Books published by Yale University Press

An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam

A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career

One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age

The essence of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century

The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries

A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates over Black men and the violence of racism

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history

The best essays from America’s premier cultural historian

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris

A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking

A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination

An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking

An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in nineteenth-century Nordic society

An ambitious alternative history of the modern Middle East

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history   From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented.   This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people—including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes—who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability.   The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects

A detailed presentation of the iconic Naseby Cup that illuminates the Victorian vessel’s extraordinary numismatic importance and contextualizes the circumstances surrounding its creation

A dynamic look at how artists used paper to radically redefine the relationship between the body and its surroundings, and to propose new conceptions of ecology

An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design

Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design

An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of today’s concerns