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Front Cover: Welcome Home, by Jack Esten. Getty Images.

From: Demobbed, by Alan Allport, see page 2.

Back Cover: Mary Delany, Pancratium maritimum (Sea Daffodil). British Museum.

From: Mrs. Delany and Her Circle, by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, see page 16.

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History 1

A panoramic account of private lives in Georgian England, written with clarity and panache by a celebrated historian The Good House-wife, n.d., coloured mezzotint, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1958–357.

Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery The Georgian house is a byword for proportion and elegance, but what did it mean to its inhabitants? In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of English men and women, from the Oxfordshire mansion of the unhappy gentlewoman Anne Dormer in the 1680s to the dreary London lodgings of the bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in the 1830s. With wit and verve, she evokes the interiors of a wide range of homes, introducing us to genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, professional couples setting up home in rented houses, widowers frantic to keep their households afloat without a mistress and servants with only a locking box to call their own.

Amanda Vickery is Reader in History, Royal Holloway University of London, author of The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England and co-editor, with John Styles, of Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830, both published by Yale.

October 368 pp. 234x156mm.

80 b/w + 25 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15453-5 £18.99*

Delving into over fifty archives, Vickery makes ingenious use of unusual sources—from upholsterers’ ledgers to burglary trials—to tease out the hidden or taken-for-granted. She reveals the determining role of house and home in power and status, sentiments and strategies. In traditional political theory, the household was a microcosm of the state.

The pecking order of master, mistress, servants, apprentices and children crystallised the social hierarchy and resisted social and political change. Yet even modest homes were redefined as arenas of social campaign and exhibition because of the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable, ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home and the unisex language of taste. Vickery shows how domestic life came under everyday scrutiny and how the nimble hostess appreciated in value to men, who frequently yearned for the domesticity only a wife could provide.

Translation rights: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd, London

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2 History

The trials, troubles and triumphs for men returning home after the end of World War Two—a gripping story that’s in danger of being lost to national memory RAF soldier being fitted with a demob suit. Imperial War Museum.

Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two Alan Allport Snapshots of gaiety and celebration—the street parties, the victory speeches—is often how we think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a ‘golden age’ of pride and self-confidence. The country was troubled though triumphant, subject to continued rationing and political change. Wracked by social disorder, austerity and disillusion, Britain was exhausted—and it was the return of those men who had fought for their country who seemed to be a root cause of the trouble.

Alan Allport was born in Whiston, England, and grew up in East Yorkshire. An expert on the Second World War, he is currently a postdoctoral lecturer at Princeton.

Demobbed is the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets and fears.

Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a muchaltered labour force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarised by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. ‘Problem veterans’ preoccupied the entire country. Alan Allport draws on their personal letters and diaries, on newspapers, reports, novels and films to illuminate the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large.

“Wonderfully researched, sensitively written and often very moving, Demobbed tells an important, underappreciated story that still resonates today.”—David Kynaston

October 336 pp. 229x152mm. 16 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14043-9 £20.00*

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Biography/Literature 3

A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Ebenezer Scrooge Drawing published in the journal Fun, 25 June 1870.

Charles Dickens A Life Defined by Writing Michael Slater This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers the man Dickens was through the profession in which he excelled.

Drawing on a lifetime’s study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens’ career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing—letters, journalism, shorter fiction, play and verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationship between them.

Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is past president of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America and the author of many books.

September 640 pp. 234x156mm.

40 b/w illus. + 60 line drawings ISBN 978-0-300-11207-8 £25.00*

Slater’s account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels, while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens’ boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organisational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales and his hatred of tyranny.

Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.

“A magisterial exploration . . . The breadth and acuity of Slater’s knowledge of Dickens is staggering, and yet the material is presented in an unpretentious, economical and compelling manner. This is a study which will enlighten every student of Dickens, and fascinate the general reader.”—Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen

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4 Science

The remarkable story of how mimicry is used by some of the most extraordinary creatures in the world, told by the author of The Gecko’s Foot

Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage Peter Forbes Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world—including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes—have honed and practiced camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature’s fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage, and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious—but how does ‘blind’ nature do it? And how has humanity learned to profit from nature’s ploys?

Peter Forbes, a writer, journalist, and editor with a longstanding interest in the relationship between art and science, is the author of The Gecko’s Foot. Since 2004 he has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

October 300 pp. 234x156mm.

20 colour illus. + 6 diagrams ISBN 978-0-300-12539-9 £18.99*

Dazzled and Deceived tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also had a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes’s cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the perennial dispute between evolution and creationism.

As Dazzled and Deceived unravels the concept of mimicry, Forbes introduces colourful stories and a dazzling cast of characters— Roosevelt, Picasso, Nabokov, Churchill and Darwin himself, to name a few—whom its mystery influenced and enthralled. Illuminating and lively, Dazzled and Deceived sheds new light on the greatest quest: to understand the processes of life at its deepest level.

Translation rights: The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, London

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Art 5

A new approach to art by a major historian, thinker and practitioner uniquely qualified to introduce artworks and ways of thinking about art to a readership ranging from undergraduate and general reader to museum visitor and art historian

An Introduction to Art Charles Harrison This original and inspiring book offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media and to the visual arts of modernism and postmodernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance to the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, to the various genres of painting in the western tradition, and to the techniques of sculpture as they have been practised over several millenia and across a wide range of cultures. Throughout the book, Harrison discusses the relative priorities of aesthetic appreciation and historical inquiry, and the importance of combining the two approaches. Written in a style that is at once graceful, engaging and personal, as well as analytical and exact, this illuminating book offers an impassioned and timely defence of the importance and value of the first-hand encounter with works of art, whether in museums or in their original locations.

Charles Harrison is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art, The Open University. He is the author of numerous books including English Art and Modernism 1900–1939, and, most recently, Since 1950: Art and its Criticism, both published by Yale.

October 300 pp. 256x192mm. 250 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-10915-3 £16.99*

Features 250 colour illustrations, each with a generous, informative caption, and includes both well-known works and a host of less familiar examples from different cultures and periods.

“This is an exceptionally ambitious and exciting book. It introduces sophisticated theoretical ideas . . . and makes them directly relevant to the spectator’s experience . . . It is hard to think of a book with such a broad range which succeeds as well in equipping beginning students and general readers to think intelligently and fruitfully about art.”—John Hyman, The Queen’s College, Oxford

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6 Science

For readers of Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, a fascinating look at the hidden meaning in matter

Paradoxical Life Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice Andreas Wagner “Wagner presents a new way of looking at the relationship between science and ourselves, and of thinking about some very old arguments. This is a book for readers of Douglas Hofstadter, Karl Popper, and Richard Dawkins.”—Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it’s an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide or die. Andreas Wagner’s ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge.

“The full-blooded, dynamical thinking of a scientist at the height of his creative powers, this is a breathtakingly original and intellectually exciting synthesis of all that biology has taught us of how science relates to the world.”

—Günter Wagner, Yale University

Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radical—and optimistic—outlook for humans and the world we help create.

October 272 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14923-4 £20.00*

Andreas Wagner is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Educated at Yale University and at the University of Vienna, Wagner focuses his research on the evolution and evolvability of biological systems.

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Science/Psychology 7

A fascinating, deeply researched exploration of the differences between the brain’s left and right hemispheres, and their effect on society, history and culture

An fMRI scan of the brain, highlighting Broca’s area (which controls speech and language).

The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left hemisphere is detail oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things and is inclined to self-interest, where the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility and generosity. This division helps explain the origins of music and language, and casts new light on the history of philosophy, as well as on some mental illnesses.

“A work of grand ambition, brilliantly achieved; eloquent, moving, and remarkable for the depth and scope of its scholarship.”—Professor Louis Sass, Rutgers University

October 448 pp. 234x156mm.

40 b/w + 15 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14878-7 £25.00*

In the second part of the book, he takes the reader on a journey through the history of Western culture, illustrating the tension between these two worlds as revealed in the thought and belief of thinkers and artists, from Aeschylus to Magritte. He argues that, despite its inferior grasp of reality, the left hemisphere is increasingly taking precedence in the modern world, with potentially disastrous consequences. This is truly a tour de force that should excite interest in a wide readership.

Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he taught literature before training in medicine. He has an interest in brain research and now works privately in London, where he was a consultant and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital.

Translation rights: David Higham Associates Ltd, London

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8 Music

A new exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art by a noted scholar and performer

The Christian West and its Singers The First Thousand Years Christopher Page The tradition of Western music has become the most influential in the world. In a vast number of different cultures, children study instruments such as the piano or violin to approach the performance of works by the ‘Great Composers’.

The roots of that tradition lie in the first millennium A.D. There was still a Roman Empire when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background. Once the Empire had fallen in the West, new kings in Western Europe presided over the making of Gregorian chant, a music for singers that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear. Soon after 1000 an Italian monk, pitying the labours of liturgical singers who took so long to learn their repertory, invented the musical staff. This was to become the fundamental technology of Western music. No stave, no symphony.

Christopher Page is Reader in Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge, Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex College and founder of the acclaimed ensemble Gothic Voices.

January 400 pp. 241x171mm.

50 b/w + 40 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11257-3 £30.00*

This book is the first attempt to trace the rise and consolidation of singers and their art in the Christian West from New-Testament times to twelfth-century Europe. The unfolding story, with its lavish illustrations, will be of interest to historians, musicologists, performing musicians and the general reader keen to explore the beginnings of Western musical art.

“Dr Page attempts, and triumphantly succeeds in his attempt, to write not merely a technical or even liturgical, but also a social and cultural history of Western church music in the first millennium of its existence. All aspects are integrated into a seamless narrative that has no competitor, and that few other scholars can ever be qualified to emulate.”—Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford

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History 9

This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story

A New History of Early Christianity Charles Freeman The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman’s meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable ‘triumph’ of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated.

Charles Freeman, a specialist on the ancient world and its legacy, is the author of numerous books including The Closing of the Western Mind and Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent—from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state—Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of ‘correct belief ’ and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church’s relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors.

“A masterful book, and a pleasure to read.”—Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow

September 400 pp. 234x156mm. 26 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12581-8 £25.00*

Translation rights: A.M. Heath & Co, London

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10 History

A fresh life of Joan of Arc, France’s remarkable saint and saviour

The Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc Larissa Juliet Taylor France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life has been so endlessly cast and recast that we have lost sight of the remarkable girl at the heart of it—a teenaged peasant girl who, after claiming to hear voices, convinced the French king to let her lead a disheartened army into battle. In the process she changed the course of European history.

Larissa Juliet Taylor is Associate Professor of History at Colby College.

She is the author of the awardwinning Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France and Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth Century Paris.

August 320 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11458-4 £20.00*

In The Virgin Warrior, Larissa Juliet Taylor paints a vivid portrait of Joan as a self-confident, charismatic and supremely determined figure, whose sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders. The drama of Joan’s life is set against a world where visions and witchcraft were real, where saints could appear to peasants, battles and sieges decided the fate of kingdoms and rigged trials could result in burning at the stake. Yet in her short life, Joan emboldened the French soldiers and villagers with her strength and resolve. A difficult, inflexible leader, she defied her accusers and enemies to the end. From her early years to the myths and fantasies that have swelled since her death, Taylor teases out a nuanced and engaging story of the truly irresistible ‘ordinary’ girl who rescued France.

“Larissa Juliet Taylor seeks the Joan of Arc who actually lived. It is a stunning portrayal rarely encountered. Joan is intelligent, strong, articulate, and above all inspirational. If you have been looking for one book that explains how this remarkable teenage girl could accomplish all that she achieved, then this is it.”

—Mack P. Holt, author of The French Wars of Religion

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History 11

The fascinating, forgotten story of when Europe and Islam first met John Frederick Lewis, Frank Encampment.

Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World James Mather Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic and diverse.

Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the great cities of Istanbul, Aleppo and Alexandria, James Mather tells the forgotten story of the men of the Levant Company who sought their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire. Their trade brought to the region not only merchants but also ambassadors and envoys, pilgrims and chaplains, families and servants, aristocratic tourists and roving antiquarians.

Unlike the nabobs who gathered their fortunes in Bengal, they both respected and learned from the culture they encountered, and their lives provide a fascinating insight into the meeting of East and West before the age of European imperialism.

James Mather was educated at Cambridge University and at Harvard, where he was a Kennedy scholar.

He is now a commercial barrister in London.

October 320 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12639-6 £25.00*

Intriguing, intimate and original, Pashas brings to life an extraordinary tale of faraway visitors beguiled by a mysterious world of Islam.

“An arresting and timely addition to the literature of Western-Islamic relationships. The Levant Company has found a worthy historian at last.”—Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road

Translation rights: Robinson Literary Agency Ltd, London

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12 Science/Nature

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, a renowned animal trauma specialist offers an unusual glimpse into the elephant mind

Photo courtesy of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity G. A. Bradshaw Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions and lives of elephants.

Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatised elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals and even one another; their behaviour is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures.

All is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals, human or not.

November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12731-7 £25.00*

G. A. Bradshaw is Director of the Kerulos Center and President and co-founder of the International Association for Animal Trauma and Recovery. She frequently discusses the psychology of elephants, wildlife and other animals in the national media, including 20/20 and National Geographic television and magazine. She was featured prominently in the October 2006 New York Times Magazine article ‘An Elephant Crackup?’.

Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York

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Medicine 13

ER and House meet with Sherlock Holmes in these riveting and true stories of medical detective work

The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D. “Drama, intrigue, solid detective work are the fabric on which Edlow weaves a bountiful collection of fascinating stories. It will inform and keep you spellbound. The pulse is exciting, the thrill of discovery palpable. Masterfully written.”

—Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., Harvard Medical School, author of Dr. Sanjiv Chopra’s Liver Book

Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Awardwinning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.

In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans and the environment.

Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. His first book, the award-winning Bull’s Eye, was published by Yale. He is also the author of Stroke.

October 256 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-12558-0 £20.00*

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14 Philosophy

Talking with Sartre Conversations and Debates Edited and Translated by John Gerassi What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the couple became for him like surrogate parents. Authorised by Sartre to write his biography, Gerassi conducted a long series of interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one of the world’s most famous intellectuals.

Through the interviews, with both their informalities and their tensions, Sartre’s greater complexities emerge. In particular, we see Sartre wrestling with the apparent contradiction between his views on freedom and the influence of social conditions on our choices and actions. We also gain insight into his perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the disintegration of colonialism.

These spirited conversations between the philosopher and his godson provide one of the most intimate, illuminating and honest portraits of Sartre ever published January 288 pp. 234x156mm.

Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-15107-7 £30.00* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15901-1 £15.00*

These conversations add an intimate dimension to Sartre’s more abstract ideas. With remarkable rigour and intensity, they also provide a clear lens through which to view the major conflagrations of the last century.

John Gerassi, currently Professor of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York, is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century.

Who Was Jacques Derrida?

An Intellectual Biography David Mikics Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt to define his crucial importance as the ambassador of ‘theory’, the phenomenon that has had a profound influence on academic life in the humanities.

Mikics lucidly and sensitively describes for the general reader Derrida’s deep connection to his Jewish roots. He succinctly defines his vision of philosophy as a discipline that resists psychology. While pointing out the flaws of that vision and Derrida’s betrayal of his most adamantly expounded beliefs, Mikics ultimately concludes that ‘Derrida was neither so brilliantly right nor so badly wrong as his enthusiasts and critics, respectively, claimed’.

The first full-scale appraisal of the life and work of Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century

January 288 pp. 210x140mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-11542-0 £25.00*

David Mikics is Professor of English at the University of Houston.

He published his last book, A New Handbook of Literary Terms, with Yale.

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History 15

The Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran Homa Katouzian In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons— its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news.

This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state.

Written by an acclaimed expert, this book covers the entire history of Iran from the foundation of the ancient Persian empire to today’s Iranian state October 448 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12118-6 £30.00*

Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Saadi— and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate.

A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.

Homa Katouzian teaches Iranian history and Persian literature at St. Antony’s College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

Iranian by birth, he is the editor of the journal Iranian Studies.

The Lure of China Writers from Marco Polo to J. G. Ballard Frances Wood China has intrigued the West for over two thousand years. From Roman tales of silent silk merchants to eyewitness accounts by twentieth century journalists, stories of China have stimulated writers and attracted readers.

The story of western writers beguiled by China

July 288 pp. 220x110mm. 150 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15436-8 £19.99*

Medieval travellers like Marco Polo created a romantic picture of a distant and exotic land while subsequent Jesuit and diplomatic missions sought to correct the more lurid depictions with first-hand accounts.

In the mid-nineteenth century China was opened to travellers, collectors and writers of all sorts. Explorers were drawn to the Silk Road and its buried treasures. Writers like André Malraux and Vicki Baum found fame with books set in Peking and Shanghai, and Somerset Maugham with his enchanting vignettes. More recently Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn reported from China, as did W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and the American journalist Edgar Snow. Frances Wood tracks the visits of Harold Acton, Osbert Sitwell, Noel Coward, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, and the Chinese childhoods of Pearl Buck and J. G. Ballard. “It was as if China made writers of them all”, Wood observes, as she trawls a vast library of fiction, memoir and travelogue in this captivating and beautifully illustrated journey.

Frances Wood is Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library.

Among her recent publications are The Silk Road and The First Emperor.

Translation rights: Joint Publishing Co Ltd, Hong Kong

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Creative ingenuity, botanical scholarship and a gift for friendship combined in the life of a remarkable woman Mary Delany, Pancratium maritimum. British Museum (detail).

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle Edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or ‘paper mosaics’, which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. These delicate hand-cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs. Delany’s own invention, vie with the finest botanical works of her time. More than two centuries later her extraordinary work continues to inspire.

Exhibition schedule Yale Center for British Art, 24/9/09–3/1/10 Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 18/2/10–1/5/10

September 416 pp. 290x244mm.

10 b/w + 300 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14279-2 £40.00*

Although best known for these collages, Mrs. Delany was also an amateur artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland. Her prolific craft activities not only served to cement personal bonds of friendship, but also allowed her to negotiate the interconnecting artistic, aristocratic and scientific networks that surrounded her. This ambitious and groundbreaking book, the first to survey the full range of Mrs. Delany’s creative endeavours, reveals the complexity of her engagement with natural science, fashion and design.

Mark Laird is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Alicia Weisberg-Roberts is assistant Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art Translation rights: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

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Ships and the sea through the eyes of one of the most remarkable painters of the early twentieth century John Singer Sargent, Atlantic Sunset, c. 1876–78.

Private collection.

Sargent and the Sea Sarah Cash and Richard Ormond As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between the ages of 18 and 23 he started his career as a professional painter with a remarkable range of maritime works that form the subject of this exhibition and book. The key works are the two versions of the Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878 on the northern coast of Brittany in France, and the group of studies and sketches around them.

Sarah Cash is the Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery, where she has curated shows including Encouraging American Genius; Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms; and The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women.

Richard Ormond is director of the Sargent catalogue raisonné project and the artist’s great-nephew. He was formerly director of the National Maritime Museum, London.

October 192 pp. 280x230mm.

30 b/w + 100 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14360-7 £30.00*

The authors relate Sargent’s freely handled marine drawings, large and small, to his watercolours, oil sketches and finished oil paintings of marine subjects. The works demonstrate his transition from a plein-air painter to a tonalist exploring interiors and urban scenes. Also presented is a unique scrapbook, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that includes more than 50 drawings and sketches, mostly of sea scenes, and postcards and commercial photography of works of art, architecture and tourist views. This scrapbook provides an intimate glimpse at the thoughts and experiences of the young artist on his first European voyage.

Exhibition schedule Corcoran Gallery, Washington 12/9/09 – 3/1/10 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 14/2/10 – 23/5/10 Royal Academy of Arts, London 10/7/10 – 23/9/10

Published in association with the Corcoran Gallery, Washington

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1688 The First Modern Revolution Steve Pincus For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution— bloodless, consensual, aristocratic and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.

By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England’s revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries.

Steve Pincus is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668, and England’s Glorious Revolution: A Brief History with Documents.

October 672 pp. 254x178mm. 72 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11547-5 £28.00*

James II developed a modernisation programme that emphasised centralised control, repression of dissidents and territorial empire.

The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasised its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution—not the French Revolution— the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book recasts the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Boyle Between God and Science Michael Hunter Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world’s most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker—pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated by alchemy and magic and privately plagued with doubts about faith and conscience, which troubled the rational vision he heralded.

Michael Hunter is Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London.

This extraordinary work is the first biography of Boyle in a generation, and the culminating achievement of a world-renowned expert on the scientist. Deftly navigating Boyle’s voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers, Hunter’s complete and intimate account gives us the man rather than myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner. Lively, perceptive and full of original insights, this is the definitive account of a remarkable man and the changing world in which he lived.

September 400 pp. 234x156mm. 46 illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4 £25.00*

“In recent years nobody has done more than Michael Hunter to enhance and extend our knowledge and understanding of Boyle’s life and work.”—John Henry, author of The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science

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The Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia James C. Scott For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organised state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labour, epidemics and warfare. This book, essentially an ‘anarchist history’, is the first examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.

A radically different approach to history, telling the story of the deliberately stateless peoples who occupy a vast tract of land in Asia called Zomia October 464 pp. 234x156mm.

2 b/w illus. + 7 maps ISBN 978-0-300-15228-9 £20.00*

James Scott tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilisation, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and views state-making as a form of ‘internal colonialism’. Scott’s work represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive communities.

James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Treasures of the Earth Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future Saleem H. Ali Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali’s pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific detail and humanistic nuance. It argues that simply disavowing consumption of materials is not likely to help in planning for a resource-scarce future, given global inequality, development imperatives and our goals for a democratic global society.

A pioneering exploration of human wants and needs and the natural resources we consume November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14161-0 £22.50*

Rather than suppress the creativity and desire to discover that is often embedded in the exploration and production of material goods—which he calls ‘the treasure impulse’—Ali proposes a new environmental paradigm, one that accepts our need to consume ‘treasure’ for cultural and developmental reasons, but warns of our concomitant need to conserve. In evaluating the impact of treasure consumption on resource-rich countries, he argues that there is a way to consume responsibly and alleviate global poverty.

Saleem H. Ali is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont and serves on the adjunct faculty of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He was chosen in 2007 by Seed magazine as one of eight ‘Revolutionary Minds in the World’ for his work on using the environment to help resolve conflicts.

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Isabel Toledo Fashion from the Inside Out Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cubanborn Isabel Toledo has been honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and a Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion, given by The Museum at FIT. Yet her name and work have been, until recently, recognised only by fashion insiders. This ravishing book brings Toledo’s creations to a wider audience, places them within the context of contemporary fashion and examines her creative process.

Exhibition The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 6/09 – 10/09

September 288 pp. 305x235mm.

20 b/w + 300 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14583-0 £30.00*

Interviewing Toledo, her husband (fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo), and other colleagues, clients and critics, Valerie Steele gives an account of Toledo’s career and explains that while she has been heralded by fashion magazines, featured in stores in New York and Europe and is now favoured by new First Lady Michelle Obama, she has not had the long-term financial backing to break out of the niche market. Patricia Mears investigates the artistic and cultural influences on Toledo’s work and analyses her unusual methods of construction, noting that she designs in three dimensions in her mind and then begins working directly with fabric. Displaying garments Toledo has created since her first show in 1985, this book is a revelatory exploration of a fashion innovator in a mass-market industry.

Valerie Steele is Director and Patricia Mears is Deputy Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

American Beauty Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion Patricia Mears This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from late 1910 to the present day. It reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American’s best fashion designers.

Ralph Rucci, black silk jersey fluted top, duchess satin skirt with bleached brushstrokes, fall/winter 2003. Photo: William Palmer

Exhibition The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 11/09 – 1/10

January 192 pp. 300x235mm. 120 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15535-8 £29.99*

Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng and Maria Comejo. James’s grand and structurally imposing gowns from the 1950s appear alongside contemporary Infantas by Ralph Rucci; the section on draping juxtaposes 1930s gowns by Elizabeth Hawes and Valentina with more contemporary garments by Jean Yu and Isabel Toledo; clothing cut into pure geometric shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles is illustrated

by World War I-era teagowns by Jessie Franklin Turner, Claire McCardell’s mid-century rompers garments and modern sportswear by Yeohlee and Shamask. Mears demonstrates that artistry, innovation and flawless construction are the true marks of American fashion.

Patricia Mears is Deputy Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion and coauthor of Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness, both published by Yale.

Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

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Andy Warhol Arthur C. Danto In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol’s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanent residence in the imagination.

An elegant, masterful portrait of Andy Warhol’s life, character and lasting influence by the eminent art critic Arthur C. Danto

November 192 pp. 210x140mm. 6 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13555-8 £18.00*

Danto suggests that ‘what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art’.

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University. Danto is the art critic for The Nation and the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life, After the End of Art and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, among others.

Icons of America

Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York

Sin A History Gary A. Anderson What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors.

Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God’s eyes.

Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation.

A ground-breaking history of sin in the Jewish and Christian traditions, by a preeminent biblical scholar

October 288 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14989-0 £20.00*

Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience.

Gary A. Anderson is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame.

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Czechoslovakia The State That Failed Mary Heimann This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992—from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again.

The most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English

The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation which was sacrificed at Munich in 1938, betrayed to the Soviets in 1948 and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies and pave the way for the Communist police state.

She also reveals Alexander Dubcek, held to be a national hero and standard-bearer for democracy, as an unprincipled apparatchik. Well written, revisionist and accessible, this groundbreaking book should become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.

Mary Heimann is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

October 400 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14147-4 £25.00*

On the Death and Life of Languages Claude Hagège Translated by Jody Gladding Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death.

By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalised—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behaviour that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again.

Renowned linguist Claude Hagège offers innovative perspectives on the life and death of languages

Claude Hagège is the Chair of Linguistic Theory at the Collège de France in Paris. He is the author of more than fifteen books and the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Gold Medal from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

October 368 pp. 210x140mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-13733-0 £20.00*

An Odile Jacob Book Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob, Paris

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A Portrait of the Brain Adam Zeman Adam Zeman tells the stories of patients with a variety of neurological disorders, some familiar (epilepsy, chronic fatigue, stroke, memory loss) and others relatively mysterious (narcolepsy, chronic déjà vu, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Chapter by chapter he reveals the various levels of the brain, from the atom to the mind, and explores what happens when workings at each level go awry. Zeman requires of his readers no specialist knowledge, yet takes us to the very frontiers of current scientific knowledge and elucidates the workings of the brain in astonishing detail. “this is an excellent introduction to the subject . . . Professor Zeman comes across as the kind of man one would be glad to consult if anything went wrong inside one’s skull.”

—Nigel Hawkes, The Times “Zeman weaves case studies of patients together with basic science, history, etymology, classical literature and art to produce an erudite discourse on brain components.”

—Sandra Aamodt, Nature “This book is, in short, a remarkable achievement . . . Neurology has found a fine advocatet.” —The Lancet “A fascinating tale about what we do know about the brain, and what happens when it goes wrong . . . [Zeman] comes across as a lucid explainer of scientific complexity, but also as a humane medical practitioner.”—Clive Cookson, Financial Times Adam Zeman is Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Peninsula Medical School, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. He is the author of Consciousness: A User’s Guide, published by Yale.

July 256 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15831-1 £9.99* Translation rights: Conville and Walsh, London

The Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library Marcus Tanner This book is the first in English to tell the gripping story of the Matthias Corvinus of Hungary—known as the Raven King—and of the fate of his fabled 2000-volume library. “a fascinating book . . . Tanner has a shrewd sense of character and a vivid eye for detail, and he succeeds in bringing to life the politics of Matthias’s reign, with all its dynastic in-fighting and geopolitical jockeying for position.”—Noel Malcolm, The Daily Telegraph “A fascinating yet little-known true-life tale that has all the hallmarks of gripping fiction.”

—The Independent on Sunday Marcus Tanner is a journalist and writer, editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and a leader-writer for The Independent. His previous books include Croatia, Ireland’s Holy Wars and The Last of the Celts, all published by Yale.

September 288 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15828-1 £12.99* Translation rights: A.P. Watt Ltd, London

The Invention of Scotland Myth and History Hugh Trevor-Roper This book, now in paperback, is a characteristically robust and controversial account of Scottish myth and history by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of Britain’s greatest historians. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers and intrigue many others.

“This work, more or less completed almost 30 years ago and now published for the first time reminds us of (Hugh Trevor-Roper’s) talent . . . [A] vastly entertaining and highly intelligent book.”—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph “a stunning piece of detective work”—Colin Kidd, London Review Books Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre of Glanton) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a prolific scholar. His last book, Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, was published by Yale in 2006.

September 304 pp. 216x138mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15829-8 £9.99*

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India The Rise of an Asian Giant Dietmar Rothermund With growing economic might, new political influence, and changing social dynamics, India has emerged as a major world power in the twenty-first century. This book charts the important features of India’s development since its independence in 1947, assessing those forces that have contributed to the nation’s growth as well as those that have impeded it. Through the lens of India’s past, Dietmar Rothermund offers a new perspective on India today and a fascinating look into the nation’s future.

“If anybody knows about modern India its Dietmar Rothermund . . .

He is, as he puts it himself, “a witness who has watched India for nearly half a century” . . . [this is] a meticulous historian’s collection of facts, backed by a lifetime’s work.”—William Leith, The Spectator

An authoritative analysis of the political, economic and social developments behind India’s dramatic rise in global stature

October 288 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15827-4 £9.99*

“India: The Rise of an Asian Giant is an excellent book for the patient reader intent on understanding the intricacies of India’s political economy.”—Piali Roy, Far Eastern Economic Review “looks in detail at all aspects of Indian life from its political and religious structure, through the problems of poverty, to its burgeoning economy.”—Good Book Guide Dietmar Rothermund is Professor Emeritus of South Asian history, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

No German rights. Rights sold: Arabic, Eng. Reprint (India)

Pakistan Eye of the Storm • Third Edition Owen Bennett Jones This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones’s marketleading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.

“Bennett Jones’s intelligent book is an excellent source of information.”—Anatol Lieven, London Review of Books “I found it difficult to put down . . . Bennett Jones has that rare objectivity and realism that are the fruits of many years’ reporting and presenting on Pakistan for the various current affairs programmes of the World Service . . . For the general reader who expects Pakistan to give the world some hair-raising moments over the next few years, the cost of this book is justified by its introductory and concluding chapters alone.”—Hazhir Teimourian, The Literary Review A look at Pakistan’s past, an account of its recent history and an assessment of its future options

“Owen Bennett Jones is well placed to tell the Pakistan story . . .

For anyone interested in the history of Pakistan and in putting into context events in the region today, this book is very helpful.”

—Miriam Donohoe, Irish Times

September 368 pp. 198x129mm. 32 b/w illus. + 4 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15475-7 £12.99*

Owen Bennett Jones was a BBC correspondent in Pakistan between 1998 and 2001. He has written for The Guardian, Financial Times, The Independent, the London Review of Books and Prospect.

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The Serbs History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia • Third Edition Tim Judah Journalist Tim Judah’s classic account, now brought fully up to date to include the overthrow of Miloševic, the assassination of Zoran Djindic, the breakaway of Kosovo and the arrest of Radovan Karadžic.

“Judah . . . offers a highly readable history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present, with judicious comments on the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Nato’s bombing campaign. It is one of the best attempts to explain a situation which has baffled the West throughout history.”—The Glasgow Herald “Readable and stimulating . . . Judah’s book is a polemical attempt to counter the ‘demonisation’ of the Serbs. But it is far from being a whitewash: with very few exceptions, he successfully walks the tightrope between ‘balance’ and relativisation.”—Brendan Simms, The Times Higher Education Exploring the Serbian nation from the great epics of distant history to the battlefields of Bosnia and the backstreets of Kosovo September 368 pp. 198x129mm. 40 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15826-7 £12.99*

“Tim Judah’s book is an ambitious and valiant attempt to bring together the real history of the Serbs and the myths and theories in which that history was handed down.”—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard “A stunning new history.”—Robert Fisk, Irish Times “A very good book . . . Judah cleverly interprets Serbia’s sad present in the light of its past.”—The Sunday Times Tim Judah was Balkans correspondent for The Times and The Economist, and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

The Ukrainians Unexpected Nation • Third Edition Andrew Wilson This book is the most acute, informed and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people. Andrew Wilson brings his classic work up to the present, through the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, including the 2006 election, the ensuing crisis of 2007, the Ukrainian response to the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the economic crisis in Ukraine and the 2009 gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. It looks forward to the key election in 2010, which will revisit many of the issues that were thought settled in 2004.

“A lively, detailed and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are important, and it should become required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe.”

—The Literary Review A comprehensive guide to modern Ukraine and to the versions of its past propagated by both Russians and Ukrainians October 384 pp. 198x129mm.

36 b/w + 16 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15476-4 £14.99*

“This important book is elegantly written and rich in information from various sources, in inspiring insights and interpretations . . .

It is fascinating reading.”—Slavic Review Andrew Wilson is reader in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.

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The Discovery of Mankind Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus David Abulafia Emphasising contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world.

“This is a fine book, a rare combination of careful scholarship and story-telling ability that breathes vivid life into the events of five centuries past. It is also a salutary reminder that the discovery of mankind is a process not yet complete.”—Kevin Rushby, The Guardian “This book is a wonderful work of scholarship. While it vividly conveys the European fascination, confusion and puzzlement with the peoples of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and north east Brazil, soberly it records the violence and changing attitudes which followed, as the early years of cross-cultural contact were overtaken by the harsh reality of conquest and enslavement.”—John Appleby, BBC History Magazine David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

September 408 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15821-2 £16.00* Translation rights: A.M. Heath & Co, London

Shopping in the Renaissance Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600 Evelyn Welch This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics.

“To reconstruct the activity of shopping in the Renaissance, Welch deploys an extraordinarily wide range of material . . . Her valuable book offers the reader an acute insight into the origins of our present-day consumer culture.”—RA Magazine “outstanding . . . written with such a pace that you’re hooked before you have a chance to feel scared by the scholarship.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “the real delight of this work lies in its attention to the details of everyday life . . . Like a thrifty housewife making over a dress with fragments of rich velvet, the reader can piece together from these anecdotes a vivid portrait of a society with an irrepressible eye for a bargain.”—Sally Korman, The Art Newspaper Winner of the Wolfson Foundation History Prize 2005 Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and was formerly Reader in the History of Art, University of Sussex. She is the author of Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan, published by Yale.

October 256 pp. 230x171mm. 80 b/w + 40 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15985-1 £18.99*

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The Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread Maria Balinska Now in paperback, a captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries. “[The bagel has] found a fresh and lively chronicler in Maria Balinska, who seems as much at home with the bagel’s Polish and Jewish past as with its all-American present . . . Light and piquant, and yet at the same time seriously satisfying, The Bagel is anything but stodgy fare.”

—Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman “Balinska offers a kind of history of and love-letter to Jewish culture through a series of breadbased snapshots. She ranges stylishly from the lifting of the siege of Vienna . . . through . . . the Nazi ghettos . . . to the post-war New York bagel-baking unions and the gradual transformation of the bagel into an ‘allAmerican’ food.”—Steven Poole, The Guardian Maria Balinska is currently the Editor of BBC Radio’s World Current Affairs Department.

October 240 pp. 178x138mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15820-5 £10.00*

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Edward II Seymour Phillips Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime, and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and of significance only through sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn adherence to greedy and ambitious favourites, he has been presented as fit only to be deposed and replaced by someone more worthy of the throne.

The latest definitive biography in the acclaimed Yale English Monarchs series

January 650 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 £25.00*

This definitive biography, the fruit of a lifetime’s study, does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: the mere fact of his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. But Seymour Phillips’ scrutiny of the multitude of available sources shows that a richer picture emerges, in line with the complexity of events and of the man himself.

If Edward II was not a successful king, neither was he fundamentally different in many ways from most English monarchs. The biography strikes a deft balance, taking full account of the problems the king faced in England, Scotland and Ireland, and in his relations with France. It also tackles the contentious issue of whether Edward II did not die in 1327, murdered in barbaric circumstances, but lived on as a captive in England and then a wanderer on the Continent. Eight hundred years on, a king’s life is properly examined.

Seymour Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University College, Dublin, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

The English Monarchs Series

The Enlightened Economy An Economic History of Britain 1700–1850 Joel Mokyr This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognising the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain’s Age of Enlightenment.

This incisive examination of the origins of the modern economy during the Industrial Revolution also explains why this phenomenon came to fruition in Britain September 352 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-12455-2 £30.00*

In a vigorous discussion, Mokyr goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society to show that the beginnings of modern economic growth in Britain depended a great deal on what key players knew and believed, and how those beliefs affected their economic behaviour. He argues that Britain led the rest of Europe into the Industrial Revolution because it was there that the optimal intersection of ideas, culture, institutions and technology existed to make rapid economic growth achievable.

His wide-ranging evidence covers sectors of the British economy often neglected, such as the service industries.

Joel Mokyr is Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, and Sackler Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University.

The New Economic History of Britain Series Translation rights: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London

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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World Jeffrey Herf Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the shocking transcriptions of the ‘Axis Broadcasts in Arabic’ radio programmes, which convey a strongly anti-Semitic message.

Herf explores the intellectual, political and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam. Pro-Nazi Arab exiles in wartime Berlin, including Haj el-Husseini and Rashid el-Kilani, collaborated with the Nazis in constructing their Middle East propaganda campaign. By integrating the political and military history of the war in the Middle East with the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the propagandistic diffusion of Nazi ideology, Herf offers the most thorough examination to date of this important chapter in the history of World War II. Importantly, he also shows how the anti-Semitism promoted by the Nazi propaganda effort contributed to the anti-Semitism exhibited by adherents of radical forms of Islam in the Middle East today.

Jeffrey Herf is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is the author of several books, including Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust and Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys.

January 384 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14579-3 £20.00*

Genocide Before the Holocaust Cathie Carmichael There is an appalling symmetry to the many instances of genocide that the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world witnessed. In the wake of the breakup of the Hapsburg, Ottoman and Romanov empires, minority populations throughout those lands were persecuted, expelled and eliminated. The reason for the deplorable decimations of communities—Jews in Imperial Russia and Ukraine; Ottoman Assyrians, Armenians and Muslims from the Caucasus and Balkans—was, Cathie Carmichael contends, located in the very roots of the new nation-states arising from the imperial rubble. The question of who should be included in the nation—and which groups were now to be deemed ‘suspect’ or ‘alien’—was one that preoccupied and divided Europe long before the Holocaust.

Examining all the major eliminations of communities in Europe up until 1941, Carmichael shows how hotbeds of nationalism, racism and developmentalism resulted in devastating manifestations of genocidal ideology. Dramatic, perceptive and poignant, this is the story of disappearing civilisations—precursors to one of humanity’s worst atrocities, and part of the legacy of genocide in the modern world. “breaks new ground in charting the genesis of exclusionary thinking and violence. The interdisciplinary approach is unmatched: any reader will gain new insights about how generations came to develop, understand and also resist mass killing.”

—Ben Lieberman, Fitchburg State University, author of Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing and the Making of Modern Europe Cathie Carmichael is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans, Language and Nationalism in Europe and Slovenia and the Slovenes.

August 256 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12117-9 £25.00

The Death of the Shtetl Yehuda Bauer In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, tells about the destruction of the small Jewish townships, the shtetls, in what was the eastern part of Poland by the Nazis in 1941–1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, testimonies and scholarship, including previously unpublished material from the Yad Vashem archives, pertaining to nine representative shtetls. In line with his belief that ‘history is the story of real people in real situations’, Bauer tells moving stories about what happened to individual Jews and their communities.

Over a million people, approximately a quarter of all victims of the Holocaust, came from the shtetls.

Bauer writes of the relations between Jews and non-Jews (including the actions of rescuers); he describes attempts to create underground resistance groups, some people’s escape to the forests and Jewish participation in the Soviet partisan movement. Bauer’s book is a definitive examination of the demise of the shtetls, a topic of vast importance to the history of the Holocaust.

Yehuda Bauer is Academic Adviser at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University.

He is the author of many books, including Rethinking the Holocaust, published by Yale.

January 256 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15209-8 £25.00*

Hebrew rights: held by the author

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Children of the Gulag Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception to Joseph Stalin’s death. When parents were arrested, executed or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions of children, labelled ‘socially dangerous’, lost parents, homes and siblings.

Co-edited by Cathy A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and Semyon S. Vilensky, Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, the book offers documentary and personal perspectives.

The editors present top-secret documents in translation from the Russian state archives, memoirs and interviews with child survivors. The editors’ narrative reveals how such prolonged child victimisation could occur, who knew about it, and who tried to intervene on the children’s behalf.

The editors show how the emotions from childhood trauma persist into the twenty-first century, passing from victims to their children and grandchildren. Interviews with child survivors also display their resilient ability to fashion productive lives despite family destruction and stigma.

February 448 pp. 234x156mm. 29 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12293-0 £40.00* Russian rights: held by the authors

Cathy A. Frierson has held the Class of 1941 and Arthur K. Whitcomb Research Professorships at the University of New Hampshire and is the author or editor of a number of books about Russia. Semyon Samuilovich Vilensky was a Gulag prisoner and journalist who serves as chair of the Moscow literary-historical society ‘The Return’ and on the Russian Federation’s Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression. He is also the editor of Till My Tale Is Told, a collection of memoirs by women prisoners in the Gulag.

Annals of Communism Series

TRIPLEX Secrets from the Cambridge Spies Edited by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government’s official histories. TRIPLEX was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London.

MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin’s intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail. “[The first] complete report [on the Cambridge Five that] gives the reader the opportunity to judge for himself the extent of the damage done to the British service concerned . . . [will be] greeted with enthusiasm by specialists in intelligence history.”—David Murphy, former CIA Berlin chief, former chief of Soviet operations at CIA headquarters in the United States and author of What Stalin Knew October 384 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-12347-0 £25.00*

Nigel West is a renowned British historian of military intelligence and has written more than 25 related books. Oleg Tsarev is a retired KGB officer who has co-written a number of books on wartime espionage and intelligence.

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Oceans of Wine

Civil Society and Empire

Madeira and the Organization of the Atlantic World, 1640–1815

Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

David Hancock

“This book is a powerful, intellectually engaged and sophisticated reading of the intertwining histories of Ireland, Scotland and England in the eighteenth century.”

—Toby Barnard, Oxford University

This innovative book examines how, between 1640 and 1815, the Portuguese Madeira wine trade shaped the Atlantic world and American society. David Hancock painstakingly reconstructs the lives of producers, distributors and consumers, as well as the economic and social structures created by globalising commerce, to reveal an intricate interplay between individuals and market forces.

Using voluminous archives pertaining to wine, many of them previously unexamined, Hancock offers a dramatic new perspective on the economic and social development of the Atlantic world by challenging traditional interpretations that have identified states and empires as the driving force behind trade. He demonstrates convincingly just how decentralised the early modern commercial system was, as well as how selforganised, a system that emerged from the actions of market participants working across imperial lines. The networks they formed began as commercial structures and expanded into social and political systems that were conduits not only for wine but also for ideas about reform, revolution and independence.

David Hancock is an Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies October 648 pp. 234x156mm. 57 b/w + 16 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13605-0 £40.00*

James Livesey

James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society—an ideal of collective life between the family and politics—not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the empire’s governance, until the limits of the concept were revealed.

The concept of civil society continues to have direct relevance for contemporary political theory and action. Livesey demonstrates how western governments, for example, have appealed to the values of civil society in their projections of power in Bosnia and Iraq. Civil society has become an object central to current ideological debate, and this book offers a thought-provoking discussion of its beginnings, objectives and current nature.

James Livesey has taught at Trinity College Dublin and Harvard University and is Reader at the University of Sussex.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies October 304 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-13902-0 £35.00*

The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680–1860

Dominion from Sea to Sea

P. M. Harman

Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

This wide-ranging book investigates the emergence of modern ideas about the natural world in Britain from 1680–1860 through an examination of the cultural values common to the sciences, art, literature and natural theology.

During this critical period, spanned

by Newtonian science and natural theology, Darwin’s Origin of Species, and Ruskin’s Modern Painters, the fundamental conception of nature and humanity’s place within it changed.

P. M. Harman calls for a new understanding of the varied ways in which the British comprehended natural beauty, from the perception of nature as a ‘design’ flowing from God’s creative power to the Darwinian naturalistic aesthetic. Harman connects a variety of differing views of nature deriving from religion, science, visual art, philosophy and literature to developments in agriculture, manufacture and the daily lives of individuals. This ambitious and accessible book represents intellectual history at its best.

P. M. Harman is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Lancaster University.

October 352 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8 £45.00

Bruce Cumings America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that relations with Asia influenced American history greatly.

