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The Georgians
The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times? The Georgian era (1714–1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world’s...
Stronger
Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence
An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages“This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its...
A World Without Soil
The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
A celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change “Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming...
Rapture and Melancholy
The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews) “Provides an occasion to revisit not...
Nineteenth-Century Cities
Essays in the New Urban History
Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define what is coming to be known...
The Culture of the New Capitalism
A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values.The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms...
Hoax
The Popish Plot that Never Was
The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain “Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. . . . As a work of historical...
The Craftsman
In his most ambitious book to date, Richard Sennett offers an original perspective on craftsmanship and its close connections to work and ethical values Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names...
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western...
Uncertain Allies
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe
A clear and comprehensive examination of transatlantic relations during the Nixon/Kissinger era “The early 1970s represented a pivotal moment in U.S. ties with Europe. Klaus Larres tells this story in a...