Books published by Yale University Press

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architect

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain

An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world, as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words

A broad introduction to the changing roles of intellectual property within society

A path-breaking scholar's insightful reexamination of the resurrection of the body and the construction of the self

An accessible and comprehensive history of terrorism from ancient times to the present

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship

How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible--and what is inevitable

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis

An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists

A comprehensive treatment of the early Christian approaches to the Temple and its role in shaping Jewish and Christian identity

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern

The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard

Why we're better off treating corporations as people under the law--and making them behave like citizens

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are doomed to fail

A fascinating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer from an award-winning science writer

A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements

An earthy, cruel, and hilarious family drama of profound and reckless love

Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth