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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
2025 || Paperback || Ian Buruma || Yale University Press
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
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Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Lambert || Yale University Press
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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
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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.
Voices of Revolution, 1917
2003 || Paperback || Mark D. Steinberg || Yale University Press
Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the Russian people—workers, peasants, soldiers—as expressed in their own words during the vast political, social, and economic upheavals of 1917. The documents in the volume include letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions, or leaders; colle...
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...
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History
2006 || Paperback || Immanuel Kant || Yale University Press
Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory o...
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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
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Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
2024 || Paperback || Ronald Hutton || Yale University Press
The definitive history of the druids in Britain, from their ancient origins to the present day
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Queens of the Wild
Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
2024 || Paperback || Ronald Hutton || Yale University Press
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day