Cumings chronicles how the movement westward, from the Middle West to the Pacific, has shaped America’s industrial, technological, military and global rise to power. He unites domestic and international history, international relations and political economy to demonstrate how technological change and sharp economic growth have created a truly bicoastal national economy that has led the world for more than a century.

Bruce Cumings is Chair of the History Department at the University of Chicago and author of the award-winning book The Origins of the Korean War.

January 608 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w + 13 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11188-0 £30.00*

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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters Louis Begley In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court martialled for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a hell hole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards—committed to restoring freedom and honour to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another—against nationalists, anti-Semites and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army’s top brass in order to secure Dreyfus’s conviction.

An anatomy of the infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer that has profound implications for our own time

October 272 pp. 197x134mm. 1 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12532-0 £18.00*

Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? In Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of our liberties and honour.

Louis Begley is a bestselling novelist and a lawyer who retired after a 45-year career as partner in one of America’s great law firms. His fiction includes Wartime Lies, About Schmidt and Matters of Honor.

Why X Matters Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York

The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man’s Encounter with Liberty J. William Harris In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 ‘Free Negros’ in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1000, possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites—who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot—of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British.

Chief among the accusers was Henry Laurens, Charleston’s leading patriot, a slave owner and former slave trader, who would later become the president of the Continental Congress. Lord William Campbell, royal governor of the colony, who passionately believed the accusation was unjust, tried to save Jeremiah’s life but failed. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. In August, 1775, he was hanged and his body burned.

The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own

January 240 pp. 234x156mm. 22 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15214-2 £20.00*

J. William Harris tells Jeremiah’s story in full for the first time, illuminating the contradiction between a nation that would be born in a struggle for freedom and yet deny it—often violently—to others.

J. William Harris is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500–1877, Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in history) and Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta’s Hinterlands.

Translation rights: Elaine Markson Literary Agency, New York

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The Italian Inquisition

The Cartoons That Shook the World

Christopher F. Black

Jytte Klausen

The Italian Inquisition, or Holy Office, was established in 1542, stimulated partly by the earlier Spanish operation. Certainly Spain’s ‘black legend’ affected opinions of the Inquisition in Italy, but as this pioneering book shows, there were significant differences between their operations, targets and casualties.

In this history of the Italian Inquisition, Christopher F. Black charts how it developed and changed over time. He maps its cumbersome means of command, supervision and action, as well as its role as a surprisingly approachable regulatory body working within communities. Ranging right across the Italian panorama, and rooting his enquiry in striking individual cases, Black uncovers Inquisitional procedure from denunciation to punishment. This scrupulous and richly rewarding book shows how the Inquisition shaped Italy’s religious and social worlds.

“Christopher Black has delivered the book that historians of early modern Europe have all been waiting for . . . a pleasure to read and will certainly live on as a significant contribution to a range of fields for many years to come.”—David Gentilcore, University of Leicester Christopher Black is Professor of History at the University of Glasgow. His previous books include Early Modern Italy: A Social History and Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy.

The World of the Censors in Early Mexico Martin Austin Nesvig This book is the first comprehensive treatment in English of the ideology and practice of the Inquisitional censors, focusing on the case of Mexico from the 1520s to the 1630s. Others have examined the effects of censorship, but Martin Nesvig employs a nontraditional approach that focuses on the inner logic of censorship in order to examine the collective mentality, ideological formation and practical application of ideology of the censors themselves.

Martin Nesvig is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico and Religious Culture in Modern Mexico.

October 384 pp. 234x156mm.

10 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14040-8 £40.00

Klausen interviewed politicians in the Middle East, Muslim leaders in Europe, the Danish editors and cartoonists and the Danish imam who started the controversy. Following the winding trail of protests across the world, she deconstructs the arguments and motives that drove the escalation of the increasingly globalised conflict. She concludes that the Muslim reaction to the cartoons was not—as was commonly assumed—a spontaneous emotional reaction arising out of the clash of Western and Islamic civilisations. Rather it was orchestrated, first by those with vested interests in elections in Denmark and Egypt, and later by Islamic extremists seeking to destabilise governments in Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya and Nigeria. Klausen shows how the cartoon crisis was, therefore, ultimately a political conflict rather than a colossal cultural misunderstanding.

Jytte Klausen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis University.

January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w + 4 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12472-9 £20.00*

August 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11706-6 £35.00

Ideology and Inquisition

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused debates around the world on freedom of expression, blasphemy and the nature of modern Islam.

Not available for sale in India and Pakistan

Policing Stalin’s Socialism Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953 David R. Shearer Policing Stalin’s Socialism is one of the first books to emphasise the importance of social order repression by Stalin’s Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians and the unemployed and unproductive.

David Shearer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War October 544 pp. 234x156mm.

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Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14925-8 £40.00

Land Reform in Russia Institutional Design and Behavioral Responses Stephen K. Wegren This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russia’s land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today.

In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division and agricultural production.

Wegren’s study is important and timely, as Russian land reform will have a profound effect on Russia’s ability to compete in an era of globalisation.

Stephen Wegren is Professor of Political Science and Director of International and Area Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series January 352 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15097-1 £40.00*

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A unique study that integrates architectural history, musicology and acoustics to throw new light on the sacred architecture and music of Renaissance Venice

Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice Architecture, Music, Acoustics Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti During the sixteenth-century, Venice was the setting for some of the most admired churches in the whole western canon, while major advances in the sophistication, richness and religious expression of choral polyphony led to pioneering developments in the evolution of stereophonic sound.

Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100–1500 and The Architectural History of Venice.

Laura Moretti is Scott Opler Research Fellow in Architectural History, Worcester College, Oxford.

October 256 pp. 241x171mm.

80 b/w + 40 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14874-9 £30.00*

The focus of this fascinating study is the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice. The designs of two of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, Sansovino and Palladio, are seen against the background of the innovative polyphonic choral music in split-choir formation (coro spezzato) pioneered in St Mark’s and disseminated as a result of the rapid development of music printing in Venice. Refined and elaborated, these innovations culminated in the sacred music of Monteverdi. The needs of elaborate state ceremonial stimulated the demand for musical virtuosity and imposing architectural settings, but the innovations filtered down to affect music in the simplest parish churches.

The book combines historical research into the architectural and liturgical traditions of a dozen Venetian churches with the results of a parallel series of scientific surveys of the acoustic properties of the chosen buildings. The research culminated in a programme of in situ choral experiments and acoustic measurements, carried out in Venice using the celebrated choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 2007, revealing the strong awareness of acoustic effects on the part of architects, musicians, patrons and churchmen of the Renaissance period.

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Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery Marcia Pointon Diamonds are not for ever—nor necessarily are they a girl’s best friend.

Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance. Marcia Pointon offers an in-depth study that, drawing on unpublished evidence, reveals the importance of artefacts produced by jewellers and horologists, and their significance in shaping people’s understanding of the world they live in.

Sumptuously illustrated, this novel book challenges the reader to reassess the importance of material things as powerful agents in human relations and in visual and verbal representation —no one reading it will ever see jewellery in the same way again

September 368 pp. 290x245mm.

100 b/w + 150 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14278-5 £45.00*

Pointon explores the capacity of jewels—whether crimson coral or translucent pearls—not only to fascinate but also to create disorder and controversy throughout history: what is materially precious is invariably contentious, whether in religious or in secular society; when what is precious is not gold bars or bonds but finely crafted artefacts made from hard-won imported materials, the stakes are particularly high.

The struggle for control of both material and meaning is paramount, whether in scientific discourse (as with John Ruskin’s crystallography) or in pictorial imagery, such as Poussin’s interpretation of the origin of coral. The presence of jewels can never be ignored and this remains so today whether in the bling favoured by international sports stars or the ‘rocks’ borrowed for the Oscars.

Marcia Pointon is Professor Emeritus in History of Art, Manchester University, and Honorary Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Ruskin on Venice ‘The Paradise of Cities’ Robert Hewison For John Ruskin, one of the leading cultural critics of the nineteenth century, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and faith were in creative harmony—‘The Paradise of Cities’. This was not the fallen city of the Renaissance, the Paradise Lost that it became in his lifetime, but the Gothic Eden that he imagined had existed before the sixteenth century. In this elegant and compelling book, Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city is traced: from 1835 he watched Venice change from post-Napoleonic ruin to a province of the Austrian Empire, and then experience new ruin in the revolution of 1848. Venice was witness to the failure of his marriage, and, later, the collapse of his hopes for a new one. By the time of Ruskin’s final visit in 1888 the march of modernity had made Venice a dead replica of its former glory.

January 500 pp. 256x192mm.

105 b/w + 25 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12178-0 £45.00*

Drawing on the rich resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks and manuscripts (including previously unpublished daguerreotypes from Ruskin’s own collection), Hewison offers fresh insights into both Ruskin and Venice and reveals how Ruskin’s work and his connection with the city from youth to old age have helped to shape the image of the Venice we know today.

Robert Hewison is Professor of Cultural Policy and Leadership Studies at the City University, London, Honorary Professor at Lancaster University and Associate, Demos. He writes for The Sunday Times and is author of many books.

Both of the above Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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The originality and variety of Walpole’s designing, building, collecting and publishing at Strawberry Hill can hardly be overstated The North Entrance of Strawberry Hill, coloured etching from A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole, 1783 (detail). The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Edited by Michael Snodin Horace Walpole (1717–1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham.

This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house.

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural and imagined histories.

Exhibition schedule Yale Center for British Art, 15/10/09 – 31/1/10 Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 6/3/10 – 4/7/10 Michael Snodin is Senior Research Fellow in the Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.

October 356 pp. 305x250mm.

300 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12574-0 £40.00*

Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Lewis Walpole Library

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The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment Celina Fox This book is about the people who did the work. The arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms—not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the mechanical arts or skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalise their work: drawing, modelmaking, societies and publications. These four channels—the central themes of this engrossing book—provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, validation and authorisation, promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.

Celina Fox is an independent scholar and museums advisor. She was the editor of London World City.

October 352 pp. 280x200mm.

200 b/w + 60 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0 £40.00*

The book also examines the status of the mechanical arts from the medieval period to the seventeenth century and explains how and why entrepreneurs, mechanics and artisans presented themselves to the world in portraits, and how industry was depicted in landscape and genre painting. The book concludes in the early nineteenth century when, despite the drive towards specialisation and exclusivity and the rise of the profession of engineer, the broad sweep of the mechanical arts retained a distinct identity for far longer than has generally been recognised. The debates their presence provoked concerning the relationship of theory to practice and the problematic nature of art and technical education are still with us today.

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Apostles of Beauty Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago Edited by Judith A. Barter • With essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah E. Kelly, Ellen E. Roberts, Brandon K. Ruud and Monica Obniski

Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 7/11/09 – 31/1/10

January 208 pp. 305x228mm.

220 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14113-9 £35.00*

The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. Apostles of Beauty presents outstanding examples by the movement’s British originators, such as William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee, as well as its greatest American practitioners, such as Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. The volume highlights a wide range of objects, including ceramics, furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs and textiles. It focuses on Chicago’s absorption and interpretation of the movement, featuring works from the Art Institute, the University of Chicago, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Crab Tree Farm and private collections.

Contributors to the book explore the complex influences of the Arts and Crafts style and provide a thematic history of the movement, including a section on design and collecting in Chicago.

Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sarah E. Kelly is the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Associate Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ellen E. Roberts is Assistant Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Brandon K. Ruud is Assistant Research Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Monica Obniski is a Research and Exhibition Assistant in the Department of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

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Richard Norman Shaw Revised edition Andrew Saint Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was the most fertile, representative and immediately influential domestic architect of the late Victorian period in England. His training and early career coincided with the heyday of the Gothic Revival, in which style he designed a handful of original churches. His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of the ‘Old English’ and ‘Queen Anne’ domestic styles which are largely associated with his name. A series of powerful urban buildings designed towards the end of Shaw’s career reveals him as one of the foremost proponents of a revived classicism.

Andrew Saint is the General Editor of The Survey of London and the author of The Image of the Architect, Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in PostWar England and Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry.

October 488 pp. 280x220mm.

200 b/w + 60 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15526-6 £40.00*

In each of these styles the piquant originality of Shaw’s designs and the brilliance of his planning captivated his contemporaries in the architectural and social world alike. He became the undisputed leading architect of his day and the precursor of such different talents as Lutyens and Voysey. In the United States, Shaw’s distinctive contribution to English domestic architecture played a formative part in the evolution of the Shingle Style.

This new edition of a major work offers a completely revised text and new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.

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Architecture in the Balkans From Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent, 300–1550 ^ ´ Slobodan Curcic´ This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends various established conventions in scholarship to present the architectural heritage in the Balkans in a manner that is accessible and ^ ´ ´ challenges notions derived from comprehensible. Slobodan Curcic ‘modern’ national historiographies that view architectural heritage within the confines of modern political boundaries as ‘national’ heritage with privileged ‘national’ status and relevance, that frame historical ‘periods’ by relying on western art-historical conventions and that perceive historical events and developments as direct determinants of cultural history. ^

´ ´ is Professor in the Slobodan Curcic Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, and Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

January 608 pp. 290x248mm.

600 b/w + 100 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11570-3 £50.00*

Throughout the book architecture is viewed as a function of distinctive needs (social, political, religious), distinctive means (economic, technical know-how, material availability) and distinctive goals (aesthetic, propagandistic, protective). As a result, the book covers the full range of architectural enterprises, from simple residential buildings, to public monumental structures; from fortifications, to utilitarian buildings (cisterns, bridges, etc). The urban context of architecture is emphasised, while its role in rural settings is used as a gauge of other distinctive phenomena.

Illustrated with several hundreds of photographs and drawings, most of them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown body of material in a distinctive, unprecedented manner.

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Interaction of Color New Complete Edition Josef Albers • Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber One of the most influential books on colour ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened colour plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles.

Lavishly produced as a two-volume slipcased set, this beautiful new edition replicates Albers’s revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as colour relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of colour, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of colour. Also included for the first time are new studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist’s students in the early 1960s.

Josef Albers was one of the most influential artist-educators of the 20th century. Nicholas Fox Weber is Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Published in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation November Vol. 1: 144 pp.; Vol. 2: 156 pp. 343x279mm. 150 colour illus. Slipcased set ISBN 978-0-300-14693-6 £150.00*

Luis Meléndez Master of the Spanish Still Life Gretchen Hirschauer, Catherine Metzger, Peter Cherry and Natacha Sesena An exquisite look at the life and work of Luis Meléndez, one of eighteenth-century Europe’s greatest still-life painters.

Exhibition schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, 17/5/09 – 23/8/09 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 23/9/09 – 3/1/10 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 31/1//10 – 9/5/10 Gretchen Hirschauer is Associate Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Catherine Metzger is Senior Conservator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Peter Cherry is Professor and Head of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College in Dublin. Natacha Sesena is an independent historian.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington June 200 pp. 292x238mm. 40 b/w + 143 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15880-9 £40.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington

Playing with Pictures The Art of Victorian Photocollage Elizabeth Siegel • With essays by Patrizia Di Bello and Marta Weiss Contributions by Miranda Hofelt Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvellous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s. Often made by women for albums, they reveal the educated minds and accomplished hands of their makers, taking on the new theory of evolution, addressing the changing role of photography and challenging the strict conventions of aristocratic society. Although these photocollages may seem wonderfully odd to us now, the authors argue that they are actually perfectly in keeping with the Victorian sensibility that embraced juxtaposition and variety.

This book, the first to examine fully the phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presents imagery that has rarely been reproduced.

Illuminating text provides a history of Victorian photocollage albums, identifies the common motifs found in them and demonstrates the distinctly modern character of the medium, which paved the way for the avant-garde potential of both photography and collage.

Exhibition schedule Art Institute of Chicago, 10/10/09 – 3/1/10; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2/2/10 – 9/5/10 Elizabeth Siegel is Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. Patrizia Di Bello is a Lecturer in the History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck College, University of London. Marta Weiss is the Curator of Photographs in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago November 200 pp. 248x279mm. 40 b/w + 140 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14114-6 £35.00* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

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Ingres Painting Reimagined Susan L. Siegfried

Susan L. Siegfried is Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, co-author of Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David and co-editor of Fingering Ingres.

October 320 pp. 256x192mm.

100 b/w + 40 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14883-1 £40.00*

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. The odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics and artists today. For the most part scholars have sought to make sense of that strangeness either by examining the vicissitudes of the artist’s critical reputation or by appealing to his supposed intellectual and psychic limitations. Siegfried argues that this strangeness needs to be located in the complex and richly invested nature of the work itself as well as in Ingres’s very powerful, if often perverse, sense of artistic project. She shows that his major re-thinking of pictorial narrative—in his classical literary, historical and religious subjects—was as central to his achievement as his distinctive rendering of the female figure in classical nudes and portraits. He was engaged in a complex process of giving visual form to narrative, which he did in new and unusual ways that involved him in a close reading of the texts on which he drew, including authors such as Homer, Virgil, Ariosto and Dante, as well as religious narratives and stories about medieval and early modern French history.

This handsomely illustrated and elegantly written book takes full account of the different and seemingly divergent aspects of Ingres’s work and encompasses a wide range of his activities as an artist and of the different registers in which he operated, including his obsessive research into source material, his proliferating drawing practice and his intensive working and reworking of his finished paintings.

Muralnomad The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927–1957 Romy Golan Frequently political and part of a concerted effort by artists and patrons during the early decades of the twentieth century to address a broad public, murals and large mural-like works often had a greater visibility and larger audience than paintings that are acknowledged today as masterpieces. Large and monumental, and made in many different media, they were also often ephemeral: their lifespan typically ended with the closing of an exhibition.

Romy Golan is Associate Professor of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center.

She is the author of Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France between the Wars.

October 256 pp. 280x230mm.

120 b/w + 40 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14153-5 £40.00*

In this fascinating book, Romy Golan explores murals and mural-like works in Europe from the end of the First World War to the late 1950s, beginning with Monet’s work on the Nymphéas installation in the Musée de l’Orangerie and ending dramatically with Le Corbusier’s huge tapestries in Chandigarh, India. Along the way, she charts the work of Léger, Le Corbusier, Sironi, Pagano, Picasso and others, and makes a convincing and elegant case for the important position mural art, and critical debates on monumental public painting, occupied in this period.

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Kienholz ‘The Hoerengracht’ Colin Wiggins and Annemarie de Wildt

Edward Kienholz and Nancy Redin, The Hoerengracht (installation detail), 1984–8.

Private collection © Kienholz Estate, courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice CA.

The Hoerengracht (1983–8) is an installation artwork by Ed Kienholz (American, 1927–1994) and his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. This tableau––a surprising sight in the National Gallery–– is a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s red-light district, with glowing windows and claustrophobic streets. With its statements on morality, vanitas and composition of secret spaces and receding views, The Hoerengracht resonates powerfully with painting by Dutch masters of the 17th century. The work was the last major piece made by the Kienholzes before Ed died and remains a major reference point for contemporary artists such as Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Damien Hirst.

The generously illustrated catalogue positions The Hoerengracht and Kienholz in a new perspective.

Exhibition schedule National Gallery, London, 18/11/09 – 21/2/2010 Amsterdam Historisch Museum, dates tbc

The National Gallery • London

October 56 pp. 265x245mm.

40 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-453-4 £9.99*

Colin Wiggins is Acting Head of Education at the National Gallery, London. He is the author of numerous books, including Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting, Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories, Ron Mueck, John Virtue: London Paintings and Alison Watt: Phantom.

Annemarie de Wildt is conservator/curator at the Amsterdam Historisch Museum (Museum Willet-Holthuysen), which will be the second location for the exhibition.

A Closer Look

A Closer Look

Faces

Saints

Alexander Sturgis

Erika Langmuir

Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery’s collection and it is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the drama of a story, or the character of a sitter in a portrait.

Drawing on the National Gallery’s comprehensive collection of religious images, A Closer Look: Saints explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting.

A Closer Look: Faces examines a wide array of fascinating faces found in paintings at the National Gallery. It explains why artists in the past created faces to look as they do, what painters through the ages have considered the ‘ideal’ face, how faces are painted, and the reasons for the development of portrait painting. Illustrated with seventy pictures and beautiful details, this book provides an insider’s view of the many faces in Western European art.

Alexander Sturgis is director of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath and was formerly Exhibitions Curator at the National Gallery, London. His publications include Telling Time and Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century.

September 96 pp. 210x140mm. 100 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-464-0 £7.99*

Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of saints in the National Gallery collection and, using examples of works by artists such as Raphael, Dürer and Crivelli, explains the sometimes puzzling conventions for identifying saints by their attributes. She describes how saints became a crucial part of the Christian church and the increasing importance of saintly relics in the Middle Ages.

She provides an introduction to a wide variety of personalities, from the ambiguous penitent Mary Magdalen to the revered Saint Jerome and Saint Francis of Assisi.

Erika Langmuir, OBE, was Head of Education at the National Gallery, London, and is the author of many books, among them Masterpieces and The National Gallery Companion Guide, both distributed by Yale.

September 96 pp. 210x140mm. 100 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-465-7 £7.99*

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The Sacred Made Real Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700 Xavier Bray, Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone With contributions by Eleonora Luciano, Maria Fernanda Morón de Castro, Maria del Valme Muñoz Rubio, Rocio Izquierdo Moreno, Ignacio Hermoso Romero and Marjorie Trusted

This book is the first serious study in English to reappraise an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, sculptors such as Juan de Mesa, Juan Martínez Montañés, Alonso Cano and Pedro de Mena worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of the saints, the Immaculate Conception and the Passion of Christ were painstakingly carved, gessoed and intricately painted, even embellished with glass eyes and tears and ivory teeth. Sometimes shockingly graphic in their depiction of Christ’s sufferings, or beautifully clothed, as if brought to life, these were objects of divine inspiration to the faithful, whether on altars, or processed through the streets on holy days.

Exhibition schedule The National Gallery, London, 10/09 – 1/10 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2/10 – 5/10

DVD

October 224 pp. 297x230mm.

185 colour illus.

ISBN 978-1-85709-422-0 £35.00*

The Sacred Made Real •

Velázquez’s teacher and father-in-law, Francisco Pacheco, often painted the flesh and drapery of wood carvings by the celebrated sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés, and taught a generation of students.

The skill of painting these hyperrealistic sculptures was an integral part of an artist’s training, enhancing his sensitivity to visual impact and physical presence—evident in paintings of the period by Francisco Ribalta, Jusepe di Ribera, Velázquez and Zurbarán.

Xavier Bray is Assistant Curator of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Painting at the National Gallery, London. Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos was formerly Professor at the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid.

Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone are Senior Objects Conservators at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700

Leah Kharibian October • plays worldwide • running time approx 40 minutes DVD ISBN 978-1-85709-466-4 £15.00i*

The National Gallery: An Illustrated History The National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures from the estate of banker John Julius Angerstein. Originally the pictures were displayed in Angerstein’s former home in Pall Mall. It was only in 1838 that the collection moved to its current site in Trafalgar Square. The building and collection have continued to expand ever since; today, the National Gallery houses one of the world’s greatest collections of western European paintings.

This book brings together the stories behind the founding and growth of the National Gallery: the generous benefactors, the architectural controversies, the acquisitions, the dedicated staff and the visiting public. Richly illustrated, with archive photography, it provides insights into the history of the people and events that have helped shape this much-loved national institution.

Alan Crookham is the archivist at the National Gallery, London, and a board member of the Museum and Galleries History Group.

October 128 pp. 255x205mm. 180 illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-463-3 £12.99* Translation rights for all National Gallery, London titles: The National Gallery Company Limited, London

The National Gallery • London

Alan Crookham

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El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting Dawson W. Carr This book presents highlights of the National Gallery’s outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th centuries—considered one of the finest outside of Spain.

Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th century.

Canvases by Velázquez span his career, from royal portraits and religious works to the Rokeby Venus, his only surviving depiction of a female nude. Bartolomé Murillo is represented by exceptional religious and genre paintings, together with his imposing Self Portrait. Other works by Baroque painters, including Ribera and Zurbarán, reveal shifting uses of naturalism to express everything from the mysteries of faith to the grandeur of royalty and the beauty of the mundane. The collection also includes Luis Meléndez’s Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts and portraits by Goya.

Dawson W. Carr is Curator of Spanish and Italian Painting 1600–1800 at the National Gallery, London.

He has written extensively on Spanish painting and is co-author of Velázquez.

July 72 pp. 270x230mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-460-2 £9.99*

Duccio to Leonardo Renaissance Painting 1250–1500 Simona Di Nepi This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery’s display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250 and 1500, including highlights such as Duccio’s Annunciation, Botticelli’s Venus and Mars and Leonardo’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist. It begins with a short introduction on the formation of the collection, before discussing each of the chosen works.

Simona Di Nepi was formerly Assistant Curator of Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery, London. She has contributed to the National Gallery publications Velázquez, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City and Renaissance Faces.

September 72 pp. 270x230mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-421-3 £9.99*

National Gallery Technical Bulletin The National Gallery • London

Volume 30 Ashok Roy, series editor With contributions by Rachel Billinge, Dawson W. Carr, Jill Dunkerton, Larry Keith, Sarah Herring, Helen Howard and Marika Spring

The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is a unique record of research carried out at the National Gallery, London. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials, practices and techniques.

Contents of Volume 30 Some Panels from Sassetta’s Sansepolcro Altarpiece revisited; Sebastiano del Piombo’s Raising of Lazarus: A History of Change; Velázquez’s Christ after the Flagellation contemplated by the Christian Soul; Albert Cuyp’s Distant View of Dordrecht; Six Paintings by Corot in the National Gallery: Methods, Materials and Sources.

Ashok Roy is Director of Scientific Research at the National Gallery, London.

September 112 pp. 297x210mm. 200 colour illus. Paper 978-1-85709-420-6 £25.00*

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Yorkshire: West Riding Bradford, Leeds and the North The Buildings of England Peter Leach and Nikolaus Pevsner

October 800 pp. 218x118mm. 120 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5 £29.99*

The West Riding of Yorkshire was the largest of England’s historic counties. This volume, the first of two for the area, covers the northern half of the territory from the outskirts of York to the edge of the Lake District. It is full of contrasts, from the urbanised landscape of the cities of Leeds, with its proud civic buildings by Cuthbert Brodrick, and Bradford, possessor of one of the finest collections of commercial warehouses in the country, to their hinterland of tight-knit mill-towns and villages pushing into the Pennines. There can be found the highly distinctive houses of the seventeenth-century minor gentry, and the substantial yeoman farmers and clothiers. To the north-west are the still sparsely populated Yorkshire Dales – Ruskin’s ‘truly wonderful country’, its beauties and curiosities admired by tourists since the eighteenth century. On the gentler eastern edge of the Pennines are the major survivals of the Cistercian Order: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, the nearby cathedral town of Ripon and spa town of Harrogate, and the opulently agricultural ‘broad acres’ beyond, forming part of the Vale of York, counting among its monuments the magnificent designed landscape of Bramham Park.

Peter Leach is a Yorkshire-based architectural historian. He is the author of the definitive book on James Paine.

Newcastle and Gateshead Pevsner City Guide Grace McCombie A lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river’s south bank.

Both urban centres are explored in a series of walks, including the magnificent 1830s replanning of Newcastle, comparable in quality and ambition to anything in Georgian Edinburgh or Bath. The famous Tyne bridges also receive detailed treatment, with other historic engineering structures from this consistently rewarding and surprising area.

A selection of suburban walks is included, together with excursions to Anglo-Saxon Jarrow, medieval Tynemouth and the celebrated Angel of the North. The book is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs, maps and historic views.

Grace McCombie is an independent architectural historian and coauthor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides’ Northumberland volume.

She has worked for English Heritage and the University of Newcastle, and has researched the buildings of the area for many years.

October 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12664-8 £9.99*

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Alias Man Ray Mason Klein With contributions by George Baker, Merry L. Foresta and Lauren Schell Dickens Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890–1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career—New York Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portraitist and fashion photographer––and produced important works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer and maker of objects. Alias Man Ray considers how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past.

As an exploration of the artist’s deliberate cultural ambiguity, which allowed him to become the first American artist to be accepted by the Paris avant-garde, this book examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray’s working-class origins, his assimilation, the evolution of his art, and his wilful construction of his own artistic persona, as evidenced in a series of subtle, encrypted self-references throughout the artist’s career. Beautifully illustrated, Alias Man Ray will stand as a definitive study of an incomparable figure in 20th-century art.

Exhibition The Jewish Museum, New York, 15/11/09 – 14/3/10 Mason Klein is Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum. George Baker is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Merry L. Foresta is the founding director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative.

Lauren Schell Dickens is the Neubauer Family Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Jewish Museum.

Published in association with The Jewish Museum November 288 pp. 279x241mm. 54 b/w + 192 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14683-7 £40.00*

Sol Lewitt 100 Views Edited by Susan M. Cross and Denise Markonish Published to accompany MASS MoCA’s landmark installation of LeWitt’s innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.

Exhibition Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens 16/11/08 Denise Markonish is Curator at MASS MoCA. She is editor of Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape and coauthor of Chris Doyle: 50,000 Beds. Susan M. Cross is Curator at MASS MoCA.

Published in association with Mass MoCA July 272 pp. 254x222mm. 88 b/w + 93 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15282-1 £30.00* Translation rights: held by the authors

Sigmar Polke The Dream of Menelaus Charles Wylie With a contribution by Anne Bromberg Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke’s major four-painting cycle, The Dream of Menelaus, one of the artist’s most beautiful and challenging.

Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen’s abduction started the Trojan War, Polke’s cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.

Exhibition Dallas Museum of Art, autumn 2009 Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author of Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything. Anne Bromberg is The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and South Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art.

Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art September 64 pp. 305x228mm. 6 b/w + 40 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15900-4 £15.00* Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

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Arshile Gorky A Retrospective Edited by Michael R. Taylor With essays by Michael R. Taylor, Kim S. Theriault, Jody Patterson, Harry Cooper and Robert Storr • Chronology by Melissa Kerr

Michael R. Taylor is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the author of Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés (see below left).

October 400 pp. 298x228mm.

40 b/w + 270 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15441-2 £45.00*

Arshile Gorky was one of the central figures in American art’s shift towards abstraction during the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of his work in almost thirty years, this stunning book traces the evolution of Gorky’s arresting visual style. Nearly 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints from all phases of his career, a number of which are published here for the first time, are beautifully reproduced, including a large figurative painting from 1927 known previously only through its preparatory studies.

Throughout the volume, some of Gorky’s best-known and most powerful works are paired with related pieces or with meticulous preliminary studies, shedding new light on his artistic process. Illustrated essays incorporating recently discovered biographical information and photographs examine his experience of the Armenian genocide (during which he witnessed the death of his mother), his collaboration with the Works Progress Administration, and his early explorations of abstraction and Surrealism, providing important reassessments of his life and career.

Exhibition schedule Philadelphia Museum of Art, 15/10/09 – 10/1/10 Tate Modern, London, 2/10 – 5/10 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 6/10 – 9/10 Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance

Marcel Duchamp

Ghost Story and Landscape

Étant donnés Michael R. Taylor Contributions by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka and Elena Torok In his thirties, Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favour of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage. Unveiled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969, it startled the art world with its eroticism and voyeurism. Since its debut, Étant donnés has been recognised as one of the most important works of the 20th century. This book is published on the fortieth anniversary of the original installation of Étant donnés and to accompany the first major exhibition on the artwork.

Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 15/8/09 – 29/11/09 September 460 pp. 228x298mm. 238 b/w + 360 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14979-1 £45.00*

Manual of Instructions

Étant donnés:

1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage… Revised edition Marcel Duchamp Preface by Anne d’Harnoncourt • Essay by Michael R. Taylor Out of print for a number of years, this facsimile of Marcel Duchamp’s Manual of Instructions includes a new essay by Michael R. Taylor as well as the first English translation of the artist’s text.

Charles Wylie With a contribution

by Erin K. Murphy The art of Willie Doherty (b. 1959), one of Northern Ireland’s most important artists, joins history, memory and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue features two bodies of Doherty’s work: Ghost Story, a tensely beautiful 15-minute media work based on landscape and memory, and a selection of photographs of the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Arising from the region’s Troubles, Doherty’s art is nonetheless universal in effect and can be seen independent of any specific context. Charles Wylie’s essay deals with how Ghost Story evokes a mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impact of memory on the present. Critically acclaimed at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Ghost Story is paired with eleven large-scale colour photographs from the 1990s that powerfully depict the Irish landscape as a site of unease amidst lyrical beauty.

Exhibition schedule Dallas Museum of Art, 23/5 – 16/8/09 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, autumn 2010

Anne d’Harnoncourt was formerly the Director, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michael R. Taylor, details above.

Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author of Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything.

September 66 pp. 305x273mm. 119 b/w + 18 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14980-7 £30.00*

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Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

August 96 pp. 216x254mm. 65 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15255-5 £18.00*

Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

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Unpacking My Library

Why Architecture Matters

Architects and their Books

Paul Goldberger Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to ‘come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually’— with its impact on our lives. ‘Architecture begins to matter’, writes Paul Goldberger, ‘when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads’.

Jo Steffens What does a library say about the mind of its owner?

How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes and personalities of their readers?

What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture?

Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the personal libraries of fourteen of the world’s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives.

Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.

Architects and Their Books features the libraries of: Stan Allen, Henry Cobb, Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, Richard Meier, Michael Sorkin, Robert A. M. Stern, Bernard Tschumi, Todd Williams and Billie Tsien Jo Steffens is director of Urban Center Books and editor of Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York City.

Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker.

He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in Manhattan.

Published with Urban Center Books, The Architecture Bookstore of the Municipal Art Society of New York

Why X Matters

November 208 pp. 140x203mm.

24 b/w + 284 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15893-9 £20.00*

Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism Collected Essays, 1964–1988 Robert A. M. Stern Edited by Cynthia Davidson Robert A. M. Stern is one of contemporary architecture’s most influential figures, with a career encompassing every facet of the profession. As a preeminent force in the discourse of the field, Stern was one of the first critics to use and analyse the term ‘postmodern’ in architecture. This collection of essays—Stern’s first—brackets the years defined by the changes in architectural thinking introduced by Robert Venturi in 1966 and the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1988. Throughout, Stern provides close readings of architectural events and offers firsthand accounts of transformations in architectural thinking during a critical period.

Robert A. M. Stern is J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture and the Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University. Cynthia Davidson is the editor of the architecture journal Log.

November 208 pp. 254x190mm. 90 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15397-2 £30.00*

November 288 pp. 197x134mm. 55 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14430-7 £18.99* Translation rights: International Creative Management, Inc, New York

Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., 1965–72.

Peter Eisenman at home in New York with his library, 2008.

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Modern Architecture Representation and Reality Neil Levine In this handsome book, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates for the first time the complex history of representation—the use and meaning of architectural signifiers—from the 18th through the 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis of major works by a host of modern architects, including Étienne-Louis Boullée, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Louis Kahn, Henri Labrouste, Augustus Welby Pugin, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Soane, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Frank Lloyd Wright.

The book features previously unpublished images, many created for this publication, and it addresses a variety of specific cases while offering an original and panoramic view of the history of architecture. Beautifully written and accessible, Modern Architecture is destined to become a classic.

Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

January 432 pp. 279x228mm. 311 b/w + 30 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14567-0 £45.00*

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A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851 Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and M. G. Sullivan This remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition of Gunnis’s Dictionary of British Sculptors, the primary source for information on church monuments, portrait busts, carved fireplaces and more since publication in 1951.

The editorial team, and invited experts in the field, have drawn on a mass of archival and scholarly material, including Gunnis’s own extensive unpublished archive, to rewrite all the major lives of the sculptors, and to add over 1,000 new ones. Each entry provides a brief biography of the sculptor, where possible, followed by a list of his or her known works. Each work is identified by date and location, past or present, and provenance, materials, exhibitions, known preparatory sketches and models, and bibliographical references are also recorded.

Ingrid Roscoe is an independent scholar, M. G. Sullivan is curator of sculpture at the Ashmolean Museum and Emma Hardy is collections manager at the Geffrye Museum.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Henry Moore Foundation September 1616 pp. 232x154mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14965-4 £80.00*

The Society of Dilettanti Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment Jason M. Kelly In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. Originally formed as a convivial dining society, by the middle of the eighteenth century the Dilettanti took on an influential role in cultural matters. It was the first European organisation fully to subsidise an archaeological expedition to the lands of classical Greece, and, its members were important sponsors of new institutions such as the Royal Academy and the British Museum. The Society of Dilettanti became one of the most prominent and influential societies of the British Enlightenment.

This lively and illuminating account, based on extensive archival research, is the most detailed analysis of the early Society of Dilettanti to date. Not simply an institutional biography, three themes dominate this history of the Dilettanti: eighteenth-century debates over social identity; the relationships between aesthetics and archaeology; and the meanings of natural philosophy. Connecting the world of the grand tour to the sociable masculinity of London’s taverns, this book reveals that the trajectory of British classical archaeology was as much a consequence of shifting notions of politeness as it was a product of antiquarian discoveries and elite tastes. The book places the Society of Dilettanti at the complex intersection of international and national discourses that shaped the British Enlightenment, and, thus, it sheds new light on eighteenth-century grand tourism, elite masculinity, sociability, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology.

Jason M. Kelly is Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

January 320 pp. 256x192mm. 100 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15219-7 £40.00*

Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-century Rome Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby This important and long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Based on work carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the book traces sculptures and other works of art that are currently in public collections around the world from their original find sites via the dealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain. In the first of two volumes, approximately fifty sites, each located by maps, are analysed in historical and topographical detail, supported by fifty newly written and researched biographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini and Hornsby introduce the field of study and elucidate the complex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of the Papal courts. The second volume of the book is a collection of hundreds of letters from the dealers and excavators abroad to collectors in England, offering a rich source of information about all aspects of the art market at the time.

Ilaria Bignamini was an historian of art and archeology. Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome.

January 270x217 mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. Vol. 1: 288 pp. Vol. 2: 176 pp. Slipcased ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00*

All of the above Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868 Edited by Morihiro Ogawa Samurai arms and equipment are widely recognised as masterpieces in steel, silk and lacquer.

This extensively illustrated volume is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. It includes the finest examples of swords—the spirit of the samurai—as well as sword mountings and fittings, armour and helmets, saddles, banners and paintings. The objects in the catalogue, drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan, feature more than 100 officially designated national treasures and important cultural properties. Dating from the 5th to the 19th century, these majestic works offer a complete picture of samurai culture and its unique blend of the martial and the refined.

Many of the greatest Japanese blade makers are represented in this volume, from the earliest kotõ (‘old sword’) masters such as Yasuie (12th century) and Tomomitsu (14th century) to the Edo-period smiths Nagasone Kotetsu and Kiyomaro. These blades, cherished as much for their beauty as for their cutting effectiveness, were equipped with elaborate hilts and scabbards prized for their exquisite craftsmanship and materials, including silk, rayskin, gold, lacquer and alloys unique to Japan, such as shakudõ and shibuichi. Japanese armour is also fully surveyed, from the rarest iron armour of the Kofun period (5th century) to the inventive ceremonial helmets made towards the end of the age of the samurai.

Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20/10/09 – 10/1/10 Morihiro Ogawa is Special Consultant for Japanese Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

November 304 pp. 279x228mm. 75 b/w + 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14205-1 £45.00*

American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Carrie Rebora Barratt and Lori Zabar This volume catalogues the world’s most comprehensive collection of American portrait miniatures, ranging in date from the early 18th to the 20th century and representing 155 artists. Jewel-like and intimate, the pieces portray spouses, children and other loved ones and were usually created for personal use. The Museum’s collection is also significant for its selfportraits by artists and for portraits of notable public figures. Each of the nearly six hundred works is illustrated and described in detail, and a biography and bibliography are provided for each artist. An introductory essay conveys the history of the collection.

Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator, American Paintings and Sculpture, and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, and Lori Zabar is Research Associate, American Paintings and Sculpture, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York

January 256 pp. 279x216mm. 25 b/w + 400 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14895-4 £45.00*

The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sabine Rewald and Magdalena Dabrowski In a career spanning over six decades, the New York art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) contributed substantially to the advancement of modern art. At his eponymous gallery on East Fifty-seventh Street, he showed several now legendary artists for the first time outside Europe. The collection—paintings, sculpture and drawings by Balthus, Bonnard, Chagall, Derain, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Magritte, Miró and the dealer’s own father, Henri Matisse, among others—was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 by the foundation established by his widow.

These extraordinary artworks are presented with informative entries addressing the circumstances of each work’s creation and the dealer’s relationship to the artist. In the introduction, the story of Pierre Matisse’s early struggles in New York is told for the first time and illustrated with previously unpublished archival photographs.

Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator and Magdalena Dabrowski is Special Consultant, both in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

January 192 pp. 279x216mm. 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15510-5 £45.00*

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The Drawings of Bronzino Carmen C. Bambach, Janet Cox-Rearick, and George R. Goldner With contributions by Philippe Costamagna, Marzia Faietti and Elizabeth Pilliod Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century.

Each drawing is illustrated in colour, discussed in detail and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino’s technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).

Carmen C. Bambach is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Cox-Rearick is Distinguished Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY. George R. Goldner is Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Philippe Costamagna is Curator of the Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica. Marzia Faietti is Director of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence. Elizabeth Pilliod is Professor, The State University of New Jersey-Camden.

Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20/1/10 – 18/4/10 January 256 pp. 279x228mm. 85 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15512-9 £45.00*

Watteau, Music, and Theater Edited by Katharine Baetjer With contributions by Pierre Rosenberg, Katharine Baetjer, Perrin Stein, Jeffrey Munger, Jayson Dobney and Georgia J. Cowart Accompanying an exhibition in honour of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theatre on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included.

Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22/9/09 – 29/11/09 Katharine Baetjer is a Curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Paintings. Pierre Rosenberg is Honorary President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Perrin Stein is a Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, Jeffrey Munger is Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and Jayson Dobney is an Associate Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments. Georgia J. Cowart is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University.

October 176 pp. 254x228mm. 10 b/w + 75 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15507-5 £35.00*

Katharine Baetjer This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of the 19th century, the 140 works included are by such major artists as Peake, Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Turner, Constable and Burne-Jones. While the collection is particularly rich in portraiture, it also contains genre paintings and landscapes. Each painting is reproduced in colour and carries full cataloguing data as well as a generous selection of comparative illustrations, among them pendants, related paintings and prints.

Katharine Baetjer is a Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

January 512 pp. 279x228mm. 215 b/w + 140 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15509-9 £55.00*

Translation rights for all Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York titles: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York

British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875

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American Stories Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 Edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt • Essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads, Bruce Robertson and H. Barbara Weinberg This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialisation, urbanisation and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier.

Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists’ aspirations and viewers’ expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs.

Exhibition schedule The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6/10/09 – 24/1/10; Los Angeles County Museum of Art 28/2/10 – 23/5/10 H. Barbara Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margaret C. Conrads is Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Bruce Robertson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator, Department of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

October 256 pp. 305x228mm. 70 b/w + 135 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15508-2 £45.00*

American Quilts and Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Amelia Peck • With the assistance of Cynthia V. A. Schaffner Technical appendix by Elena Phipps This handsome book, newly available from Yale, showcases the Metropolitan Museum’s superb collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets. First published in 1990 and revised in 2007 to feature 32 new acquisitions and updated scholarship, this volume chronicles the development of quilt and coverlet production in the United States from the 18th through the 20th centuries, provides a glimpse into the lives of the makers and recipients of these pieces and discusses their emergence as works of art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York

Notable pieces include the Phebe Warner and the Baltimore Presentation coverlets, Amish, Crazy and Honeycomb quilts that exemplify achievement in abstract and geometric patterns, along with the Adeline Harris Sears Autograph Quilt, a memorial to the greatest politicians, composers, authors and thinkers of the mid-19th century. Each work is catalogued with a description and essential information on materials, condition, publications and references. Also included is an illustrated survey of materials and techniques used in the creation of these works.

Amelia Peck is Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Cynthia V. A. Schaffner is Research Associate, Department of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elena Phipps is Senior Museum Conservator in the Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

August 320 pp. 279x254mm. 50 b/w + 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15903-5 £22.50*

Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008 James R. Houghton and Members of the Staff In this unusual glimpse into the Metropolitan Museum, members of curatorial and other key departments describe Philippe de Montebello’s impact on their activities during the thirty-one years of his directorship. The transformations that took place during his tenure are astonishing: countless numbers of the museum’s finest works familiar to visitors today were acquired, galleries were redesigned, additions were constructed and new approaches for bringing the arts to the public were developed. De Montebello’s unwavering pursuit of excellence, support for scholarship and curatorial initiative, organisational grasp and flashes of humour inform this fascinating collection of stories that illustrate the challenges and triumphs of one of the world’s greatest art museums.

James R. Houghton is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

October 208 pp. 305x228mm. 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15424-5 £45.00*

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Spaces of Experience Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000 Charlotte Klonk This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colours of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development.

Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called ‘the period eye’, a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.

Charlotte Klonk is Departmental Chair, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author of Science and the Perception of Nature and co-author of Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods.

October 244 pp. 256x192mm. 110 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15196-1 £45.00*

The Modern Eye Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934 Kristina Wilson The Modern Eye explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public.

Author Kristina Wilson shows how modern artists and curators sought to relate high art to mass culture in order to make it accessible to more people, and successfully popularised modern painting and design during the interwar years.

A major contribution to our understanding of the origins of modernism, this book captures the vibrant diversity that the term ‘modern art’ meant at this time. The chapters examine exhibitions held in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, including those organised by Alfred Stieglitz, the Little Review, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In examining the marketing of modernism, Wilson reveals how these exhibitions attempted to stage an intersection between art and everyday life, and how they taught viewers to look at, and care about, modern art.

“A fascinating and fresh study that explores a rich panorama of themes important to the modernist art of the period.”

—Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania Kristina Wilson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Clark University. She is author of Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression.

October 256 pp. 254x203mm. 98 b/w + 15 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14916-6 £35.00*

Alice Guy Blaché Cinema Pioneer Edited by Joan Simon • With contributions by Jane Gaines, Alison McMahan, Charles Musser, Joan Simon, Kim Tomadjoglou and Alan Williams This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, Guy Blaché created films for Gaumont in Paris.

In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her own film company, Solax. From 1914 to 1920, Guy Blaché was an independent director for a number of film companies.

Despite her immensely productive and creative career, Guy Blaché’s indispensable contribution to film history has been overlooked. Written by cinema history experts and curators, this handsome volume brings to light a critical new mass of Guy Blaché’s film oeuvre in an effort to restore her to her rightful place in film history.

Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 6/11/09 – 24/1/10 Joan Simon is Curator-At-Large for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art November 168 pp. 228x152mm. 60 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15250-0 £30.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Steve Wolfe on Paper Carter E. Foster and Franklin Sirmans Working in the tradition of trompe l’oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers and vinyl records, crafted from modelling paste, screenprints, drawings and many other media. Wolfe’s reproductions embrace the tattered jackets, aged paper and worn corners that come with the consumption of the culture within. These marks become records of time and memory representing the intersection of abstract thought and physical substance. With painstakingly composed illusion, these objects fall within the tradition of trompe l’oeil and blur the line between everyday object and art.

This book focuses on Wolfe’s works on paper, including drawings and pieces that combine drawing with painting, collage and printmaking. Although his work is included in numerous museum collections and has appeared in several group shows, this is the first major publication on this important emerging artist.

Exhibition schedule Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9/09 – 11/09; The Menil Collection, Houston, 12/4/10 – 15/8/10 Carter E. Foster is Curator and Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Franklin Sirmans is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Menil Collection October 96 pp. 285x190mm. 45 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15898-4 £16.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope John Wilmerding and Michael K. Komanecky Perhaps best known for his iconic paintings and sculptures of LOVE, also featured on a U.S. postage stamp, and HOPE, created in support of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Robert Indiana (b. 1928) has been living and working in Maine since 1978. The Star of Hope, his year-round home and studio on the island of Vinalhaven, is a former late 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope is both a retrospective of the artist’s work based on his own holdings, and an unprecedented study of his living and working space. His studio is a home, museum, archive and gallery, all set within the historic interiors of the former Odd Fellows lodge. This book offers a unique examination of how Indiana’s work has unfolded since his move to Vinalhaven and includes works from his student days to storied sculptures such as EAT. Exhibition Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 20/6/09 – 25/10/09 John Wilmerding is Christopher B. Sarofim ‘86 Professor of American Art, Emeritus, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Michael K. Komanecky is the Interim Director & Chief Curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine.

Distributed for the Farnsworth Art Museum September 128 pp. 254x241mm. 1 b/w + 99 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15470-2 £35.00* Translation rights: Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland

Georgia O’Keeffe Abstraction Edited by Barbara Haskell Essays by Barbara Haskell, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Bruce Robertson and Elizabeth Hutton Turner Although Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been regarded as a central figure in 20thcentury art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained critically and popularly overlooked in favour of her representational subjects. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe pure emotion in her work. While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America’s first abstractionists.

Exhibition schedule Whitney Museum of American Art, 17/9/09 – 17/1/10 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 6/2/10 – 9/5/10; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 28/5/10 – 12/9/10 Barbara Haskell is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum September 256 pp. 279x241mm. 26 duotone + 202 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14817-6 £45.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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The Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949–50 Keith F. Davis This book—the first on this brilliant but little-known documentary photographer— focuses on Homer Page’s New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late ‘40s.

Exhibition The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14/2 – 7/6/09 Keith F. Davis is Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is the author of An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection along with The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage and The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839–1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, both published by Yale.

Distributed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art July 144 pp. 279x279mm. 98 tritone illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15443-6 £38.00*

MURA barstool, 2005, produced by PLANK. Photo: Florian Böhm.

Translation rights: Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City

Konstantin Grcic Decisive Design Zoë Ryan The hip, functional and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic—widely recognised as one of the most important designers working today—are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition in North America of Grcic’s work, highlighting the innovative archetypes of form and concept that have marked his remarkable output since 2004.

Grcic delights in creating fresh takes on familiar industrial objects, whether desks, chairs, benches, stools, a range of kitchen equipment, lamps, a set of salad servers, or Krups coffee makers. In his recent work, he has blended his characteristic simplicity and distinctiveness with the use of new technologies and materials—for example, a cantilevered stacking chair, Myto (2008), is made from a strong, fluid plastic typically used by the automotive industry.

Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 17/10/09 – 10/1/10 Zoë Ryan is the Neville Bryan Curator of Design in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago.

A+D Series • Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago November 96 pp. 215x234mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15104-6 £12.99* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Chaotic Harmony Contemporary Korean Photography Anne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer • With Bohnchang Koo Recently contemporary Korean art has garnered significant international recognition, in part for the work of photographers Atta Kim and Bae Bien-U. Now, this richly illustrated book brings their work together with that of forty other up-and-coming Korean artists, each working to stretch the bounds of the photographic medium. One of the first books on the subject, Chaotic Harmony features essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer exploring the notions of urbanisation, politics, identity, community, globalisation, tradition and fantasy in today’s Korean photography. A chronology of recent developments, prepared by noted photographer Bohnchang Koo, also accompanies brief biographies of the artists, as well as a complete checklist of the exhibition. This catalogue sheds a new light on Korean photographers’ little-known contributions to the world arena of contemporary art.

Exhibition schedule The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 18/10/09 – 3/1/10; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 16/5/10 – 21/8/10 Anne Wilkes Tucker is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the author of The Great Wall of China: Photographs by Chen Changfen and coauthor of The History of Japanese Photography, both published by Yale. Karen Sinsheimer is the curator of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art October 128 pp. 266x222mm. 65 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15753-6 £25.00* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Heroes

Kantha

Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece

The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Sheldon and Jill Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Edited by Sabine Albersmeier Essays by Michael J. Anderson, Jorge J. Bravo III, Gunnel Ekroth, Ralf von den Hoff, Jennifer Larson, Jenifer Neils, John H. Oakley, Corinne Ondine Pache and H. A. Shapiro This volume explores the role of heroes in ancient Greek art and culture. More than a hundred stunning statues, reliefs, vases, bronzes, coins and gems highlight how heroes were represented, why they were important and what encouraged individuals to seek them out.

Featuring essays by leading authorities in the field, this book draws on recent archaeological, literary and art historical research to explore such issues as gender, cult and iconography, as well as overlooked aspects of familiar and unfamiliar heroes.

Sabine Albersmeier is Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Exhibition schedule Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 11/10/09 – 3/1/10 The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 29/1/10 – 25/4/10 San Diego Museum of Art, 22/5/10 – 25/8/10 Onassis Cultural Center, New York, 4/10/10 – 3/1/11 Distributed for the Walters Art Museum October 320 pp. 305x266mm. 80 b/w + 130 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15472-6 £40.00* Translation rights: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Darielle Mason • With essays by Pika Ghosh, Katherine Hacker, Anne Peranteau and Niaz Zaman This study on kanthas focuses on two premier collections, one assembled by the historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as gifts for births, weddings and other family occasions.

Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 12/09 – 5/10 Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art January 260 pp. 298x254mm. 30 b/w + 230 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15442-9 £40.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art Roslyn Adele Walker This beautifully illustrated book showcases 110 objects from the Dallas Museum of Art’s world-renowned African collection.

Chosen both for their visual appeal and their compelling histories and cultural significance, the works of art are presented under the themes of leadership and status; the cycle of life; decorative arts; and influences (imported and exported).

Hanging Fire

Roslyn Adele Walker is Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas and the Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art

Salima Hashmi With contributions from Iftikhar Dadi, Carla Petievich, Ayesha Jalal, Quddus Mirza, Naazish Ata-Ullah and Mohsin Hamid Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media, from installation and video art to sculpture, drawing and paintings in the ‘contemporary miniature’ tradition. Essays by distinguished contributors from a variety of fields, including Salima Hashmi, Pakistani-American sociologist and historian Ayesha Jalal and the celebrated novelist Mohsin Hamid, place contemporary Pakistani art in a cultural, historical and artistic perspective.

Salima Hashmi is currently Dean of the School of Visual Arts at Beaconhouse National University in Lehore, Pakistan.

Exhibition Asia Society and Museum, 10/9/09 – 3/1/10 Distributed for the Asia Society Museum September 160 pp. 305x228mm. 90 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15418-4 £40.00* Translation rights: The Asia Society Museum

January 304 pp. 305x228mm. 130 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13895-5 £55.00* Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Gifts from the Ancestors Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait Edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Aron L. Crowell and Julie Hollowell Gifts from the Ancestors examines ancient ivories from the coast of Bering Strait, western Alaska and the islands in between— illuminating their sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity and individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are from recent Russian excavations and are presented here for the first time in English; others are from private collections not usually open to the public.

Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 3/10/09 – 10/1/10 William W. Fitzhugh is Curator of North American Archaeology and Director, Arctic Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.

Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum October 320 pp. 266x203mm. 51 b/w + 452 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12206-0 £50.00* Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

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Rivers of Paradise Water in Islamic Art and Culture Edited by Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom For millennia the collection, distribution and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject.

A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the seventh century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful colour photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond.

Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom have shared the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College since 2000 and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University since 2006. Their publications include Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power, The Art and Architecture of Islam and The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture.

Published in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar September 384 pp. 290x230mm. 30 b/w + 205 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15899-1 £45.00*

Decoded Messages The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting Hou-Mei Sung During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As a result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals’ symbolic associations and homonymic puns. Houmei Sung’s exciting rediscovery of some of these lost meanings has led to a full-scale investigation of the evolving history of Chinese animal painting.

Distinct symbolic meanings were associated with individual motifs, but all animals were assigned a place in the universe according to the Chinese concept of nature. From the very early yin/yang cosmology to later developments of Daoist and Confucian philosophies and ethics, Chinese animals gained new meanings related to their historical contexts. This book explores these new findings, using the colourful animal images and their rich and evolving symbolic meanings to gain insight into unique aspects of Chinese art, as well as Chinese culture and history.

Exhibition Cincinnati Museum of Art, 10/09 – 2/10 Hou-mei Sung is Curator of Asian Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Published in association with the Cincinnati Museum of Art September 256 pp. 290x244mm. 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14152-8 £45.00*

Serizawa Master of Japanese Textile Design Edited by Joe Earle • With contributions by Kim Brandt, Matthew Fraleigh, Shukuko Hamada, Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, Hiroshi Mizuo and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Designated a Living National Treasure in 1956, Serizawa Keisuke (1895–1984) was one of the greatest artists of 20th-century Japan. This is the first book in English to trace Serizawa’s artistic biography in detail using the finest examples of his work from leading Japanese collections.

A major exponent of the mingei (people’s crafts) movement, Serizawa achieved fame as a textile designer using traditional stencil-dyeing techniques and often working in large-scale formats such as folding screens or kimonos.

The stunning works in this catalogue are important not only for the originality of their conception, but also for the variety of their materials: cotton, silk, hemp and a range of other fibres, and paper decorated with the brilliant yet warm hues of vegetable dyes. Dramatic in design, Serizawa’s textiles have an expressive power that far transcends expectations of a ‘craft’ medium.

Exhibition Japan Society Gallery, New York, 2/10/09 – 10/1/10 Joe Earle is Vice President and Director of the gallery at Japan Society in New York City. He is the author of New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters and Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile.

Published in association with the Japan Society October 144 pp. 241x254mm. 145 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15047-6 £25.00* Translation rights: The Japan Society, New York

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Dutch New York, between East and West The World of Margrieta van Varick Edited by Deborah Krohn and Peter N. Miller, with Marybeth De Filippis Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but lived at the extremes of the Dutch colonial world, in Malacca on the Malay Peninsula and in Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she came to New York in 1686 with her husband and set up a shop, she brought an astonishing array of Eastern goods, many of which were documented in an inventory made after her death in 1695. Archival research has enabled the authors to reconstruct her story. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the histories of New York City, the Dutch overseas empire, women and material culture.

Exhibition Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, New York, 19/9/09 – 3/1/10 Deborah Krohn is coordinator for History and Theory of Museums at the Bard Graduate Center where Peter N. Miller is Dean and Chair of Academic Programs; Marybeth De Filippis is Assistant Curator for American Art at the New-York Historical Society.

Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, and the New-York Historical Society October 352 pp. 292x228mm. 100 b/w + 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15467-2 £45.00*

The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe Edited by Peter Parshall More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg’s celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experimentation, the complex relation of printed books to printed images, individual and institutional patronage, new iconographies, religious propaganda and the wide variety of private and public ways in which printed images were first employed.

The essays examine the technological, social, political, religious, personal and institutional contexts of 15th-century woodcuts and challenge many assumptions about the phenomenon of early printing, including the beginnings of printing on cloth, the significance of monastic production, the development of book printing and book illustration and the extent to which printing can or should be termed a ‘revolution’.

Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Studies in the History of Art Series Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press October 352 pp. 279x228mm. 124 duotone + 124 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12163-6 £55.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington

Sacred Spain Art and Belief in the Spanish World Ronda Kasl, Luisa Elena Alcalá, William A. Christian, Jr., María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Jaime Cuadriello, Javier Portús and Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos The art of Spain and Spanish America during the 17th century is overwhelmingly religious— it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion and identification. Its forms and meanings are inextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of the people for whom it was made.

In this groundbreaking book, scholars of art and religion look at new ways to understand the reception of and use of these images in the practice of belief. As a result, the book argues for a fundamental reappraisal of the cultural role of the Church based on an analysis of the specific devotional and ritual contexts of Spanish art.

Handsomely illustrated essays discuss paintings, polychrome sculptures, metalwork and books. They call attention to the paradoxical nature of the most characteristic visual forms of Spanish Catholicism: material richness and external display as expressions of internal spirituality, strict doctrinal orthodoxy accompanied by artistic expression of surprising unconventionality, the calculated social projection of new devotional themes and the divergence of popular religious practices from officially prescribed ones.

Exhibition Indianapolis Museum of Art, 11/10/09 – 3/1/10 Ronda Kasl is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Distributed for the Indianapolis Museum of Art November 400 pp. 305x254mm. 25 b/w + 125 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15471-9 £45.00* Translation rights: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

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Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture Gary M. Radke With contributions by Andrea Bernardoni, Martin J. Kemp, Pietro C. Marani, Tommaso Mozzati, Philippe Sènèchal and Darin Stine Leonardo da Vinci is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form (‘of lesser genius than painting’). Challenging and overturning these assumptions, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture looks at the sculptural projects that the artist undertook, as well as the late Renaissance sculptures that were indebted to him.

Exhibition schedule High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 3/10/09 – 21/2/10 J. Paul Getty Museum 23/3/10 – 20/6/10 Gary M. Radke is Professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University.

Published in association with the High Museum of Art October 224 pp. 305x254mm. 154 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15473-3 £35.00*

The Accademia Seminars The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590–1635 Edited by Peter M. Lukehart This volume of essays reexamines the establishment and early history of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, one of the most important centres of governance, education and theory in the arts for the early modern period and the model for all subsequent academies of art worldwide.

It is the most comprehensive history of the Accademia to be published in more than forty years, and the first in nearly two hundred years to be based almost entirely on new primary and documentary material. In reconstructing the early history of the institution, the volume also provides a new basis for tracking the careers of painters, sculptors and architects working in Rome in the early 16th century, and for understanding the artistic and professional issues that engaged them.

Peter M. Lukehart is Associate Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture Alison Luchs With contributions by Adriana Augusti, Matteo Ceriana, Sarah Blake McHam, Debra Pincus and Alessandra Sarchi The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo, explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Featuring a range of Tullio’s work, including his sensuous and dramatic double-portrait reliefs, this book introduces the romantic qualities and beautiful craftsmanship of the sculptor and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello and Giammaria Mosca. Essays examine Tullio’s innovations and their Venetian cultural setting.

Exhibition National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 4/7/09 – 31/10/09 Alison Luchs is Curator of Early European Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art.

Published in association with the National Gallery, Washington August 160 pp. 298x247mm. 23 b/w + 62 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15667-6 £45.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington

A Sketchbook of Pietro Santi Bartoli Draftsman Among Roman Antiquarians Irène Aghion Among the books collected by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was a small volume of sketches of antiquities. Irène Aghion has pursued elusive clues to establish Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700) as the artist and places his sketchbook in its proper context, the lively world of seventeenth-century Rome. In following Bartoli’s sketchbook from Rome to London to Farmington, Connecticut, Aghion uncovers the stories of these antiquities, found in Rome, acquired by collectors and now held in collections throughout Europe.

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis revived Horace Walpole’s short-lived series, Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, A Collection of Curious Papers. The Lewis Walpole Library launched a second revival of Miscellaneous Antiquities in 2004 and this publication is the latest in the series.

Irène Aghion is curator of the Museum of the Cabinet des Médailles et Antiques in Paris.

Seminar Papers • Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/ Distributed by Yale University Press

Published by the Lewis Walpole Library Distributed by Yale University Press

November 376 pp. 254x178mm. 74 duotone illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13591-6 £25.00*

October 352 pp. 228x205mm. 280 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15400-9 £60.00*

Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Cézanne and American Modernism Gail Stavitsky and Katherine Rothkopf With essays by Gail Stavitsky, Jill Anderson Kyle, Jayne S. Warman, Katherine Rothkopf, Ellen Handy, Jerry N. Smith and Mary Tompkins Lewis Examining Cézanne’s influence on more than a generation of American artists, this handsomely illustrated book features paintings and photography by Paul Strand, Marsden Hartley, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Arshile Gorky, Charles Sheeler, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Maurice Prendergast, Morgan Russell, Max Weber and many others.

Exhibition schedule Montclair Art Museum, 13/9/09 – 3/1/10 The Baltimore Museum of Art, 14/2/10 – 23/5/10 Phoenix Art Museum, 26/6/10 – 26/9/10

Adventures in Modern Art The Charles K. Williams II Collection Innis Howe Shoemaker With contributions by Jennifer T. Criss, Kathleen A. Foster, John Ittmann and Michael R. Taylor Charles K. Williams II amassed an art collection that includes examples by major American artists and movements of the early 20th century. This catalogue features more than one hundred significant works in the collection by artists including Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, George Ault and Charles Sheeler; and Philadelphia modernists Arthur B. Carles, Hugh Henry Breckenridge and Earl Horter. Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Alberto Giacometti and Louise Nevelson are included.

Gail Stavitsky is Chief Curator of the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey. Katherine Rothkopf is Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 12/7/09 – 13/9/09

Published in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art

Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

September 376 pp. 254x279mm. 190 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14715-5 £45.00*

August 336 pp. 285x228mm. 2 b/w + 153 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14978-4 £40.00*

Innis Howe Shoemaker is The Audrey and William H. Helfand Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Giovanni Boldini, Crossing the Street, 1875. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.

Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris Sarah Lees, Richard Kendall and Barbara Guidi Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) was one of the most prominent Italian artists of the late 19th century. Still, he has remained little known beyond his native country. This beautiful book is the first published on Boldini in English in a generation and accompanies the first major exhibition of his works outside Europe.

Born in Ferrara, Boldini moved to Paris in 1871. This book focuses on his work from 1871 to 1886, which reflects the influence of his contemporaries—Degas, Manet, Caillebotte, Meissonier and Fortuny, among others. It features Boldini’s paintings for the art market, depictions of the city around him, paintings of friends and models and a selection of later portraits.

Exhibition schedule Ferrara Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 20/9/09 – 10/1/10; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 14/2/10 – 25/4/10

From the Private Collections of Texas European Art, Ancient to Modern Richard R. Brettell and C. D. Dickerson III The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited.

Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum’s own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterranean from about 700 B.C. to around 1950. Over 40 prominent collections are featured along with works that have been given to museums in Texas or have left the state through gift or sale. Among the artists included are Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Guercino, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. The distinguished scholar Richard R. Brettell contributes a comprehensive essay on the importance of private collecting in Texas.

Exhibition Kimbell Art Museum, 22/11//09 – 21/3/10

Sarah Lees is Associate Curator of European Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Richard Kendall is Curator-at-Large at the Clark. Barbara Guidi is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Ferrara Arte.

Richard R. Brettell is the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas, Dallas.

C. D. Dickerson III is Associate Curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum

November 256 pp. 266x241mm. 160 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13411-7 £45.00*

January 344 pp. 254x305mm. 25 b/w + 200 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14494-9 £50.00*

Translation rights: The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, MA

Translation rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

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Joaquín Torres-García, Fourteenth Street, 1920. Courtesy CDS Gallery, New York.

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Nexus New York Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis Deborah Cullen With essays by Elvis Fuentes, Michele Greet, Katherine Manthorne, Katy Rogers, Antonio Saborit, Cecilia de Torres and James Wechsler Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundaries and fostered a new climate of modernist experimentation. Nexus New York focuses on key artists from the Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural and social dialogues with the American-based avant-garde and participated in the development of a new modern discourse.

Exhibition El Museo del Barrio, New York, 17/10/09 – 28/2/10

Joaquín Torres-García Constructing Abstraction with Wood Mari Carmen Ramírez, Margit Rowell and Cecilia de Torres Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) is one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America in the early 20th century. This handsome catalogue focuses on Torres-García’s wood constructions and accompanies the first exhibition held in North America of these works and the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States in over forty years.

