Yale 2017
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A sumptuous portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures as they wrote and lived during one of the most dramatic periods in English history The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn Margaret Willes The diarist Samuel Pepys is an iconic figure whose descriptions of daily life in London in the 1660s still strike a remarkably modern note. Now, Margaret Willes looks at Pepys from a fresh angle, examining the celebrated man through the lens of his long friendship with John Evelyn, the English diarist who will mark the 400th anniversary of his birthday in 2020. Margaret Willes is the Publisher at the National Trust and the author of several books, including The Gardens of the British Working Class.
47 colour + 18 b/w illus. August 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22139-8 £20.00/$30.00
A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world’s most famous assassin Brutus The Noble Conspirator Kathryn Tempest Brutus’ leading role in the assassination of Caesar immortalised his name, but the verdict on his act remains out to this day. Was he an unscrupulous killer, or a constant and noble patriot? This engaging new portrait sets aside the myths and reveals him more surely than ever before. Kathryn Tempest is senior lecturer in Latin literature and Roman history, Roehampton University, and author of Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome.
16 illus. October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-18009-1 £25.00/$30.00
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An irresistible collection of favourite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability True Stories And Other Essays Francis Spufford From the author of the best-selling novel Golden Hill, this inspired collection of essays explores the complicated relationships among story-telling, truth-telling and the workings of the writer’s imagination. Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis or the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on. Photo: Bart Koetsier
Francis Spufford is senior lecturer, department of English & comparative literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is author of several highly-praised books of non-fiction, and his novel, Golden Hill, won the Costa First Novel Prize in 2017.
October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-23005-5 £20.00/$25.00
From the renowned and diversely-talented artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention Devotion Patti Smith In this enchanting book a beloved artist and author offers an intimate account of the process of creativity, from first spark through final polishing. The diversely talented Patti Smith begins with an original tale, then explores its sources, inspiration, mechanics and more, to illuminate the nature of creative invention.
September 2017 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-21862-6 £12.99/$18.00
Photo: Férial
Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. Her memoir Just Kids received a National Book Award, and her recent book M Train is a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller. She is an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Why I Write
Translation rights: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency, New York
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Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This study delves deeply into its context, beliefs and origins in Europe’s history The Witch A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Ronald Hutton The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. Ronald Hutton is professor of history, University of Bristol, and a leading authority on ancient, medieval and modern paganism, on the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on the global context of witchcraft beliefs.
16 b/w illus. August 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22904-2 £25.00/$32.50
A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured ‘The Great Stink’ together One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 Rosemary Ashton Other than record-breaking summer heat and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames, events in London in 1858 were unremarkable. Or were they? This deeply researched book uncovers crucial moments in the lives of Victorian Londoners both famous and forgotten and reveals the lasting significance of their scandals, disgraces and achievements. Rosemary Ashton is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London. She is author of ten previous books and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
28 b/w illus. July 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22726-0 £25.00/$35.00 Translation rights: AM Heath, London
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Stormtroopers
Mob Town
A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts
Crime and Disorder in the East End
Daniel Siemens
John Bennett
The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust.
A captivating history of a notorious neighbourhood and the first book to reveal why London’s East End became synonymous with lawlessness and crime.
Daniel Siemens is associate professor, department of history, philosophy and theology, Bielefeld University. He is author of three previous books.
33 b/w illus.
John Bennett is the author of numerous books, including The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper and Krayology.
20 b/w illus. September 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22195-4 £18.99/$30.00
October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-19681-8 £25.00/$32.50 Rights sold: German
The first complete account of the fiercely-guarded secrets of London’s clandestine interrogation centre, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 The London Cage The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre Helen Fry In the heart of upper-class London, a highly-secret prison was established in 1940 to elicit wartime intelligence from reluctant German prisoners, and later to house Nazi war criminals. The author’s extraordinary research on the London Cage leads to sensational revelations, including the long-denied use of ‘truth drugs’ and ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques. Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of more than twenty books focusing mainly on intelligence, prisoners-of-war and the social history of World War II.
16 b/w illus. September 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22193-0 £18.99/$28.00
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In this, the first book on a major artwork of the twentieth century, Griselda Pollock offers a new reading of Salomon’s work, as a project to give herself a name Charlotte Salomon Griselda Pollock The painter Charlotte Salomon is now renowned for a single monumental modernist artwork composed of 784 paintings, Leben? oder Theater? – Life? or Theatre?. Painted in a fever of activity between 1941 and 1942, the final selection was placed in hiding with a doctor in Nice, before the artist was arrested by the SS in September 1943 and murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 26. This is the first book to focus on this major work and explore why Salomon began this vast undertaking during such dark times. Griselda Pollock, a major figure in feminist theory, feminist art history and gender studies, is one of the most influential scholars of modern, avantgarde art, postmodern art and contemporary art.
360 illus. November 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-10072-3 £45.00/$60.00
A twentieth century artist now considered a trailblazer for gender fluidity, showcased in a major exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Gluck Art and Identity Edited by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel Essays by Gill Clarke, Jeffrey Horsley, Andrew Macintosh Patrick, Simon Martin, Diana Souhami and Elizabeth Wilson A major reassesment of the life and art of Hannah Gluckstein (always known as Gluck), an important British female artist of the 1930s. This book, which accompanies a UK exhibition, explores her relationships, style and art wotks in association with modern and contemporary notions of gender and social history. 250 illus. November 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-23048-2 £25.00/$35.00 Published in association with Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
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Charlotte Salomon painting in the garden of the Villa L’Ermitage, Villefranche-sur-Mer, ca. 1939
The Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory 1940–1943
The first book that looks across the breadth of Tudor fashion to explore the importance of clothing in the fortunes of the Tudor dynasty Tudor Fashion Dress at Court Eleri Lynn 500 years separate us from the Tudors, and yet they are still easily recognisable to us. Iconic images of them are emblematic of their age, and their hold on the public imagination is enduring. This beautiful publication presents fascinating new research to enhance our understanding of the importance of clothing to the personal fortunes of the Tudor dynasty from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. Eleri Lynn is a fashion historian and Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. She has special responsibility for the historic dress collection, based at Hampton Court Palace.
180 colour illus. August 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22827-4 £40.00/$50.00 Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces
Step inside the English country house and its library with this book about books, country houses, library architecture, design, social status and bibliomania The Country House Library Mark Purcell The history of books in British country houses is beautifully told in this new publication. Beginning with evidence for books in Roman villas, it comes right up to the present day viscisitudes of country house collections, and the responsibilities of their owners as custodians. Included are a discussion of book choices and the idiosyncrasies involved in creating every library, as well as the architects charged with creating a library room, the country-house style of presentation and display, the relationship with archives and muniment rooms and the care and conservation of books. Mark Purcell was Curator of Libraries for the National Trust and is now Associate Director for Research Collections, Cambridge University Library.
150 colour + 50 b/w illus. October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22740-6 £45.00/$55.00 Published in association with the National Trust
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Accompanies a show at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
A new publication to mark the 250 th anniversary of Captain Cook’s death
Captain Cook and the Pacific
Degas
Art, Exploration and Empire
A Passion for Perfection
John McAleer and Nigel Rigby
Edited by Jane Munro
This new visual history of Captain Cook’s voyages around the Pacific is illustrated with artifacts, including oil paintings, ships plans, manuscripts, coins and personal effects – as well as items collected by the crews on his ships.
A survey of the whole of Degas’ sixty-year career, examining the themes that most preoccupied him.
200 colour + 20 b/w illus.
200 colour illus.
Jane Munro is Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Director of Studies in History of Art at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
September 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-20724-8 £35.00/$45.00
October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22823-6 £40.00/$50.00
Published in association with the National Maritime Museum
Photo: Lesley Newhart
Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum
Iran
Fishing
A Modern History
How the Sea Fed Civilization
Abbas Amanat
Brian Fagan
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 1989.
From a best-selling author and archaeologist, a global history of humanity’s last major source of food from the wild and how it enabled and shaped the growth of our modern world.
Abbas Amanat is professor of history and international studies at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
56 colour + 163 b/w illus. November 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-11254-2 £30.00/$40.00
Brian Fagan, emeritus professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers. His books include Fish on Friday, The Little Ice Age and the best-selling The Great Warming.
39 b/w illus.
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October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-21534-2 £25.00/$30.00
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros The Making of an American Movie Studio David Thomson
Photo: Michael Lionstar
In this riveting account of the Warner brothers and the film studio they raised to the pinnacle of Hollywood success, a renowned film critic and historian shines light on the studio’s great films (Casablanca, Bonnie and Clyde), unforgettable stars (Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis) and impact on the shape of American dreams. David Thomson is film critic, historian and author of over twenty books including The New Biography of Film, now in its sixth edition.
5 b/w illus.
Jewish Lives
October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-19760-0 £16.99/$25.00
Two novels by internationally acclaimed author and Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, published in The Margellos World Republic of Letters series Such Fine Boys Photo: Catherine Hélie © Editions Gallimard
Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti Foreword by J. M. G. Le Clézio Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate. Special feature: J. M. G. Le Clézio’s foreword, here in English for the first time, provides a rare and insightful appreciation of one Nobel laureate by another. September 2017 PB-with Flaps ISBN 978-0-300-22334-7 £12.99/$16.00 Translation rights: Georges Borchardt, Inc. New York
Sundays in August Patrick Modiano has received many prestigious literary awards, among them the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than forty books from the French and directs the publications programme at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Damion Searls has translated thirty books from German, French, Norwegian and Dutch, including Patrick Modiano’s Young Once.
Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Damion Searls
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Translation rights: Georges Borchardt, Inc. New York
Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer … this ominous novel – set in picturesque Nice – is Patrick Modiano’s most noirish work to date. September 2017 PB-with Flaps ISBN 978-0-300-22333-0 £12.99/$16.00
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A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens begin to feel politically included Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded Mustafa Dikeç An expert on urban unrest examines revolts from Los Angeles to Paris to Istanbul, tracing these uprisings to the politics of exclusion. This engaging account makes it clear that change is only possible if we address the failures of democratic systems to make their citizens feel equal and politically included. Mustafa Dikeç is professor of urban studies at the Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris and Malmö University. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic and Space, Politics and Aesthetics.
12 illus. November 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-21494-9 £16.99/$26.00
A multi-disciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today’s interlinked world Copycats and Contrarians Why We Follow Others … And When We Don’t Michelle Baddeley This highly original and wide-ranging book is the first to fully explore our human inclination to herd, follow and imitate others. The author investigates the evolution of herding behaviour, how today’s instant communications can lead to dangerous shifts in herd opinions, why herding only sometimes works out well, and much more. Michelle Baddeley is professor in economics and finance, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. This is her fifth book.
12 b/w illus. October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-22022-3 £20.00/$26.00
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COVER IMAGE Woman’s smock (T.11015). Courtesy of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. From: Tudor Fashion by Eleri Lynn
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