Books published by Yale University Press

A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years, from one of our finest cultural critics

The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic's defeat

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world

A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of art

The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance

A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century

The Cold War reconsidered as seventy-five years of slow nuclear warfare

The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution

An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and London

A reflection on Federico Garcia Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II

An award-winning scholar's sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump

A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"

The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country

The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland

A synthetic reconstruction of women's religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel

A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying the first ever exhibition dedicated to Julie Manet

Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentary on Jeremiah. This final book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary gives us translation and commentary on the concluding sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Here, during Judah's darkest days, when nationhoo..

The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before.

A beautifully illustrated book exploring the art of Iran and Central Asia from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BC.