasselt Willow House, The Street Briningham Norfolk NR24 2PY Tel. 01263 862 724 Fax. 01263 862 803 e-mail: kelvin@kvhbooks.co.uk US, Canada, Mexico, Central & South America, Japan, Korea & Taiwan Yale University Press PO Box 209040 New Haven CT 06520-9040 USA Tel. (+1) 203 432 0960 Fax. (+1) 203 432 0948
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