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The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
This extensive collection of proverbs, all coined after 1900, reflects the experiences and perplexities of the modern world "You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just...
![](https://drupal.yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_jacket/public/imagecache/external/13fbbf99da1385345f9876345f715c8e.jpg?itok=FM1CNMas ""Liberty to the Downtrodden"")
"Liberty to the Downtrodden"
Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Thomas L. Kane (1822–1883), a crusader for antislavery, women’s rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons’ religious liberty. Though not a Mormon,...
Beaumarchais in Seville
An Intermezzo
A vivacious account of the journey to Spain that inspired The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville In 1764-65 the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais traveled to Madrid, where he...
Human Remains
Dissection and Its Histories
Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the...
Growing the Game
The Globalization of Major League Baseball
How globalization is affecting America’s national pastime and what the changes may mean for the future of the game Baseball fans are well aware that the game has become increasingly international. Major...
Between Virtue and Power
The Persistent Moral Dilemma of U.S. Foreign Policy
In this survey of U.S. history, John Kane looks at the tensions between American virtue and power and how those tensions have influenced foreign policy. Americans have long been suspicious of power as a threat to...
The Anti-Imperial Choice
The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the...
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city...
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand
The Life of Colonel Edward M. House
A compelling account of President Wilson’s most influential foreign relations adviser during the critical years of U.S. ascendancy to global power during World War I The importance of Colonel Edward M....
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
The Pleasure and the Power
First Edition
Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a...