Exhibition schedule The Menil Collection, 24/9/09 – 3/1/10 San Diego Museum of Art, 21/2/10 – 15/5/10

Book is bilingual English/Spanish

Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Margit Rowell is an independent curator living in Paris. Cecilia de Torres is internationally recognised as the leading authority of the work of Joaquín Torres-García.

Published in association with El Museo del Barrio, New York

Distributed for The Menil Collection

October 272 pp. 254x203mm. 30 b/w + 60 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15896-0 £35.00*

October 256 pp. 292x228mm. 200 b/w + colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15401-6 £45.00*

Translation rights: El Museo del Barrio, New York

Translation rights: The Menil Foundation Inc, Houston

Deborah Cullen is Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, New York.

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago World War I to 1955 Judith A. Barter With Sarah E. Kelly, Denise Mahoney, Ellen E. Roberts and Brandon K. Ruud The first publication to focus on the Art Institute’s outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorativeart objects and works on paper made in North America between World War I and 1955. Together they fully reflect the history of American art in these decades, including examples of early modernism, Social Realism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Among the paintings are such iconic works as Hopper’s Nighthawks and Wood’s American Gothic, along with notable pieces by Davis, De Kooning, Hartley, Lawrence, Marin, O’Keeffe, Pollock and Sheeler. Among the sculptors represented are Calder, Cornell and Noguchi. Spectacular decorative artwork by the Eameses, Grotell, Neutra, Saarinen, F. L. Wright and Zeisel are also featured.

Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the editor of Apostles of Beauty (see page 36).

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago January 376 pp. 305x241mm. 140 b/w + 250 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11738-7 £55.00* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Reinventing Ritual Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life Daniel Belasco Contributions by Arnold M. Eisen, Julie Lasky, Danya Ruttenberg and Tamar Rubin A guidebook to current trends in contemporary Jewish art and design, Reinventing Ritual provides an unprecedented look at the work and thought of contemporary artists as they respond to the needs and practices of traditional culture. Illustrated with new art from Israel, Europe and the Americas, this publication features both traditional and avant-garde sculpture, textiles, architecture, metalwork and ceramics by leading artists.

Daniel Belasco surveys trends in Jewish ritual art; Julie Lasky provides a discussion of recycling and social consciousness in Jewish design; Danya Ruttenberg offers a perspective on the impulse ‘to concretise the encounter with the Divine’; Arnold M. Eisen writes a commentary on ritual in Jewish life; and Tamar Rubin contributes an illustrated timeline.

Daniel Belasco is the Henry J. Leir Assistant Curator at The Jewish Museum.

Exhibition schedule The Jewish Museum, New York, 13/9/09 – 7/2/10 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 22/4/10 – 28/9/10 Published in association with The Jewish Museum October 176 pp. 254x178mm. 10 b/w + 93 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14682-0 £28.00

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60 Art/Music/Drama

Futurism An Anthology Edited by Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi and Laura Wittman In 1909, F. T. Marinetti published his incendiary Futurist Manifesto, proclaiming, “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!!” and “There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!”.

Intent on delivering Italy from “its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians”, the Futurists imagined that art, architecture, literature and music would function like a machine, transforming the world rather than merely reflecting it. But within a decade, Futurism’s utopian ambitions were being wedded to Fascist politics, an alliance that would tragically mar its reputation in the century to follow.

Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Futurism, this is the most complete anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays and images ever to be published in English, spanning from 1909 to 1944. Now, amidst another era of unprecedented technological change and cultural crisis, is a pivotal moment to reevaluate Futurism and its haunting legacy for Western civilisation.

Lawrence Rainey is Professor of English, University of York. Christine Poggi is Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. Laura Wittman is Assistant Professor of Italian and French Literature, Stanford University.

October 640 pp. 254x178mm. 124 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-08875-5 £40.00*

Unaccompanied Bach Performing the Solo Works David Ledbetter This pioneering book by an acclaimed expert is the first to discuss all of Bach’s unaccompanied pieces in one volume, including an examination of crucial issues of style and composition type and the options open to interpretation and performance. David Ledbetter, a leading expert on Bach, provides the historical background to Bach’s instrumental works, as well as detailed commentaries on each work.

Ledbetter argues that Bach’s unaccompanied works—the six suites for solo cello, six sonatas and partitas for solo violin, seven works for lute and the suite for solo flute—should be considered together to enable one piece to elucidate another. This illuminating and significant book is essential for professionals, performers, students or anybody who wishes to learn more about Bach’s music.

David Ledbetter is Associate Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He is the author of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues.

November 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14151-1 £25.00*

WINNER OF THE SECOND ANNUAL YALE DRAMA SERIES COMPETITION

Grenadine Neil Wechsler • Foreword by Edward Albee Neil Wechsler’s Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series.

The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee.

Grenadine is the fantastical story of a man’s quest for love in the company of three devoted friends.

Albee writes, ‘I found it highly original . . . The questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play stretched my mind’.

About the Yale Drama Series: Yale University Press and the Yale Repertory Theatre are proud co-sponsors of this major competition to support emerging playwrights. Each year’s winner receives the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Repertory Theatre.

For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit www.yalebooks.com Neil Wechsler graduated from Yale University in 1996 with distinction in Philosophy and Psychology. He has been writing novels, novellas and plays ever since.

Yale Drama Series November 144 pp. 228x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14992-0 £12.00

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“Matter of Glorious Trial”

The Maine Woods

Spiritual and Material Substance in ‘Paradise Lost’

A Fully Annotated Edition

N. K. Sugimura

Henry D. Thoreau Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer

This groundbreaking book, the first to examine Milton’s thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view that Milton was a monist-materialist—one who believes that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions.

Based on her close study of the philosophical movements of Milton’s mind, Sugimura discovers the ‘fluid intermediaries’ in his poetry that are neither strictly material nor immaterial. In doing so, Sugimura uses Paradise Lost as a fascinating window into the intersection of literature and philosophy, and of literary studies and intellectual history. Sugimura finds that Milton displays a tense and ambiguous relationship with the idealistic dualism of Plato and the materialism of Aristotle and she argues for a more nuanced interpretation of Milton’s metaphysics. “engages with Milton’s work on a formidably wide range of fronts—theological, pneumatological, metaphysical, linguistic—and in doing so establishes its case convincingly, displaying a remarkable range of learning and industry.”

—Colin Burrow, All Souls College, University of Oxford N. K. Sugimura is Research Fellow in English, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

January 352 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13559-6 £40.00

“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine”— thus begins The Maine Woods, the evocative story of Thoreau’s journeys through a familiar yet untouched land.

As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning ‘highest land’), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilderness. Throughout, Thoreau invokes the forest of Maine—the mountains, waterways, fauna, flora and the people—in his singular style. Echoing Walden, Thoreau’s passionate outcry against the degradation of the environment in The Maine Woods will resonate strongly today. This fully annotated gift edition of The Maine Woods makes the perfect companion volume to Walden.

Jeffrey Cramer is curator of collections, the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.

January 384 pp. 234x190mm. 11 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-10-300-12283-1 £25.00*

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics Russia, Poland, and the West

Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky

Clare Cavanagh

Fellowship of Poets

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonstrates how the practice of the personal lyric in totalitarian states such as Russia and Poland did not represent an escapist tendency; rather it reverberated as a bold political statement and at times a dangerous act.

Irena Grudzinska Gross

Cavanagh also provides a comparative study of modern poetry from the perspective of the eastern and western sides of the Iron Curtain. Among the poets discussed are Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Yeats, Whitman, Frost, Szymborska, Zagajewski and Milosz; close readings of individual poems are included, some translated for the first time. Cavanagh examines these poets and their work as a challenge to Western postmodernist theories, thus offering new perspectives on twentieth-century lyric poetry.

Clare Cavanagh is Associate Professor and Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.

January 320 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15296-8 £30.00

The intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky.

The dual portrait of these poets and the elucidation of their attitudes towards religion, history, memory and language throw a new light on the upheavals of the twentieth-century.

Gross also incorporates notes on both poets’ relationships to other key literary figures, such as W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas and Derek Walcott.

Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Princeton University.

January 288 pp. 210x140mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14937-1 £30.00* Polish rights: held by the author

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The End of Everything David Bergelson • Translated and Edited by Joseph Sherman Originally published in 1913, The End of Everything is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson’s masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation. This version by acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to a wide English-speaking audience.

Celestina Fernando de Rojas Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Edited and with an Introduction

by Roberto González Echevarría

Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire.

In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story.

A timeless story of love, morality and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to Don Quixote in its cultural importance, Rojas’s dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning translator Margaret Sayers Peden. At times a comic character and at others a promoter of women’s sexual license, Celestina is an inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, certain to be relished by a new generation of readers.

A Russian Yiddish novelist, David Bergelson was one of the thirteen defendants at the infamous trial of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee held in Moscow in 1952. Translator, Joseph Sherman, is currently Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University.

Margaret Sayers Peden is Professor Emerita of Spanish at the University of Missouri and the translator of major works by Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende and others.

Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University.

New Yiddish Library Series

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

February 256 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11067-8 £15.00*

October 288 pp. 107x127mm. 21 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14198-6 £16.99*

Joseph in Egypt

Mozart’s Third Brain

A Cultural Icon from Grotius to Goethe

Göran Sonnevi

Bernhard Lang The biblical story of Joseph ranks in the history of world literature alongside The Odyssey and other ancient legends as a canonical text and has provided rich material for writers to imitate and elaborate.

This book, by Bernard Lang, an acclaimed biblical scholar, examines the many and varied ways that the story of Joseph has been interpreted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.

During that time, Joseph was heralded as an icon by many writers and thinkers, among them Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Chateaubriand and Goethe, who found his story relevant.

Educators commended Joseph as a model of piety, moralists extolled him in defense of chastity, political philosophers regarded him as an exemplary leader, while historians debated variously whether he was a benefactor, tyrant or merely a character in an ancient tale. Lang examines a range of texts—novels, stage plays, poems, children’s books and critical treatises—to illuminate the debt each owes to earlier versions of the Joseph story.

Bernhard Lang is Professor of Religion at the University of Paderborn, Germany. He is the author of Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship and The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity, and co-author of Heaven: A History, all published by Yale.

September 400 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15156-5 £30.00 German rights: held by the author

Translation, Preface and Notes

by Rika Lesser Foreword Rosanna Warren Winner of the 2006 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, Swedish writer Göran Sonnevi is undoubtedly one of the most important poets working today.

In Mozart’s Third Brain, his thirteenth book of verse, he attempts ‘a commentary on everything’—politics, current events, mathematics, love, ethics, music, philosophy, nature.

Through the impeccable skill of award-winning translator Rika Lesser, Sonnevi’s long-form poem comes to life in English with the full force of its loose, fractured and radiating intensity.

A poetic tour de force that darts about dynamically and imaginatively, Mozart’s Third Brain weaves an elaborate web of associations as the poet integrates his private consciousness with the world around him. Through Lesser’s translation and preface, and an enlightening foreword by Rosanna Warren, English readers will finally gain access to this masterpiece.

Born in 1939 in Lund, Sweden, Göran Sonnevi is the author of fifteen books of poems and a volume of poetry in translation. Rika Lesser is the author of four books of poems and six books of poetry in translation.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters November 240 pp. 197x152mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14580-9 £20.00* Translation rights: held by the author

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Boyhoods Rethinking Masculinities Ken Corbett Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes in his introduction, ‘no two boys, no two boyhoods are the same’. In Boyhoods Corbett seeks to release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in Reviving Ophelia.

A groundbreaking understanding of male development that truly re-defines masculinity

October 288 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14984-5 £18.99*

Corbett grounds his understanding of masculinity in his clinical practice and in a dynamic reading of feminist and queer theories.

New social ideals are being articulated. New possibilities for recognition are in play. How is a boy made between the body, the family and the culture? Does a boy grow by identifying with his father, or by separating from his mother? Can we continue to presume that masculinity is made at home? Corbett uses case studies to defy stereotypes, depicting masculinity as various and complex. He examines the roles that parental and cultural anxiety play in development, and argues for a more nuanced approach to cross-gendered fantasy and experience, one that does not mistake social consensus for well-being.

Corbett challenges us at last to a fresh consideration of gender, with profound implications for understanding all boys.

Ken Corbett is Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care

Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents

Edited by Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke G. H. Okma

Barry M. Wagner

This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought together a group of distinguished scholars to explore the ambitions and realities of health care regulation, financing and delivery across countries. These wide-ranging essays cover policy debates and reforms in Canada, Germany, Holland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as separate treatments of some of the most prominent issues confronting policy makers. These include primary care, hospital care, long-term care, pharmaceutical policy and private health insurance. The authors are attentive throughout to the ways in which cross-national, comparative research may inform national policy debates not only under the Obama administration but across the world.

Theodore R. Marmor is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science at Yale and is the author, among other works, of Understanding Health Care Reform.

Richard Freeman teaches in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and is the author of The Politics of Health in Europe. Kieke G. H. Okma teaches health care policy and politics at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

November 368 pp. 234x156mm. 5 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14983-8 £40.00

In this remarkably clear and readable evaluation of the research on this topic, Barry Wagner presents the current state of knowledge about suicidal behaviours in children and adolescents, addressing the trends of the past ten years and evaluating available treatment approaches.

Wagner provides an in-depth examination of the problem of suicidal behaviour within the context of child and adolescent behaviour. Among the developmental issues covered are the evolving capacity for emotional self-regulation, change and stresses in family, peer and romantic relationships, and developing conceptions of time and death. He also provides an up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the possible influence of antidepressant medications on suicidal behaviour.

Within the context of an integrative model of the suicide crisis, Wagner discusses issues pertaining to assessment, treatment and prevention.

Barry Wagner is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the Catholic University of America.

Current Perspectives in Psychology September 328 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11250-4 £40.00

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Heidegger The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy Emmanuel Faye Translated by Michael B. Smith Foreword by Tom Rockmore In this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished seminars to show that Heidegger’s philosophical writings are fatally compromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas.

In other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and exterminatory anti-Semitism.

Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a naïve, temporarily disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a self-appointed ‘spiritual guide’ for Nazism whose intentionality was clear. Contrary to what some have written, Heidegger’s Nazism became even more radical after 1935, as Faye demonstrates. He revisits Heidegger’s masterwork, Being and Time, and concludes that in it Heidegger does not present a philosophy of individual existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where individualisation is allowed only for the purpose of heroism in warfare. Now available in Michael B. Smith’s fluid English translation, it is bound to awaken controversy in the English-speaking world.

Emmanuel Faye is Associate Professor at the University Paris Ouest–Nanterre La Défense. Michael B. Smith is Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Berry College.

January 448 pp. 234x156mm. 5 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12086-8 £30.00* Translation rights: Editions Albin Michel, Paris

The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition

The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States George Santayana Edited and with an Introduction by James Seaton With Essays by Wilfred M. McClay, John Lachs, James Seaton and Roger Kimball This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville’s Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever written, and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, a landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism.

An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four additional essays include John Lachs on the ways Santayana’s understanding of ‘the soul of America’ help explain the relative peace among nationalities and ethnic groups in the United States; Wilfred M. McClay on Santayana’s life of the mind as it relates to dominant trends in American culture; Roger Kimball on Santayana’s ‘most uncommon benefice, common sense’; and James Seaton on Santayana’s distinction between ‘English liberty’ and ‘fierce liberty’. All the essays serve to highlight the relevance of Santayana’s ideas to current issues in American culture, including education, immigration and civil rights.

James Seaton is Professor of English at Michigan State University.

Rethinking the Western Tradition November 256 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11665-6 £12.00*

Zeev Sternhell • Translated by David Maisel

Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty

In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new 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.

War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic

The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment represent a perspective that is anti-rational and anti-intellectual and rejects the principles of natural law. Sternhell asserts that the AntiEnlightenment is a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder, Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that tradition undermines the very foundations of liberalism, contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Paul A. Rahe This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker’s insightful critique of commercial republicanism.

“Everything Sternhell writes is powerful and challenging, and this book is no exception. At a time when Enlightenment values are again under attack, this history of anti-Enlightenment thought is important and timely.”—Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge

The western democracies’ muted response to victory in the Cold War signalled the presence of a pervasive discontent, a sense that despite this victory liberal democracy itself was deeply flawed. Paul A. Rahe argues that to understand this phenomenon we must re-examine—starting with Montesquieu—the nature of liberal democracy, its character and its propensities. In a brilliant exposition of the works of Montesquieu, Rahe identifies the profound sense of uneasiness fostered by the modern republic as a source of weakness and as the principle cause of the present discontents.

Zeev Sternhell is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University.

Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College.

January 512 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-13554-1 £25.00*

October 384 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14125-2 £35.00

Translation rights: Librairie Artheme Fayard, Paris

Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, New York

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The Religion and Science Debate

THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE Among the Gentiles

Why Does It Continue?

Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity

Edited by Harold W. Attridge Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book six scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the scientific and religious spheres.

Why does the tension between science and religion continue?

How have those tensions changed during the past one hundred years? How have those tensions impacted the public debate about so-called ‘intelligent design’ as a scientific alternative to evolution? With wit and wisdom, authors Keith Thomson, Ronald L. Numbers, Kenneth R. Miller, Lawrence M. Krauss, Alvin Plantinga and Robert Wuthnow address the conflict from its philosophical roots to its manifestations within American culture.

Harold W. Attridge is the Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at the Yale Divinity School.

The Terry Lectures Series October 224 pp. 210x140mm. 4 b/w illus.

Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-15298-2 £35.00 Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15299-9 £10.99*

Natural Reflections Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion Barbara Herrnstein Smith This book describes, assesses and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion and human cognition. One of these initiatives, which the author calls ‘the New Naturalism’, is the effort, by anthropologists and psychologists, to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science and evolutionary biology. Another, refered to as ‘the New Natural Theology’, is the recent attempt by a number of scientifically knowledgeable theologians to reconcile the accounts of the world given in the natural sciences and traditional religious belief.

These two projects, one a naturalising of religion, the other a theologising of natural science, can be seen as mirror images, or ‘natural reflections’, of each other. Smith offers a sophisticated approach, recognising science and religion as complex and distinct domains of human practice that also possess significant historical connections and psychologicalcognitive resemblances and continuities.

Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University and Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.

The Terry Lectures Series February 192 pp. 210x140mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14034-7 £25.00

Luke Timothy Johnson The question of Christianity’s relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before.

While Christianity’s historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity’s even more shoddy record with respect to ‘pagan’ religions is less understood.

Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous theological tradition that thinks of paganism in terms of demonic possession, and of Christian missions as a rescue operation that saves pagans from inherently evil practices.

In undertaking this fresh inquiry into early Christianity and Greco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy Johnson begins with a broad definition of religion as a way of life organised around convictions and experiences concerning ultimate power. In the tradition of William James’s Variety of Religious Experience, he identifies four distinct ways of being religious: religion as participation in benefits, as moral transformation, as transcending the world and as stabilising the world. Using these criteria as the basis for his exploration of Christianity and paganism, Johnson finds multiple points of similarity in religious sensibility.

Christianity’s failure to adequately come to grips with its first pagan neighbours, Johnson asserts, inhibits any effort to engage positively with adherents of various world religions.

This thoughtful and passionate study should help break down the walls between Christianity and other religious traditions.

Luke Timothy Johnson is the R. W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library January 416 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14208-2 £25.00*

Nahum A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Duane L. Christensen This volume demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the book of Nahum and represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

Duane Christensen is Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature (retired), Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He is President of BIBAL Corporation.

The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries • The Old Testament October 464 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14479-6 £45.00*

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66 Religion/Jewish Studies

Judaism

The Chosen Will Become Herds

A Way of Being David Gelernter Written for observant and nonobservant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about?

Gelernter views Judaism as one of humanity’s most profound and sublimely beautiful achievements. But because Judaism is a way of life rather than a formal system of thought, it has been difficult for anyone but a practising Jew to understand its unique intellectual and spiritual structure.

Gelernter explores compelling questions and seeks to lay out Jewish beliefs on four basic topics—the sanctity of everyday life; man and God; the meaning of sexuality and family; good, evil and the nature of God’s justice in a cruel world—and to convey a profound and stirring sense of what it means to be Jewish.

David Gelernter is Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and contributing editor at the Weekly Standard.

He is the author of several books, including Mirror Worlds, The Muse in the Machine and the novel 1939. His writings on Judaism have appeared in Commentary and elsewhere.

January 256 pp. 210x140mm. 4 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15192-3 £20.00*

Studies in TwentiethCentury Kabbalah Jonathan Garb Translated by Yaffah Berkovits-Murciano The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad overview of the major trends in contemporary Kabbalah together with in-depth discussions of major figures and schools.

A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the ‘kabbalistic Renaissance’ within the global context of the rise of other forms of spirituality, including Sufism and Tibetan Buddhism. He shows how Kabbalah has been transformed by the events of the Holocaust and, following the establishment of Israel, by aliyah. The Chosen Will Become Herds is an original piece of scholarship and, in its own right, a new chapter in the history of Kabbalah.

Jonathan Garb, a leading authority on modern Kabbalah, is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

September 240 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12394-4 £40.00 Hebrew rights: held by the author

The Book of Mormon

Jews in Ukrainian Literature

The Earliest Text

Representation and Identity

Edited by Royal Skousen

Myroslav Shkandrij

First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith’s original manuscripts and identified more than 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon, and about 250 of them affect the text’s meaning. Skousen’s corrected text is a work of remarkable dedication and will be a landmark in American religious scholarship.

This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were antagonistic towards one another and interacted only when compelled to do so by economic necessity.

Completely redesigned and typeset by nationally award-winning typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this new edition has been reformatted in sense-lines, making the text much more logical and pleasurable to read. Featuring a lucid introduction by historian Grant Hardy, the Yale edition serves not only as the most accurate version of the Book of Mormon ever published but also as an illuminating entryway into a vital religious tradition.

Royal Skousen is a Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University and the leading expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon.

October 832 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-14218-1 £25.00* Translation rights: held by the author

Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesises recent research in the West and in the Ukraine, where access to Soviet-era literature has become possible only in the recent, post-independence period. Many of the works discussed are either little-known or unknown in the West. By demonstrating how Ukrainians have imagined their historical encounters with Jews in different ways over the decades, this account also shows how the Jewish presence has contributed to the acceptance of cultural diversity within contemporary Ukraine.

“This important literary history is encyclopedic in scope and novel in its approach. Shkandrij questions platitudes about Ukrainian-Jewish animosity as he narrates two hundred years of changes in Ukraine’s national and cultural identity.”— Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.

