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Religion/Philosophy 1

PULITZER & ORANGE prize-winning author

An incisive exploration of the tension between science and religion, showing how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilisation

Absence of Mind Marilynne Robinson In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality. Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Home, winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction; and Housekeeping, winner of the 1982 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction. She is also the author of Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

June 160 pp. 197x127mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14518-2 £16.99*

By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilisation. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

Translation rights: Trident Media Group

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2 Philosophy

An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day

On Evil Terry Eagleton For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

Terry Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Theory at Lancaster University and Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. He is the author of many books.

In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all?

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Reason, Faith, and Revolution Reflections on the God Debate May 192 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15106-0 £18.99*

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Language 3

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BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

For readers of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language

A Little Book of Language David Crystal With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant to text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language’s myriad intricacies and quirks. In animated fashion, Crystal sheds light on the development of unique linguistic styles, the origins of obscure accents and the search for the first written word. He discusses the plight of endangered languages, as well as successful cases of linguistic revitalisation. Much more than a history, Crystal’s guide looks forward to the future of language, exploring the effect of technology on our day-to-day reading, writing and speech. Through enlightening tables, diagrams and quizzes, as well as Crystal’s avuncular and entertaining style, A Little Book of Language reveals the story of language to be a captivating tale for all ages. David Crystal is one of the world’s preeminent language specialists. He has written nearly one hundred books, including The Stories of English.

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4 Literature

“Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious, voluminous brain.” —Peter Conrad, The Observer

A Reader on Reading Alberto Manguel In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called “the Casanova of reading”, argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. “We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything”, writes Manguel, “landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create”. Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading. Internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor, Alberto Manguel is the best-selling author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading. Translation rights: Guillermo Schavelzon & Associates, SL, Buenos Aires

The thirty-nine essays in this volume explore the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, to whom Manguel read as a young man, and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. The powers of censorship and intellectual curiosity, the art of translation, and those “numinous memory palaces we call libraries”, also figure in this remarkable collection. For Manguel and his readers, words, in spite of everything, lend coherence to the world and offer us “a few safe places, as real as paper and as bracing as ink”, to grant us room and board in our passage.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The Library at Night April 320 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15982-0 £18.00*

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Literature 5

Elegant and original, this study examines with sensitivity the crucial role that creative collaboration played in the development of Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell’s work

True Friendship Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound Christopher Ricks True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past halfcentury—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound. “Opposition is true Friendship”. So William Blake believed, or at any rate hoped. Hill, Hecht and Lowell demonstrate many kinds of friendship with Eliot and Pound: adversarial, artistic, personal. In their creative assent and dissent, the imaginative literary allusions—like other, wider forms of influence—are shown to constitute the most magnanimous of welcomes and of tributes. Sir Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. Formerly Professor of Poetry at Oxford, he was President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers from 2007 to 2008.

April 272 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13429-2 £16.99*

“The work is not only original and the scholarship provocative and sound, but one feels in the company of the Circle of Philosophers, comforted by this Virgilian guide who is not only knowledgeable, but—even better—has such a refined sense of humor, wit, and— most rare of gifts—a humanistic pathos that rings down the ages.” —Paul Mariani, University Professor of English, Boston College

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6 Music

A great writer and performer explains music’s effect on the human soul Carlo Saraceni, Saint Cecilia and the Angel. Oil on canvas, c.1610. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome.

Music and Sentiment Charles Rosen How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways.

“A marvellous text . . . Rosen points the reader in the direction of old friends, musically speaking, and finds new things to say about them, all without a shred of unnecessary jargon.”—Nigel Simeone, University of Sheffield May 160 pp. 216x138mm. Musical examples throughout ISBN 978-0-300-12640-2 £16.99*

Through a range of musical examples, Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. This is not, however, a listener’s guide to any ‘correct’ response to a particular piece. Instead, Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this central aspect of musical aesthetics, and indeed explores the phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif or melody. Taking examples from Chopin, Schumann, Wagner and Liszt, he traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century and devotes an entire chapter to the key of C minor. Profound and moving, Music and Sentiment is an invitation to a greater appreciation of the craft of composition, and performance. Charles Rosen is an internationally renowned writer and pianist. His numerous books include Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, published by Yale, and he frequently reviews for The New York Review of Books. As a pianist, he has performed and recorded a wide repertoire (notably Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy) and has been invited by Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter to record and give first performances of their works.

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History 7

An exciting account of 1950s London, arguing that the roots of the sexual revolution of the 1960s lay further back in the post-war years

Mandy Rice-Davies leaves the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial, 22 July 1963. Photographer Ted West/Stringer, Hulton Archive. Getty Images.

Capital Affairs London and the Making of the Permissive Society Frank Mort During the 1950s a series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life in ways that had major national consequences. High and low society collided in a city of social and sexual extremes. Patrician men-about-town, young independent women, go–ahead entrepreneurs, Westminster politicians, queer men and West-Indian newcomers played a conspicuous part in dramatic encounters that signalled a new phase of post-Victorian sexual morality.

Frank Mort is Professor of Cultural Histories, University of Manchester. His books include Cultures of Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentiethcentury Britain.

May 400 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w + 6 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11879-7 £25.00*

These dramas of pleasure and danger occurred not only in the glamorous and shady entertainment spaces of the West End but also in Whitehall, as well as the twilight zones of the inner city. Frank Mort uncovers the ways in which they transformed national culture. Soho and Notting Hill became beacons for anxieties over the changing character of sex in the city and the cultural impact of decolonisation. The ‘old’ European migrants and the ‘new’ Caribbean presence were significant factors in the readjustment of urban sexual mores. Mort’s arresting history of sex and politics in London illustrates a key moment in the making of modern British society.

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8 History

A searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine, and its bloody aftermath United Nations General Assembly session approving the partition of Palestine, 29 November 1947. UN Photo/AF.

Palestine Betrayed Efraim Karsh The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (1920–48) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive under peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities?

“A brave and exceedingly important piece of work”—David Vital, author of A People Apart

March 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12727-0 £20.00* Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, NY

In this brave and groundbreaking book, Efraim Karsh tells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. He argues that from the early 1920s onward, a corrupt and extremist leadership worked toward eliminating the Jewish national revival and protecting its own interests. Karsh has mined many of the Western, Soviet, UN and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade, as well as unfamiliar Arab sources, to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both Palestinian and Jewish sides. It is an arresting story of delicate political and diplomatic manoeuvring by leading figures—Ben Gurion, Hajj Amin Husseini, Abdel Rahman Azzam, King Abdullah, Bevin and Truman—over the years leading up to partition, through the slide to war and its enduring consequences. Efraim Karsh is professor and head of the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, King’s College London. His books include Islamic Imperialism: A History; The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War, 1948; Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography; and Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923.

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Economics 9

Hard-hitting analysis of the future of the global economy and what it means for the Western way of life

Losing Control The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity Stephen D. King As the economic giants of Asia and elsewhere have awakened, Western leaders have increasingly struggled to maintain economic stability. The international financial crisis which began in 2007 is but one result of the emerging nations’ increased gravitational pull. In this vividly written and compellingly argued book, Stephen D. King, the global chief economist at HSBC, one of the largest banking groups in the world, suggests that the decades ahead will see a major redistribution of wealth and power across the globe that will force consumers in the U.S. and Europe to stop living beyond their means. The tide of money washing in from emerging nations has already fuelled the recent property bubble in the West, while new patterns of trade have left the West increasingly dependent on risky financial services. Unless things change drastically, King argues, the increasing power of emerging markets, when coupled with poor internal regulation and an increasingly anachronistic system of global governance, will result in greater instability and income inequality, coupled with the risk of a major dollar decline. And as Western populations age and emerging economies develop further, the social and political consequences may be alarming to citizens who have grown accustomed to living in prosperity.

May 304 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15432-0 £20.00*

Stephen D. King is the global chief economist at HSBC, for which he has written on a wide range of global issues, including China’s currency, demographics and, more recently, the debt burden of western governments. He is a regular contributor to The Independent and makes frequent appearances on TV and radio. He has provided both written and oral evidence on globalisation to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the House of Lords Economics Committee.

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10 Current Affairs

Yemen Dancing on the Heads of Snakes Victoria Clark Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal make-up and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Victoria Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen’s history before examining the country’s role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader. May 320 pp. 234x156mm. 15 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11701-1 £20.00*

Victoria Clark is a former correspondent and Moscow bureau chief for The Observer. She now works as a freelance journalist and writer, contributing to The Independent, Prospect magazine and The Tablet.

Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History Ahmad Dallal In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways in which the realms of scientific knowledge and religious authority were delineated historically. For example, the emergence of new mathematical methods revealed that many mosques built in the early period of Islamic expansion were misaligned relative to the Ka‘ba in Mecca; this misalignment was critical because Muslims must face Mecca during their five daily prayers. The realisation of a discrepancy between tradition and science often led to demolition and rebuilding and, most important, to questioning whether scientific knowledge should take precedence over religious authority in a matter where their realms clearly overlap.

Ahmad Dallal is provost and professor of history, American University of Beruit.

June 256 pp. 210x140mm. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15911-0 £18.99*

Dallal frames his inquiry around three concerns: What cultural forces provided the conditions for debate over the primacy of religion or science? How did these debates emerge? And how were they sustained? His primary objectives are to study science in Muslim societies within its larger cultural context and to trace the epistemological distinctions between science and philosophy, on the one hand, and science and religion, on the other. He looks at religious and scientific texts and situates them in the contexts of religion, philosophy and science. Finally, Dallal describes the relationship negotiated in the classical (medieval) period between the religious, scientific and philosophical systems of knowledge that is central to the Islamic scientific tradition and shows how this relationship has changed radically in modern times.

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Current Affairs 11

Drawing on interviews with many of the main players, the Africa editor of The Economist gives an absorbing account of Sudan’s descent into civil war and failure over the past fifty years

Child soldiers of the Sudanese Liberation Army, Darfur, April 2005 (Getty Images).

Sudan Darfur, Islamism and the World Richard Cockett Over the last two decades, the situation in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index; a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths; President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court; a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan threatens to split the country violently apart. In this fascinating and immensely readable book the Africa editor of The Economist gives an absorbing account of Sudan’s descent into failure and what some have called genocide. Drawing on interviews with many of the main players, Richard Cockett explains how and why Sudan has disintegrated, looking in particular at the country’s complex relationship with the wider world. He shows how the U.S. and Britain were initially complicit in Darfur—but also how a broad coalition of human-rights activists, right-wing Christians and opponents of slavery succeeded in bringing the issue to prominence in the U.S. and creating an impetus for change at the highest level. Dr Richard Cockett has been Africa Editor of The Economist since 2005. He was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at the University of London.

June 320 pp. 234x156mm. 30 illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16273-8 £14.99*

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12 Current Affairs

Vietnam Rising Dragon Bill Hayton The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of modern living tugging at the traditional networks of family and community. Yet beneath these developments lurks an authoritarian political system that complicates the nation’s apparent renaissance. In this work, experienced journalist Bill Hayton looks at the costs of change in Vietnam and questions whether this rising Asian power is really heading towards capitalism and democracy.

Bill Hayton is a reporter and producer with BBC News who covered Vietnam as the BBC’s correspondent during 2006–7. While there, he also wrote for The Times, the Financial Times and the Bangkok Post.

Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and case studies, Hayton’s book addresses a variety of issues in today’s Vietnam, including shifts in international relations, the growth of civil society, economic developments and challenges, and the nation’s nascent democracy movement as well as its notorious internal security. His analysis of Vietnam’s ‘police state’, and its systematic mechanisms of social control is fresh and particularly imperative when viewed alongside his portraits of urban and street life, cultural legacies, religion, the media and the arts. With a firm sense of historical and cultural context, Hayton examines how these issues have emerged and where they will lead Vietnam in the next stage of its development.

March 272 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15203-6 £20.00*

“Hayton has a keen eye for the detail of everyday life as well as larger cultural, economic, social and political currents. This book leaves one with the feeling of having been in the hands of an expert craftsman, and illuminates some of the major issues confronting contemporary Vietnam.”—Carl Thayer, author of Vietnam People’s Army

Dubai Gilded Cage Syed Ali In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyper-consumerism, massive immigration and vertiginous inequality. Its rulers have succeeded in making Dubai into a worldwide brand, publicising its astonishing hotels and leisure opportunities while at the same time successfully downplaying its complex policies towards guest workers and suppression of dissent. In this enormously readable book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyse how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labour and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost. Syed Ali received his PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia. He currently teaches at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. April 288 pp. 234x156mm. 20 illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15217-3 £14.99*

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Language 13

Hocus Bogus Romain Gary writing as Émile Ajar Translated by David Bellos By the early 1970s, Romain Gary had established himself as one of France’s most popular and prolific novelists, journalists and memoirists. Feeling that he had been typecast as ‘Romain Gary’, however, he wrote his next novel under the pseudonym Émile Ajar. His second novel written as Ajar, Life Before Us, was an instant success, winning the Prix Goncourt and becoming the best-selling French novel of the twentieth century. The Prix Goncourt made people all the keener to identify the real ‘Émile Ajar’, and stressed by the furor he had created, Gary fled to Geneva. There, Pseudo, a hoax confession and one of the most alarmingly effective mystifications in all literature, was written at high speed. Writing under double cover, Gary simulated schizophrenia and paranoid delusions while pretending to be Paul Pawlovitch confessing to being Émile Ajar—the author of books Gary himself had written.

One of the twentieth century’s most ingenious works, translated by Man Booker Prizewinner David Bellos

April 224 pp. 197x127mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14976-0 £16.99*

In Pseudo, brilliantly translated by David Bellos as Hocus Bogus, the struggle to assert and deny authorship is part of a wider protest against suffering and universal hypocrisy. Playing with novelistic categories and authorial voice, this work is a powerful testimony to the power of language—to express, to amuse, to deceive and ultimately to speak difficult personal truths. Romain Gary (1914–1980), was a French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. David Bellos is professor of French and comparative literature and director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Why Translation Matters Edith Grossman Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation, and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented.” For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: “Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable.” From an award-winning translator a passionate testament to the power of her craft

April 160 pp. 197x134mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12656-3 £16.99*

Throughout this volume, Grossman’s belief in the crucial significance of the translator’s work, as well as her ability to explain the intellectual sphere that she inhabits as interpreter of the original text, inspires and provokes the reader to engage with translation in an entirely new way. Edith Grossman translations of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes are contemporary classics.

Why X Matters

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A gripping biography of the keeper of the Wagner grail

Cosima Wagner The Lady of Bayreuth Oliver Hilmes Translated by Stewart Spencer

“A readable, comprehensive and critical summary . . . there is [in the book] final proof of the intrinsic connection between Wagner and Hitler. The link is Cosima.”— Joachim Köhler, The Wagner Journal

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner —illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife first of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicisation of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organisational ability and ideological tenacity. The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still hidden chapter of European cultural history. Oliver Hilmes is the author of a best-selling biography of Alma Mahler. Stewart Spencer is an acclaimed translator and editor (with Barry Millington) of Wagner in Performance, published by Yale.

April 416 pp. 229x152mm. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15215-9 £25.00* Translation rights: Siedler Verlag

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A wide-ranging and radical new look at Henry VIII’s captivating second wife

Anne Boleyn Fatal Attractions G. W. Bernard “This bold new study of Anne Boleyn is provocative, but it is also shrewd and thoughtful and eminently readable. Bernard’s book will certainly make readers think again what we really know about Henry VIII’s most controversial wife—and what we have merely become accustomed to believe we know about her.”—Paul Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder

In this groundbreaking new biography, G.W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England’s most captivating queens. Through a wideranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn’s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies. He depicts Anne Boleyn as a captivating, intelligent and highly sexual woman whose attractions Henry resisted for years until marriage could ensure legitimacy for their offspring. He shows that it was Henry, not Anne, who developed the ideas that led to the break with Rome. And, most radically, he argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne’s execution in the Tower could be close to the truth. G. W. Bernard is professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton and editor of the English Historical Review. He is the author of The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The King’s Reformation April 256 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16245-5 £20.00*

Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12271-8 £16.00*

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“Has any one painter ever before painted so many interesting and historical personages?”—Lord Selborne Philip de László, Baroness Rodolphe d’Erlanger (detail), 1900. Roy Fox Fine Art Photography © de Laszlo Foundation.

Philip de László Life and Art Duff Hart-Davis In collaboration with Caroline Corbeau Philip de László (1869–1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including kings and queens, four American presidents and countless members of the European nobility. There has been no biography of him since 1939, and this new account of both his life and his work draws on previously untapped material from the family archive of over 15,000 documents. It establishes the intrinsic importance of his art and re-positions him alongside his great contemporaries John Singer Sargent, Sir John Lavery and Giovanni Boldini.

Duff Hart-Davies is the author or editor of over 40 books and the biographer of Peter Fleming (the elder brother of Ian), Raoul Millais (the grandson of J. E. Millais), J. J. Audubon and Eileen Soper (the wildlife photographer).

May 448 pp. 234x156mm. 100 b/w + 45 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13716-3 £30.00*

Born into a humble family in Budapest in 1869 he was ennobled by the Emperor Franz Joseph and from 1912 became known as Philip de László. From an early age he was driven by an unshakable vocation to succeed as an artist. He studied in Budapest, Munich and Paris, soon turning to portraiture as his vocation, and in 1894 received his first important commission from the royal family of Bulgaria, followed in 1899 by the Emperor Franz Joseph and, in 1900, Pope Leo XIII, a portrait that won him international fame. In 1907 he settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1914. Despite being interned for over a year during the First World War, his reputation held firm, and in 1930 he was elected to succeed Sickert as President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, confirming his place at the head of his profession.

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A concise and authoritative guide to the architecture of Venice designed with the traveller in mind

Venice An Architectural Guide Richard Goy Each year, millions of visitors travel to Venice to admire the architectural marvels of this famed city. In this brief yet comprehensive volume, distinguished architect and critic Richard Goy offers a convenient and accessible guide to the city’s piazzas, palazzos, basilicas and other architectural points of interest, as well as pertinent historical details regarding Venice’s unique urban environment. Clearly laid out and fully illustrated in colour, this handbook is designed around a series of expertly planned walking tours that encompass not only the city’s most admired architectural sites but also its lesser-known gems. Specially made maps accompany each walking tour and provide additional references and insights alongside introductory chapters on the city’s architectural history, urban design, and building materials and techniques. Featuring a complete bibliography, glossary of key terms and other useful reference materials, Goy’s guide will appeal both to travellers who desire greater architectural context and analysis than a traditional guide may provide and to return visitors looking to rediscover Venice’s most enchanting sites. Richard Goy is a practising architect and has written several books on the architectural history of Venice.

April 320 pp. 216x118mm. 100 b/w + 100 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14882-4 £14.99*

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A colourful portrait of American London on the eve of Revolution D. T. Egerton, The Unpleasant Rencontre.

When London Was Capital of America Julie Flavell Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Georgian city in its first big wave of American visitors. At the very point of political rupture, mother country and colonies were socially and culturally closer than ever before.

“A wonderful evocation of the full panorama and panoply of life in eighteenth-century London.” —Andrew O’Shaughnessy, author of An Empire Divided

May 336 pp. 234x156mm. 36 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13739-2 £20.00*

In this first-ever portrait of eighteenth-century London as the capital of America, Julie Flavell recreates the famous city’s heyday as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies. The momentous years before independence saw more colonial Americans than ever in London’s streets: wealthy Southern plantation owners in quest of culture, slaves hoping for a chance of freedom, Yankee businessmen looking for opportunities in the city, even Ben Franklin seeking a second, more distinguished career. The stories of the colonials, no innocents abroad, vividly recreate a time when Americans saw London as their own and remind us of the complex, multiracial— at times even decadent—nature of America’s colonial British heritage. Julie Flavell, the author of many popular and scholarly publications on the relationship between colonial America and Britain including Britain and America Go to War, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an independent scholar.

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The defining biography of English literature’s most elusive and enigmatic poet

Andrew Marvell The Chameleon Nigel Smith “From reclusive poet to undercover pamphleteer, Andrew Marvell has always been a mystery man. But nobody knows him better than Nigel Smith, who now follows his definitive edition of the poetry with an up-to-date and state-of-the-art biography.”—Annabel Patterson, Yale University

The seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) is one of the most intriguing figures in English literature. A noted civil servant under Cromwell’s Protectorate, he has been variously identified as a patriot, spy, conspirator, concealed homosexual, father to the liberal tradition, and incendiary satirical pamphleteer and freethinker. But while Marvell’s poetry and prose has attracted a wide modern following, his prose is known only to specialists, and much of his personal life remains shrouded in mystery. Nigel Smith’s pivotal biography provides an unparalleled look into Marvell’s life, from his early employment as a tutor and gentleman’s companion to his suspicious death, reputedly a politically fuelled poisoning. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the voluminous corpus of Marvell’s previously overlooked writing, and recent scholarship across several disciplines, Smith’s portrait becomes the definitive account of this elusive life. Nigel Smith is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University. A leading expert on Andrew Marvell, he edited the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Marvell’s poetry. He is the author of Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–60, published by Yale, and Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?

June 352 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11221-4 £25.00* Translation rights: Curtis Brown Agency, London

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Colour of Paradise The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires Kris Lane Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans and Safavids green was—as it remains for all Muslims—the colour of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funnelled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Lane reveals the bloody conquest wars and forced labour regimes that accompanied their production. It is a story of trade, but also of transformations—how members of profoundly different societies at opposite ends of the globe assigned value to a few thousand pounds of imperfectly shiny green rocks. Kris Lane is professor of history at the College of William and Mary. His previous books include Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750 and Quito 1599: City & Colony in Transition. March 304 pp. 234x156mm. 5 b/w + 16 colour illus. & 4 maps ISBN 978-0-300-16131-1 £25.00*

Spider Silk Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, ‘How do they do that?’. The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival ‘toolkit’ and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival. “This wonderful book cures arachnophobia for any lucky reader. Brunetta and Craig combine superb scholarship with engaging writing, providing a compelling introduction to evolution in action through the lens of spiders and their silks.”—Simon Levin, author of Fragile Dominion July 256 pp. 234x156mm. 37 b/w + 12 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14922-7 £20.00* Rights sold: Australian

Leslie Brunetta is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Technology Review and the Princeton Alumni Weekly as well as on NPR and elsewhere. Catherine L. Craig, author of the monograph Spiderwebs and Silk, is an internationally recognised evolutionary biologist, arachnologist and authority on silk.

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Nature Crime How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong Rosaleen Duffy In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West’s attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. Analysing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold to Londoners. She looks at the role of ecotourism, showing how Western travellers contribute—often unwittingly—to the destruction of natural environments. Most strikingly, she argues that the imperatives of Western-style conservation often result in serious injustice to local people, who are branded as ‘problems’ and subject to severe restrictions on their way of life and even extrajudicial killings. Rosaleen Duffy is Professor at the Centre for International Politics, Manchester University. She is also the author of A Trip Too Far: Ecotourism, Politics and Exploitation and Killing for Conservation: The Politics of Wildlife in Zimbabwe. June 288 pp. 234x156mm. 30 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15434-4 £25.00*

The Lomborg Deception Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming Howard Friel • Foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is ‘no catastrophe’ by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas, The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening pole-to-pole review of some of today’s most urgent climate concerns. Friel’s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg’s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg’s textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right—even if somewhat conservatively right—all along. Friel’s able defense of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg’s repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading. April 272 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-16103-8 £18.99*

Howard Friel is an independent scholar and author. His previous books, The Record of the Paper and Israel-Palestine on Record, both of which were co-authored by Richard Falk, focus on foreign policy, international law and media criticism.

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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS now publisher for THE INTERNATIONAL SACRED LITERATURE TRUST The International Sacred Literature Trust was established to publish worldwide, in contemporary and literary English, the great songs, poetry, stories and teachings from the spiritual heritage of humanity. Its aim is to foster open and informed discussion within and between faiths, as well as across the religious-secular divide, drawing upon the spiritual wisdom of the past in developing insight for the future. “The series of texts translated at the instigation of the International Sacred Literature Trust will make the world’s heritage of spiritual and ethical insights available to a much wider audience. I hope it will help to break down the barriers of suspicion and ignorance and encourage understanding and tolerance in this age of tension and conflict.” —HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh “I welcome the work of the International Sacred Literature Trust in making available to so many people books revealing the great teachings of love, compassion and universal responsibility— themes that underlie all the world’s great sacred traditions.” —HH The Dalai Lama

The Spirit of the Buddha Martine Batchelor Volumes in ‘The Spirit of…’, a new series of faith texts from the ISLT, present the spirit or essence of a particular faith through relevant texts edited by a significant scholar, supplemented by original introductory and editorial material. The Spirit of the Buddha is the inaugural title in the series. Future titles will include works on Confucianism, Quakerism, Zoroastrianism and Tibetan Buddhism. In this slim, enlightening volume, internationally recognised Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist scriptures. Viewed by scholars as the actual substance of the historical teachings (and possibly even the words) of the Buddha, these texts are essential to an understanding of the Buddhist faith and are further illuminated through Batchelor’s lucid analysis and interpretations. Martine Batchelor, a former Buddhist nun, studied Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Kusan Sunim and is the author of Let Go, Women in Korean Zen, Buddhism and Ecology, Principles of Zen, Meditation for Life and The Path of Compassion: The Bodhisattva Precepts, a translation of the Chinese Brahma’s Net Sutra.

June 192 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16407-7 £9.99*

Both accessible to non-practitioners and helpful to scholars, The Spirit of the Buddha touches upon key themes, including dharma, compassion, meditation and peace, among others, creating a panoramic view of one of the world’s most widely practiced faiths that is deeply rooted in its most vital texts.

For more information on backlist titles in this series, visit: www.yalebooks.co.uk

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Fixing Global Finance Expanded and Updated Edition Martin Wolf The globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits. In practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking crises in the 1980 and 1990s, particularly in the developing world. The failure of advanced countries and of the IMF to rescue the damaged economies of Asia, Russia or Brazil taught those countries, and the emerging Chinese giant, an overwhelming lesson: never again. In this expanded paperback edition, Martin Wolf includes a substantial new chapter on the global banking crisis of 2008–9 which has seen the argument of this book becoming the conventional wisdom among G20 policymakers. “a great and important contribution to everyone’s welfare on the globe. It can be paid no higher accolade.”—The Observer “more analytical and detailed than many other ‘instant’ books about the credit crunch.”—George Kerevan, The Scotsman “[Fixing Global Finance] offers not just a fascinating account of the global economy teetering on the abyss—it also marks the first moments of this ‘good liberal’ questioning his own beliefs . . . Keep reading Wolf to catch a once-attractive twentieth century creed in full mutation.”—Tony Curzon Price, Spectator Business March 248 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16393-3 £10.99*

Martin Wolf is a leading economic and financial journalist. Since 1996 he has been chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, having been chief economics leader writer from 1987–96. He is the author of the bestselling Why Globalization Works, also published by Yale. Translation rights: Felicity Bryan Agency, Oxford

The Euro The Politics of the New Global Currency David Marsh First published in March 2009 to widespread acclaim, this is the first comprehensive political and economic account of the birth and development of the Euro. Today the Euro is the supranational currency for sixteen European countries and the world’s second-largest reserve currency. David Marsh tells the story of the rivalries, intrigues and deal making that brought about a currency for Europe, and he analyses the achievements and shortcomings of its first decade of existence. “Marsh has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of making what the Brits tend to regard as a boring topic, best avoided, into a great story. What is more, it manages to be balanced, examining all the topical, as well as historical, issues”—William Keegan, The Observer “a compelling political story . . . [Marsh has] an eye for captivating details.”—Ralph Atkins, Financial Times “There are not many economists in Marsh’s generation who have been present at so many of the vital moments or who can call on such an impressive roster of interviewees as background research.” —Philip Collins, The Times March 352 pp.198x129mm. 22 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16400-8 £12.99*

David Marsh is chairman of London & Oxford Group, an investment consultancy. He is a frequent contributor to German and British publications, and lectures on political, economic and business issues. Rights held by the author

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The Shameful Peace How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation Frederic Spotts The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation’s artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained—including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin—responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France’s artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors. “A fascinating account of how famous writers, artists, and intellectuals living in France during the war survived the Nazi occupation; a whole spectrum from heroes to collaborators.” —Marcel Berlins, The Guardian “Admirably forensic and entertaining . . . What Spotts brings to the story is a set of refreshing opinions on familiar figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and the rest of the crowd clustered around the cafes of Saint-Germain-des Prés . . . Spotts has written an excellent book.”—Andrew Hussey, New Statesman Frederic Spotts is author of Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, published by Yale. His most recent book is Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.

March 288 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16399-5 £12.99*

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The Crisis of Islamic Civilization Ali A. Allawi Ali A. Allawi—a respected Iraqi statesman and thinker who has served the postwar government in several posts—offers a bold analysis of today’s crisis in the Islamic world. He offers proposals that will surprise some and anger others, but they cannot be ignored by anyone concerned about the future of Islamic civilisation. “[with] intimate knowledge of both Islam and the West, and his unflinching honesty . . . Mr Allawi calmly and methodically deconstructs an Islamic revival which has failed to live up to its promises.”—The Economist “This is an intelligent, erudite work on the travails of Islamic civilisation as it has encountered the expansion of Western power . . . [Allawi’s] expositions of the ideas of Muslim thinkers are exemplary in their lucidity . . . I learnt a lot from this book.”—Literary Review Ali A. Allawi has served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance in the Iraqi postwar governments. The author of the acclaimed Occupation of Iraq, he is senior visiting fellow at Princeton University.

April 320 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16406-0 £12.99*

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Croatia A Nation Forged in War • Third Edition Marcus Tanner In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today’s tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence and drama of Croatia’s past and—drawing on his own experience and interviews with many of the leading figures in Croatia’s conflict—explains its violent history since Tito’s death in 1980. This third edition updates the account and follows Croatia’s progress. “A much-needed introduction to this southern Slavic country, whose past and present defy simple categorization . . . Written with vigor, full of absorbing stories and important insights, [the book] deserves to be read.”—Aleska Djilas, New York Times Book Review “Readable and stimulating . . . Long-overdue corrective to the one-sidedly negative view long entertained about Croatia by the educated British public.”—Times Higher Education “[Tanner] bring[s] to bear wide knowledge of Yugoslavia and . . . experience of Europe’s worst war since 1945. [He] gives a good historical survey and an account of the war’s causes.”—The Economist Marcus Tanner was Balkan correspondent of The Independent from 1988 to 1994 and subsequently the paper’s assistant foreign editor. He is also the author of Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul, 1500–2000, published by Yale.

March 384 pp. 198x129mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16394-0 £12.99*

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Reason, Faith, and Revolution Reflections on the God Debate Terry Eagleton Now available in paperback, Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution has already caused a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the ‘superstitious’ view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. “[a] gloriously rumbustious counter-blast to Dawkinsite atheism . . . paradoxes sparkle throughout this coruscatingly brilliant polemic . . . Eagleton is stronger on reason than Ditchkins, for he thinks carefully about what his opponents say . . . It is easy to see why a lot of people will not be happy with this book. Much of what it says is too true.”—Paul Vallely, The Independent “fantastically rude all round, about ‘Ditchkins’, about religion itself, which ‘has wrought untold misery in human affairs’ . . . It’s terrific polemic.”—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard Terry Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Theory at Lancaster University and Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. He is the author of many books.

March 200 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16453-4 £10.99*

The Terry Lectures Series

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Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies David Bentley Hart One of the most brilliant scholars of religion of our time, David Bentley Hart provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists’ misrepresentations of the Christian past, bringing into focus the truth about the most radical revolution in Western history. “given the gross distortions and misrepresentations perpetrated by recent anti-religious polemicists, this learned but accessible corrective is very welcome.”—John Saxbee, Church Times “Anyone interested in taking the debate about God to the next level should read and reflect on Hart’s spirited brief on behalf of Christian truth.”—Damon Linker, New Republic David Bentley Hart has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas, Duke Divinity School, Loyola College in Maryland, and is currently a visiting professor at Providence College. He is the author of several books, including In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments and The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth.

March 272 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16429-9 £14.99*

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One State, Two States Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict Benny Morris “What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own”, David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterised his approach, Morris now turns his attention to the present-day legacy of the events of 1948 and the concrete options for the future of Palestine and Israel. The book scrutinises the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities. “passionately argued”—Adam LeBor, The Sunday Times “gloomy, concise, and spot-on.”—Commentary Benny Morris is professor of history, Middle East Studies Department, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

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Reading Matters

The Hellfire Clubs

Five Centuries of Discovering Books

Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Margaret Willes

Evelyn Lord

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit or listen to others reading. Margaret Willes examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. “a wide-ranging history of readers and reading . . . a book rich in anecdote.”—Christina Hardyment, Oxford Today “an enjoyably discursive and anecdotal account” —Anthony Hobson, The Times Literary Supplement “Margaret Willes is a writer after my own heart . . . [an] excellent piece of literature”—Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post Margaret Willes, the former Publisher for the National Trust, has written and illustrated numerous books.

April 304 pp. 234x156mm. 90 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16404-6 £12.99* Rights sold: Korean

Alexander the Great

“fascinating to see from Lord’s absorbing study how integral this sort of institutional decadence became to the fabric of the state at a crucial moment in its formation.”—The Scotsman “a wonderful insight into the world of the elite in the eighteenth century.”—Patrick Geoghegan, Irish Times Evelyn Lord was course director of the masters in local and regional history, University of Cambridge. She is the author of The Knights Templar in Britain and The Stuart Secret Army.

March 250 pp. 234x156mm. 23 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16402-2 £12.99* Rights sold: Korean, Japanese

A Life in Legend

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Richard Stoneman

Jonathan Rose

This engaging and handsomely illustrated book for the first time gathers together hundreds of the colourful Alexander the Great legends that have been told and retold around the globe. Author Richard Stoneman, a foremost expert on the Alexander myths, introduces us first to the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend, an unparalleled mythic icon who came to represent the heroic ideal in cultures from Egypt to Iceland, from Britain to Malaya. “Scholarly and wide-ranging . . . will surely serve as the definitive treatment of Alexander as a figure of myth, a resource to be consulted and quarried for years” —Tom Holland, The Sunday Telegraph “[A] masterful work, one that will not be superseded for a long time.”—Peter Jones, Literary Review Richard Stoneman is Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter, and a director of Westminster Classic Tours. He has written extensively in the field of Greek history.

February 336 pp. 234x156mm. 46 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16401-5 £12.99* Rights sold: Greek

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalised eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed. This book sets aside the gossip about the Hell-Fire Clubs, painting an accurate portrait of their membership (including John Wilkes, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prince of Wales), beliefs, activities and the reasons for their proliferation.

This intriguing book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers and more, the author discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves and what they knew. “magnificent . . . a work of truly human imagination . . . deeply inspiring . . . should be read with minute attention . . . by anyone with an interest in the future of our civilization.”—Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph “It is an astonishing book.”—Ian Sansom, The Guardian “Rich and heartening . . . This book is vast in scope and absorbing in every detail. As you read it, the air fills with the voices of the long unheard.”—John Carey, The Sunday Times “Rose’s account represents a historical triumph . . . fascinatingly and passionately told.”—A.C. Grayling, The Independent on Sunday April 544 pp. 234x156mm. Paper 978-0-300-15365-1 £12.99*

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History and the Enlightenment Hugh Trevor-Roper Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh TrevorRoper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his career—many hitherto inaccessible, one never before published, all demonstrating his piercing intellect, urbane wit and gift for elegant, vivid narrative. This collection focuses on the writing and understanding of history in the eighteenth century and on the great historians and the intellectual context that inspired or provoked their writings. It combines incisive discussion of such figures as Gibbon, Hume and Carlyle with broad sweeps of analysis and explication. Essays on the Scottish Enlightenment and the Romantic movement are balanced by intimate portraits of lesser-known historians whose significance Trevor-Roper took particular delight in revealing. The late Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre of Glanton) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Among his numerous books are the best-selling The Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse.

March 352 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13934-1 £30.00*

Also by Hugh Trevor-Roper and available from Yale: The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15829-8 £9.99* Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne ISBN 978-0-300-11263-4 £25.00*

The Book in the Renaissance Andrew Pettegree The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals, the story of the post-Gutenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe.

“An authoritative, innovative and succinct account of one of the most fundamental issues in Renaissance history, the role of the printed book.” —Henry Kamen May 450 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11009-8 £30.00*

The Book in the Renaissance reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word. From its very beginnings, the printed book had to straddle financial and religious imperatives, as well as the very different requirements and constraints of the many countries who embraced it, and, as Pettegree argues, the process was far from a runaway success. More than ideas, the success or failure of books depended upon patrons and markets, precarious strategies and the thwarting of piracy, and the ebb and flow of popular demand. Pettegree crafts an authoritative, lucid and truly pioneering work of cultural history about a major development in the evolution of European society. Andrew Pettegree is Head of the School of History at the University of St. Andrews and founding director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.

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The Escorial Art and Power in the Renaissance Henry Kamen Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain’s history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing—even forbidding—in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace, part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a school, a repository for thousands of relics and one of the greatest libraries of its time. Constructed over the course of more than twenty years, the Escorial challenged and provoked, becoming for some a symbol of superstition and oppression, for others a ‘wonder of the world’. Now a World Heritage Site, it is visited by thousands of travellers every year.

An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world’s most iconic buildings and the monarch who created it

April 336 pp. 234x156mm. 36 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16244-8 £25.00* Translation rights: PFD Agency, London

In this intriguing study, Henry Kamen looks at the circumstances that brought the young Philip II to commission construction of the Escorial in 1563. He explores Philip’s motivation, the influence of his travels, the meaning of the design, and its place in Spanish culture. It represents a highly engaging narrative of the high point of Spanish imperial dominance, in which contemporary preoccupations with art, religion and power are analysed in the context of this remarkable building. Henry Kamen has been a professor at universities throughout the United Kingdom, the United States and Spain, and was until recently a professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona.

Also by Henry Kamen and available from Yale: Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity ISBN 978-0-300-12641-9 £28.00*

The Legacy of the Second World War John Lukacs Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliantly argues for World War II’s central place in the history of the twentieth century, Lukacs applies his singular expertise toward addressing the war’s most persistent enigmas. The Second World War was Hitler’s war. Yet questions about Hitler’s thoughts and his decisions still remain. How did the divisions of Europe—and, consequently, the Cold War—come about? What were the true reasons for Werner Heisenberg’s mission to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in September 1941? What led to ‘Rainbow Five’, the American decision to make the war against Germany an American priority even in the event of a two-ocean world war? Was the Cold War unavoidable? In this work, which offers both an accessible primer for students and challenging new theses for scholars, Lukacs addresses these and other riddles, revealing the ways in which the war and its legacy still touch our lives today.

April 224 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11439-3 £16.99* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Agency, NY

“Mr Lukacs is one of the more incisive historians of the twentieth century, and especially of the tangled events leading to World War II.” —Joseph C. Goulden, Washington Times John Lukacs is the author of some thirty books of history, including Five Days in London and most recently Last Rites, also published by Yale.

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Caesar’s Druids Story of an Ancient Priesthood Miranda Aldhouse-Green Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids’ day-to-day lives were far less lurid and much more significant. Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.—not just as priests but as judges, healers, scientists and power brokers—Aldhouse-Green argues that they were a highly complex, intellectual and sophisticated group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics. With deep analysis, fresh interpretations and critical discussions, she gives the Druids a voice that resonates in our own time. “If any book can succeed in getting close to the reality of the ancient Druids, it must be this one. The author deploys for the task her full tremendous resources as a scholar: expertise in ancient religious culture, a firm grasp of anthropological parallels, and a deeply humane and perceptive imaginative sympathy.” —Ronald Hutton, author of Blood and Mistletoe “With Caesar’s Druids, Miranda Aldhouse-Green supersedes every other volume on this elusive and nettlesome subject.” —James MacKillop, author of Dictionary of Celtic Mythology March 336 pp. 234x156mm. 80 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12442-2 £25.00*

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is professor of archaeology, Cardiff University. A world expert on Druids, her publications include Exploring the World of the Druids, Dying for the Gods, The Celtic World and Boudica Britannia.

Christians and Pagans The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede Malcolm Lambert Christians and Pagans offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons. The Christianity of Roman Britain, so often treated in isolation, is here deftly integrated with the history of the British churches of the Celtic world, with Ireland, Iona and Pictland. Combining chronicle and literary evidence with the fruits of the latest archaeological research, Malcolm Lambert illuminates the ways in which the conversion process changed the hearts and minds of early Britain. Malcolm Lambert taught history at the universities of Bristol and Reading, and is the author of Franciscan Poverty, Medieval Heresy and The Cathars.

June 336 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11908-4 £30.00*

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For All the World to See

Our Hero

Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Tom De Haven

Maurice Berger Foreword by Thulani Davis In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism, Americans would be more likely to support the cause of racial justice. “Let the world see what I’ve seen”, was her reply. The publication of the photograph inspired a generation of activists to join the civil rights movement. Despite this extraordinary episode, the story of visual culture’s role in the modern civil rights movement is rarely included in its history. This is the first comprehensive examination of the ways images mattered in the struggle, and it investigates a broad range of media including photography, television, film, magazines, newspapers and advertising. Maurice Berger is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of The New School.

May 224 pp. 254x203mm. 125 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12131-5 £28.00*

Delia’s Tears Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America Molly Rogers Foreword by David W. Blight In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. In the first narrative history of these images, Molly Rogers tells the story of the photographs, the people they depict and the men who made and used them. Weaving together the histories of race, science and photography in nineteenthcentury America, Rogers explores the invention and uses of photography, the scientific theories the images were intended to support and how these related to the race politics of the time Molly Rogers has published essays on the history of photography, and her fiction has been produced for theatre and radio.

June 352 pp. 228x178mm. 37 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11548-2 £28.50*

Superman on Earth Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. ‘Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound’, the Man of Steel has thrilled audiences across the globe, yet as life-long ‘Superman Guy’ Tom De Haven argues in this highly entertaining book, his story is uniquely American. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the midst of the Great Depression, Superman is both a transcendent figure and, when posing as his alter-ego, reporter Clark Kent, a humble working-class citizen. An orphan and an immigrant, he shares a personal history with the many Americans who came to this country in search of a better life, and his amazing feats represent the wildest realisation of the American dream. As De Haven reveals through behind-the-scenes vignettes, personal anecdotes and lively interpretations of more than 70 years of comic books, radio programmes, TV shows and Hollywood films, Superman’s legacy seems, like the Man of Steel himself, to be utterly invincible. Tom De Haven, author of the novel It’s Superman, is professor in the department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Icons of America April 240 pp. 210x140mm. 13 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11817-9 £14.99*

War by Land, Sea, and Air

The Liberty Bell

Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command

Each year visitors line up near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to see a mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey to become a symbol of American identity, and this work reveals how and why this voiceless bell continues to speak volumes about the American nation. A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash’s book explores the impetus behind the bell’s creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. Drawing upon primary source documents, the book continues a dialogue about a symbol of American patriotism second only to the Stars and Stripes.

David Jablonsky Examining Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower’s efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military—a concept that eventually led to the current organisation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower’s presidency, played a major role in defense reorganisation under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower’s approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process. David Jablonsky is a retired U.S. Army infantry colonel.

Yale Library of Military History April 384 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15389-7 £25.00*

Gary B. Nash

Gary B. Nash is professor of history and director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA.

Icons of America June 256 pp. 210x140mm. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13936-5 £16.99* Rights held by the author

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Image Wars Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603–1660 Kevin Sharpe Spin and photo opportunities may appear to have emerged onto the political scene only recently, but in fact image and its manipulation have always been vital to the authority of rulers. This book, the second in Kevin Sharpe’s trilogy exploring image, power and communication in early modern England, examines its importance during the turbulent seventeenth century. From the coronation of James I to the end of Cromwell’s protectorate, Sharpe considers how royalists and parliamentarians—often using the same vocabularies—sought to manage their public image through words, pictures and performances in order to win support and secure and enhance their authority. Kevin Sharpe is director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Personal Rule of Charles I, Reading Revolutions and Selling the Tudor Monarchy.

April 512 pp. 234x156mm. 90 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16200-4 £35.00*

Part one of this trilogy by Kevin Sharpe, available from Yale: Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority & Image in Sixteenth-Century England ISBN 978-0-300-14098-9 £30.00* Translation rights: Robinson Literary Agency, London

The Warrior Generals Winning the British Civil Wars Malcolm Wanklyn In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars—from Cromwell, Fairfax and Essex to many more lesser-known figures— military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars. Wanklyn examines how the generals prepared for, fought in and followed up a battle, and he provides an incisive appraisal of the performance of individual commanders set against their peers and across the period. “Malcolm Wanklyn has dug deeply into the manuscript sources, interrogating the various memoirs of the civil war generals with admirable acuity, and he furnishes this fluent account with some startling conclusions.”—Ian Gentles, author of The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1652 Malcolm Wanklyn is professor of history at the University of Wolverhampton and former head of the Department of History and War Studies. He is the author of A Military History of the English Civil War, 1642–1646 and Decisive Battles of the English Civil War. May 320 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11308-2 £25.00*

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Empty Bottles of Gentilism

The Virgin of Chartres

Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Making History through Liturgy and the Arts

Francis Oakley In this book—the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought—Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revises our understanding of the history of political theory in a fundamental and far-reaching manner that will reverberate for decades. Grounded in a period of history not much cultivated by historians of political thought, this book lays the foundations for Oakley’s next two volumes, which will develop his argument that it is in the Latin middle ages that we must seek the ideological roots of modern political secularism.

Margot E. Fassler Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints. This richly illustrated book explores the layers of history found in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Focusing on the major relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin’s gown and the Feast of Mary’s Nativity, Margot Fassler employs a wide range of historical evidence including local histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical sources and reports of miracles, leading to a detailed reading of the cathedral’s west façade. This interdisciplinary volume will prove invaluable to historians who work in religion, politics, music and art but will also serve as a guidebook for all interested in the history of Chartres Cathedral. “We so desperately need this book if we are to fully understand the workings of religion in medieval Europe.” —Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago

Francis Oakley is President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Williams College.

Margot E. Fassler is the Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University.

April 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15538-9 £25.00

May 624 pp. 254x178mm. 126 b/w + 16 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11088-3 £30.00*

The Medieval Heart Heather Webb In this debut, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the ‘lost circulations’ of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities. Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic and scientific texts, she reveals medieval answers to such fundamental questions as: Where is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it begin? And how does it end? Against the modern idea of the isolated self, the medieval heart provides a model for rethinking the body’s relationship to the world it inhabits. Heather Webb is Assistant Professor of Italian, Department of French and Italian, at The Ohio State University.

April 256 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15393-4 £40.00*

The Kirov Murder and Soviet History Matthew E. Lenoe Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937–1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938. The book includes translations of 125 documents from the investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin’s involvement in the assassination. Matthew E. Lenoe is associate professor of history at the University of Rochester.

Annals of Communism Series June 850 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11236-8 £40.00*

Cuneiform Texts from Various Collections Albrecht Goetze Edited by Benjamin Foster The 217 previously unpublished cuneiform texts presented here, found in small collections throughout the world, date from the late third to the late first millennia BCE and include inscriptions, letters, administrative documents and literary works in Akkadian and Sumerian. The late Albrecht Goetze (1897–1971) was William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University, the chair now held by Benjamin R. Foster, who also serves as Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection.

Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts July 208 pp. 304x215mm. 109 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14490-1 £60.00

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Stepping-Stones A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne Christine Desdemaines-Hugon • Foreword by Ian Tattersall The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages. Over more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivalled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In her new book she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the ‘cave experience’. Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself. Focusing on five fascinating sites, including the famed Font de Gaume and others that still remain open to the public, Stepping-Stones reveals striking similarities between art forms of the Paleolithic and works of modern artists and gives us a unique pathway toward understanding the culture of the Dordogne Paleolithic peoples and how it still touches our lives today. May 320 pp. 234x156mm. 38 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15266-1 £22.50*

Christine Desdemaines-Hugon is an eminent scholar of prehistoric anthropology and cave art of the Dordogne region of France and is well known for the tours she gives to many visitors and tourists. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Town and Country magazine and USA Today, among other publications.

Russian Orientalism

Enlightened Pleasures

Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration

Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Thomas M. Kavanagh

The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry and art of representative individuals including Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Borodin and leading orientologists, Schimmelpenninck argues that the Russian Empire’s bi-continental geography, its ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe, and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated and often surprisingly sympathetic understanding of the East among its people.

Novelists, artists and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the centre of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics.

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is professor of Russian history at Brock University in Ontario. He is the author of Toward the Rising Sun: Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan.

May 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11063-0 £25.00*

Kavanagh shows that pleasure is not necessarily hedonistic or opposed to Enlightenment ideals in general; rather, he argues that the pleasure of individuals is necessary for the welfare of their community. Thomas M. Kavanagh, the Augustus R. Street Professor of French and department chair at Yale University, is the author of Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies April 264 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14094-1 £30.00*

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A new examination of a fascinating group of paintings from pioneering mid-century artist Eva Hesse Eva Hesse, No Title, 1960. 153⁄4 x 12 inches. Oil on masonite. The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 Edited by E. Luanne McKinnon With contributions by Elisabeth Bronfen, Louise S. Milne, Helen A. Molesworth and E. Luanne McKinnon

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 1 January – 3 April 2011

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936–1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965–70, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarship, which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these ‘spectre’ paintings as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist’s burgeoning maturity.

Published in association with the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

The paintings in the spectre campaign comprise two distinct categories. The first, a selection of small-scale oil on masonite paintings, depicts two or three loosely rendered figures positioned in vacant pictorial spaces upon small-format canvases or boards. These gaunt forms portray an apparent disconnection between one body and another; and yet, the pictorial drama of the works would be incomplete without the presence of each figure. The second group of paintings imbues a more perplexing psychological state, as characters alternately take on the forms of alienlike creatures or as close resemblances to the artist herself. Through an enlightening assessment of these under-appreciated works, readers will gain new insight into their pivotal role in Hesse’s oeuvre.

Exhibition Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 1 September – 30 November 2010

March 130 pp. 241x178mm. 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16415-2 £30.00*

E. Luanne McKinnon, Director of the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Elisabeth Bronfen is a Global Distinguished Professor of German, NYU, and Chair of American Studies at the University of Zurich. Louise S. Milne is Lecturer at Napier University and the Centre for Visual Studies, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Helen A. Molesworth is the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Translation rights: University of New Mexico Art Musuem, Albuquerque

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Spanning nearly seven decades, a comprehensive consideration of the psychologically acute and surprisingly honest portraits of Alice Neel

Alice Neel Painted Truths Barry Walker, Jeremy Lewison, Robert Storr and Tamar Garb With appreciations by Chris Ofili, Marlene Dumas and Frank Auerbach Exhibition

Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, 10 October 2010 – 2 January 2011

Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century, Alice Neel is internationally recognised for her contributions to Abstract Expressionism, especially her perceptive portraiture. Neel (1900–1984) was a portrait painter at a time when this was traditionally the role of a male artist. After ascending to prominence in the 1960s as the feminist movement gained momentum, she has remained an iconic figure in the history of American painting.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A self-proclaimed ‘collector of souls’, Neel often painted friends and family, as well as the celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara and Meyer Shapiro, delving into personalities and idiosyncrasies with a rare frankness. Alice Neel: Painted Truths brings together a collection of paintings that demonstrate Neel’s range and ability, along with insightful commentary from four leading art historians. Although the book focuses on her portraits, it also covers the artist’s early social realist paintings and cityscapes, tracing the evolution of Neel’s style and examining themes that she revisited throughout her career.

April 306 pp. 280x248mm. 26 b/w + 120 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16332-2 £45.00*

Barry Walker is the curator of modern and contemporary art and prints and drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As the director of Jeremy Lewison Ltd., Jeremy Lewison is a curator and advisor to the Estate of Alice Neel. Robert Storr is an artist, curator and critic, as well as the dean of the Yale School of Art. Tamar Garb is the Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 21 March – 13 June 2010 Whitechapel Gallery, London, 9 July – 19 September 2010

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An ambitious book about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture—yet is now lost

North sidewall of the duomo, Florence.

Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion Marvin Trachtenberg In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name ‘Building-in-Time’. It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter’s.

Marvin Trachtenberg is Edith Kitzmiller Professor of Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His books include Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence and The Campanile of Florence Cathedral, ‘Giotto’s Tower’. He is co-author of Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernity.

June 400 pp. 280x230mm. 250 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16592-0 £45.00*

Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture (‘Building-outside-Time’). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making. In telling this story, Trachtenberg rewrites the history of medieval and Renaissance architecture in Italy and recasts the turn to modernity in terms of temporality and its role in architectural theory and practice. Recovering this lost element of the architectural past revises our view of the present: that temporality is not a neutral or secondary factor in modern architecture, but a condition that affects all production and experience of the built environment.

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An exploration of the relationship between architecture and surrealism Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, 1983. Marble, 63.5 x 49.5 x 58.4 cm. Collection Jean-Louis Bourgeois. Photo: Allan Finkelman.

The Surreal House Edited by Jane Alison Exhibition Barbican Art Gallery, 10 June – 17 September 2010

Jane Alison is Senior Curator at Barbican Art Gallery.

Through a unique blend of art, film and architecture, The Surreal House presents the individual dwelling as a place of mystery and wonder. Fusing house and dream, it probes the relationship between interior and shell, object and space; and it elaborates ‘the marvellous’ and ‘compulsive beauty’ as espoused by André Breton. The haunted house, the cabinet of curiosities, the ruined castle, the cage, the cave, the labyrinth, the bell jar and the womb are among the uniquely surreal habitats explored. Shaped by the irrational and the subversive, the flip side of the modernist paradigm of the functional, rational dwelling, The Surreal House is ripe for discovery. Mirroring the surrealist love of poetic juxtaposition, the project brings together works by artists such as Edward Hopper, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joseph Cornell and Salvador Dalí. A surreal legacy is to be found in the interiors of little-known Italian architect and designer, Carlo Mollino; Frederick Kiesler’s model for The Endless House, 1957–59; sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Rebecca Horn; and installations by Edward Kienholz and Ilya Kabakov. Contemporary Architecture is represented by the work of Rem Koolhaas and Diller & Scofidio among others. A manifesto for a poetic reading of the house, The Surreal House reflects on the unquestionable importance of the dwelling, the cradle of our being, in the imaginative realm. This richly illustrated account brings together a host of commentators and historians, and accompanies a major exhibition.

June 336 pp. 290x245mm. 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16576-0 £40.00*

Published in association with Barbican Art Gallery

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The Print in Early Modern England An Historical Oversight Malcolm Jones

Malcolm Jones is Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield.

April 400 pp. 285x245mm. 270 b/w + 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13697-5 £45.00*

This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and brings to light some very recent discoveries. This large body of material is treated thematically, and within each theme, chronologically. Chapters are devoted to portents and prodigies, the formal moralities and doctrines of Christianity, the sects of Christianity—and the often vicious satire of the Catholic confession (but also of Protestant non-conformists)— visual satire of foreigners and ‘others’, domestic political issues— principally, the English Civil War—social criticism and gender roles, marriage and sex, as well as numerical series and miscellaneous visual tricks, puzzles and jokes. The concluding chapter considers the significance of this wealth of visual material for the cultural history of England in the early modern era. Enlarging the iconographic repertoire of the period, the book concludes that England was not as artistically insular as often thought, and that the English had access to a wide range of iconography. Tracing the European sources of many of these prints leads to the surprising recognition of the influence of the German print repertoire, to an extent that demands a re-appraisal of cultural relations between England and Germany during the early modern era. Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Art for All British Posters for Transport Edited by Teri J. Edelstein With essays by Teri J. Edelstein, Oliver Green, Neil Harris, Peyton Skipwith and Michael Twyman

In 1908 London Underground began a comprehensive publicity programme that became one of the most successful, adventurous and best-sustained promotional operations ever attempted. The posters commissioned not only encouraged travel on the capital’s burgeoning public transport system; they also helped to foster a civic identity for metropolitan London. The four national rail lines created in 1923, inspired by this example, created their own campaigns. This richly illustrated volume celebrates the designs, highlighting works that are among the triumphs of twentieth-century poster art. Teri J. Edelstein is a former research fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. She has been deputy director of the Art Institute of Chicago and more recently has served as an international art consultant.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, Art for All features more than one hundred works executed for the Underground and railways and explores the evolution of transport posters in twentieth-century Britain. It will feature the career of E. McKnight Kauffer; the role of women designers; the printing techniques that brought the designs to life; and the strategies of display developed by the transport systems. Visually stunning, Art for All pays tribute to these extraordinary exploits in public design. Exhibition

June 256 pp. 305x240mm. 330 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15297-5 £30.00*

Yale Center for British Art, 27 May – 15 August 2010 Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art

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John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter Christiana Payne Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831–1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. As well as the familiar early works, including the Val d’Aosta and the Stonebreaker, it provides rich information on his later, lessknown coastal and marine paintings.

Christiana Payne is a Reader in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. She co-edited Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750–1880.

Brett’s turbulent friendship with John Ruskin is discussed, as are his relations with his beloved sister Rosa and his partner Mary, with whom he had seven children. His fervent interest in astronomy, his love of the sea and his lifelong pursuit of wealth and recognition are all examined in this reassessment, which concludes with a list of works, prepared by his descendent Charles Brett. Published to coincide with an Exhibition of John Brett’s work Birmingham, Barber Institute 30 April – 4 July London, Fine Art Society 20 July – 7 August Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 14 September – 28 November

June 256 pp. 280x220mm. 150 b/w + 120 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16575-3 £40.00*

Ford Madox Brown A Catalogue Raisonné 2 volumes Mary Bennett Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852–5), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple taking their last sight of home—portraits of the artist himself and his wife. This fully illustrated catalogue provides the first complete coverage of all of Madox Brown’s work.

Mary Bennett was Keeper of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. She originated three exhibitions in the 1960s on Ford Madox Brown, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.

June Vol. 1: 366 pp. Vol. 2: 320 pp. 295x248mm. 522 b/w + 458 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16591-3 £85.00*

Madox Brown’s early works were admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through whom he came into contact with the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This association was to confirm his own interests and experiments in out-door light effects and led to the glowing palette of his great paintings of the 1850s—Work, An English Autumn Afternoon and The Last of England. His interests also embraced decorative design and in the 1860s he was a founder member of the now famous decorating firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. All aspects of his documented work, extant or lost, are presented in this magnificent catalogue, which includes a section on Madox Brown’s frame designs (by Lynn Roberts). The artist’s diary and his largely unpublished correspondence with associates and patrons provide a fascinating insight into his ideas and plan of work. A tour de force of scholarship, this book will be of immense value to scholars of nineteenth-century British art.

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

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Becoming Venetian Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice Blake de Maria Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This innovative and fascinating book focuses on the wealthy elite of that immigrant population. From monumental palaces to pictorial cycles, Blake de Maria examines the artistic patronage commissioned by and associated with rich immigrant merchants who relocated to Venice with the aim of becoming Venetian cittadini, or citizens.

Blake de Maria is Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the Medieval/Renaissance Studies Program at Santa Clara University.

May 256 pp. 280x220mm. 140 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14881-7 £35.00*

Situated between the patriciate and popular orders, cittadini occupied the middle-tier of Venice’s tripartite social hierarchy. Unlike the nobility, the citizenry was not a closed caste, and foreign individuals not fortunate enough to be born in Venice could become naturalised citizens provided they met certain requirements. As newcomers to the city, immigrant merchant families had to acquire the material commodities necessary for everyday life. De Maria investigates important aspects of the artistic, commercial and familial activities of naturalised citizen families. Much of the documentation concerning their commercial interests, real estate development, household management, chapel decoration and confraternity affiliations has not previously been published, allowing this study to expand both the context and the interpretation of Venetian painting and architecture of the highest calibre, including the commissions to Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.

In and Out of the Marital Bed Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe Diane Wolfthal This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the window and doorway, the bath and the street. By examining both canonical works, such as Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait and Petrus Christus’ Goldsmith’s Shop and long-neglected objects, such as combs, badges and bathhouse murals, and by investigating a wide range of subjects—same-sex desire, adultery, marriage, courtship and prostitution—Diane Wolfthal demonstrates how illicit forms of sexuality were linked to the ‘chaste sexuality’ of marriage.

Diane Wolfthal is David and Caroline Minter Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Rice University.

May 224 pp. 241x171mm. 70 b/w + 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14154-2 £25.00*

Wolfthal shows also how both church and state attempted to regulate sexual conduct; she examines not only those sources that reinforced this way of thinking, but also those that resisted or subverted it. Revealing the cracks in the ideological edifice, she demonstrates that the insistence that sexual intercourse should be confined to marriage, performed in a particular manner and reserved for the purpose of procreation was subverted and undermined both in the visual culture of the period and in reality.

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Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350–1527 Kathleen Wren Christian In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displayed in private collections. Many of these collections, especially the Vatican Belvedere, are well known to art historians and archaeologists. Yet discussions of antiquities collecting in Rome too often begin with the Belvedere—that is, only after it was a widespread practice. In this important book, the author steps back to examine the ‘long’ fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention.

Kathleen Wren Christian is Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.

May 288 pp. 275x210mm. 220 b/w + 50 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15421-4 £40.00*

Kathleen Wren Christian examines shifts in the response of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in the public life of Roman elites. The book includes a detailed catalogue of the 36 most important antiquities collections formed before the Sack of Rome in 1527, which caused the dispersal of many of Rome’s collections. This catalogue brings these vanished sites back to life, using archival documents, drawings and descriptions by visitors to clarify the history and appearance of littlestudied collections, such as those of the Sassi, Maffei and Cesarini families. This lucid and coherent account provides an entirely new overview of a singularly important subject. A work of interdisciplinary value, it will be equally significant to experts in renaissance literature, art and history.

Painting for Profit The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm With contributions by Renata Ago, Elena Fumagalli, Richard Goldthwaite, Christopher Marshall and Raffaella Morselli

How did economic conditions influence painters in seventeenthcentury Italy? How much did they earn? What is known about their socio-economic status and their aspirations? How did they maximize profits? Did they adjust their prices in response to market pressures, to the costs of production, and to the rise and fall of their reputations? Did prices vary with time and place? In this highly original book, five leading art historians team up with two distinguished economic and social historians to investigate the financial worlds of painters in Baroque Italy. Exploring the many variables that determined the prices asked or received by painters— including the status of their patrons, the size of works and time spent making them, their subject matter, and their number of figures—the authors offer major insights into the social lives, psychological disposition, and economic circumstances of a wide range of major and minor artists. May 400 pp. 256x192mm. 120 b/w + 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15456-6 £45.00*

Richard Spear is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Oberlin College and Affiliate Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. His books include Caravaggio and His Followers, Domenichino, and The ‘Divine’ Guido. Philip Sohm, University Professor at the University of Toronto, is the author of The Artist Grows Old.

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Matisse Radical Invention, 1913–1917 Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield

Henri Matisse, Bathers by a River, 1909–10, 1913, 1916–17. Oil on canvas, 103 x 154 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1953.158. © 2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition Art Institute of Chicago, 20 March – 6 June 2010 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 18 July – 11 October 2010

The works that Matisse executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked and dominated by the colours black and grey, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as aberrations within the artist’s oeuvre, or as singular responses to Cubism or World War I, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 reveals the deep connections among them and their critical role in an ambitious, cohesive project that took the act of creation itself as its main focus. This book represents the first sustained examination of Matisse’s output from this important period, revealing fascinating information about his working method, experimental techniques and compositional choices uncovered through extensive new historical, technical and scientific research. The lavishly illustrated volume is published to accompany a major exhibition consisting of approximately 125 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. It features in-depth studies of individual works and facilitates a greater understanding of the artist’s innovative process and radical stylistic evolution.

April 368 pp. 324x248mm. 125 b/w + 500 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15527-3 £45.00*

Stephanie D’Alessandro is the Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. John Elderfield is the Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Picasso Looks at Degas Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall With contributions by Cécile Godefroy, Sarah Lees and Montse Torras

Exhibition Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 13 June – 12 September 2010 Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 14 October 2010 – 16 January 2011

July 352 pp. 292x241mm. 350 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13412-4 £45.00*

Spanish painter and sculptor Picasso exhibited a lifelong fascination— some might say obsession—with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas. In this groundbreaking study, noted Degas scholar Richard Kendall and Picasso expert Elizabeth Cowling present welldocumented instances of Picasso’s direct responses to Degas’s work, as well as more conceptual and challenging affinities between their oeuvres. Richly illustrated essays explore the artists’ parallel interests in modern urban life, ballet dancers, activities such as bathing and combing the hair, photography and the challenges of sculpture. The book also provides the first extended analysis of Picasso’s engagement with Degas’s art in his final years, when he acquired several of the French artist’s brothel monotypes and reworked some of them in his own prints. Offering many fresh ideas and a significant amount of new material about two of the most popular and influential artists of the modern era, this handsome book promises to make a lasting contribution to the literature on both artists. Elizabeth Cowling is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University. Richard Kendall is Consultative Curator of Nineteenth-Century Art at the Clark. Cécile Godefroy is a researcher at the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte in Madrid. Sarah Lees is Associate Curator of European Art at the Clark. Montse Torras is Exhibitions Coordinator at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

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Picasso Challenging the Past Elizabeth Cowling, Neil Cox, Simonetta Fraquelli, Susan Grace Galassi, Christopher Riopelle and Anne Robbins

IN EW PER N A P

See the supreme modernist master alongside his artistic heroes

From his earliest years Pablo Picasso was a passionate student of the European painting tradition. His memory for images was voracious, and he amassed an art collection of his own. Naturally he was drawn to the Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya but also important to him were such figures as Rembrandt, Delacroix, Ingres and Manet. Picasso repeatedly pitted himself against these masters, taking up their signature themes, techniques and artistic concerns in audacious paintings of his own. Sometimes his ‘quotations’ were direct, other times highly allusive. Always, Picasso made the implicit case that it was he in the twentieth century who most forcefully reinvigorated the European tradition. This book showcases the technical dexterity, independence and vitality of Picasso's creative processes, for here we witness the daring transformation of the art of the past into, in Picasso’s own words, ‘something else entirely’. This paperback edition is superb value—a lavishly illustrated record of a popular exhibition but also an excellent, accessible introduction to the twentieth-century’s most important artist.

February 176 pp. 270x220 mm. 150 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-451-0 £14.99*

Elizabeth Cowling is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University. Neil Cox is Professor of Art and Theory at the University of Essex. Simonetta Fraquelli is an independent art historian. Susan Grace Galassi is Curator at the Frick Collection, New York. Christopher Riopelle is Curator and Anne Robbins is Assistant Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London.

Hogarth to Turner British Painting Louise Govier Innovation is at the heart of the National Gallery’s British collection. William Hogarth developed a fascinating new form of satirical narrative painting. George Stubbs turned horse painting into an epic art form, and Joseph Wright captured the drama of science in a way that no one had before. Constable’s canvases stunned observers in Paris, and Turner’s unprecedented use of colour divided the British art establishment.

May 72 pp. 270x230mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-487-9 £9.99*

Louise Govier was formerly Adult Learning Manager at the National Gallery and is currently the MLA Museums Clore Leadership Fellow. She has written several books and films which offer engaging ways to explore the National Gallery Collection, including The National Gallery: A Visitor’s Guide. Translation rights for all National Gallery, London titles: The National Gallery Company Limited, London

The National Gallery • London

This book traces some key developments in British eighteenthand nineteenth-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection. Compare what rival portrait painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds offered their sitters: the choice between shimmering colours and expressive brushwork, or ennobling classical references. Their techniques and philosophical ideals would be challenged and developed even further by the next generation. The ground-breaking landscapes that Constable and Turner produced inspired the French Impressionists, and are still among the world’s favourite paintings today.

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A Closer Look Angels

A Closer Look Deceptions and Discoveries

Erika Langmuir Angels are an integral part of Christian art, performing a multitude of roles. Massed together they may form a heavenly choir, glorifying the Virgin Mary or commenting on the surrounding action. Individually, angels can set the scene and engage the viewer, act as messengers between God and man, or become key characters illustrating episodes of Christian history. This book explains these diversities, and explores the surprisingly complicated history of angels in Western art. Looking at some of the most engaging paintings in the National Gallery, discover how artistic depictions mirrored the increasing sophistication of angelic doctrine, which eventually proposed the existence of nine types of angel.

The National Gallery • London

May 96 pp. 210x148mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-484-8 £7.99*

Marjorie E. Wieseman How do experts spot masterpieces? Paintings are not always signed or documented, so how can one tell an obscure gem from an altered image? Scientists, conservators and art historians use a range of methods to examine the physical nature of pictures and unravel their hidden histories. Through a series of examples and clearly explained processes, this brand new guide will draw the reader into the complex issues confronted by gallery professionals. Marjorie E. Wieseman is Curator of Dutch Painting at the National Gallery, London, and co-author of Dutch Painting, Drawn by the Brush, and Perfect Likeness.

May 96 pp. 210x148mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-486-2 £7.99*

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A Closer Look Allegory

A Closer Look Frames

Erika Langmuir

Nicholas Penny

When we say that ‘Love is blind’ or ‘Time flies’ —giving concepts human characteristics—we are using the language of allegory. Painters have long relied on allegory to create ‘message pictures’. Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth, the Bible or astrology, all too often puzzle modern viewers.

Frames often catch the eye of visitors to galleries, yet labels and catalogues rarely comment on them. In this elegant survey, Nicholas Penny conveys his passionate interest in the history of frames, the design and techniques of frame-making, what frames do for paintings and the part they play in an interior. The emphasis is on their changing function as well as the different styles, materials and techniques employed.

This book explains types of visual allegory in Western art, and the contexts in which they were originally created and viewed, through some of the most beautiful and intriguing pictures in the National Gallery, London.

This book is illustrated by frames from the National Gallery’s magnificent collection, which has some of the finest examples of the frame-maker’s craft, reflecting the taste of individual artists and collectors over the centuries.

Erika Langmuir, OBE, has taught at the University of Sussex and held the Chair of Art History at the Open University. She was Head of Education at the National Gallery (1988–1995). Dr Langmuir is author of Masterpieces and The National Gallery Companion Guide.

Nicholas Penny is Director of the National Gallery, London. He was previously Senior Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. He has published widely on painting and sculpture, including Giotto to Dürer; The Materials of Sculpture and the National Gallery Catalogues of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings.

May 96 pp. 210x148mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-485-5 £7.99*

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Painting History Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey Stephen Bann and Linda Whitely with John Guy, Christopher Riopelle and Anne Robbins

Stephen Bann, CBE, FBA, is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on art in the 19th century and is author of Paul Delaroche. Linda Whiteley is a research associate in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford. She writes on 18th- and 19thcentury European art, and co-authored Paintings in the National Gallery, London. John Guy is a leading historian of Tudor England, and a writer and broadcaster. Christopher Riopelle is Curator and Anne Robbins is Assistant Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London.

February 180 pp. 244x220mm. 140 illus. ISBN 978-1-85709-479-4 £19.99*

Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery. It was a sensation when exhibited at the 1834 Paris Salon, and was widely reproduced in prints. However, by the time the painting was presented to the nation in 1902, Delaroche had fallen out of favour and this work was placed in storage. In fact, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey was believed to have been destroyed in the Tate flood of 1928 until its chance rediscovery and subsequent restoration in 1974–5. This event coincided with a revival of scholarly interest in Delaroche, an artist now less familiar in England than he was 150 years ago, when his patrons included Queen Victoria. This authorative book presents The Execution of Lady Jane Grey with other major history paintings and preparatory sketches that made Delaroche’s reputation during his lifetime. The authors also discuss varied visual and cross-cultural influences—such as popular prints and theatre—on his particular approach to depicting English history. Other inspirations are outlined, including the recent discovery that the probable model for Lady Jane Grey was a well-known Parisian actress, thus shedding further light on Delaroche’s interest in theatre. This study is complemented by an essay by John Guy, the distinguished Tudor historian, who outlines the short life of Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days, and the development of her enduring mythical status as an innocent martyr. Exhibition: Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey National Gallery, London, 24 February to 23 May 2010

Kienholz at the National Gallery Colin Wiggins

Footage includes the Kienholz studio in Idaho, where The Hoerengracht is unpacked in preparation for the National Gallery exhibition. Nancy also returns to Amsterdam and discusses how the city inspired The Hoerengracht. Colin Wiggins, Head of Education at the National Gallery, has created a successful contemporary art programme inspired by the Gallery’s collection. His previous DVDs include John Virtue: London Paintings and Ron Mueck. Now Available Approximately 35 minutes Region free • Widescreen • English subtitles DVD ISBN 978-1-85709-483-1 £15.00

Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey Natasha Podro

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past. History books written in an accessible and popular style brought the subject to a wider audience, and there was an enormous appetite for historical paintings, plays, tableaux and novels. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey was a sensation when it was first exhibited to the Parisian public in 1834. Paul Delaroche’s paintings, with their historical detail and their intimate focus on the emotions of their characters, represented an entirely new genre of history painting. This film looks at the circumstances that inspired both his approach and his choice of subject matter. Natasha Podro is former New Media Editor for the National Gallery, and wrote Stubbs and the Horse DVD (2005). She has also written for Tate, the British Library, the Museo del Prado and Historic Royal Palaces.

February Approximately 35 minutes Region free • Widescreen • English subtitles DVD ISBN 978-1-85709-481-7 £15.00

The National Gallery • London

The Hoerengracht is a strikingly controversial installation piece by Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz. It is a walkthrough evocation of Amsterdam’s red light district. Within the elegant walls of the National Gallery, such a gritty tableau may seem an incongruous sight, but this film shows surprising parallels with the Gallery’s collection of Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century.

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American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture Alice T. Friedman The sleek lines and gleaming facades of the architecture of the late 1940s and 1950s reflect a culture fascinated by the promise of the Jet Age. Buildings like Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons Restaurant retain a thrilling allure, seeming to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. In this work, Alice Friedman draws on a vast range of sources to argue that the aesthetics of mid-century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with ‘glamour’, a term widely used in those years to characterise objects, people and experiences as luxurious, expressive and even magical.

July 272 pp. 279x215mm. 125 b/w + 40 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11654-0 £45.00*

Featuring assessments of architectural examples ranging from Mies van der Rohe’s monolithic Seagram Building to Elvis Presley’s sprawling Graceland estate, as well as vintage photographs, advertisements and posters, Friedman argues that new audiences and client groups with tastes rooted in popular entertainment made their presence felt in the cultural marketplace during the postwar period. The author suggests that American and European architecture and design increasingly reflected the values of a burgeoning consumer society, including a fundamental confidence in the power of material objects to transform the identity and status of those who owned them. Alice T. Friedman is Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art and director of the McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College.

The American Department Store Transformed, 1920–1960 Richard Longstreth After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early twentieth century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced by changes in business practices, shopping patterns, design approaches and urban structure. This masterful and innovative history of a celebrated building type focuses on many of the nation’s greatest retail companies—Marshall Fields, Lord and Taylor, Gimbel’s, Wanamaker’s and Bullock’s, among others—and the role they played in defining America’s cities. Author Richard Longstreth traces the development and evolution of department stores from local, urban institutions to suburban entities in the nation’s sixty largest cities, showing how the stores underwent changes to adapt to dramatic economic and urban developments, including the decentralisation from metropolitan areas, increased popularity of the automobile, and challenges from retail competitors on a national level. Extensively illustrated, this fascinating book offers a fundamental understanding of the transformation of high streets across America. May 384 pp. 279x215mm. 240 b/w + 15 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14938-8 £40.00*

Richard Longstreth is professor of American civilization and director of the graduate program in historic preservation at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Published in association with the Center for American Places

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Mark Bradford You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) Christopher Bedford With contributions by Hilton Als, Carol Eliel, Richard Shiff, Katy Siegel, Robert Storr and Hamza Walker

Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling large-scale abstract collages that incisively examine class, race and the gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award (nicknamed the ‘genius grants’), Bradford gathers found and salvaged materials from the area surrounding his studio in Leimert Park, L.A., engaging in an intricate artistic process that involves both creation and destruction. His complex, fractured works address pressing political issues and the media’s influence on contemporary society while cataloguing cultural change and the artist’s personal responses to societal conditions. Exhibition Wexner Center for the Arts, 7 May – 15 August 2010

June 256 pp. 279x241mm. 66 b/w + 175 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16358-2 £45.00*

The first major book on this leading African American artist, Mark Bradford: You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) features essays by distinguished authors who investigate how Bradford deftly straddles the line between social critique and formal innovation, playing the two off against one another to produce works of seduction and analysis. Topics include Bradford’s debt to abstract expressionism, his relationship to the largely unknown history of twentieth-century abstraction by African American artists, his work as a public artist, and his interest in mid-century European collage and décollage practices. Christopher Bedford is curator of exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts.

Published in association with the Wexner Center for the Arts

Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens Installation Views Edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle Text by Carlos Basualdo Photography by Michele Lamanna Winner of the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens is celebrated in this photographic documentation of the thematic installation as presented at three sites in Venice: the U.S. Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, and two of the city’s most esteemed academic institutions, the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Università Ca’ Foscari.

Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 21 November 2009 – 4 April 2010

April 60 pp. 241x215mm. 55 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16463-3 £6.99*

With a body of work that encompasses video, installation, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and neon that spans from the 1960s to the present day, Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is one of the most innovative artists of his generation. Through Michele Lamanna’s stunning series of photographs, commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this publication captures the visitor’s experience of encountering Nauman’s work and coincides with the American premiere of the artist’s newest works—Days and Giorni—in Philadelphia. Carlos Basualdo is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art and Erica F. Battle is a Project Curatorial Assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michele Lamanna is a photographer who lives and works in Parma and Venice.

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Berkshire The Buildings of England Geoffrey Tyack, Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner ‘Half home county, half West Country’: the variety of Berkshire’s architecture is broad and remarkable. Houses range from early timber-framed dwellings to the splendours of Windsor Castle, at once England’s greatest fortress and finest royal palace, through Georgian, Victorian and Arts-andCrafts mansions of exceptional richness. The county is a wonderful hunting ground for the Gothic Revival, including works by famous names such as Butterfield and G.E. Street. Its market towns retain much of their Georgian charm, while the prosperity of recent years has brought new waves of confident and innovative architecture. Geoffrey Tyack is a Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and editor of the Georgian Group Journal. Simon Bradley is editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, and author of the volumes in the series on Westminster and the City of London.

May 800 pp. 216x118mm. 120 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12662-4 £35.00*

Architecture as Icon Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art ^ ´ Edited by Slobodan Curcic ´ and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos With contributions by Kathleen E. McVey and Helen G. Saradi Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century. Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favour of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylised physical forms. Scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has previously been largely focused on depictions of holy figures, dismissing representations of architecture as irrelevant space-filling background. Architecture as Icon demonstrates that background representations of architecture are meaningful, active components of compositions, often as significant as the human figures. Exhibition European Centre for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments, Thessaloniki, 6 November 2009 – 31 January 2010 Princeton University Art Museum, 6 March – 6 June 2010 ^

´ Slobodan Curcic ´ is professor of Early Christian Byzantine Architecture and Monumental Decoration in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Evangelia Hadjitryphonos is Honorary Head of Department, Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum March 320 pp. 279x228mm. 25 b/w + 200 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12211-4 £45.00*

The Mourners Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy Sophie Jugie During the late Middle Ages, the dukes of Burgundy––the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in northern Europe––commissioned sculptors of great renown to decorate their magnificent court in Dijon. This stunning book provides an in-depth study of the twin summits of the achievement of these artists––sculptures from the tombs of Philip the Bold (1342–1404) and his son, John the Fearless (1371–1419). These extraordinary marble and alabaster tombs serve as platforms for the ducal figures, who rest atop fully carved arcades. Within the spaces of the arcades, the artists carved individual monks in procession. Just over two feet high, each monk is a miniature embodiment of late medieval devotion. Shown in various states of mourning, they move in perpetual procession beneath the marble bodies of their rulers. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 March – 23 May 2010; St. Louis Art Museum, 20 June – 12 September 2010 Dallas Museum of Art, 3 October 2010 – 2 January 2011; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 23 January – 17 April 2011 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 8 May – 31 July 2011; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 21 August 2011 – 1 January 2012 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 20 January – 15 April 2012; Musée du Cluny, Paris, France, 20 May – Summer 2012 Sophie Jugie is director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.

Published in association with FRAME (The French Regional and American Museum Exchange) March 128 pp. 304x203mm. 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15517-4 £18.99*

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Churches in Early Medieval Ireland Tomás Ó Carragáin This is the first book devoted to churches in Ireland from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the early stages of the Romanesque around 1100, including those built to house treasures of the golden age of Irish art such as the Book of Kells and the Ardagh chalice. Tomás Ó Carragáin’s comprehensive survey of the surviving examples forms the basis for a far-reaching analysis of why these buildings looked as they did, and what they meant in the context of early Irish society.

May 288 pp. 280x220mm. 180 b/w + 40 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15444-3 £40.00*

The most immediately striking feature of these buildings is their simplicity, the result not of ignorance of architecture elsewhere in Europe, but of an imperative to perpetuate a building form, derived largely from Romano-British and biblical exemplars, that had become associated with the saints who had christianised Ireland and founded its great ecclesiastical centres. In this book, the Irish architectural context of early medieval rituals is analysed for the first time. It also includes the most detailed analysis to date of the layout of the most important Irish ecclesiastical complexes, including Armagh, Clonmacnoise and Glendalough. Ó Carragáin argues that some of these monumental schemes were intended to recall distant sacred topographies, especially Jerusalem and Rome. He also identifies a clear political and ideological context for the first Romanesque churches in Ireland and shows that, to a considerable extent, the Irish Romanesque represents the perpetuation of a long-established architectural tradition. Tomás Ó Carragáin lectures in the Deptartment of Archaeology, University College Cork.

Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture Native Genius Reaffirmed Paula Murphy Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of such major figures as Patrick MacDowell, John Henry Foley, Thomas Kirk and Thomas Farrell are discussed—as well as works by a host of lesser-known sculptors. Lavishly illustrated, the book covers the work of many Irish sculptors who worked abroad, particularly in London, and the work of English sculptors, including John Flaxman, Francis Chantrey, E.H. Baily and Richard Westmacott, who worked in Ireland. Murphy makes extensive use of contemporary documentation, much of it from newspapers, to present the sculptors and their work in the religious and political context of their time. May 320 pp. 280x220mm. 250 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15909-7 £45.00*

Paula Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at University College Dublin. She is the leading expert on Irish sculpture, and is the editor of the sculpture volume for the Royal Irish Academy Art and Architecture of Ireland project, forthcoming from Yale.

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

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High Style Fashion Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection Edited by Jan Glier Reeder This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum’s internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women’s and men’s garments and accessories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It features sumptuous ninteenth-century gowns from the House of Worth, exquisite works by the great twentieth-century French couturiers, iconic Surrealist-based designs of Elsa Schiaparelli, sportswear classics from pioneer American women designers and the incomparable draped and tailored creations of Charles James. In 2009, the Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art entered into a groundbreaking long-term partnership to steward Brooklyn’s collection. The objects were transferred to The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan, with Brooklyn maintaining curatorial access. Exhibitions of costumes from the collection will be held at both institutions in early May 2010. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5 May – 15 August 2010; Brooklyn Museum, 7 May – 15 August 2010 Jan Glier Reeder is Consulting Curator, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

June 256 pp. 279x228mm. 225 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15522-8 £35.00*

Cochineal Red The Art History of a Color Elena Phipps From antiquity to the present day, colour has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility and life force, the colour red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized. This book discusses the origin of the red colourant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the sixteenth century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-coloured treasure in several media and throughout the world. Elena Phipps is senior museum conservator in the Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

March 60 pp. 279x215mm. 65 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15513-6 £10.00*

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An Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo Linda Wolk-Simon and Carmen C. Bambach With contributions by Stijn Alsteens, George R. Goldner, Perrin Stein and Mary Vaccaro This handsome book presents highlights from one of America’s preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and David Tobey. Ranging in date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, some 70 drawings—many previously unpublished—are featured, including works by brilliant draftsmen such as Correggio, Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, Bernini, Poussin, Guercino, Ribera, Canaletto and Tiepolo. Impressive in its variety of subjects, the drawings include figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity and designs for painted compositions. All the works are illustrated in colour and accompanied by numerous comparative illustrations; brief biographies of each artist are also included. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11 May – 15 August 2010 George R. Goldner is Drue Heinz Chairman, Department of Drawings and Prints; Linda Wolk-Simon, Carmen C. Bambach and Perrin Stein are Curators; Stijn Alsteens is Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, all at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mary Vaccaro is a Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Arlington.

June 192 pp. 304x247mm. 50 b/w + 90 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15524-2 £35.00*

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Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edited and with an introduction by Gary Tinterow This landmark publication presents for the first time a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising thirty-four paintings, fifty-nine drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist’s multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career. Notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum’s collection also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which despite their importance and number, remains relatively little known. The key subjects that variously sustained Picasso’s interest—the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, faceted tabletops of his cubist years, classicising bathers and dreaming nudes of the 1920s and 30s, and the rakish musketeers of his maturity—are amply represented by works, ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait in watercolour of 1900 to the fanciful image he painted of himself as a faun more than a half-century later. An overview of the collection’s history; entries on nearly one hundred works that incorporate the latest technical and documentary findings and furnish a full record of the provenance, exhibition history and references for each object; and an essay and illustrated checklist of the prints are also included in this illuminating and handsomely illustrated volume. Gary Tinterow is Engelhard Chairman of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20 April – 1 August 2010 May 324 pp. 304x228mm. 400 b/w + 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15525-9 £40.00*

The Metropolitan Museum’s Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger The Metropolitan’s holdings of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French decorative arts, unrivalled outside Europe, are on display in nine magnificent panelled period rooms and three galleries. This suite of spaces is named after Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, whose extraordinary generosity made the installations possible and who also donated many of the furnishings from their own celebrated collection. The first book on the Wrightsman Galleries since 1979, this beautifully illustrated volume presents detailed descriptions of the period rooms and 116 of the most important artworks on view, including wood panelling and furniture, chimneypieces and fireplace furnishings, textiles and leather, portraits, gilt bronze, porcelain, silver and decorative boxes, many of which have a royal provenance. The text incorporates the results of recent research and conveys the illuminating comments of contemporaries as expressed in diaries, travel guides, craft manuals and correspondence. Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger are curators in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

May 228 pp. 234x184mm. 35 b/w + 215 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15520-4 £30.00*

American Woman Fashioning a National Identity Andrew Bolton This intriguing book will examine how the ideal of the American Woman evolved from ‘Old World’ ideas of elegance into a specifically American sensibility. At the same time, it will explore the impact of the image of the American Woman on haute couture, revealing how the ‘slender American Diana’ displaced the ‘rounded French Venus’ as the prevailing archetype of beauty to emerge as the enduring symbol of style and glamour in the twentieth century. This unique publication includes archetypes of American femininity from the Gilded Age to the Golden Age of Hollywood that include ‘The Grand Dame’, ‘The Heiress’, ‘The Gibson Girl’, ‘The Bohemian’, ‘The Suffragist’, ‘The Patriot’, ‘The Flapper’ and ‘The Screen Siren’, illustrated with costumes from the Brooklyn Museum collection designed by Worth, Poiret, Patou, Chanel, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, James, Valentina and others. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 May – 15 August 2010 Andrew Bolton is Associate Curator of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

May 72 pp. 279x228mm. 125 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16553-1 £14.99*

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Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville. Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1963.

Pablo Picasso, Seated Harlequin. 1901. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, 1960.

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Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale The Villa of P. Fannius Synistor in Reality and Virtual Reality Bettina Bergmann, Stefano De Caro, Joan R. Mertens and Rudolpf Meyer When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, burying much of the region around the Bay of Naples in lava, one of the extraordinary Roman villas thereby preserved was that of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. Its discovery in 1899 revealed breathtaking wall paintings that were dispersed in 1903, with major portions acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cleaning and reinstallation of these masterpieces has occasioned the creation of a virtual model that for the first time has allowed the authors to situate the surviving frescoes from the villa in their original relation to each other. Bettina Bergmann is Helene Philips ’49 Professor of Art at Mount Holyoke College; Stefano De Caro is Director General for Archaeology at the Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali in Rome; Joan R. Mertens is Curator of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Rudolf Meyer is conservator to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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July 64 pp. 279x215mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15519-8 £10.00*

Vienna Circa 1780 An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered Wolfram Koeppe The Sachsen-Teschen Silver Service was made for Duke Albert Casimir (1738–1822) and his consort, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1742–1798), sister of Queen Marie-Antoinette and daughter of Empress Maria Theresa. The Imperial court goldsmith Ignaz Josef Würth created a spectacular table setting that comprises of hundreds of items, including several wine coolers, tureens, cloches, sauceboats, candelabra, candlesticks—most with fanciful sculptural decorations—in addition to twentyfour dozen silver plates and porcelain-mounted cutlery as well as other serving objects. The ensemble represents the splendour of princely dining during the ancien régime at its best. The book places this unknown imperial silver service, an embodiment of Viennese neo-classicism and a rare survivor not melted down for its precious metal, in the context of contemporary silver from other European cities and introduces Vienna as a major centre of neoclassical goldsmithing. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13 April – 7 November 2010 Wolfram Koeppe is curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

May 120 pp. 279x215mm. 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15518-1 £25.00*

The Genius of Andrea Mantegna

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1, 2010

Keith Christiansen

With contributions by Andrea Bayer, Lawrence Becker, Federico Carò, Silvia A. Centeno, Ann Heywood, Lucretia Kargère, Dorothy Mahon, Adriana Rizzo, Xavier F. Salomon, Deborah Schorsch, Donna Strahan and Mark T. Wypyski

Few artists have managed to imprint their personality so indelibly on posterity as Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431–1506). Before he reached the age of twenty, Mantegna was already being praised for his alto ingegno (exalted genius), and he became the court artist for the Gonzaga family in Mantua before he was thirty. Yet, this book argues, Mantegna was not simply a great painter. Together with Donatello, he was the defining genius of the fifteenth century: the measure of what an artist could be. His highly original and deeply personal vision, the descriptive richness of his pictures and his biting, hypercritical but always exalted mind gave Mantegna’s art an extraordinary edge and earned him a preeminent place in the Renaissance. Keith Christiansen is John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. March 64 pp. 279x215mm. 10 b/w + 58 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16161-8 £10.00* Translation rights for all Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York titles: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores the importance of a thorough understanding of the context, materials and technical nature of works of art. This volume includes a history of early objects conservation practices in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; an exploration of the use of lapis lazuli and azurite as pigments in ancient Egypt; two related investigations into the casting methods and materials of early Chinese bronze Buddha sculptures; a compositional study of medieval Islamic enamelled glass; an analysis of the polychrome decoration on four French Romanesque sculptures; and an evaluation of several paintings by Paolo Veronese, addressing a longstanding debate over whether they originated as a group. February 176 pp. 279x228mm. 75 b/w + 100 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15160-2 £45.00*

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2010 Whitney Biennial Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari Since its inauguration in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has fostered contemporary artistic innovation and diversity, becoming a highly anticipated event in the art world. The 2010 Biennial is curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari and features works by approximately 55 artists working in a variety of media and practices.

Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, 25 February – 30 May 2010

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February 256 pp. 234x190mm. 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16242-4 £35.00*

Uniquely, this catalogue serves as both a handsome accompaniment to the 2010 exhibition and an insightful exploration of the significance of this acclaimed and often controversial event throughout its history. In addition to presenting full-colour reproductions of the selected artists’ recent work, the curators have prepared a joint essay on the 2010 exhibition, and a group of writers contributed brief entries on the represented artists’ techniques, influences and recent work. A detailed appendix features a short text on the significance of the museum’s annual and biennial exhibitions in the context of the museum’s history and broader collection, as well as photographs of previous installations, facsimiles of historical reviews, and a chronological list of artists included in past annuals and biennials. Thumbnails of all previous catalogue covers are also included, positioning each Biennial as a snapshot of artistic practice at a particular moment. Francesco Bonami is Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery and curator of the 2010 Biennial. He served as chief curator of the 50th Venice Biennale. Gary Carrion-Murayari is senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art and associate curator of the 2010 Biennial. Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art

The Visual World of French Theory Narrative Figuration Sarah Wilson This book focuses on the remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s— Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida —and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement—Bernard Rancillac, Lucio Fanti, Gérard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Valerio Adami. Each of these encounters involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces, and the texts that lie at the heart of each chapter illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher-writer concerned.

Sarah Wilson is Professor of Modern Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

June 240 pp. 256x192mm. 80 b/w + 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16281-3 £30.00*

While the protagonists of ‘French theory’ are universally known and studied, their thought is presented without a sense of contiguity, chronology or context in translation, while the artists with whom they engaged are relatively unknown outside the French-speaking world. This account restores the context of artistic production, where political engagement on the Left was a driving factor. What Bourdieu called ‘cultural competence’ is seen to be essential for these philosophers in the wake of Jean-Paul Sartre’s writings on art from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book shows that it is via the philosophers that the figurative art of 1970s France can be introduced to the audience it deserves.

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Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death? Franklin Sirmans The subversive direct sculptures of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny photorealism. Reflecting suspicions of religious and political authorities, these constructions serve as critiques of existing power structures, forcing the viewer to challenge their understanding of symbols, iconic and commonplace. This book features new works by Cattelan, as well as several of his large-scale pieces, all of which are considered in the context of the Menil’s remarkable holdings of contemporary art. To this end, we see how works by artists such as Lucio Fontana, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol ‘converse’ with Cattelan’s. This is a rare opportunity to appreciate Cattelan’s works amid the backdrop of the twentieth century. Exhibition The Menil Collection, 11 February – 15 August 2010 Franklin Sirmans is the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From 2006–2009 he was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection.

Distributed for The Menil Collection March 128 pp. 228x165m. 50 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14688-2 £20.00*

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Time Out of Joint Recall and Evocation in Recent Art Edited by Luigi Fassi, Lucy Gallun and Jakob Schillinger This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation—the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations and memories into the present—as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists working in a variety of media, including Ronnie Bass, Kajsa Dahlberg, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Fikret Atay, Katerina Seda, Maryam Jafri and Johanna Billing, as well as films by Keren Cytter, Kevin Willmott and Jennifer Phang, the book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact. Ranging from playful to haunting, the artworks presented here rupture conventional notions of time to alter the dynamic of the present moment and enhance the possibilities for radical change on both a personal and sociopolitical scale. Luigi Fassi is Artistic Director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy. Lucy Gallun is the Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Jakob Schillinger is an artist living in Berlin and New York.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art March 120 pp. 210x140mm. 40 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15902-8 £10.99* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Building on a Construct The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Edited by Héctor Olea and Mari Carmen Ramírez The world-renowned Aldopho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, devoted to modern Latin American art of the 1950s and 1960s, represents forerunners of abstract art in Brazil as well as key works by avant-garde artists: the Grupo Ruptura of São Paulo (including Waldemar Cordeiro and Maurício Nogueira Lima) and Rio de Janeiro’s Grupo Frente (including Lygia Pape and the brothers César and Hélio Oiticica). The collection, now housed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also contains important works from the Neo-Concrete movement with six major pieces by Lygia Clark and major works from artists who embraced Constructive tenents by working independently, including Sergio Camargo, Mira Schendel and Alfredo Volpi. Exhibition Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, 18 November 2009 – 1 March 2010 Héctor Olea is an independent scholar and curator. Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 404 pp. 292x266mm. 92 b/w + 215 colour illus. Paper over Board ISBN 978-0-300-14698-1 £45.00* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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A Landscape Manifesto Diana Balmori • Introduction by Michel Conan Diana Balmori, an innovative and influential landscape architect in the field of urban design, makes the case for landscape as an art in her timely and provocative manifesto. This book presents Balmori’s most complete vision yet of the theory and practice of urban landscape design as a discipline that combines the science of ecology with the formal aspects of aesthetics. Here, Balmori advocates a new formal language that reflects a philosophical shift in our traditional understanding of nature, along with ‘realignments’ in how humans relate to nature and live in our world today, changes that will shape the livable city of the future. A Landscape Manifesto includes discussions of urban ecology, environmental conservation and environmentally beneficial building techniques. Projects by Balmori Associates, which include the Memphis Riverfront and a port area newly reclaimed by the Guggenheim Bilbao, illuminate Balmori’s innovations. Featuring an introduction by Michel Conan, one of landscape architecture’s most respected historians, Balmori’s book heralds a significant development in the literature of landscape architecture. Diana Balmori is an internationally recognised landscape and urban designer. She teaches at the Yale University School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Michel Conan is director of the Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C.

June 272 pp. 241x273mm. 18 b/w + 215 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15658-4 £45.00*

Design and Truth Robert Grudin “If good design tells the truth”, writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related . . . to the getting or abusing of power”. From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to the much-maligned Ford Edsel of the late 1950s, all products of human design communicate much more than their mere intended functions. Design holds both psychological and moral power over us, and these forces may be manipulated, however subtly, to surprising effect. In an argument that touches upon subjects as seemingly unrelated as the Japanese tea ceremony, Italian mannerist painting and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, Grudin turns his attention to the role of design in our daily lives, focusing especially on how political and economic powers impress themselves on us through the built environment. Although architects and designers will find valuable insights here, Grudin’s intended audience is not exclusively the trained expert but all those who use designs and live within them every day. Robert Grudin is professor emeritus in the English Department at the University of Oregon. His Book: A Novel was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Literature.

May 224 pp. 210x140mm. 5 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16140-3 £18.99*

Keywords in American Landscape Design Therese O’Malley With contributions by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Anne L. Helmreich This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the seventeenth to the mid-ninteenth centuries defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture. Ranging from alcove, arbor and arch to veranda, wilderness and wood, each term presents a wealth of documentation, textual sources and imagery. The broad geographic scope of the texts reveals patterns of regional usage, while the chronological range provides evidence of changing design practice and landscape vocabulary over time. Drawing upon a wealth of newly compiled documentation and accompanied by more than 1,000 images, this dictionary forms the most complete published reference to date on the history of American garden design, and reveals landscape history as integral to the study of American cultural history. Therese O’Malley is associate dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is associate professor of anthropology and museum studies at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis. Anne Helmreich is associate professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University.

Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. May 752 pp. 304x228mm. 881 b/w + 106 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10174-4 £85.00

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Art of Edo Japan The Artist and the City 1615–1868 Christine Guth This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) nurtured a magnificent tradition of painting, calligraphy, printmaking, ceramics, architecture, textile work and lacquer. As each city created its own distinctive social, political and economic environment, its art acquired a unique flavour and aesthetic. Author Christine Guth focuses on the urban aspects of Edo art, including discussions of many of Japan’s most popular artists—Korin, Utamaro and Hiroshige, among others—as well as those that are lesser known, and provides a fascinating look at the cities in which they worked. Christine Guth is an independent scholar. Her books include Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era; Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan; and Art, Tea, and Industry.

Sachie Takada (b. 1976). Robe, Kimono and mixed media.

April 176 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w + 109 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16413-8 £12.99*

Katsura— Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro Yasufumi Nakamori Originally published by Yale in 1960, Katsura: Tradition and Creation of Japanese Architecture is the most significant photographic publication about the relationship of modernity and tradition in postwar Japan. Designed by Bauhaus graphic artist Herbert Bayer, it comprises 135 black-and-white photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro depicting the seventeenthcentury Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, with essays by Walter Gropius and Tange Kenzo. This new publication argues that Tange, motivated by a desire to transform the architectural images into abstract fragments, played a major role in cropping and sequencing Ishimoto’s photographs for the book. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 30 June – 12 September 2010 Yasufumi Nakamori is assistant curator of photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 224 pp. 285x273mm. 140 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16333-9 £35.00*

Nui

Fiery Pool

Embroidery from a Sheltered Community

The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Joe Earle

Edited by Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston

Shobu Gakuen, a rehabilitation facility established in 1973 in southwest Japan, has had a long tradition of providing a venue for adults with developmental difficulties to make crafts. The goal of this pioneering and highly successful facility was to empower its residents to become active and productive individuals within their communities. In 1985, Kobo (Studio) Shobu was created to emphasise the production style of each person in the facility and is now receiving international attention, especially for the Nui (Stitching) Project. This is the first English-language publication to feature works by extraordinary Nui artists. Reproducing some 50 works that represent a spectrum of embroidery forms, from simple stitching to French knots, this book provides new information based on direct observation of the artists and their stunning embroideries. Exhibition Japan Society Gallery, New York, 8 July – 15 August 2010 Joe Earle is vice president and director of the gallery at Japan Society in New York City.

Distributed for the Japan Society July 72 pp. 203x244mm. 60 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16369-8 £10.99* Translation rights: The Japan Society, New York

Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and developments in deciphering Maya glyphs, this groundbreaking volume presents a revisionist reading that shifts the emphasis of interpretation to the mythic power of the sea as the basis of a larger, deeper cultural narrative and history for the Maya. Accompanies a monumental exhibition comprising almost 100 artworks. Exhibition Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 27 March – 18 July 2010 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 29 August 2010 – 2 January 2011 St. Louis Art Museum, 13 February – 8 May 2011 Daniel Finamore is The Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Stephen D. Houston is The Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University.

Published in association with the Peabody Essex Museum April 328 pp. 304x254mm. 174 b/w + 192 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16137-3 £45.00*

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Buddha Shakyamuni. India, Bihar. Pala period, late 9th-early 10th century. Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.37. Image courtesy Asia Society, New York.

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Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Edited by Adriana Proser With essays by Susan Beningson, Janice Leoshko, D. Max Moerman, Katherine Paul, Ian Reader, Robert Stoddard, Donald Swearer and Chün-fang Yü Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia’s artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels and travelling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia. Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art illuminates artwork’s complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes. Exhibition Asia Society Museum, New York, 16 March – 20 June 2010 Adriana Proser is the John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum, New York.

Published in association with the Asia Society Museum April 224 pp. 304x228mm. 130 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15566-2 £45.00*

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Light of the Sufis The Mystical Arts of Islam Ladan Akbarnia and Francesca Leoni Light of the Sufis introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts. Sufism became well established in the ninth to tenth centuries and reached its height in the twelfth to thirteenth centuries. From its inception, Sufism recognised the traditions and practices of other faiths and cultures with which it came into contact, adapting and incorporating elements of Greek philosophies, Christian mysticism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Buddhism. This diversity has been reflected not only in the words and the lives of celebrated Sufi mystics but also in some of the finest literature, music, performance and visual arts produced in the Islamic world. Lavishly illustrated, this exhibition catalogue presents exceptional works in various media from diverse areas of the Islamic world, including North Africa, Turkey, Iran and India, and dating from the ninth century to the present. Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 16 May – 8 August 2010 Ladan Akbarnia is Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Brooklyn Museum and Executive Director of the Iran Heritage Foundation, London. Francesca Leoni is Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Islamic World at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston July 160 pp. 304x228mm. 50 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16464-0 £16.99*

The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting Molly Emma Aitken The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the sixteenth and ninteenth centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). Rajput paintings depicted the nobility and court spectacle as well as scenes from Krishna’s life, the Hindu epics and court poetry. Many Rajput kingdoms developed distinct styles, though they shared common conventions. This important book surveys the overall tradition of Indian Rajput painting, while developing new methods to ask unprecedented questions about meaning. Through a series of in-depth studies, Aitken shows how traditional formal devices served as vital components of narrative meaning, expressions of social unity and rich sources of intellectual play. Supported by beautiful full-colour illustrations of rare and often inaccessible paintings, Aitken’s study spans five centuries, providing a comprehensive and innovative look at the Rajasthan’s court painting traditions and their continued relevance to contemporary art. Molly Emma Aitken is assistant professor of Asian art at The City College of New York.

April 352 pp. 279x215mm. 175 b/w + 54 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14229-7 £45.00*

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The Edwardian Sense

Varieties of Romantic Experience

Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910

British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp

Edited by Morna O’Neill and Michael Hatt Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them. While acknowledging familiar divisions between the highbrow world of aesthetic theory and the popular delights of the music hall, or between the neoBaroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, The Edwardian Sense also discusses the middlebrow culture that characterises the anonymous edge of the city. Morna O’Neill is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Ninteenth-Century European Art in the History of Art Department at Vanderbilt University. Michael Hatt is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick.

Matthew Hargraves With a preface by Charles Ryskamp This publication considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon, bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish and Dutch drawings from the collection of Charles Ryskamp. The book demonstrates the diversity inherent in Romanticism; it also highlights the common concerns shared by British and Continental artists. Alongside important British works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Cornelius Varley, William Blake and Henry Fuseli, the book also includes drawings by key Continental artists. Exhibition Yale Center for British Art, 4 February – 25 April 2010

Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Matthew Hargraves is Assistant Curator for Collections Research at the Yale Center for British Art.

May 336 pp. 254x178mm. 90 b/w + colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16335-3 £45.00*

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March 368 pp. 279x241mm. 200 b/w + colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15292-0 £50.00* Translation rights: YCBA

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Triumph of Religion’ at the Boston Public Library Creation and Restoration Edited by Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene and Kate Smith John Singer Sargent’s Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library, considered to be the artist’s masterpiece, is one of the most ambitious mural cycles in the history of American art. This book examines and documents Sargent Hall as an art installation (constructed between 1890 and 1919) and describes its restoration history, culminating in the authors’ 2003–4 restoration. Sargent painted the murals on canvas and enhanced their surfaces with relief materials such as plaster, papier mâché, metalwork, stencils and patterned cut-outs, ‘jewels’ made of glass and Lincrusta-Walton, a corrugated commercial wall covering. During the latest restoration, the three-dimensional elements were removed for the first time, leading to a deeper understanding of Sargent’s experimental approach to making the murals and controlling their environment. Narayan Khandekar is Senior Conservation Scientist at the Harvard Art Museum/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Gianfranco Pocobene is Head of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Kate Smith, formerly Paintings Conservator at the Straus Center, works privately.

Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum March 300 pp. 304x228mm. 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12290-9 £45.00* Translation rights: Harvard Art Museum

William Merritt Chase Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings Ronald G. Pisano • Completed by D. Frederick Baker and Carolyn K. Lane This is the fourth and final volume in the complete catalogue of the work of William Merritt Chase. Included in this book are interiors, primarily paintings of his renowned Tenth Street Studio, and still life paintings, in particular his well-known depictions of fish, which were sought after by major collectors and museums at the time they were painted. In addition, the catalogue contains his figure works, copies of paintings by Old Masters including Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals and Rembrandt van Rijn and a selection of drawings. Finally, the book features a complete list of auction records during Chase’s lifetime. Through painstaking research, this volume uncovers previously unattributed and unidentified works by Chase, presenting new revelations and serving as a fitting capstone to this ambitious publishing project. Ronald G. Pisano, who was curator of the Heckscher Museum of Art and director of the Parrish Art Museum, researched and prepared the complete catalogue of Chase’s work for over thirty years before his death in 2000. D. Frederick Baker is a director of the Pisano/Chase Catalogue Raisonné Project. Carolyn K. Lane is a Ph.D. candidate in American art at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Published in association with the Pisano/Chase Catalogue Raisonné Project June 256 pp. 304x241mm. 211 b/w + 127 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11019-7 £45.00*

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American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation Richard J. Wattenmaker With an introduction by Derek Gillman The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Early Modern paintings. Less well known, however, is that it also houses superb examples of twentieth-century American art, including important paintings and works on paper by William J. Glackens, Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Charles Demuth, Alfred H. Maurer, Ernest Lawson, Horace Pippin, Marsden Hartley, Jules Pascin and many others. Featuring 400 colour illustrations, this catalogue offers the long overdue opportunity to explore this exceptional collection of American art. Richard J. Wattenmaker is an independent scholar. He was the Director of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and a former student and instructor at the Barnes Foundation. Derek Gillman is Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation.

Distributed for The Barnes Foundation March 432 pp. 279x266mm. 15 b/w + 400 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15877-9 £50.00* Translation rights: The Barnes Foundation

Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director’s Choice Peter C. Marzio With staff of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston In this beautifully illustrated book the director of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, offers his personal commentary on more than 100 of his favourite masterpieces chosen from the nearly 60,000 works in the museum’s permanent collection. The works are sequenced chronologically, representing more than fivethousand years of civilisation on six continents, and spanning the ancient to the digital worlds. The volume begins with a majestic sculpture of an ibex, c. 3000 B.C., and concludes with the astonishing animated video City Glow, by Chiho Aoshima, created in 2005. Informative and accessible descriptions of the artworks by the museum’s curatorial staff complement Dr. Marzio’s commentary and together offer fascinating comparisons, innovative juxtapositions and unexpected affinities between the diverse works of art. Peter C. Marzio has served as Director of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, since 1982.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 208 pp. 304x228mm. 132 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16372-8 £35.00*

American Moderns on Paper Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Edited by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser With essays and entries by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Erin Monroe and Carol Troyen American Moderns on Paper presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolours, pastels and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum’s renowned collection of American art. Works by Sloan, O’Keeffe, Hopper, Marin, Dalí and Wyeth, among many others, serve as notable examples of the various styles and subjects pursued by artists in America from 1910 to 1960. Providing a rich history of the collection, the volume illuminates not only its historic roots, but also the concurrent national evolution of interest in watercolour and drawings. Exhibition Various U.S. venues 2010 – 2011 Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford.

Published in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art March 216 pp. 298x248mm. 190 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15166-4 £40.00*

Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection Laurence Kanter and John Marciari Richard L. Feigen has amassed a collection of Italian paintings that is widely admired for its depth and quality, especially for the works it features by the principal masters of the early Italian Renaissance. This catalogue of the complete collection presents rare masterpieces by artists from Bernardo Daddi to Fra Angelico, Orazio Gentileschi’s Danaë, Annibale Carracci’s Virgin and Child, and precious, small-scale coppers by major Mannerist and Baroque masters. Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection catalogues more than fifty major works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and is the first publication of this remarkable and important collection. Exhibition Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 28 May – 12 September 2010 Laurence Kanter is the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. John Marciari is Curator of Italian and Spanish Painting and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art.

Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery June 272 pp. 304x228mm. 60 b/w + 77 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11488-1 £45.00* Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

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Framing the West

Galleries of Friendship and Fame

The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson and William F. Stapp Foreword by Page Stegner The image of the untamed American West persists as one of America’s most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan accompanied government expeditions to the West—most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys he produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain, O’Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities. Exhibition Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 12 February 2010 – 31 August 2010 Toby Jurovics is curator of photography at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Carol M. Johnson is curator of photography at the Library of Congress. Glenn Willumson is director of the graduate program in museum studies and associate professor of art history at the University of Florida. William F. Stapp is an independent scholar of photography. Page Stegner is a novelist, essayist and teacher.

Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress March 272 pp. 279x241mm. 1 b/w + 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15891-5 £40.00*

A History of NineteenthCentury American Photograph Albums Elizabeth Siegel Galleries of Friendship and Fame is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development and practices of ninteenth-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album—whether functioning as family record, parlour entertainment, social register, national portrait gallery or advertisement for photography itself—helped transform the nature of self-presentation at the cusp of modernity. This handsome volume examines carte de visite and cabinet card albums from their introduction in the United States in 1861 through the rise of the snapshot at the century’s end. By examining a wealth of previously overlooked primary materials, this study offers a completely new understanding of photograph albums, revealing how they emerged, how they were marketed and sold, and how families displayed and told stories through them. Galleries of Friendship and Fame addresses the history of technology and innovation, the interconnectedness of the commercial and domestic spheres and the ways photography helped shape notions of identity, family and nation in a rapidly changing America. Elizabeth Siegel is Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and author of Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.

June 216 pp. 254x178mm. 49 b/w illus. Paper over Board ISBN 978-0-300-15406-1 £35.00*

A Laboratory for Art

Yale Library Studies

Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950

Volume 1 • Library Architecture at Yale

Francesca G. Bewer Harvard’s Fogg Museum was the first American museum with a scientifically based conservation and research department. A Laboratory for Art is the first book to explore the crucial role the Fogg played in the evolution of conservation in the U.S. and abroad. Francesca G. Bewer is Research Curator at the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum July 288 pp. 234x156mm. 114 b/w + 34 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15469-6 £28.50* Translation rights: Harvard Art Museum

Edited by Geoffrey Little The first volume of the new Yale Library Studies series explores library architecture at Yale University. Featuring architectural drawings, designs and photographs of libraries by James Gamble Rogers, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Bunshaft and many other notable architects, as well as essays by Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Gwathmey and others, it presents a unique record of the buildings that have housed the Yale Library and its collections over the past three hundred years. Geoffrey Little is a Librarian at Yale University.

February 152 pp. 254x178mm. 37 b/w + 60 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16477-0 £35.00

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery Edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg This important new anthology explains how the environment of North American slavery—houses of slaves and slave owners, dwellings, and workspaces—can instruct us about the daily lives of slaves and the impact of slavery on American history and culture. Clifton Ellis is assistant professor in architectural history at Texas Tech University. Rebecca Ginsburg is assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana– Champaign.

May 264 pp. 228x152mm. 49 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12042-4 £30.00*

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French Opera A Short History Vincent Giroud French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, would mention only a handful—Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila—a small list for an operatic tradition that began in the seventeenth century and is still very much alive. This book provides a full, single-volume account of opera in France from its origins to the present day. Vincent Giroud looks at the leading composers, from Lully to Messiaen and beyond; at the development of French operatic form and style; at performance, performers and audience; and at the impact of French opera beyond France’s borders. Lovers of opera will find this an ideal companion to their appreciation of the form. “Eminently readable . . . readers will delight in new or forgotten names and will eagerly seek out renewed performances, for Giroud shows a rare ability to conjure up the particular musical qualities and eccentricities of composers over a wide range of talent”—Margaret M. McGowan FBA, University of Sussex Vincent Giroud was formerly Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. He is currently a professor at the University of Franche-Comté. His recent publications include William Walton, Composer; St Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City; The World of Witold Gombrowicz; and Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

May 352 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11765-3 £25.00*

No Such Thing as Silence John Cage’s 4'33" Kyle Gann First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage’s 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the act of listening and the nature of performance, Cage’s controversial piece became the iconic statement of the meaning of silence in art and is a landmark work of American music. In this book, Kyle Gann, a leading music critic, explains 4'33" as a unique moment in American culture and musical composition. Finding resemblances and resonances of 4'33" in artworks as wideranging as the paintings of the Hudson River School and the music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, he provides much-needed cultural context for this fundamentally challenging and often misunderstood piece. Gann also explores Cage’s craft, describing in illuminating detail the musical, philosophical and even environmental influences that informed this groundbreaking piece of music. Having performed 4'33" himself and as a composer in his own right, Gann offers the reader both an expert’s analysis and a highly personal interpretation of Cage’s most divisive work. “With composerly imagination and scholarly intelligence, Kyle Gann proves that 4'33" was not an offhand provocation, but Cage’s most important piece and the key that unlocks the composer’s entire output.”—Robert Carl, author of Terry Riley’s In C “Music is sound without meaning and Cage’s 4'33" is no sound without meaning. Gann’s imaginative and thorough scholarship offers us insightful ways to understand Cage’s magnificent meaninglessness.”—Larry Polansky, Dartmouth University Kyle Gann is Associate Professor of Music at Bard College, a composer and former new-music critic for the Village Voice.

Icons of America April 272 pp. 210x140mm. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13699-9 £16.99*

Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues Contexts, Style, Performance Mark Mazullo Likely to become an essential source for pianists wishing to play Shostakovich’s work as well as for listeners, this the first book-length study in English of Shostakovich’s largest work for piano, the Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87. Mark Mazullo describes the cultural contexts in which Shostakovich composed, relates the cycle to numerous piano works (by Bach, Hindemith and others), and offers individual commentaries on each of the Preludes and Fugues. A final chapter critically examines the cycle’s performance history. Mark Mazullo is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Macalester College.

July 256 pp. 234x156mm. 94 musical examples + 2 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14943-2 £40.00

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62 Literature

Oblomov

Grand Strategies

Ivan Goncharov Translated by Marian Schwartz

Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia’s serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination, Oblomov clearly predates the ideal of the industrious modern man, yet he is impossible not to admire through Goncharov’s masterful prose. Translator Marian Schwartz breathes new life into this Russian masterpiece in this, the first translation from the generally recognised definitive edition of the original, as well as the first to attempt to replicate in English Goncharov’s wry humour and all-embracing humanity. This edition of Oblomov will introduce new readers to the novel that Leo Tolstoy praised as “a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time”. Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) was born in Simbirsk, Russia, and is the author of three novels. Marian Schwartz is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova.

April 576 pp. 228x152mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16228-8 £11.99*

Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative Noël Valis In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative. Thoroughly researched, multidimensional and spanning three centuries of Spanish literature, Sacred Realism is certain to become a classic in its field. Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Valis is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She is the author of the award-winning book The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain and editor of Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War.

May 368 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15234-0 £45.00

“The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm”, writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. “It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out”. A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator, Hill aims to revive the ancient tradition of statecraft as practiced by humane and broadly educated men and women. Through lucid and compelling discussions of classic literary works from Homer to Rushdie, Grand Strategies represents a merger of literature and international relations, inspired by the conviction that “a grand strategist . . . needs to be immersed in classic texts from Sun Tzu to Thucydides to George Kennan, to gain real-world experience through internships in the realms of statecraft, and to bring this learning and experience to bear on contemporary issues”. Charles Hill, a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as BradyJohnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale University.

June 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-16386-5 £18.99*

Translation rights: Seven Stories Press, New York

Sacred Realism

Charles Hill

Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, NY

Modernism in the Magazines An Introduction Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman If modernism began in the magazines, as Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman argue, then the study of modern culture should begin with these publications. This radically inclusive approach not only considers the ‘little’ modernist magazines alongside the ‘big’ or mass magazines often dismissed as antithetical to modernism’s elite culture, but also insists that scholars must investigate their contents as a whole—from poetry to advertising—to appreciate their full significance. The book’s appendix reprints a previously uncollected critique of popular British magazines from 1917 and 1918 by Ezra Pound. Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. He is the author of numerous books. Clifford Wulfman is Coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives at Princeton University and technical director of the Modernist Journals Project.

July 320 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w + 18 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14204-4 £25.00*

Juvenilia Ken Chen Foreword by Louise Glück Ken Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet’s relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love affairs that evaporate before they start. Hungrily eclectic, the wry and emotionally piercing poems in this collection steal the forms of the shooting script, blues song, novel, memoir, essay, logical disputation, aphorism—even classical Chinese poetry in translation. But as contest judge Louise Glück notes in her foreword, “The miracle of this book is the degree to which Ken Chen manages to be both exhilaratingly modern while at the same time never losing his attachment to voice, and the implicit claims of voice: these are poems of intense feeling”. Ken Chen is the executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Yale Series of Younger Poets May 96 pp. 234x152mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16008-6 £12.00* Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-16007-9 £20.00

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Ralph Ellison in Progress From Invisible Man to Three Days Before the Shooting . . . Adam Bradley Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s Invisible Man. He enjoyed a highly successful career in American letters, publishing two collections of essays, teaching at several colleges and universities, and writing dozens of pieces for newspapers and magazines, yet Ellison never published the second novel he had been composing for more than forty years. A 1967 fire that destroyed some of his work accounts for only a small part of the novel’s fate; the rest is revealed in the thousands of pages he left behind after his death in 1994, many of them collected for the first time in the recently published Three Days Before the Shooting . . . . Ralph Ellison in Progress is the first book to survey the expansive geography of Ellison’s unfinished novel while re-imaging the more familiar, but often misunderstood, territory of Invisible Man. It works from the premise that understanding Ellison’s process of composition imparts important truths not only about the author himself but about race, writing and American identity. Drawing on thousands of pages of Ellison’s journals, typescripts, computer drafts and handwritten notes, many never before studied, Adam Bradley argues for a shift in scholarly emphasis that moves a greater share of the weight of Ellison’s literary legacy to the last forty years of his life and to the novel he left forever in progress. Adam Bradley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the coeditor of Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . and the author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop.

June 256 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14713-1 £18.00*

Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories The Fully Restored Text Tadeusz Borowski • Translated by Madeline G. Levine Tadeusz Borowski was a talented young poet when he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He emerged at the end of the Second World War to become one of the most influential writer-witnesses to the Nazi concentration camp system. This book offers the first authoritative translation of Borowski’s prose fiction, including numerous stories that have never appeared in English before. These are the chilling writings of a man who has experienced horrifying brutality and sees no possibility for human redemption. “Tadeusz Borowski joins the company of such artists as Elie Wiesel and André Schwarz-Bart. Like them, he paints a picture of the horror and madness that ruled the concentration camps, so brilliantly that the immediacy of the experience is almost too much to bear.”—New York Times Book Review Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), a Polish poet, short story writer and journalist, was arrested as a political prisoner and deported to German concentration camps. He survived, but a few years later committed suicide at the age of 29. Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters May 352 pp. 197x127mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11690-8 £16.99*

Treason Poems by Hédi Kaddour Translated by Marilyn Hacker Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention or human cruelty, of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hédi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker’s, a watcher’s and a listener’s poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theatre piece. Favouring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour’s full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum and tone, Marilyn Hacker’s translations brilliantly bring these poems alive. Marilyn Hacker is an award-winning poet, translator and critic. Her translations of Kaddour’s poetry have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Poetry. Hédi Kaddour is the author of five books of poems, two novels and a book of nonfiction.

May 192 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14958-6 £16.99*

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64 Economics

Sixty to Zero An Intimate, Inside Look at the People and Cars that Led to GM’s Collapse Alex Taylor III Foreword by Mike Jackson The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor III writes in this indepth dissection of the automaker’s undoing, GM’s was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and insight as an automotive industry reporter, as well as personal relationships with many of the leading players, Taylor reveals the many missteps of GM and its competitors: a refusal to follow market cues and consumer trends; a lack of followthrough on major initiatives; and a history of hesitance, inaction and failure to learn from mistakes. In the process, he provides lasting lessons for every executive who confronts the challenges of a changing marketplace and global competition. Yet Taylor resists condemning GM’s leadership from the privileged view of hindsight. Instead, his account enables the reader to see GM’s decline through the eyes of an insider, with the understanding that corporate decision-making at a company as large as General Motors isn’t as simple as it may seem. Taylor’s book serves as a marvellous case study of one of the United States’ premier companies, of which every American quite literally now holds a share. Alex Taylor III is a Senior Editor at Fortune magazine. Mike Jackson is the chairman and chief executive officer of AutoNation.

June 192 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15868-7 £17.99*

Trading Factories for Finance The Economics and Politics of the 1970s Judith Stein In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory—the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality. When high oil prices and economic competition from Japan and Germany battered the American economy, new policies—both international and domestic—became necessary. But war was waged against inflation, rather than against unemployment, and the government promoted a balanced budget instead of growth. This, says Stein, marked the beginning of the age of finance and subsequent deregulation, free trade, low taxation, and weak unions that has fostered inequality and now the worst recession in sixty years. Drawing on archival research and covering the economic, intellectual, political and labour history of the decade, Stein provides a wealth of information on the 1970s. She also shows that to restore prosperity today, America needs a new model: more factories and fewer financial houses. Judith Stein is professor of history at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The World of Marcus Garvey and Running Steel, Running America.

June 352 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11818-6 £25.00 Translation rights: Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency

The Meaning of Property

Women, Work, and Politics

Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth

Jedediah Purdy In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light. Unlike Milton Friedman and other free-market scholars, who consider property a key to efficient markets, Purdy draws upon Smith’s theories to argue that the virtues of wealth are social rather than economic. In Purdy’s view, ownership does much more than shield one from government interference. Property shapes social life in ways that bring us closer to, or take us farther from, the ideal of a community of free and equal members.

The Political Economy of Gender Inequality Looking at women’s power in the home, in the workplace and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women’s labour outside the home, which is a function of structural, political and institutional conditions. They go on to explain several anomalies of modern gender politics: why women vote differently from men; why women are better represented in the work force in the United States than in other countries but less well represented in politics; why men share more of the household work in some countries than in others; and why some countries have such low fertility rates. The first book to integrate the micro-level of families with the macro-level of national institutions, Women, Work, and Politics presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality.

Jedediah Purdy is professor of law at Duke Law School and has taught law at Yale and Harvard.

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Frances Rosenbluth is Damon Wells Professor of Political Science and Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Yale University.

April 240 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11545-1 £18.00*

July 224 pp. 210x140mm. 26 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15310-1 £27.50

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Toxic Bodies

Darwin’s Pictures

Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837–1874

Nancy Langston

Julia Voss Translated by Lori Lantz

In 1941 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways. In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to regulate them and has skilfully manipulated scientific uncertainty to delay regulation.

In this first-ever examination of Charles Darwin’s sketches, drawings and illustrations, Julia Voss presents the history of evolutionary theory told in pictures. Darwin had a lifelong interest in pictorial representations of nature, sketching out his evolutionary theory and related ideas for over forty years. Voss details the pictorial history of Darwin’s theory of evolution, starting with his notebook sketches of 1837 and ending with the illustrations in The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). These images were profoundly significant for Darwin’s long-term argument for evolutionary theory; each characterises a different aspect of his relationship with the visual information and constitutes what can be called an ‘icon’ of evolution. Voss shows how Darwin ‘thought with his eyes’ and how his pictorial representations and the development and popularisation of the theory of evolution were vitally interconnected.

Nancy Langston is a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology with a joint appointment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Julia Voss, a scholar in history of science, art history and picture theory, is Executive Editor of the visual arts section of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Lori Lantz is the translator of Bears: A Brief History.

April 256 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13607-4 £22.50*

June 352 pp. 210x140mm. 63 b/w + 16 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14174-0 £25.00* Translation rights: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt

An Entirely ‘Synthetic’ Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World Anders Halverson • Foreword by Patricia Nelson Limerick An account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the U.S. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially propagated and distributed for more than 130 years by government officials eager to present Americans with an opportunity to get back to nature by going fishing. Dubbed ‘an entirely synthetic fish’ by fisheries managers, the rainbow trout has been introduced into every state and province in the U.S. and Canada and to every continent except Antarctica, often with devastating effects on the native fauna. Anders Halverson is a research associate at the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West.

April 288 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14087-3 £20.00 Translation rights: Jean V Naggar Literary Agency, New York

From Land to Mouth

Credit Between Cultures

The Agricultural ‘Economy’ of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

Paul Sillitoe After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence/exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship. “In chapter after chapter, we see an engagement with profound issues debated in the past by giants in social anthropology. This work will take its place as one of the important anthropology books.”—Tim BaylissSmith, University of Cambridge Paul Sillitoe is professor in the anthropology department of Durham University, and Shell Chair of Sustainable Development at Qatar University.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series July 512 pp. 234x156mm. 172 b/w illus. Includes DVD ISBN 978-0-300-14226-6 £45.00

Parker Shipton Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural, economic, political and religious-philosophical —and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people. “An eminently readable analysis of ‘trust’ in human society, this ethnographically rich study of the Luo of Kenya shows how lending, borrowing and indebtedness are moral before they are economic.”— David Parkin, University of Oxford Parker Shipton is associate professor of anthropology and research fellow in African studies at Boston University.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series July 352 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11603-8 £35.00

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66 Archaeology/Anthropology

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua‘i A Scientist’s Adventures in the Dark David A. Burney For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua‘i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its history. From the unique perspective of paleoecology—the study of ancient environments—Burney has focused his investigations on the dramatic ecological changes that began after the arrival of humans one thousand years ago, detailing not only the environmental degradation they introduced but also asking how and why this destruction occurred and, most significantly, what might happen in the future. Using Kaua‘i as an ecological prototype and drawing on the author’s adventures in Madagascar, Mauritius and other exciting locales, Burney examines highly pertinent theories about current threats to endangered species, restoration of ecosystems and how people can work together to repair environmental damage elsewhere on the planet. Intriguing illustrations, including a reconstruction of the ancient ecological landscape of Kaua‘i by the artist Julian Hume, offer an engaging window into the ecological marvels of another time. A fascinating adventure story of one man’s life in paleoecology, Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua‘i reveals the excitement—and occasional frustrations—of a career spent exploring what the past can tell us about the future. David Burney is the director of conservation at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii.

June 288 pp. 234x156mm. 38 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15094-0 £20.00*

Yale University Publications in Anthropology with The Yale Peabody Museum

The Age of Reptiles The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger’s Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale • Second Edition Compiled and Edited by Rosemary Volpe Rudolf Zallinger’s 110-foot fresca secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. This is the second edition of the Peabody’s guide to Zallinger’s masterwork. Rosemary Volpe is Publications Editor at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

March 84 pp. 304x156mm. 90 colour illus. + 12 pullouts Paper ISBN 978-0-912532-76-9 £14.99*

The Forest Primeval The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests Leo J. Hickey This story describes what wood is, explores how it is put together and tells its story from origin, giving new insights into this familiar material. Leo J. Hickey is a Professor of Geology & Geophysics and Biology at Yale University.

March 62 pp. 210x140mm. 22 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-912532-64-6 £7.99 ADDITIONAL NEW TITLES:

The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu Human and Animal Remains Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 85

Edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar March 198 pp. 248x172mm. 60 b/w illus. + 12 charts Paper ISBN 978-0-913516-21-8 £15.00

Defying the Odds

The Quinnipiac

The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries

Cultural Conflict in Southern New England

Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg

March 264 pp. 248x172mm. 24 b/w illus. + 10 charts Paper ISBN 978-0-913516-22-5 £18.99

An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current Indian gaming era.

John Menta

The Prehistory of Nevis, a Small Island in the Lesser Antilles Samuel M. Wilson

Gelya Frank is Professor of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the Tule River Tribal History Project. Carole Goldberg is the Jonathan D. Varat Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies.

Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 87

The Lamar Series in Western History

Sabine Hyland

April 416 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. + 15 maps ISBN 978-0-300-12016-5 £45.00

March 182 pp. 248x172mm. 40 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-913516-24-9 £18.99

February 248 pp. 63 figures + 42 tables Paper ISBN 978-0-913516-23-2 £30.00

The Quito Manuscript An Inca History Preserved by Fernando de Montesinos Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 88

Translation rights for the above: Peabody Museum, New Haven

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Blake and the Bible Christopher Rowland All those beguiled by the work of William Blake recognise the importance of the Bible for his poetic genius, whether as an object of criticism, or an inspiration. This book, the first substantial study for sixty years, attempts to locate Blake within the broad spectrum of Christian biblical interpretation, orthodox, heterodox and radical. It explores the particular ways in which Blake engaged with the Bible and the distinctive interpretations that emerged, not least through the medium of images. Rowland considers Blake’s series of engravings on the Book of Job, and his only commentary on a biblical book, to illuminate the distinctive features of the poet’s exegesis. These include the priority given to the Spirit over the Letter; the critique of a theology which places supreme value on what is found in a book rather than attending to what Blake calls ‘the Word of God Universal’; the advocacy of a religion of divine immediacy rather than transcendence; and experience of suffering as the motor of theological and ethical change. This powerful and richly-illustrated work brings forty years of study to bear on one of the great interpreters of the Bible. Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford, and a specialist in the interpretation of the books of Ezekiel and Revelation.

June 320 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11260-3 £30.00

The Christian Imagination Theology and the Origins of Race Willie James Jennings Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighbourly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity’s highly refined process of socialisation has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation—social, spatial and racial—that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities and the landscapes we inhabit. Willie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology, Black Church and Cultural Studies at Duke Divinity School, where he previously served as academic dean.

June 384 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15211-1 £25.00

Sex and Religion in the Bible Calum Carmichael If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this original and incisive reading of some of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament’s most famous narratives. Sifting through the imaginative layers of these texts with an uncanny sensitivity and a panoptic critical eye, he unearths patterns connecting disparate passages, providing fascinating insights into how ideas were expressed, received and transformed in the ancient Near East. Rather than attempting a historical reconstruction, Carmichael brilliantly reveals the profound creativity of the biblical authors. Ranging from Jacob’s encounter with Leah to the marriage at Cana to Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well, these readings demonstrate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of the biblical views on marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation and love. In doing so, they also make a compelling case for the integral link between sexual morality and Israelite identity. Calum Carmichael is a professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University.

March 224 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15377-4 £35.00*

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68 Religion/Philosophy

Leviathan

Redeemed by Fire

Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

Thomas Hobbes Edited and with an introduction by Ian Shapiro Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, Leviathan is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes’s central argument—that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own fears and desires, and that they must relinquish basic freedoms in order to maintain a peaceful society—has found new adherents and critics in every generation. This new edition, which uses modern text and relies on large-sheet copies from the 1651 Head version, includes interpretive essays by four leading Hobbes scholars: John Dunn, David Dyzenhaus, Elisabeth Ellis and Bryan Garsten. Taken together with Ian Shapiro’s wide-ranging introduction, they provide fresh and varied interpretations of Leviathan for our time. Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. His many books include Democratic Justice and The Moral Foundations of Politics, both published by Yale.

Rethinking the Western Tradition

Lian Xi This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material and interviews—Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered ‘missionary’ church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energised by nationalism and millenarianism. Lian shows that, with a current membership that rivals that of the Chinese Communist Party, and the ability to galvanise China’s millions into apocalyptic convulsion and messianic exuberance, the popular Christian movement channels the aspirations and the discontent of the masses and will play an important role in shaping the country’s future. “a fascinating and impressively wide-ranging account of China’s modern Christian experience, which is all the more valuable for the author’s shrewd observations about the religion’s future impact in the emerging superpower.” —Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity Lian Xi is professor of history at Hanover College and author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932.

March 352 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12339-5 £30.00*

June 576 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11838-4 £10.00*

Rights sold: Chinese

The Most Musical Nation

Radical Judaism

Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

Rethinking God and Tradition

James Loeffler

Arthur Green

No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia’s new classical conservatories. At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? Drawing on previously unavailable archives, this book offers an insightful new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity.

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, eminent Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred. In doing so, he rethinks such concepts as God, the origins and meaning of existence, human nature and revelation to construct a new Judaism for the twenty-first century.

James Loeffler is Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Corcoran Department of History, at the University of Virginia.

July 256 pp. 234x156mm. 25 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13713-2 £35.00*

Rabbi Arthur Green is professor and rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton, MA.

April 224 pp. 210x140mm. Paper 978-0-300-15232-6 £16.50 Hebrew rights held by author

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy Robert B. Pippin In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers. Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.

Castle Lectures Series June 208 pp. 210x140mm. 52 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14577-9 £25.00*

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U.S. Studies 69

Acting White

Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes

The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

Can the United States Compete in Global Telecommunications?

Stuart Buck Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of ‘acting white’. How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system of education?

Rob Frieden

Drawing on research in education, history and sociology as well as articles, interviews and personal testimony, Buck reveals the unexpected result of desegregation and suggests practical solutions for making racial identification a positive force in the classroom.

In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the myriad ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications. Despite the appearance of robust competition and entrepreneurism in U.S. telecom markets, there is very little of either. Because of an inattentive Congress and a misguided FCC unwilling to confront real problems, industry incumbents have been able to earn healthy profits while keeping the United States in the backwaters of Internet-based information, communication and entertainment markets. At every turn, regulators have tipped the scales in favour of large established companies, creating an environment that stifles innovation. As a consequence, Americans are stuck with relatively slow connectivity and with equipment that lacks features that have been staples in other countries for years. In telecommunications, the United States is a little like a third world country that is developing under crushing bureaucracies without recognising that the rest of the world has passed it by. Frieden not only shows how failure can intrude on the ability of the United States to compete but suggests how to restore its competitiveness.

An honours graduate of Harvard Law School, Stuart Buck is a Ph.D. student in education policy at the University of Arkansas.

Rob Frieden is Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications and Law at Penn State University.

June 256 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12391-3 £18.00*

June 416 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15213-5 £25.00*

The answer, writes Stuart Buck in this frank and thoroughly researched book, lies in the complex history of desegregation. Although it arose from noble impulses and was to the overall benefit of the nation, racial desegegration was often implemented in a way that was devastating to black communities. It frequently destroyed black schools, reduced the numbers of black principals who could serve as role models, and made school a strange and uncomfortable environment for black children, a place many viewed as quintessentially ‘white’.

The Strategic Speaker The Goal-Driven Leadership of Speakers of the House Matthew N. Green Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership in the U.S. from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker’s party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection to the legislature, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president and meeting the demands of the House as a whole. Matthew Green is Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America.

June 304 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. Paper 978-0-300-15318-7 £20.00

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861–1865 Mark W. Geiger This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for the state’s anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilisation in the antebellum United States. Mark Geiger is a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Yale Series in Economic History August 288 pp. 234x156mm. 35 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15151-0 £35.00

The Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy Alan I. Abramowitz In this timely book, esteemed political scientist Alan I. Abramowitz offers a groundbreaking argument for viewing the real divide in American politics as not between the left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those who are not. It is the engaged members of the public, he argues, who most closely reflect the ideals of democratic citizenship—but this is also the group that is most polarised. Alan I. Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University.

May 224 pp. 234x156mm. 41 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14162-7 £27.50

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Why the Constitution Matters

Regulating from Nowhere

Mark Tushnet

Douglas A. Kysar

Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures the U.S. government but because it structures politics. He maintains that politicians and political parties—not Supreme Court decisions—are the true engines of constitutional change in the American system. This message will empower citizens who use direct political action to define and protect their rights and liberties as Americans.

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers a novel defense of the precautionary principle and concludes by advocating a movement towards environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury we can afford.

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard University.

Law’s Environment

Why X Matters June 224 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15036-0 £17.99*

American Constitutionalism and the Republic of Statutes William Eskridge and John Ferejohn Eskridge and Ferejohn propose an original theory of constitutional law whereby, while the American Constitution provides a vision, its democracy advances by means of statutes that supplement or even supplant the written Constitution. William N. Eskridge Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. John Ferejohn is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

July 544 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12088-2 £45.00

Breaking the Logjam Environmental Protection That Will Work David Schoenbrod, Richard B. Stewart and Katrina M. Wyman Illustrations by Deborah Paulus-Jagriˇc After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. David Schoenbrod, Richard B. Stewart and Katrina M. Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field of environmental law, identify the core problems with existing environmental statutes and programmes and explain how Congress can fix them. David Schoenbrod is professor of law at New York Law School. Richard B. Stewart is professor of law, Director of the Hauser Global Law School Program, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, New York University School of Law. Katrina M. Wyman is professor of law at New York University School of Law.

May 224 pp. 210x140mm. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14960-9 £25.00*

Douglas Kysar is Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

July 288 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12001-1 £30.00

How the Law Shapes the Places We Live John Copeland Nagle This insightful book shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape. John Copeland Nagle is the John N. Matthews Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

June 304 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12629-7 £25.00

Immortality and the Law The Rising Power of the American Dead Ray D. Madoff This book takes a look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. When it comes to property interests, the American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence, extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real costs imposed on the living. Ray Madoff is a professor at Boston College Law School.

June 208 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12184-1 £18.00

Restoring the Power of Unions It Takes a Movement Julius G. Getman Julius G. Getman, a preeminent labour scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labour movement is possible. He proposes new models for organising and innovating techniques to strengthen the strike weapon. Above all, he insists that unions must return to their historical roots as a social movement. Julius G. Getman is the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin Law School.

August 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13700-2 £35.00

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King Hussein of Jordan

Earthrise

A Political Life

How Man First Saw the Earth

Nigel Ashton

Robert Poole

Ashton has had unique access to King Hussein’s private papers, including his secret correspondence with U.S., British and Israeli leaders, and he has also conducted numerous interviews with members of Hussein’s circle and immediate family. This fascinating and immensely readable biography brings depth to our understanding of the popular and canny king while also providing new information about the wars of 1967 and 1973, President Reagan’s role in the Iran-Contra affair, the evolution of the Middle East peace process and much more.

Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo ‘Earthrise’ and ‘Blue Marble’ photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its environment in a way that echoed throughout religion, culture and science. Gazing upon our whole planet for the first time, we saw ourselves and our place in the universe with new clarity.

“Excellent . . . Ashton is very interesting on Hussein’s relations with Iraq and the wider Arab world.” —Patrick Cockburn, New York Times Book Review

“Robert Poole traces the significance of man’s first sighting of his home . . . His examination of that historic image is almost as inspirational as the photographs themselves.” —Claire Allfree, The Metro

“an indispensable resource for all students of the period for many years to come . . . a rounded portrait of a remarkable man.”—Michael Burton, Asian Affairs Nigel Ashton is professor, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War.

March 464 pp. 234x156mm. 36 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16395-7 £14.99*

“[An] absorbing little book. It was ripe for the writing . . . a very readable and stimulating foray into an important facet of twentieth-century history.”—Jon Turney, Times Higher Education Robert Poole is reader in history, University of Cumbria. He has written and broadcast extensively on history and has published in journals from History Today to Past and Present.

April 236 pp. 210x140mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16403-9 £9.99*

Pilgrims

Philip II of Macedonia

New World Settlers and the Call of Home Susan Hardman Moore This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1640–1660. More than a third of the ministers who had stirred up emigration from England deserted their flocks to return home. The colonists’ stories challenge our perceptions of early settlement and the religious ideal of New England as a ‘City on a Hill’. America was a stage in their journey, not an end in itself. “one of the best short accounts of the motives behind this much analysed migration published in recent years.” —Peter Thompson, BBC History Magazine “a rich and fascinating book of great importance for the history of seventeenth-century England, as well as for colonial America.”—Malcolm Gaskill, The Sunday Telegraph

Ian Worthington Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and conquered and annexed Greece? This landmark biography is the first to bring Philip to life, exploring the details of his life and legacy. “Worthington skilfully uses information from the rich documentation of Alexander the Great’s early life to speculate about and suggest that of his father, and does so with a great deal of style.”—Lorna Gibb, The Daily Telegraph “a clear, detailed and balanced account that judiciously separates the threads of often complex political and military situations.”—Peter Jones, Literary Review Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History, University of Missouri–Columbia.

Susan Hardman Moore is lecturer in divinity, University of Edinburgh.

March 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16476-3 £14.99*

May 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16405-3 £14.99*

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Fallen Giants

Frankly, My Dear

A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

Gone with the Wind Revisited Molly Haskell How and why has the saga of Scarlett O’Hara kept such a hold on our imagination? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchell’s beloved novel and David Selznick’s spectacular film version of Gone with the Wind, film critic Molly Haskell seeks the answers.

Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. “the book of a lifetime . . . an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling.”—Bruce Barcott, New York Times Book Review “[A] magnificent history . . . It is one of the many achievements of this fine book that it combines historical sweep and accuracy with a moral argument.” —Robert Macfarlane, The Sunday Times Maurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History, Hamilton College. Stewart Weaver is professor of history, University of Rochester, NY.

March 592 pp. 254x178mm. 65 photos + 15 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16420-6 £14.99*

“affectionate scholarship . . . [Haskell] disentangles the film’s qualities from the confounding issues of misogyny, racism and intellectual snobbery . . . Haskell’s critical sensitivity rescues Scarlett’s Americanism and femininity, indicating how her image rebounds upon our eternal political struggles and deepest fantasies”—Armond White, New York Times Book Review “The era of Scarlett O’Hara is long Gone with the Wind but her story still fires our imagination. Molly Haskell explains why it mattered and, Frankly My Dear, why it continues to.” —Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair Molly Haskell is a writer and film critic, and author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies.

Icons of America March 272 pp. 210x140mm. 15 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16437-4 £10.99* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Agency, NY

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century Adina Hoffman Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. “this painstakingly researched work is a human-scale picture of the generally under-reported history of the Palestinians in Israel as well as an accessible introduction to their poetry . . . Ms Hoffman’s book is unpretentious, principled and utterly charming.”—The Economist “Hoffman’s intense but often humorous book is a powerful reminder of the singularity and complexity of this most intractable of conflicts and of the ability of the human spirit to be creative in adversity.”—The Guardian Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood

April 464 pp. 234x156mm. 65 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16427-5 £14.99* Translation rights: Altshuler Literary Agency, NY

Gypsy The Art of the Tease Rachel Shteir A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first— and the only—stripper to become a household name. Rachel Shteir gives us Gypsy’s story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her history in divergent ways and a television biopic currently in the making. With verve, audacity and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee moved striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway, Hollywood and Main Street. Gypsy tells how she did it, and why. “a remarkable book which sets a remarkable woman firmly in her time.”—Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post Rachel Shteir is associate professor, The Theatre School, DePaul University, and author of Striptease: The Untold Story of the Girlie Show.

Icons of America March 240 pp. 210x140mm. 9 b/w illus. Paper 978-0-300-16448-0 £10.99*

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Hakluyt’s Promise An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America Peter C. Mancall Richard Hakluyt advocated the creation of colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book shows his role in the establishment of English America as well as his interests in opportunities in the East Indies. The volume presents nearly 50 illustrations and a fresh view of Hakluyt’s milieu and the concerns of the Elizabethan age. “Beautifully written and illustrated . . . Mancall’s pacy narrative traces Hakluyt’s career from Oxford academic to the man who inspired Elizabethan policy makers to take up the queen’s rights in North America.”—BBC History Magazine “Hakluyt’s texts are full of his quirky writing saturated by his jingoism and typical Tudor prejudice, informed by a truly exceptional imagination that, in some way grasped the global future without travelling beyond Paris . . . an innovative, rewarding book.”— Jonathan Wright, History Today Peter C. Mancall is professor of history, University of Southern California, and director, USC–Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

March 400 pp. 234x156mm. 44 b/w illus. + 1 map Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16422-0 £18.99*

Growing Up in England The Experience of Childhood 1600–1914 Anthony Fletcher This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914. “a gloriously detailed picture of three centuries of childhood . . . vastly entertaining . . . an extraordinary achievement.” —Judith Flanders, The Sunday Times “Growing Up in England is a model academic survey; scrupulous, exhaustive, fearsomely footnoted and based on a wide range of often unpublished personal documents.” —Hilary Spurling, The Observer “an absolutely fascinating story”—A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail Anthony Fletcher has been professor of history at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham and Essex, and director of the Victoria County History Project at London University. His previous books include Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500–1800.

March 456 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16396-4 £14.99*

The Philosophers’ Quarrel

The Second Crusade

Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding

Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. In this lively and revealing book, Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott explore the unfolding rift between Rousseau and Hume. The authors are particularly fascinated by the connection between the thinkers’ lives and thought, especially the way that the failure of each to understand the other—and himself—illuminates the limits of human understanding. “one can confidently recommend this book as a user friendly entrée into the world of eighteenth-century intellectual life.” —Noel Malcolm, Standpoint Robert Zaretsky is professor of French, Honors College, University of Houston. John T. Scott is professor of political science, University of California, Davis.

March 264 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16428-2 £12.99*

Jonathan Phillips The Second Crusade (1145–1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. This book fills a major gap in our understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history. “absorbing . . . will be required reading for . . . the breadth and depth of its analysis”—Helen Castor, The Guardian “This account . . . will be valued by specialists because of its scholarly approach and by undergraduates and general readers because it is written in a clear and accessible style . . . [A] brilliant analysis of the European situation in 1145 . . . Excellent.”—John France, The International History Review Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History, Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include The Crusades, 1095–1197 and The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.

March 336 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16475-6 £16.99*

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Vampires, Burial, and Death

The Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939 Updated and Abridged Edition

Folklore and Reality With a new introduction Paul Barber In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires—from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorised everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires—and offers the first scientific explanation for the origin of the vampire legends. His book will be fascinating reading for scientists, historians and anthropologists as well as for anyone interested in folklore. “A fascinating and pain-staking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science.”—Huw Knight, New Scientist “Barber’s inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking . . . [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology.”—Roy Porter, Nature Paul Barber is a research associate at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA.

May 244 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16481-7 £14.99* Rights sold: Japanese

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History Susan Jacoby In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post–Cold War era. With a brisk, engaging style, Jacoby positions the case in the politics of the post–World War II era and then explores the ways in which generations of liberals and conservatives have put Chambers and Hiss to their own ideological uses. “[The] book is most memorable for the passion with which Jacoby trumpets certain sensible but often overlooked truths.”—David Greenberg, The Washington Post Susan Jacoby is an independent scholar and best-selling author.

Icons of America April 272 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16441-1 £14.99* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Agency, NY

J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov Translations by Benjamin Sher This gripping book assembles and translates into English top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin’s purges. The nearly 200 documents—dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts and more—expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process. “illuminating . . . should lift the level both of information and of discussion on the unprecedented and macabre events it describes.”—Geoffrey A. Hosking, The Times Literary Supplement “As an accumulation of fresh material on Stalinism, [it] has few equals.”—Robert Service, Evening Standard J. Arch Getty is professor of modern Russian history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Oleg V. Naumov is director of the Moscow archive RGASPI.

Annals of Communism Series March 320 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-10407-3 £15.99* Rights sold: Japanese, Spanish

Picturing Russia Explorations in Visual Culture Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art and more. “all the contributors write with intelligence and enthusiasm” —Robin Milner-Gulland, The Times Literary Supplement Valerie A. Kivelson is professor, Department of History, University of Michigan. Joan Neuberger is professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.

