The Great Plague:
A People’s History
During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world’s population. Four centuries later, in 1665,…
Places
The Great Plague:
Nazis, Islamists, and the Making
of the Modern Middle East
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab…
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew and the Counterculture
The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a…
The Victorian with whom you would most want to have dinner
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent Victorian lawyer, businessman, essayist and journalist. For 17 years he was editor…
History Catalogue 2013: Retrospectives from Yale University Press
These titles, selected from the Yale University Press 2013 History Catalogue, offer in depth retrospectives of extraordinary events, people and…
New and recent current affairs titles from Yale University Press
The challenges facing the world are multiplex; the global financial crisis, costly and exhausting conflicts, and cracks appearing…
Edwardian Opulence: ‘The Gown’ by Angus Trumble
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870
The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with eighteenth and nineteenth century British cultural politics. By…
Extract from ‘Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century’, edited by Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
‘How can books keep families and generations together?’ Author Article by Fania Oz-Salzberger
This year Yale University Press authors Judith Walkowitz, Frederic Raphael and Fania Oz-Salzberger will be contributing to the…
The Pevsner Architectural Guides and an intriguing link to the History Today Trustee’s Award Prize Bowl
Yale University Press was delighted when the Pevsner Architectural Guides series recently won the Longman – History Today Trustees’ Award, which is given…
‘Hell Upon Earth’? The True Nature of the Victorian City by Emma Griffin
The Victorian city is often painted as a place of squalor and misery for the working class, where hordes of downtrodden…
Author Article: Against War and Empire. Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century by Richard Whatmore
Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of the republicans who strove to safeguard Geneva’s survival as an independent…
The truth about the aftermath of the Six Day War: Extract from ‘The Bride and the Dowry’
The Bride and the Dowry by Avi Raz is a penetrating new book that explores newly opened archives to…
New book on Syria by David Lesch charts the Fall of the House of Assad
In his new book Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad, David Lesch, one of the only Westerners…