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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution
The story of Marie Antoinette’s portraitist, a remarkable woman living in dangerous times The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her considerable charm to...
Chivalry
Chivalry—with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor—was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval...
White Women, Black Men
Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
"[A] fascinating survey of interracial relationships in the South between the 1680s and the 1880s. . . . Enthralling."—David Nicholson, Washington Post This award-winning book is the first to...
Women in Middle Eastern History
Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender
This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories,...
The Spirit of the Quakers
An inspiring and enlightening introduction to Quakerism, the second title in the Yale University Press “The Spirit of . . .”series Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they...
Rival Power
Russia in Southeast Europe
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote...
Freud and the Problem of God
In this highly acclaimed book, one of the most prominent theologians in the world offers a theological and psychoanalytic assessment of Freud’s atheism and of its implications for current psychoanalytic practice. In the...
The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan
This is the first English translation of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, one of the richest depositories of rabbinic reflections on the study of the Torah. It is the earliest commentary on Abot, the only tractate of...
Belief in God in an Age of Science
John Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his exploration of the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science: he is internationally known as a theoretical physicist and as a theologian. In this thought...
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life
Hindus and Muslims in India
Second Edition
What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney...