Books published by Yale University Press

An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy

Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid

A history of the United States' greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War

A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism

A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel

An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.

Michael H. Kater explores the complex manifestations of the West German cultural scene and its attempts to grapple with the vestiges of Nazism. Ranging from partition to reunification, he shows how the gradual reemergence of democracy was possible only through the efforts of artists to reckon with their past.

Choosing twelve illustrative songs, John Potter offers a personal tour of the vibrant tradition of song, from John Dowland's "Flow My Tears? to George Gershwin's "Summertime.? Throughout, he reveals who wrote and sang these masterpieces?revealing aspects of our common musical humanity as the story evolves from the Middle Ages to the present.

A concise history of "just price," from Aristotle to the present day

A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust

How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies

The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics

A deep dive into the life and work of sculptor Louise Nevelson recontextualizes her art in light of social movements, travel, and her experiences in dance and theater

Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in the thrall of his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a ruler possessing sharp insight, uncommon political acumen, andA a talent for foreign policy, yet one whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman's dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king's support of America's War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis's famous dash to Varennes.

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (19031970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of his varied and complex views, his heirs indicate that he occasionally spoke of the existence of such a manuscript to friends and colleagues. Stored in a New York City warehouse since the artists death more than thirty years ago, this extraordinary manuscript, titled The Artists Reality, is now being published for the first time.Probably written around 194041, this revelatory book discusses Rothkos ideas on the modern art world, art history, myth, beauty, the challenges of being an artist in society, the true nature of American art, and much more. The Artists Reality also includes an introduction by Christopher Rothko, the artists son, who describes the discovery of the manuscript and the complicated and fascinating process of bringing the manuscript to publication. The introduction is illustrated with a small selection of relevant examples of the artists own work as well as with reproductions of pages from the actual manuscript.The Artists Reality will be a classic text for years to come, offering insight into both the work and the artistic philosophies of this great painter.

An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga-the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history

The story of how a trinity of California-based creatives pushed the boundaries to re-imagine a radical Tristan und Isolde opera for our times, resulting in a sensational major body of artwork by visionary American artist Bill Viola

A complete overview of the Belgian ceramist Pierre Culot's career in pottery, sculpture and landscaping, bridging the gap between the British, Japanese and French ceramic traditions