Books published by Yale University Press

A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time

A lively and multi-faceted account of Evelyn and William De Morgan, exploring a unique artistic partnership that spanned several cultural circles including the Pre-Raphaelites and Arts and Crafts movement

"In association with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin."

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical role

"After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep disruptions in American politics and asked, "What is happening to us?" Paul W. Kahn explores these fundamental changes as they show themselves in a small New England town--his home of twenty-five years, Killingworth, Connecticut. His inquiry grounds a democratic theory that puts volunteering, not voting, at its center. Absent active participation, citizens lose the capacity for judgment that comes from working with others to solve real problems. Volunteering, however, is under existential threat today. Changes in civil society, commerce, employment, and public opinion formation have isolated families from each other and from their communities. Even middle-class families live under financial stress, uncertain of their children's future, and without the support of civil society. Local media has disappeared. Residents do not have the time, information, or interest to volunteer. Under these conditions, national polarization enters local politics, which becomes yet another site for national conflict. To save our democracy, Kahn concludes, we need to find ways of matching opportunities for participation to the ways we live our lives today"--Provided by publisher.

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent

A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today

"After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor to boost colonial prosperity. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England itself was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported to enclaves overseas. Gabriel Glickman reinstates the colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many received ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to cultural tastes and consumer habits at home. England was becoming an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence over the wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized the later Stuart kingdom."--Dust jacket.

John D. Hosler explores the great clashes and delicate settlements of medieval Jerusalem, from the Persian sack in 614 through the bloody First Crusade and beyond. Deeply researched, this account reveals that despite these horrific acts of violence, Jerusalem's story during this period is also one of interfaith tolerance and accord.

Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union

Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy

Charts how artists responded to the modern world in the decades between 1910 to the 1960s, telling the stories of the people and events that changed art forever.

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today

"Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility--a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life."--Dust jacket.

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848

A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage

How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author

An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds