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George I
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and...
The Censored War
American Visual Experience During World War Two
Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public...
Yale French Studies, Number 83
Part II, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms
This two-volume issue is devoted to questions of identity and modernity in France and in the French-speaking areas of North and West Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Vietnam, and the Indian Ocean.
Social Justice in the Liberal State
An original and compelling vision of a just society“A ‘new view’ of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will ‘challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy.’ ”—
Empire and Superempire
Britain, America and the World
A timely and provocative comparison of the British and American empires: are they alike, or are they very different beasts? The present American “empire” is often compared with the British one of yore—not...
Intimate Circles
American Women in the Arts
Visionary American women stood at the forefront of many of the artistic and literary movements of the 20th century. Creative artists and writers such at Gertrude Stein, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Katherine Dunham fueled and...
Lewis & Clark's West Collector's Edition
William Clark's 1810 Master Map of the American West
In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began an expedition that fundamentally changed Americans' conception of their country. Clark drew dozens of maps and interviewed Indians to create rough charts of areas he did...
Republic of Shade
New England and the American Elm
The American elm, elegant and highly adaptable, was an essential feature of America’s cultural landscape for more than a century, forming great verdant parasols above—and giving its name to—streets all across the nation....
Icons of American Protestantism
The Art of Warner Sallman
Although American Protestants often claim that they are opposed to the use of devotional images in their religious life, they in fact draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessional views, to teach, and to...
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Volume One, 1854 - April 1874
Robert Louis Stevenson, celebrated author of such treasured classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has long been recognized as a master storyteller and...