Books published by Yale University Press

A detailed study that sheds a fascinating new light on Sir John Soane (1753-1837) and his extraordinary collection.

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 best essays from America’s premier cultural historian

A deeply researched, fully updated edition of The National Security Constitution that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy

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 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 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

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism

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

The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers

The first comprehensive account of the pioneering ceramic work of Julian Stair