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Oxfordshire North and West
This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood’s 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The...
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The Sacred Remains
American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast, after Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, his body was transported around the...
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Preschool in Three Cultures
Japan, China and the United States
“This book should be required reading for professionals in early education and makes thought-provoking reading for anyone aware of his or her own cultural blinkers.”—Penelope Leach, New York Times Book...
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The Politics of Medical Encounters
How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems
The complaints that patients bring to their doctors often have roots in social issues that involve work, family life, gender roles and sexuality, aging, substance use; or other problems of nonmedical origin. In this book,...
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Yale French Studies, Number 109
Surrealism and Its Others
This issue of Yale French Studies on “Surrealism and Its Others”examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton’s surrealism. ...
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Yale French Studies, Number 123
Rethinking Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009)
One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss casts a long shadow over many areas of inquiry, from ethnology and cultural anthropology to literary studies, Marxist theory, and religious...
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The Music Libel Against the Jews
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a “musical libel"—a variation on the Passion...
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The Colonel Who Would Not Repent
The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
A searing, kaleidoscopic portrait of Bangladesh from the 1947 Partition to the present Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence...
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave...
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The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta
The Persian Challenge
A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states...