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The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
2019 || Paperback || Abigail Williams || Yale University Press
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
2009 || Hardcover || Zeev Sternhell || Yale University Press
Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.
Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Lambert || Yale University Press
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
2024 || Paperback || Geoffrey Parker || Yale University Press
The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.
Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens's London
2024 || Paperback || Lee Jackson || Yale University Press
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
2025 || Paperback || Roger Crowley || Yale University Press
Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
2025 || Hardcover || Simon Ball || Yale University Press
A Little History of the United States
2025 || Paperback || James West Davidson || Yale University Press
The Battle for Syria / 2nd edition
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
2020 || Paperback || Christopher Phillips || Yale University Press
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. But in this book Christopher Phillips shows the crucial roles that were played b...
Pagan Britain
2024 || Paperback || Ronald Hutton || Yale University Press
An enthralling account of paganism in Britain, from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity