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A Catalogue of the Frederick R. Koch Collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale University
One of the richest collections of 19th- and 20th-century musical and literary manuscripts is detailed in this exhaustively detailed catalogue of the Frederick R. Koch collection, now a permanent part of the Beinecke...
The Zong
A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship
Voting About God in Early Church Councils
In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he...
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 1914–1945
One of Germany’s leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period...
The French Renaissance Court
The definitive account of the French court, 1483-1589 The court of France in the sixteenth century has often been seen merely as a focus of political intrigue and conflict, but it was also a cultural...
Hitchcock’s Music
For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film...
The New Continentalism
Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics
In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder...
Birthright
People and Nature in the Modern World
An eloquent explanation of why human beings need to connect with nature and what is lost when they are disconnected from the natural world Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature;...
The Birth of Time
How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe
The age of the universe has been one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. This engrossing book tells the story of how the mystery was recently solved. Written by a brilliant science writer who was involved, as...
Amistad's Orphans
An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves....