Books published by Yale University Press

This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin's final days as minister to France and his voyage home

Yale French Studies 142 explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorized by Monique Wittig

The second installment of Thomas Dozeman's authoritative two-volume commentary on the book of Joshua

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition

A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years

Focusing on Christianity's core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom

The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire

A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire

An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France

A technical examination of artists' workshops and studios across history and media, told through the collections of the National Gallery of Art

An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars

Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art

A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political, and economic contexts that made them

Introducing the life and work of one of the most dazzlingly virtuoso painters in Western art to a new generation

Reveals how American art in the 1930s—intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own—engaged with the public amid global upheaval

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's encyclopedic collection

A showcase of 500 highlights of the Farjam Collection, featuring painting, works on paper, photography, sculpture, installations, and videos

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed

Celebrating a major collection of Islamic art, this volume spans the entire history of Islam to bring together items produced throughout the vast region between Andalusia and Mughal India

A panorama of the career of South African photographer David Goldblatt, elucidating his artistic commitments, networks, and influence

A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history

An investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper

Highlighting the central role of drawing throughout Ruth Asawa's career, this book's essays illuminate diverse aspects of her drawing practice with reproductions of more than one hundred works, many never before published.

An exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade

This book explores the works of one of Sweden's most esteemed artists, Hilma af Klint, alongside others in her artistic circle - and examines their inspirational influence on contemporary artists working today. Swedish Ecstasy tells the story of renowned Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and her artistic circle as the country sought to reconcile religious beliefs with scientific advances at the turn of the 20th century. While Sweden has often been characterized as a Protestant nation of great engineers and entrepreneurs, the country's spiritual life has long been governed by a less official current, visible in its art and literature. In the early 20th century, mysticism and esoteric speculation ran through the works of some of Sweden's most important artistic and literary figures. This book explores these mystic visions and their meaning with this intellectual and spiritual milieu. Contemporary artists Cecilia Edefalk, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef, and Lars Olof Loeld contribute essays that show how these artworks continue to inspire today.

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism

A groundbreaking exhibition catalogue of Native, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit photography from the nineteenth century to the present day