September 288 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12588-7 £40.00 Russian and Ukrainian rights: held by the author

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The Best Technology Writing 2009

Green Intelligence Creating Environments That Protect Human Health

Edited by Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing. Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards of blogging, Dalton Conley lamenting the sprawling nature of work in the information age or Clay Shirky marvelling at the ‘cognitive surplus’ unleashed by the decline of the TV sitcom, this new generation does not waste time speculating about the future. Its attitude seems to be: Who needs the future?

The present is interesting enough on its own.

Packed with sparkling essays from print and online publications, The Best Technology Writing 2009 announces a fresh brand of technology journalism, deeply immersed in the fascinating complexity of digital life.

Steven Johnson’s books include The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Guardian, Discover and others, and has made numerous appearances on Charlie Rose, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

November 288 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15410-8 £14.00* Translation rights: Paradigm Agency, New York

Notes from the Ground Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside Benjamin R. Cohen Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian Americans—yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians and policy makers alike—accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land. By detailing the changing perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin Cohen shows that the credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge and citizenship.

Benjamin R. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series January 288 pp. 234x156mm.

29 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13923-5 £30.00

John Wargo We live in a world awash with manmade chemicals, from the pesticides in our gardens to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe.

Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health.

In this book John Wargo explains the origins of society’s profound misunderstanding of everyday chemical hazards and offers a practical path towards developing greater ‘green intelligence’.

Despite the rising trend in environmental awareness, information about synthetic substances is often unavailable, distorted, kept secret or presented in a way that prevents citiens from acting to reduce threats to their health and the environment. Sobering yet eminently readable, Wargo’s book ultimately offers a clear vision for a safer future through prevention, transparency and awareness.

John Wargo is Professor of Environmental Policy, Risk Analysis, and Political Science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Political Science at Yale University.

October 400 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11037-1 £25.00

Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds

The Jaguar’s Shadow

Implications for Island Avifauna

Richard Mahler

Edited by Thane K. Pratt, Carter T. Atkinson, Paul C. Banko, James D. Jacobi and Bethany L. Woodworth

When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend—yet verifiably real.

This book describes the research and conservation efforts over the past thirty years to save Hawaii’s forest birds and offers the most comprehensive look at the reasons for recent extinctions and attempts to overcome them in the future.

Among the topics covered in this book are trends in bird populations, environmental and genetic factors limiting population size, avian diseases, predators and competing alien bird species.

Thane K. Pratt is a wildlife biologist, Carter T. Atkinson is a microbiologist, Paul C. Banko is a research wildlife biologist and James D. Jacobi is a biologist, all at the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystem Research Center. Bethany Woodworth is an Instructor of Environmental Studies at University of New England.

January 640 pp. 254x178mm.

97 b/w + 32 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14108-5 £60.00

Searching for a Mythic Cat

Mahler’s passion sets in motion a yearslong adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as vermin or as icons, trophies or gods? Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search—and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.

Richard Mahler is an award-winning writer, editor and tour guide based in Silver City, New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of ten books.

October 376 pp. 234x156mm.

41 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12225-1 £20.00*

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68 Law

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev

Ordering the City

Justice without Government

This timely book highlights the multiple, often overlooked and frequently misunderstood connections between land use and development policies and policing practices. In order to do so, the book draws upon multiple literatures—especially law, history, economics, sociology and psychology—as well as concrete case studies to better explore how these policy arenas, generally treated as completely unrelated, intersect and conflict.

Clinton Bailey Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the world’s leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value.

Nicole Stelle Garnett

Nicole Stelle Garnett is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Clinton Bailey is a Research Fellow on Bedouin culture at Trinity College, Hartford. He is the author of A Culture of Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev, published by Yale.

January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12494-1 £40.00

January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15324-8 £50.00

The Unbounded Home

Hebrew and Arabic rights: held by the author

Property Values Beyond Property Lines Lee Anne Fennell

Constitutional Courts and Democratic Values A European Perspective Víctor Ferreres Comella This systematic exploration of the reasons for and against the creation of constitutional courts is rich in detail and offers an ambitious theory to justify the European preference for them instead of the decentralised model used in the United States.

Víctor Ferreres Comella is Professor of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He is currently teaching Constitutional Law and European Community Law at the Spanish Escuela Judicial (Judicial School), where young judges are trained.

January 288 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14867-1 £40.00

Reviving Self-Governance in the Workplace Employee Rights and Representation in an Era of Self-Regulation Cynthia Estlund This book seeks to shape current trends towards employer selfregulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. The decline of collective bargaining and the parallel rise of employment law have left workers with an abundance of legal rights but no representation at work.

Without representation, even workers’ legal rights are often under-enforced. At the same time many legal and social forces have pushed firms to self-regulate—to take on the task of realising public norms through internal compliance structures.

Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

February 320 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-12450-7 £35.00

In this innovative book, Lee Ann Fennell challenges us to radically re-conceive our ideas about residential property and property law to help solve critical issues of neighbourhood control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades.

Lee Anne Fennell is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

October 312 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12244-2 £40.00

At Home in the Law Jeannie Suk In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment and privacy, has changed. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices.

Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law.

Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

November 224 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11398-3 £40.00

Property Outlaws Eduardo Moisés Peñalver and Sonia K. Katyal Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law there is a tension between the competing demands of stability and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall out of step with the needs of society.

Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is a Professor at the Cornell Law School.

Sonia K. Katyal is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School.

February 288 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12295-4 £40.00

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A Question of Command

The Big House Image and Reality of the American Prison

Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq Mark Moyar According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-andminds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s foremost text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional wisdom, asserting that the key to counterinsurgency is selecting commanders who have superior leadership abilities. Whereas the hearts-and-minds school recommends allocating much labour and treasure to economic, social and political reforms, Moyar advocates concentrating resources on security, civil administration and leadership development.

Stephen Cox ‘The Big House’ is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate.

Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealisation in American popular culture. The book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities ‘The Big House’ has attained in America’s understanding of itself.

“A first-rate piece of writing . . . captures and renders novel and interesting a remarkable nineteenth century creation that lingers on in the twenty-first.”—Andrew Scull, author of Madhouse

Mark Moyar is the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University. He is the author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, and Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam.

Stephen Cox is Professor of Literature and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of California San Diego. He is the editor of Liberty magazine.

Yale Library of Military History

Icons of America

November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. + 7 maps ISBN 978-0-300-15276-0 £25.00*

January 224 pp. 210x140mm. 25 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12419-4 £20.00*

Translation rights: Aler Hoyt Associates, New York

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North

Superpower Illusions

The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for Control of the Intercontinental Bering Strait Fur Trade

How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray—And How to Return to Reality

John R. Bockstoce

Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union and that the Cold War ended in a negotiated settlement that benefited both sides. He posits that the end of the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American power; with the removal of the Soviet threat, allies were less willing to accept American protection and leadership that seemed increasingly to ignore their interests.

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions.

Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energised the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region’s history.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

Arctic specialist John R. Bockstoce is an independent scholar and the author of many books, monographs and articles.

Matlock shows how, during the Clinton and particularly the Bush-Cheney administrations, the belief that the United States had defeated the Soviet Union led to a conviction that it did not need allies, international organisations or diplomacy, but could dominate and change the world by using its military power unilaterally. The result is a weakened America that has compromised its ability to lead. Matlock makes a passionate plea for the United States under Obama to reenvision its foreign policy and gives examples of how the new administration can reorient the U.S. approach to critical issues.

The Lamar Series in Western History

Jack F. Matlock, Jr. is Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Columbia University.

October 480 pp. 234x156mm. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps ISBN 978-0-300-14921-0 £25.00*

February 320 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-13761-3 £25.00*

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In the Name of God and Country

The Prison and the American Imagination

Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Caleb Smith

Michael Fellman With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of terrorism use to justify their actions. Fellman also argues that there is an intrinsic relationship between terrorist acts by non-state groups and responses on the part of the state; unlike many observers, he believes that both the action and the reaction constitute terrorism.

Michael Fellman is Professor of History Emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among other books, he is author of Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, Citizen Sherman: A Life of William T. Sherman and The Making of Robert E. Lee, and co-author of This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath.

French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion Jay Gitlin The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis and Detroit survived the transition to American rule. French traders from Mid-America such as the Chouteaus and Robidouxs of St. Louis then became agents of change in the West, perfecting a strategy of ‘middle grounding’ by pursuing alliances within Indian and Mexican communities in advance of American settlement and re-investing fur trade profits in land, town sites, banks and transportation. The Bourgeois Frontier provides the missing French connection between the urban Midwest and western expansion.

Jay Gitlin is Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University, and Associate Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.

The Lamar Series in Western History January 320 pp. 234x156mm.

29 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-10118-8 £30.00

Exploring legal, political and literary texts—including the works of Dickinson, Melville and Emerson—Smith shows how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams. Demonstrating how the ‘cellular soul’ has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life.

“Smith’s book is remarkably inventive and wide-ranging with its close interweaving of literature and history, its refusal to rely slavishly on Foucault, its close reading, and its refreshingly lucid style.”—Terry Eagleton Caleb Smith is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.

Yale Studies in English October 272 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-14166-5 £28.50*

February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-11510-9 £20.00*

The Bourgeois Frontier

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanisation inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society.

One Nation Under Contract The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy Allison Stanger International relations scholar Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways—but also maintains that contractors aren’t the problem; the absence of good government is. Outsourcing done right is, in fact, indispensable to America’s interests in the information age.

“The book aims admirably for both breadth and depth, examining the specifics of private activity in defense, diplomacy, development and security under an intellectual rubric that cuts across all four spheres. This is a fascinating treatment of an important subject.”—Debora Spar, President, Barnard College Allison Stanger is Russell Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College and Director of its Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

Nov 288 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15265-4 £20.00

The Brittle Thread of Life Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America Mark Williams The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy and respectability, willing to make a living in a hard environment.

Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people— often disrespectful, disorderly and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation.

Mark Williams teaches history at the Loomis Chaffee School in Connecticut.

September 288 pp. 234x156mm.

15 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13922-8 £35.00

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Language/Education 71

Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin

An Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Arabic

Julian K. Wheatley

A Conversational Course on DVD

Learning Chinese teaches basic conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. It is designed to build language ability while stimulating learners’ curiosity about the linguistic structures of the language, as well as the geography, history and culture of China. Conversational lessons are separated from lessons on reading and writing characters, allowing instructors to adapt the book to their students and to their course goals.

Shukri Abed

Julian K. Wheatley is Visiting Associate Professor of Chinese at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

January 416 pp. 254x203mm. 48 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14117-7 £45.00

This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express themselves in the Arabic language, guiding them through language functions such as introductions, describing people and places and discussing typical daily activities.

Shukri Abed is chairman of the Language and Regional Studies Department at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.

January 240 pp. 254x178mm. 40 b/w illus.

Part 1: Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-14480-2 £30.00 Part 2: Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-15904-2 £30.00

Transición Hacia un español avanzado a través de la historia de España Josebe Bilbao-Henry Transición is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco’s regime. The textbook helps students to build critical thinking skills and to analyse unfamiliar topics through an engaging variety of authentic readings, guided discussions and writing activities on Spain’s recent history.

Each chapter incorporates an episode of Cuéntame cómo pasó, a Spanish TV series, which is included on DVD. This book fits the needs of students who are interested in Spanish as well as political science, international relations or history.

Josebe Bilbao-Henry is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish at the George Washington University.

January 384 pp. 254x203mm. 19 b/w illus.

Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-14217-4 £55.00

Sonidos en contexto Una introducción a la fonética del español con especial referencia a la vida real Terrell A. Morgan Sonidos en contexto is a comprehensive, theory-independent description of Spanish phonetics and phonology for intermediate to advanced students. It provides articulatory descriptions of native pronunciations as well as practical advice on producing native-like sounds, with a logical progression of exercises leading to that end.

Terrell A. Morgan is Associate Professor of Spanish at The Ohio State University.

February 440 pp. 279x216mm. 24 b/w + 325 colour illus.

Paper with CDROM ISBN 978-0-300-14959-3 £70.00

Learning to Teach Through Discussion The Art of Turning the Soul Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon’s acclaimed Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School presents a case study of two people learning to teach.

It shows them engaging two groups of fourth grade students in discussion about the meaning of texts—what the author calls ‘interpretive discussion’. The two groups differ with respect to race, geographical location and affluence.

As the novice teachers learn to clarify their own questions about meaning, they become better listeners and leaders of the discussions. Eventually, they mix the students from the two classrooms, and the reader watches them converse about a text as the barriers of race and class seem to break down. In addition to the detailed analysis of the case study, Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul presents philosophical, literary and psychological foundations of interpretive discussion and describes its three phases: preparation, leading and reflection. A tightly argued work, the book will help readers learn to engage students of all ages in text interpretation.

Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon is Director, Master of Science in Education program, and Professor, Education and Social Policy, at Northwestern University.

November 240 pp. 234x156mm.

ISBN 978-0-300-12000-4 £30.00

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Yale French Studies Number 116/117 Turn to the Right?

Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr, Special Editors The essays in this double volume explore some recent cultural phenomena that appear symptomatic of a malaise stemming from a loss of French ‘identity’ and French ‘exception’.

Table of Contents • Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr: “Turns to the Right?”

• François Noudelmann: A Turn to the Right: “Genealogy” in France since the 1980s • Verena Conley: “Soigne ta droite” • Michel Gueldry: The Americanization of France • Adrian Johnston: The Right Left: Alain Badiou and the Disruption of Political Identities • Bénédicte Coste: Against the Grain: Michéa’s Radical Philosophy and Its Discontents • Richard J. Golsan: Pascal Bruckner and the Politics of the Moraliste: Realism or Reaction?

• Nacira Guénif-Souilamas: The Inflated Ego and New Games of Belonging • Bruno Chaouat: Moroseness in Post–Cold War France • Douglas Morrey: Sex and the Single Male: Houellebecq, Feminism, and Hegemonic Masculinity • Karl Pollin: Saint-Maurice of the Saber, Gnostic of Postmodern Times • Armine K. Mortimer: The Third Closet: Sollers’ War Yale French Studies Series October 224 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11823-0 £25.00

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 1: Freedom of the Will Jonathan Edwards Edited by Paul Ramsey The premier volume of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, now available for the first time in paperback, presents a critical edition of Edwards’ famous treatise on Freedom of the Will of 1754. This work, by which Edwards was known through the nineteenth century, shaped philosophical discourse in America and Europe, and is on on the list of 500 most important books printed in America.

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series September 506 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15840-3 £15.00

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 2: Religious Affections Jonathan Edwards Edited by John E. Smith Originally printed in 1746 at the culmination of the series of tumultuous revivals known as the Great Awakening, Edwards’ Treatise Concerning Religious Affections is regarded as one of the most sophisticated examinations of conversion psychology, delineating negative and positive signs of ‘true’ religion. Today as in the eighteenth century, this work is referred to by revivalists and religious practitioners as a guide in questions concerning true and counterfeit religious behaviour.

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series September 534 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15841-0 £16.00

The Frederick Douglass Papers Series 3: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842–1852

The Works of Jonathan Edwards

Frederick Douglass • Edited by John R. McKivigan

Volume 4: The Great Awakening

This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles— politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicentre of the political, social, intellectual and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.

John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

The Frederick Douglass Papers Series January 696 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13560-2 £95.00

Jonathan Edwards Edited by C. C. Goen This volume collects Edwards’ major revival tracts, including A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, his description and analysis of the Connecticut River awakening of the 1730s; The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, in which he began to identify the essential signs of grace; and Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival, a robust answer to critics of the awakenings in New England and beyond who doubted the authenticity of the ‘work’ because of the enthusiasm of its participants.

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series September 607 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15842-7 £16.00 Rights sold: Korean

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Household Gods The British and their Possessions Deborah Cohen A fascinating account of the British preoccupation with their homes, interior decoration and personal possessions since 1830.

“In this riveting and revealing book, Deborah Cohen takes the reader on a journey through interiors cluttered with papier-mâché beds, fire screens set with stuffed birds, soup tureens shaped as boar’s heads and baths decorated with shells . . . If you want to understand the roots of Britain’s peculiar taste for home improvement and today’s obsession with DIY, IKEA shop openings, makeover and property TV programmes, Household Gods provides all the answers.”

—Andrea Wulf, The Guardian “[Cohen’s] is a genuinely fresh approach, diverging from the mainstream furrow ploughed by most historians to concentrate in the main on real lives and real choices—of ‘life lived outside the tyranny of grand design’—and she does it subtly, confidently and with real pace.”—Kate Colquhoun, The Daily Telegraph “[An] excellent new history of the British and their possessions . . . So much of what Cohen identifies in her insightful survey of Victorian and Edwardian consumerism seems to reflect upon our own age.”—Ben Macintyre, The Times “Household Gods is engagingly written, well researched and beautifully illustrated. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of consumption.”—The Times Higher Education Deborah Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.

November 336 pp. 234x189mm. 100 b/w + 15 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13641-8 £18.99* Translation rights: Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd, London

Action/Abstraction Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 Edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt Drawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a new focus on a pivotal art movement. It also presents an extensive commentary on the two most influential critics of postwar American art—Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg—whose powerful views shaped perceptions of Abstract Expressionism and other contemporary art movements.

“Thorough and scholarly . . . Presents a balanced account of the art, the artists, the critics and the issues.”—Richard Kalina, Art in America Norman L. Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum.

Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York September 344 pp. 305x247mm. 81 b/w + 175 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13920-4 £18.00*

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson Constructing a Legend Edited by Brooke Kamin Rapaport Essays by Arthur C. Danto, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Harriet F. Senie and Michael Stanislawski Chronology by Gabriel de Guzman Louise Nevelson (1900–1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found objects and celebrated public artworks. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson focuses on all phases of the artist’s remarkable ascent to the top of the art world, from her groundbreaking works of the 1940s to complex pieces completed in the late 1980s. The most extensive study of Nevelson to be published in over 20 years, this beautifully illustrated book also demonstrates how Nevelson’s flamboyant style and carefully cultivated persona enhanced her reputation as an artist of the first rank.

“The brilliant reproductions give a fine flavour of Nevelson’s genius.”—Jewish Chronicle Brooke Kamin Rapaport is a curator and writer. Arthur C. Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.

Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York October 256 pp. 279x228mm. 37 b/w + 140 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16025-3 £28.00*

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Mortal Coil

Baghdad at Sunrise

A Short History of Living Longer

A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq

David Boyd Haycock

Peter R. Mansoor

From Adam and Eve to human cloning and designer babies, from seventeenth-century lifestyle guides to science fiction, Haycock’s gripping story introduces an array of fascinating individuals—René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Swift, Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud as well as a score of unknown figures. Full of extraordinary stories and valuable insights, this is a witty and captivating exploration into our unceasing desire to live forever. “breezy and well-read . . . Mortal Coil is a poignant history of fears and follies, of hubris and hope, of science and common sense: necessary reading for anyone who thinks that hugely extended life has never been promised before.”

—Steven Shapin, London Review of Books “A frolic and gallop through four centuries of engagement with ageing, death and fantasies of rejuvenation. There is something for everyone: optimists, pessimists, sceptics, and even the aspirational who think death a thing of the past.”

—George Rousseau David Haycock is Curator of 17th Century Maritime and Imperial History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

February 320 pp. 216x138mm. 24 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15825-0 £16.99*

This book records what happened after U.S. forces seized Baghdad in spring 2003. Army Colonel Peter R. Mansoor, onthe-ground commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division—the ‘Ready First Combat Team’—describes his brigade’s first year in Iraq, from the chaotic summer after the Ba’athists’ defeat to the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government a year on. Uniquely positioned to assess the events of that fateful year, Mansoor now explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency of unexpected strength and tenacity. “excellent in many ways—as a political analysis, a first rate history and a collection of Black Hawk Down style intermissions.”—Nicholas Fearn, Independent on Sunday “This is an engaging and powerful account of war in the 21st century which isn’t shy to suggest what should have been done.”—Serena Tarling, Financial Times Peter R. Mansoor, a recently retired U.S. Army colonel, is the General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History, The Ohio State University.

Yale Library of Military History October 416 pp. 234x156mm. 25 b/w illus. + 4 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15847-2 £12.99*

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology Edited and with an Introduction by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich and with an Epilogue by R. C. Lewontin The stories of nineteen scientists—some famous, some forgotten—who stubbornly challenged assumptions and icons in the life sciences. “the narratives make compelling reading” —Walter Gratzer, Nature “a delightful book that would make a good Christmas present.

The choices of subjects and authors are excellent, and the nuggets it reveals intriguing . . . for anyone interested in biology or biologists.”—Terence Kealey, The Times Higher Education Oren Harman is Assistant Professor, Graduate Program for Science, Technology and Society, Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Michael R. Dietrich is Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College.

September 416 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15845-8 £16.00*

The Theban Plays of Sophocles Translated by David R. Slavitt In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible and modern version for both longtime admirers of the plays and those encountering them for the first time. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and energy of the dramas, engaging the reader—or audience member—directly with Sophocles’ great texts.

“Clarity, directness, nobility without pretention, beauty simply expressed—nearly any line in David R. Slavitt’s Theban Plays of Sophocles reveals a masterly sense of English syntax and word-music. This is a translation meant to be heard in a theater as well as read on a page.”

—Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and essayist David R. Slavitt is the distinguished translator of more than eighty works of fiction, poetry, and drama.

The Yale New Classics Series November 288 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11901-5 £10.00*

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Nobility of Spirit

Fred Astaire

A Forgotten Ideal

Joseph Epstein

Rob Riemen Translated by Marjolijn de Jager

This portrait of Fred Astaire, widely acclaimed as America’s greatest male dancer, explores his life, his unforgettable movie performances with Ginger Rogers and other great dance partners, and how he came to represent the very essence of style, class and charm.

This book is an impassioned call to restore the conditions of freedom and human dignity— ideals our civilisation seems to have lost.

“Agree or disagree with Rieman’s profound, ambitious and highminded plea, you will be thinking about his words for a long time. It’s been ages since a work of non-fiction moved us this way. Read it.”—The Elegant Variation (Blog) “[a] short but wide-ranging book . . . Riemen’s faith in the art of conversation stands firmly in the tradition of the Renaissance humanists he admires.”—Jenny Bunker, New Humanist “Mr. Riemen’s Nobility of Spirit is intended as a meditation on the forces that threaten civilization and, no less important, on the forces that are desperately needed to sustain it.”—Darrin M. McMahon, Wall Street Journal

“[A] witty, graceful . . . delightful book.”—Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post “Joseph Epstein’s book is rather like the Fred we know from the movies: charming, breezy, slim and elegant.”

—Stephen Dixon, Irish Times “Epstein writes like an insider chatting over mai tais at the Brown Derby.”—Patricia Volk, O, the Oprah Magazine “an account of Astaires place in the firmament of great American popular artists.”—The Economist “an entertaining account of the ‘magical ingredients’ that defined Astaire’s career.”—Michael Taube, Financial Times

Rob Riemen, an essayist and cultural philosopher, is founder of the Nexus Institute, an international centre devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate.

Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, Snobbery, Friendship and Fabulous Small Jews.

October 160 pp. 190x120mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15853-3 £7.99*

October 224 pp. 210x140mm. 2 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15844-1 £10.00*

Translation rights: held by the author

The Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia Douglas Smith The unforgettable story of the serf who became one of Russia’s greatest opera singers and her noble master, a man who defied all tradition to marry her. “a gripping read, glittering with exotic wealth, imperial power, family intrigue, priceless diamonds, glamorous theatre and, above all, forbidden, doomed love, but this is also a work of deeply researched scholarship on Russia: this is history writing at its best.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Telegraph “The Pearl is a sophisticated as well as a touching microhistory.”—Catriona Kelly, The Guardian

Icons of America

Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York

The Arts of Intimacy Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin strands that are woven into its fabric.

“This handsomely produced and generously illustrated book explores the praxis of medieval Castilian culture inherited by Catholic kings . . . [An] impressive work of scholarship . . .

An important addition to the scholarship of medieval Iberia.”—Library Journal

Douglas Smith is a scholar at the University of Washington.

Jerrilynn D. Dodds is Distinguished Professor and senior faculty advisor to the provost for undergraduate education, City College of New York. María Rosa Menocal is Director, Whitney Humanities Center, and Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University. Abigail Krasner Balbale is a Ph.D. candidate in history and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University.

September 352 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w + 11 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15858-8 £16.99*

January 256 pp. 254x178mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14214-3 £18.99*

“The Pearl is a bright, sparkling jewel of a book; a masterpiece that deserves as wide an audience as possible. Russia’s greatest love story has never been properly told, until now.”

—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

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Humans, Nature, and Birds

All Can Be Saved Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy Foreword by Paul R. Ehrlich This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual ‘gallery’ where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art—that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability and our responsibility to preserve its wealth. “novel and fascinating . . . much more than a history of ornithological illustration, it is an enthusiastic and enlightening account of the diverse ways our understanding of bird biology has been enhanced by art . . . anyone with an interest in bird art and seeking aesthetic stimulation should have this extraordinary book.”—Tim Birkhead, IBIS Darryl Wheye is a freelance artist and writer. Donald Kennedy is editor in chief of the journal Science. He is President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Emeritus, Stanford University.

January 240 pp. 234x182mm. 75 colour illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15862-5 £16.50*

Stuart B. Schwartz It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that.

Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence— including records of the Inquisition itself—the historian Stuart Schwartz investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its evolution in the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820.

“In this superb and strikingly original book, Stuart Schwartz raises an audacious thesis that is sure to excite attention and controversy.”—Felipe Fernández-Armesto “Not many academic histories make you laugh out loud.

Schwartz shows ordinary people using vulgarity and humor to convince inquisitors that sex between single people was no sin, and that all sincere believers (Muslim, Christians, Protestants) would be saved—even though they knew such defiance normally led to savage punishments. This is a book you must read.”—Geoffrey Parker, author of The Grand Strategy of Philip II Stuart Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Master, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University.

January 352 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15854-0 £18.00* Spanish and Portuguese rights: held by the author

On Eloquence Denis Donoghue An eloquent reminder of why we should care about—and revel in— eloquence in literature and speech.

“Donoghue’s beautifully written book raises a clarion cry for an appreciation of style to be reinstated at the heart of literary studies.”—Cathy Shrank, The Times Higher Education “Donoghue is a formidably gifted critic whose range of reference is truly impressive.”—Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review “Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime’s devotion to linguistic eloquence to this book, an eloquent plea for the appreciation of literary beauty.”— Denise Gigante, Stanford University Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters, New York University.

February 208 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15839-7 £12.00* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York

Sustainability

by Design A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture John R. Ehrenfeld Treating the symptoms of global ecological stress isn’t enough; we need to think about sustainability in an entirely different light. In this deeply considered book, Ehrenfeld challenges conventional understandings of ‘solving’ environmental problems and offers a radically new set of strategies to attain sustainability. “the most intellectually rigorous treatment of sustainability that I have ever come across . . . In short: quite brilliant.”—Gareth Kane, Terra Infirma John R. Ehrenfeld serves as Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and is Senior Research Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

September 272 pp. 234x156mm.

11 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15843-4 £12.00*

Auto Mania Cars, Consumers, and the Environment Tom McCarthy The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment.

Tom McCarthy presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle—from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal.

“What distinguishes Auto Mania . . . is the scope of its indictment. McCarthy doesn’t [just] blame Detroit for the ills of Detroit; he blames all of us.”

—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Tom McCarthy is Associate Professor, History Department, United States Naval Academy.

October 368 pp. 234x156mm.

52 b/w illus.

Paper 978-0-300-15848-9 £15.00*

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King’s Dream

The Public Domain

The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech

Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

Eric J. Sundquist

In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property.

A new evaluation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, renowned speech, now hailed as the most powerful American address of the twentieth century.

“In highlighting the roots and ongoing struggle over the content and use of the [‘I Have a Dream’] speech, Eric J. Sundquist has produced one of the best short books we have on the ideas of racial equality from the early days of the American republic up to current Supreme Court decisions.”—George Bornstein, Times Literary Supplement “The [‘I Have a Dream’] speech and all that surrounds it— background and consequences—are brought magnificently to life in Eric Sundquist’s new book.”—Anthony Lewis, New York Times Book Review Eric J. Sundquist is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature, UCLA. He is author or editor of eight books on American literature and culture.

Icons of America • A Caravan Book September 320 pp. 210x140mm. 16 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15859-5 £9.99*

James Boyle

“In this delightful volume, Professor Boyle gives the reader a masterful tour of the intellectual property wars, the fight over who will control the information age, pointing the way toward the promise—and peril—of the future. A must read for both beginner and expert alike!”

—Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia “Reads like a cross between a supreme court judge and Malcolm Gladwell . . . a rallying cry”—The Observer “effortlessly lucid and downright witty in places . . . perfect for those living and working outside the ivory tower” —Computerworld James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.

February 336 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15834-2 £12.99*

Stall Points Life Explained Michel Morange Translated by Matthew Cobb and Malcolm DeBevoise A biologist reflects on the question ‘What is life?’ and looks at the answers provided by an array of recent scientific advances.

“I won’t give away Morange’s thoughtful and persuasive payoff, but his demand that children undergo compulsory education in philosophy of science is energising.”—The Guardian Michel Morange is Professor of Biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he directs the Centre Cavaillès for the History and Philosophy of Science. Matthew Cobb is Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Manchester.

Malcolm DeBevoise has translated some thirty works.

An Odile Jacob Book January 224 pp. 210x140mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15850-2 £12.00*

Most Companies Stop Growing —Yours Doesn’t Have To Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever Virtually all corporations stagnate at some point in their lifetime, and only one in ten ever recaptures a sustainably high growth rate. Why? “About 87% of businesses will hit what [the authors] call a stall point . . . This book offers a useful checklist in how not to do it, a cost-effective way to learn from other people’s mistakes.”—Stefan Stern, Los Angeles Times Matthew S. Olson is an executive director and Derek van Bever is the chief research officer of the Corporate Executive Board (NASDAQ:EXBD).

September 256 pp. 234x156mm. 51 charts and graphs Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15851-9 £15.00* Rights sold: Chinese (sc), Eng. Reprint (India), Japanese, Korean

Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob, Paris

The Illusions of Entrepreneurship The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By Scott A. Shane A challenge to the myths we hold about entrepreneurs in America—who they are, what they do, and how they succeed.

“For its myth-busting findings and analytical rigor, Shane’s book is a welcome addition to the literature on a crucial part of any modern economy.”—Nick Schulz, Wall Street Journal Scott A. Shane is A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

February 224 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15856-4 £14.00*

Whatever Happened to Thrift?

Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It Ronald T. Wilcox This book is an attempt to reinvent thrift in the United States, to find practical ways to help people consume less and save more now, so as to be a richer people in the future and a more prosperous nation.

“A conscientious reader could easily secure a comfortable retirement by taking [Wilcox’s] advice to heart.”

—Steven E. Landsburg, Wall Street Journal Ronald Wilcox is Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

July 176 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15824-3 £15.00

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The American Far West in the Twentieth Century Earl Pomeroy Edited by Richard W. Etulain • Foreword by Howard R. Lamar In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much—if not more—by events and innovations in the twentieth century.

Earl Pomeroy (1915–2005) was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Richard W. Etulain is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

The Lamar Series in Western History November 600 pp. 234x156mm. 62 b/w illus. + maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15852-6 £20.00*

Lost Worlds Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm Three prominent economists focus new attention on the essential role of entrepreneurship in capitalism. “helpfully moves the debate on from competing national models to the underlying structures that shape the relative effectiveness of different sorts of capitalism.”—The Economist William J. Baumol is Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stern School of Business, New York University, and Senior Economist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Robert E. Litan is Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Carl J. Schramm is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kauffman Foundation and a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

November 336 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus.

Paper 978-0-300-15832-8 £16.00*

Bruce M. Beehler

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Unique tales and reflections of a scientist-explorer on his adventures in some of the world’s most remote tropical rainforests.

The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

Bruce M. Beehler is Vice President for the Melanesia and Pacific Islands programs at Conservation International.

Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease

September 272 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15833-5 £12.50*

A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonised as ‘the witchcraft disease’.

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Alice Wexler • Foreword by Nancy S. Wexler

The Great Awakening

Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

February 288 pp. 234x156mm.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15861-8 £15.00

Thomas S. Kidd “Kidd creatively synthesises a wide range of recent historiography and, thus, provides fresh insight into early evangelicalism’s inner workings and cultural impact on America. Historians, theologians and graduate students will all appreciate Kidd’s ability to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the social and theological motives that drove the early evangelicals’ behaviour.”—John Ellis, Ecclesiastical History Thomas S. Kidd is Associate Professor of History, Baylor University, and author of The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism, published by Yale.

Preserving Nature in the National Parks A History • With a New Preface and Epilogue Richard Sellars This groundbreaking book—now reissued with a new foreword and epilogue—traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in America’s national parks.

Historian Richard Sellars was with the National Park Service for thirty-five years.

September 416 pp. 234x156mm. 15 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15846-5 £18.00*

October 448 pp. 234x156m. 16 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15414-6 £20.00

Forgive Us Our Debts

War of a Thousand Deserts

The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility

Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

Andrew Yarrow

How Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico.

A plain-English explanation of federal deficits and debt and the threat they pose to the American nation and the future.

Andrew L. Yarrow is Vice President and Washington Director of Public Agenda at American University.

February 184 pp. 234x156mm. 14 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15863-2 £12.00

Brian DeLay

Brian DeLay is Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

The Lamar Series in Western History January 496 pp. 234x156mm. 31 b/w illus.

Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15837-3 £20.00

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Abed: Introduction to Spoken Arabic (An) Abulafia: Discovery of Mankind (The) Accademia Seminars (The): Lukehart Action/Abstraction: Kleeblatt Adventures in Modern Art: Shoemaker Aghion: Sketchbook of Pietro Santi Bartoli Albers: Interaction of Color Albersmeier: Heroes Ali: Treasures of the Earth Alias Man Ray: Klein Alice Guy Blaché: Simon All Can Be Saved: Schwartz Allport: Demobbed American Beauty: Mears American Far West: Pomeroy American Modernism at the AIC: Barter American Portrait Miniatures: Barratt American Quilts and Coverlets: Peck American Stories: Weinberg Among the Gentiles: Johnson Anderson: Sin Andy Warhol: Danto Anti-Enlightenment Tradition: Sternhell Apostles of Beauty: Barter Architecture in the Balkans: Curcic Architecture on the Edge: Stern Arshile Gorky: Taylor Art of Not Being Governed (The): Scott Art of the Samurai: Ogawa Arts of Africa at Dallas: Walker Arts of Industry (The): Fox Arts of Intimacy (The): Dodds At Home in the Law: Suk Attridge: Religion and Science Debate Auto Mania: McCarthy Baetjer: British Paintings in The MMA Baetjer: Watteau, Music, and Theater Bagel (The): Balinska Baghdad at Sunrise: Mansoor Bailey: Bedouin Law from Sinai Balinska: Bagel (The) Bambach: Drawings of Bronzino (The) Barratt: American Portrait Miniatures Barter: American Modernism at the AIC Barter: Apostles of Beauty Bauer: Death of the Shtetl (The) Baumol: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism Bedouin Law from Sinai: Bailey Beehler: Lost Worlds Begley: Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters Behind Closed Doors: Vickery Belasco: Reinventing Ritual Bennett-Jones: Pakistan, Third Edition Bergelson: End of Everything (The) Best Technology Writing 2009: Johnson Big House (The): Cox Bignamini: Digging and Dealing Bilbao-Henry: Transición Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors: Roscoe Black: Italian Inquisition (The) Blair: Rivers of Paradise Bockstoce: Furs and Frontiers Book of Mormon (The): Skousen Bourgeois Frontier (The): Gitlin Boyhoods: Corbett Boyle: Hunter Boyle: Public Domain (The) Bradshaw: Elephants on the Edge Bray: Sacred Made Real (The) Brettell: From Private Collections of Texas Brilliant Effects: Pointon British Paintings in The MMA: Baetjer Brittle Thread of Life (The): Williams Carmichael: Genocide Before the Holocaust

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Carr: El Greco to Goya Cartoons That Shook the World: Klausen Cash: Sargent and the Sea Cavanagh: Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics Celestina: De Rojas Cézanne and American Modernism: Stavitsky Chaotic Harmony: Tucker Charles Dickens: Slater Children of the Gulag: Frierson Chosen Will Become Herds: Garb Christensen: Nahum Christian West and Its Singers: Page Civil Society and Empire: Livesey Closer Look (A): Faces: Sturgis Closer Look (A): Saints: Langmuir Cohen: Notes from the Ground Cohen: Household Gods Comella: Constitutional Courts Comparative Studies: Marmor Conservation Biology of Forest Birds: Pratt Constitutional Courts: Comella Corbett: Boyhoods Cox: Big House (The) Crookham: National Gallery, Illus. History Cross: Sol Lewitt Cullen: Nexus New York Culture of Nature in Britain: Harman Cumings: Dominion from Sea to Sea Curcic: Architecture in the Balkans Czechoslovakia: Heimann Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Gross Danto: Andy Warhol Davis: Photographs of Homer Page (The) Dazzled and Deceived: Forbes De Rojas: Celestina Deadly Dinner Party (The): Edlow Death of the Shtetl (The): Bauer Decoded Messages: Sung DeLay: War of a Thousand Deserts Demobbed: Allport Di Nepi: Duccio to Leonardo Digging and Dealing: Bignamini Discovery of Mankind (The): Abulafia Dodds: Arts of Intimacy (The) Dominion from Sea to Sea: Cumings Donoghue: On Eloquence Douglass: Frederick Douglass Papers (The) Drawings of Bronzino (The): Bambach Duccio to Leonardo: Di Nepi Duchamp: Manual of Instructions Dutch New York: Krohn Earle: Serizawa Edlow: Deadly Dinner Party (The) Edward II: Phillips Ehrenfeld: Sustainability by Design El Greco to Goya: Carr Elephants on the Edge:Bradshaw End of Everything (The): Bergelson Enlightened Economy (The): Mokyr Epstein: Fred Astaire Estlund: Reviving Self-Governance Faye: Heidegger Fellman: In the Name of God and Country Fennell: Unbounded Home (The) Fitzhugh: Gifts from the Ancestors Forbes: Dazzled and Deceived Forgive Us Our Debts: Yarrow Foster: Steve Wolfe on Paper Fox: Arts of Industry (The) Fred Astaire: Epstein Frederick Douglass Papers (The): Douglass Freeman: New History of Christianity Frierson: Children of the Gulag From Private Collections of Texas: Brettell

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Modern Architecture: Levine Modern Eye (The): Wilson Mokyr: Enlightened Economy (The) Montesquieu and Logic of Liberty: Rahe Morange: Life Explained Morgan: Sonidos en contexto Mortal Coil: Haycock Moyar: Question of Command (A) Mozart’s Third Brain: Sonnevi Mrs. Delany and Her Circle: Laird Muralnomad: Golan Nahum: Christensen National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Roy National Gallery, Illus. History: Crookham Natural Reflections: Smith Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: Herf Nesvig: Ideology and Inquisition New History of Christianity: Freeman Newcastle and Gateshead: McCombie Nexus New York: Cullen Nobility of Spirit (The): Riemen Notes from the Ground: Cohen Oceans of Wine: Hancock Ogawa: Art of the Samurai Olson: Stall Points On Eloquence: Donoghue On Death and Life of Languages: Hagège One Nation under Contract: Stanger Ordering the City: Garnett Page: Christian West and Its Singers (The) Pakistan, Third Edition: Bennett-Jones Paradoxical Life: Wagner Parshall: Woodcut in 15th-Century Europe Pashas: Mather Pearl (The): Smith

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Peck: American Quilts and Coverlets Penalver: Property Outlaws Persians (The): Katouzian Philippe de Montebello: Houghton Phillips: Edward II Photographs of Homer Page (The): Davis Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse: Rewald Pincus: 1688 Playing with Pictures: Siegel Pointon: Brilliant Effects Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Shearer Pomeroy: American Far West (The) Portrait of the Brain (A): Zeman Pratt: Conservation Biology of Forest Birds Preserving Nature in National Parks: Sellars Prison and American Imagination: Smith Property Outlaws: Penalver Public Domain (The): Boyle Question of Command (A): Moyar Radke: Leonardo da Vinci Rahe: Montesquieu and Logic of Liberty Rainey: Futurism Ramírez: Joaquín Torres-García Ramsey: Works of Jonathan Edwards Rapaport: Sculputure of Louise Nevelson Raven King (The): Tanner Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics: Harman Reinventing Ritual: Belasco Religion and Science Debate: Attridge Reviving Self-Governance: Estlund Rewald: Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Richard Norman Shaw: Saint Riemen: Nobility of Spirit (The) Rivers of Paradise: Blair Robert Indiana: Wilmerding Roscoe: Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors Rothermund: India Roy: National Gallery Technical Bulletin Ruskin on Venice: Hewison Ryan: Konstantin Grcic Sacred Made Real (The): Bray Sacred Spain: Kasl Saint: Richard Norman Shaw Santayana: Genteel Tradition in Philosophy Sargent and the Sea: Cash Schwartz: All Can Be Saved Scott: Art of Not Being Governed (The) Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Rapaport Sellars: Preserving Nature in National Parks Serbs (The), Third Edition: Judah Serizawa: Earle Shane: Illusions of Entrepreneurship (The) Shearer: Policing Stalin’s Socialism Shkandrij: Jews in Ukrainian Literature Shoemaker: Adventures in Modern Art Shopping in the Renaissance: Welch Siegel: Playing with Pictures Siegfried: Ingres Sigmar Polke: Wylie Simon: Alice Guy Blaché Sin: Anderson 1688: Pincus Sketchbook of Pietro Santi Bartoli: Aghion Skousen: Book of Mormon (The) Slater: Charles Dickens Smith: Natural Reflections Smith: Prison and American Imagination Smith: Pearl (The) Smith: Works of Jonathan Edwards (The) Snodin: Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Society of Dilettanti, 1732–1816: Kelly Sol Lewitt: Cross Sonidos en contexto: Morgan Sonnevi: Mozart’s Third Brain

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Sophocles: Theban Plays of Sophocles Sound and Space in Venice: Howard Spaces of Experience: Klonk Stall Points: Olson Stanger: One Nation under Contract Stavitsky: Cézanne & American Modernism Steele: Isabel Toledo Steffens: Unpacking My Library Stern: Architecture on the Edge Sternhell: Anti-Enlightenment Tradition Steve Wolfe on Paper: Foster Sturgis: Closer Look (A): Faces Sugimura: ‘Matter of Glorious Trial’ Suicidal Behavior in Children: Wagner Suk: At Home in the Law Sundquist: King’s Dream Sung: Decoded Messages Superpower Illusions: Matlock Sustainability by Design: Ehrenfeld Talking with Sartre: Gerassi Tanner: Raven King (The) Taylor: Arshile Gorky Taylor: Marcel Duchamp Taylor: Virgin Warrior (The) Theban Plays of Sophocles: Sophocles Thoreau: Maine Woods (The) Transición: Bilbao-Henry Treasures of the Earth: Ali Trevor-Roper: Invention of Scotland (The) TRIPLEX: West Tucker: Chaotic Harmony Tullio Lombardo: Luchs Ukrainians (The), New Edition: Wilson Unaccompanied Bach: Ledbetter Unbounded Home (The): Fennell Unpacking My Library: Steffens Vickery: Behind Closed Doors Virgin Warrior (The): Taylor Wagner: Paradoxical Life Wagner: Suicidal Behavior in Children Walker: Arts of Africa at Dallas War of a Thousand Deserts: DeLay Wargo: Green Intelligence Watteau, Music, and Theater: Baetjer Wechsler: Grenadine Wegren: Land Reform in Russia Weinberg: American Stories Welch: Shopping in the Renaissance West: TRIPLEX Wexler: Woman Who Walked into the Sea Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Wilcox Wheatley: Learning Chinese Wheye: Humans, Nature, and Birds Who Was Jacques Derrida?: Mikics Why Architecture Matters: Goldberger Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters: Begley Wiggins: Kienholz Wilcox: Whatever Happened to Thrift?

Williams: Brittle Thread of Life (The) Willie Doherty, Requisite Distance: Wylie Wilmerding: Robert Indiana Wilson: Modern Eye (The) Wilson: Ukrainians (The), New Edition Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Wexler Wood: Lure of China (The) Woodcut in 15th-Century Europe: Parshall Works of Jonathan Edwards: Ramsey Wylie: Willie Doherty, Requisite Distance Wylie: Sigmar Polke Yale French Studies, No. 116/117: Johnson Yarrow: Forgive Us Our Debts Yorkshire, West Riding: Leach Zeman: Portrait of the Brain (A)

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