Books published by Yale University Press

Who was the historical Merlin?

What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This book tells America's story from a fresh perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers.

Seven million Americans suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds - this number includes people with diabetes, dementia, paralysis, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and, poor circulation, as well as the elderly and those with reduced mobility. This title provides patients and caregivers with what they need to know on the subject.

Explains why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. This book humanizes various stories, sets them in the context of Berlin's evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.

Raises perplexing questions about World War II. This work argues for World War II's central place in the history of the twentieth century, addressing the war's most persistent enigmas.

Touching upon some of the most controversial issues in American politics and law, including slavery, inheritance, international development, and climate change, this title offers a view of property and freedom and enriches our understanding of democratic society.

Through explorations of the evolution of military outsourcing, the privatization of diplomacy, our dysfunctional homeland security apparatus, and the slow death of the US Agency for International Development, this title shows that the requisite public-sector expertise to implement foreign policy no longer exists.

An account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s - what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War". It explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. It offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer and author, the author places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years onwards.

Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations.

The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. This book evokes the - often scandalous - great productions that have left their mark not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern theatre as a whole. It concludes with a critique of the iconoclastic interpretations by Patrice Chereau, Ruth Berghaus, and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg.

Offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation. The author defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey's Islamist Welfare Party to America's Democratic Party during Reconstruction.

Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, this title explores monetary control in a simple exchange economy.

An unbarred account of life in post-occupation Iraq and an assessment of the nation's prospects for the future

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. This book presents the historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period.

Features stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of author's study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688.

Examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain.

A fresh look at Hellman's restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths

Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world

The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future

An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life

The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer

Unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who dwelt there. The author introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion; bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his London lodgings; and servants with only a locking box to call their own.

Examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. This title also investigates the means by which books were sold, and lends insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares.

A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease"

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. This book provides an understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history.

Chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian capture of the Islamic city of Tulaytula, now Toledo, in the eleventh century and traces the development of Castilian culture as it was forged in the intimacy of Christians with the Muslims and Jews they had overcome.