Books published by Yale University Press

Investigating the instruction, curricula and textbooks used in the schools and institutes, this text describes the important technological changes that took place in antebellum America and the challenges they posed for education.

When a country is defeated in war, not only are the policies, strategies and goals of the military affected, but those of society are as well. Examining conflicts ranging from the American Revolution to the Arab-Israeli wars this book shows how the trauma of defeat affects the evolution of society.

A study of Wesleyan University in connection with economic, religious, urban and educational developments in 19th century America. Potts places Wesleyan's history in contexts that illuminate the dynamics of institutional change and contribute perspectives on America's colleges, culture and society.

This collection of essays by the liberal thinker Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin addresses the political and social problems that confronted Russia from 1855 to the start of the 20th century. He outlines ideological alternatives to the Bolshevik plan for revolutionary transformation of Russia.

A collection of philosophical writings addressing a range of topics, from eros, poetry and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. It demonstrates that philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience.

Presenting 32 works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927, Schoolfield throws light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Based on an array of diaries and letters, this work explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late 19th century. It shows how, in leaving school, female students left an institution that had treated them more equally than any other they would encounter in their lives.

A significant public health problem facing physicians today is the failure of patients to follow their prescribed treatment regimens, a phenomenon that results in treatment failures, increased morbidity and mortality, and enormous burdens to society and the economy.

Shows how civil society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the empire's governance, until the limits of the concept were revealed.

The history of Britain's complex relationship with Europe, untangled. Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Britain reluctantly joined the Common Market, the European Community, and ultimately the European Union, but its decades of membership never quite led it to accept a European orientation. In the view of the distinguished political scientist Vernon Bogdanor, the question of Britain's relationship to Europe is rooted in "the prime conflict of our time," the dispute between the competing faiths of liberalism and nationalism. This concise, expertly guided tour provides the essential background to the struggle over Brexit.

A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays

A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England

A prominent authority on China's Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing's project of the century

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain's pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson

An exploration of what hermeneutic psychoanalysis is and how the approaches of hermeneutic psychoanalysts differ. It finds that these psychoanalysts use the same words, concepts and analogies, but they hold to at least five different positions on the truth of psychoanalytic interpretations.

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion

During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in Gleason's Berkeley, California, home, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. A This remarkable volume, a must-read for any jazz fan, serious musician, or musicologist, reveals fascinating, little-known details about these gifted artists, their lives, their personas, and, of course, their music. Bill Evans discusses his battle with severe depression, while John Coltrane talks about McCoy Tyner's integral role in shaping the sound of the Coltrane quartet, praising the pianist enthusiastically. Included also are interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Jon Hendricks, and the immortal Duke Ellington, plus seven more of the most notable names in twentieth-century jazz.

As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward. This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states and between their leaders. Drawing on long experience working behind the scenes, Luuk van Middelaar captures the dynamics and tensions shaping the European Union from its origins until today. It is a story of unexpected events and twists of fate, bold vision and sheer necessity, told from the perspective of the keyplayers – from de Gaulle to Havel, Thatcher to Merkel. Van Middelaar cuts through the institutional complexity by exploring the unforeseen outcomes of decisive moments and focusing on the quest for public legitimacy. As a first-hand witness to the day-to-day actions and decisions of Europe’s leaders, the author provides a vivid narrative of the crises and compromises that united a continent. By revisiting the past, he sheds fresh light on the present state of European unification and offers insights into what the future may hold.

An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world

Features anecdotes from the quirky lives of the famous and the obscure - all of whom confronted urban nuisances and physical ailments. This book addresses an unpleasant aspect of city life (noise, violence, mouldy food, smelly streets, poor air quality). It creates a nuanced portrait of early modern English city life.

A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together

A beautiful presentation of a new suite of works made for the Menil Collection by Allora & Calzadilla

An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts. This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. The book offers a detailed technical introduction to the handwriting of the period, from "secretary hand" through the "copperplate" that defined the early British Empire. Case studies trace the significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, exploring the intersections of manuscript and print, the roles of manuscript in the bureaucracy of the early modern state, and the complex practices surrounding manuscript in the lives of early modern readers and writers. Exercises offer the opportunity to practice reading and transcription, pointing to examples ranging from John Lydgate through William Wordsworth. Richly illustrated and drawing extensively on Yale University collections, this book opens the study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of students and scholars.

A beautifully illustrated look at the work of one of todayâEUR(TM)s most exciting artists