April 336 pp. 254x178mm. 116 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16421-3 £18.99*

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Robert Schumann

Sibelius

Life and Death of a Musician

Andrew Barnett

John Worthen This candid, intimate and compellingly written biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann’s life and effectively de-mystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. It frees Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified psychological speculation. It reveals him, for the first time, as a brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his generation. “this is an impressive and elegantly-written biography.” —Misha Donat, BBC Music Magazine “engaging, well written and clearly aimed at the general reader . . . for those wanting to read an affectionate life of one of the greatest and most loveable figures of the early ninteenth century, this book can be recommended.” —Steven Isserlis, The Guardian John Worthen was Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham. His books include The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 and D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider.

April 496 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16398-8 £14.99* Translation rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, London

Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography provides the fullest account of the significant achievement of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Drawing on Sibelius’s correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of family and friends, the book presents a rich account of the events of the musician’s life. In addition, this volume is the first to set every work and performable fragment by Sibelius in its historical and musical context. Filling a significant gap, the biography provides the first accurate information about much of the composer’s early music. “if an introduction to the composer’s work is what you seek, then Andrew Barnett’s book will provide as comprehensive a guide as you could hope for.”—Simon Heffer, Literary Review “provides a thankfully balanced picture of a deeply contrasted man, a sensitive artist severely strained by the demands and difficulties of a composer’s life in barely independent Finland and its developing music world, and by his own increasing self-criticism.”—Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine Andrew Barnett is founder and chairman of the UK Sibelius Society.

February 464 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16397-1 £14.99*

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master

Ballet’s Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925

The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin

Akim Volynsky Translated, edited and with introduction/notes by Stanley. J. Rabinowitz

Ruth Butler Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin. The names of these nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. “My own surmise is that Ruth Butler’s account, which has the grit of realism, contains as much as we will ever know.” —Frances Spalding, Literary Review “Butler’s quiet sympathy is irreproachable, her anecdotes are touching, her sense of period is impeccable.” —Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times Ruth Butler is professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the author of the award-winning book Rodin: The Shape of Genius, published by Yale.

June 376 pp. 234x156mm. 59 b/w + 1 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16450-3 £15.99*

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist and art historian who became Saint Petersburg’s liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. “This is a fantastic book . . . [It] is a must for anyone claiming a love of ballet . . . [Volynsky’s text] is always hugely entertaining and surprising, you will never look at a toeshoe, a tiara or a tendu . . . the same way again.” —Toni Bentley, New York Times Book Review Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Henry Steele Commager Professor and professor of Russian, Amherst College, and director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.

June 352 pp. 234x156mm. 24 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16449-7 £14.99* Rights held by Stanley Rabinowitz

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Dolphin Mysteries

The City’s End

Unlocking the Secrets of Communication

Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction

Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff Foreword by Marc Bekoff In this enthralling book, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins’ aquatic world to witness firsthand how they live their lives, communicate, and interact with one another and with other species, including people. “Of all the books I’ve read on this subject, this one has the most to offer in terms of understanding how dolphins behave and interact . . . and it describes their remarkable cognitive powers in layman’s terms.”—Peter Evans, BBC Wildlife Magazine Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D., is director of the Dolphin Communication Project and adjunct faculty at University of Southern Mississippi, Alaska Pacific University, and University of Rhode Island. Toni Frohoff , Ph.D., is Executive Director of TerraMar Research and faculty affiliate of the Trans-Species Institute of Learning.

April 320 pp. 234x178mm. 50 b/w + 8 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12114-8 £14.99*

The Art of Natural History Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400–1850 Edited by Therese O’Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers ‘Making knowledge visible’ is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of illustrators of botanical treatises. His words reflected the role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature had been assuming new authority. Exploring the relationship between image and text, this collection considers how both aided the transmission of scientific knowledge. Therese O’Malley is associate dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Amy R.W. Meyers is director of the Yale Center for British Art.

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 March 280 pp. 279x228mm. 164 b/w + 63 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16024-6 £30.00* Translation rights: National Gallery, Washington

Bite the Hand That Feeds You Essays and Provocations Henry Fairlie • Edited and with an introduction by Jeremy McCarter • Foreword by Leon Wieseltier Henry Fairlie was one of the most colourful journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term ‘The Establishment’, sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan and caroused with Kingsley Amis. In America his writing found a home in the pages of the New Yorker. Bite the Hand That Feeds You restores a compelling voice that, among its many virtues, helps Americans appreciate their country anew. Jeremy McCarter is a senior writer at Newsweek.

June 368 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16460-2 £14.99* Translation rights: ICM Agency, NY

Max Page Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general. “informative and provocative.”—Tama Starr, Wall Street Journal Max Page is professor of architecture and history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan.

August 280 pp. 254x178mm. 137 b/w + 24 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16446-6 £18.00 Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Agency, NY

Money, Markets, and Sovereignty Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds In this book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defense of economic liberalism since F.A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalisation. “a surprisingly easy read, given the complicated issues covered.”—Doug Bandow, The Washington Times Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics, Council on Foreign Relations. Manuel Hinds is a business and government consultant and former fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.

A Council on Foreign Relations Book April 304 pp. 234x156mm. 50 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16458-9 £15.00* Rights sold: Chinese

Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev Along with general insights into espionage tactics and the motives of Americans who spied for Stalin, Spies resolves specific, long-seething controversies. “This important new book . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the twentieth century.”—Andrew Lownie, The Sunday Telegraph John Earl Haynes is a historian in the Manuscript Division, the Library of Congress. Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University. Alexander Vassiliev is a journalist and author.

March 704 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16438-1 £15.99*

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The Myth of American Exceptionalism

A New Handbook of Literary Terms

Godfrey Hodgson

David Mikics

Tracing the development of America’s high self regard from the early days of the republic to the present era, Hodgson demonstrates how its exceptionalism has been systematically exaggerated and—in recent decades—corrupted. While there have been distinct and original elements in America’s history and political philosophy, notes Hodgson, these have always been more heavily influenced by European thought and experience than Americans have been willing to acknowledge.

A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism.

“[The Myth of American Exceptionalism] is interesting and lucid as it examines the errors and exaggerations in the national self-image.”—Clive Cook, Financial Times Godfrey Hodgson is associate fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

“If you have forgotten the form of a sestina or a ghazal, or can’t quite remember what vorticism was supposed to be, this book will do the trick: a confidently historicising, impressively synoptic compilation of the major ideas and forms over the last 2,500 years or so of literature and criticism.”—The Guardian David Mikics is professor of English at the University of Houston.

March 240 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16419-0 £14.99

March 368 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16431-2 £14.00*

Defying Empire

What Intelligence Tests Miss

Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

The Psychology of Rational Thought

Thomas M. Truxes

Keith E. Stanovich

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behaviour was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.

Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this book, Keith E. Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption.

Thomas M. Truxes is a senior lecturer in the history department at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of the Irish Studies faculty at New York University. His previous books include Irish American Trade, 1660–1783.

“An original, well-supported, and brilliantly tied together book that reveals the misunderstood relationship between IQ, intelligence, and rationality.”—David Over, Durham University, Psychology Department Keith E. Stanovich is professor of human development and applied psychology, University of Toronto.

March 304 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16425-1 £15.00

March 328 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16462-6 £15.00*

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift

Squeezed

Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice

Paul A. Rahe

Don’t drink another glass of orange juice before reading this book! Now in paperback, Squeezed exposes the juicy, hidden history of OJ to reveal that even most ‘not from concentrate’ orange juice is heated, stripped of oxygen and flavour, stored in million-gallon tanks for up to a year and then reflavoured before it is packaged and sold. The book’s argument for a right to know how our food is produced is timely and thought provoking.

Paul A. Rahe argues that these political thinkers anticipated the modern liberal republic’s propensity to drift in the direction of ‘soft despotism’—a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self-government. Such an eventuality, feared by Tocqueville in the nineteenth century, has now become a reality throughout the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. So Rahe asserts, and he explains what must be done to reverse this unfortunate trend.

Alissa Hamilton

“Consumers have a right to know what they’re consuming . . . and that is at the heart of [this] story.”—Devra First, Boston Globe

Paul A. Rahe is professor of history and political science at Hillsdale College.

Alissa Hamilton is a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

May 400 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16423-7 £16.99*

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Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, NY

May 288 pp. 210x140mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16455-8 £15.00

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A Mother’s Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life Neil Gilbert A Mother’s Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, which have helped to alter family life since the 1960s. It challenges the conventional view on how to balance motherhood and employment, and examines how the choices women make are influenced by the culture of capitalism, feminist expectations and the social policies of the welfare state. Neil Gilbert is Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books and articles.

100 Million Unnecessary Returns A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States Michael J. Graetz To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. Michael J. Graetz, one of the world’s leading tax policy experts, offers “the most interesting [tax] plan I’ve seen” (David Ignatius, Washington Post). Now in paperback, his plan would eliminate the income tax for most Americans and replace it with a value-added tax that would be levied on goods at each stage of exchange, from the producer to the consumer. Michael J. Graetz is a Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School.

June 240 pp. 210x140mm. 6 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16461-9 £15.00

April 280 pp. 210x140mm. 19 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16457-2 £15.00

The Conservatives

Flowers and Herbs of Early America

Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Lawrence D. Griffith Photography by Barbara Temple Lombardi

Patrick Allitt

Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. Allheal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America’s colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a leading historic plant expert brings this botanical heritage back to life.

Now in paperback after three printings in hardcover, this lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and Daniel Webster through Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover to William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan and William Kristol. Patrick Allitt is Goodrich C. White Professor of History and Director of the Center for Teaching and Curriculum at Emory University.

Lawrence Griffith is curator of plants for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Barbara Temple Lombardi is a photographer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

April 304 pp. 266x234mm. 265 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16454-1 £16.00

March 336 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16418-3 £15.99

No More Joint Pain Joseph A. Abboud, M.D. and Soo Kim Abboud, M.D. An orthopedic surgeon offers accurate, comprehensive and authoritative information on the causes, prevention and treatment of joint pain. With more than a hundred illustrations, this book covers every major joint in detail and assesses treatments ranging from alternative medicine to the latest technology. Whether you are a young athlete, a weekend warrior or someone suffering from degenerative arthritis, the advice and exercises in this book will help you treat your joint pain. Joseph A. Abboud, M.D., is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in shoulder and elbow diseases for 3 B Orthopaedics. He is also clinical assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Soo Kim Abboud, M.D., is chief of otolaryngology at Penn Presbyterian Hospital and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Yale University Press Health & Wellness March 288 pp. 234x156mm. 100 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16452-7 £14.00* Rights sold: Eng. Rep. rights South Asia

Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ A Casebook Jonathan Edwards • Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, Caleb J. D. Maskell and Kenneth P. Minkema The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series April 224 pp. 234x156mm. 29 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14038-5 £10.00*

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Volume 64 Edited by Robert A. King, M.D., Samuel Abrams, M.D., A. Scott Dowling, M.D. and Paul M. Brinich, Ph.D. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Series July 320 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15329-3 £45.00

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Index 79 78 69 1 69 66 57 57 29 26 74 12 35 37 24 78 70 46 46 59 59 51 19 15 48 38 56 76 71 25 66 75 55 45 74 75 47 22 52 40 47 39 30 52 48 15 60 76 67 51 53 27 63 63 70 47 20 69 54 36 66 66 75 60 29 7 67 62 67 41 29 52 49 76 10

Abboud: No More Joint Pain Abramowitz: Disappearing Center (The) Absence of Mind: Robinson Acting White: Buck Age of Reptiles (The): Volpe Aitken: Intelligence of Tradition (The) Akbarnia: Light of the Sufis Aldhouse-Green: Caesar’s Druids Alexander the Great: Stoneman Alger Hiss and the Battle for History: Jacoby Ali: Dubai Alice Neel: Walker Alison: Surreal House (The) Allawi: Crisis of Islamic Civilisation (The) Allitt: Conservatives (The) American Constitutionalism: Eskridge American Department Store: Longstreth American Glamour: Friedman American Moderns on Paper: Kornhauser American Paintings: Wattenmaker American Woman: Bolton Andrew Marvell: Smith Anne Boleyn: Bernard Architecture as Icon: Curcic Art for All: Edelstein Art of Edo Japan: Guth Art of Natural History (The): O’Malley Ashton: King Hussein of Jordan Atheist Delusions: Hart Back to the Future: Burney Ballet’s Magic Kingdom: Volynsky Balmori: Landscape Manifesto (A) Bann: Painting History Barber: Vampires, Burial, and Death Barnett: Sibelius Basualdo: Bruce Nauman Batchelor: Spirit of the Buddha (The) Bayer: Metropolitan Museum Studies Becoming Venetian: De Maria Bedford: Mark Bradford Bennett: Ford Madox Brown Berger: For All the World to See Bergmann: Roman Frescoes Berkshire: Tyack Bernard: Anne Boleyn Bewer: Laboratory for Art (A) Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Fairlie Blake and the Bible: Rowland Bolton: American Woman Bonami: 2010 Book in the Renaissance (The): Pettegree Borowski: Here in Our Auschwitz Bradley: Ralph Ellison in Progress Breaking the Logjam: Schoenbrod Bruce Nauman: Basualdo Brunetta: Spider Silk Buck: Acting White Building on a Construct: Olea Building-in-Time: Trachtenberg Burger: 1912 Yale Peruvian Collections Burney: Back to the Future Butler: Hidden in the Shadow Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Ellis Caesar’s Druids: Aldhouse-Green Capital Affairs: Mort Carmichael: Sex and Religion in the Bible Chen: Juvenilia Christian Imagination (The): Jennings Christian: Empire Without End Christians and Pagans: Lambert Christiansen: Genius of Andrea Mantegna Churches in Medieval Ireland: Ó Carragáin City’s End (The): Page Clark: Yemen

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Closer Look (A), Allegory: Langmuir Closer Look (A), Angels: Langmuir Closer Look (A), Deceptions: Wieseman Closer Look (A), Frames: Penny Cochineal Red: Phipps Cockett: Sudan Colour of Paradise: Lane Conservatives (The): Allitt Cosima Wagner: Hilmes Cowling: Picasso Challenging the Past Cowling: Picasso Looks at Degas Credit Between Cultures: Shipton Crisis of Islamic Civilisation (The): Allawi Croatia: Tanner Crystal: Little Book of Language (A) Cuneiform Texts: Goetze Curcic: Architecture as Icon D’Alessandro: Matisse Dallal: Islam, Science, and History Darwin’s Pictures: Voss De Haven: Our Hero De Maria: Becoming Venetian Defying Empire: Truxes Defying the Odds: Frank Delia’s Tears: Rogers Desdemaines-Hugon: Stepping-Stones Design and Truth: Grudin Disappearing Center (The): Abramowitz Dolphin Mysteries: Dudzinski Dubai: Ali Dudzinski: Dolphin Mysteries Duffy: Nature Crimes Eagleton: On Evil Eagleton: Reason, Faith, and Revolution Earle: Nui Earthrise: Poole Edelstein: Art for All Edwardian Sense (The): O’Neill Ellis: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation Empire Without End: Christian Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Oakley Enlightened Pleasures: Kavanagh Entirely ‘Synthetic’ Fish (An): Halverson Escorial (The): Kamen Eskridge: American Constitutionalism Euro (The): Marsh Eva Hesse Spectres 1960: McKinnon Fairlie: Bite the Hand that Feeds You Fallen Giants: Isserman Fassi: Time Out of Joint Fassler: Virgin of Chartres (The) Fiery Pool: Finamore Finamore: Fiery Pool Financial Fraud/Guerrilla Violence: Geiger Fixing Global Finance: Wolf Flavell: When London Was Capital Fletcher: Growing Up in England Flowers and Herbs of America: Griffith For All the World to See: Berger Ford Madox Brown: Bennett Forest Primeval (The): Hickey Framing the West: Jurovics Frank: Defying the Odds Frankly My Dear: Haskell French Opera: Giroud Frieden: Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes Friedman: American Glamour Friel: Lomborg Deception (The) From Land to Mouth: Sillitoe Galleries of Friendship and Fame: Siegel Gann: No Such Thing As Silence Gary: Hocus Bogus Geiger: Financial Fraud/Guerrilla Violence Genius of Andrea Mantegna: Christiansen

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Getman: Restoring the Power of Unions Getty: Road to Terror (The) Gilbert: Mother’s Work (A) Giroud: French Opera Goetze: Cuneiform Texts Goncharov: Oblomov Govier: Hogarth to Turner Goy: Venice Graetz: 100 Million Unnecessary Returns Grand Strategies: Hill Green: Radical Judaism Green: Strategic Speaker (The) Griffith: Flowers and Herbs of America Grossman: Why Translation Matters Growing Up in England: Fletcher Grudin: Design and Truth Guth: Art of Edo Japan Gypsy: Shteir Hakluyt’s Promise: Mancall Halverson: Entirely ‘Synthetic’ Fish (An) Hamilton: Squeezed Hardman Moore: Pilgrims Hargraves: Varieties of Romantic Experience Hart Davis: Philip de László Hart: Atheist Delusions Haskell: Frankly My Dear Haynes: Spies Hayton: Vietnam Hellfire Clubs (The): Lord Here in Our Auschwitz: Borowski Hickey: Forest Primeval (The) Hidden in the Shadow: Butler High Style: Reeder Hill: Grand Strategies Hilmes: Cosima Wagner History and Enlightenment: Trevor-Roper Hobbes: Leviathan Hocus Bogus: Gary Hodgson: Myth of U.S. Exceptionalism Hoerengracht (The): Wiggins Hoffman: My Happiness Hogarth to Turner: Govier Hollywood Westerns: Pippin 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: Graetz Hyland: Quito Manuscript (The) Image Wars: Sharpe Immortality and the Law: Madoff In and Out of the Marital Bed: Wolfthal Intellectual Life (The): Rose Intelligence of Tradition (The): Aitken Islam, Science, and History: Dallal Isserman: Fallen Giants Italian Journey (An): Wolk-Simon Italian Paintings: Kanter Iversen: Women, Work, and Politics Jablonsky: War by Land, Sea and Air Jacoby: Alger Hiss and Battle for History Jennings: Christian Imagination (The) John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite: Payne John Singer Sargent’s ‘Triumph’: Khandekar Jonathan Edwards: Kimnach Jones: Print in Early Modern England Jugie: Mourners (The) Jurovics: Framing the West Juvenilia: Chen Kaddour: Treason Kamen: Escorial (The) Kanter: Italian Paintings Karsh: Palestine Betrayed Katsura: Nakamori Kavanagh: Enlightened Pleasures Keywords in U.S. Landscape: O’Malley Khandekar: John Singer Sargent’s ‘Triumph’ Kimnach: Jonathan Edwards

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King Hussein of Jordan: Ashton King: Losing Control King: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Kirov Murder and Soviet History: Lenoe Kisluk-Grosheide: MMA/Wrightsman Kivelson: Picturing Russia Koeppe: Vienna Circa 1780 Kornhauser: American Moderns on Paper Kysar: Regulating from Nowhere Laboratory for Art (A): Bewer Lambert: Christians and Pagans Landscape Manifesto (A): Balmori Lane: Colour of Paradise Langmuir: Closer Look (A), Allegory Langmuir: Closer Look (A), Angels Langston: Toxic Bodies Law’s Environment: Nagle Legacy of the Second World War: Lukacs Lenoe: Kirov Murder and Soviet History Leviathan: Hobbes Lian: Redeemed by Fire Liberty Bell (The): Nash Light of the Sufis: Akbarnia Little Book of Language (A): Crystal Little: Yale Library Studies Loeffler: Most Musical Nation (The) Lomborg Deception (The): Friel Longstreth: American Department Store Lord: Hellfire Clubs (The) Losing Control: King Lukacs: Legacy of the Second World War Madoff: Immortality and the Law Mancall: Hakluyt’s Promise Manguel: Reader on Reading (A) Mark Bradford: Bedford Marsh: Euro (The) Marzio: Masterpieces from Houston Masterpieces from Houston: Marzio Matisse: D’Alessandro Maurizio Cattelan: Sirmans Mazullo: Shostakovich’s Preludes/Fugues McKinnon: Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 Meaning of Property (The): Purdy Medieval Heart (The): Webb Menta: Quinnipiac (The) Metropolitan Museum Studies: Bayer MMA/Wrightsman: Kisluk-Grosheide Mikics: New Handbook of Terms (A) Modernism in the Magazines: Scholes Money, Markets, and Sovereignty: Steil Morris: One State, Two States Mort: Capital Affairs Most Musical Nation (The): Loeffler Mother’s Work (A): Gilbert Mourners (The): Jugie Murphy: Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture Music and Sentiment: Rosen My Happiness Bears No Relation: Hoffman Myth of U.S. Exceptionalism: Hodgson Nagle: Law’s Environment Nakamori: Katsura Nash: Liberty Bell (The) Nature Crimes: Duffy New Handbook of Literary Terms: Mikics NG: Closer Look (A), Deceptions Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Murphy 1912 Yale Peruvian Collections: Burger No More Joint Pain: Abboud No Such Thing As Silence: Gann Nui: Earle Ó Carragáin: Churches in Medieval Ireland O’Malley: Art of Natural History (The) O’Malley: Keywords in U.S. Landscape O’Neill: Edwardian Sense (The)

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Oakley: Empty Bottles of Gentilism Oblomov: Goncharov Olea: Building on a Construct On Evil: Eagleton One State, Two States: Morris Our Hero: De Haven Page: City’s End (The) Painting for Profit: Spear Painting History: Bann Painting History: Podro Palestine Betrayed: Karsh Payne: John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Painter Penny: Closer Look (A), Frames Pettegree: Book in the Renaissance (The) Philip de László: Hart Davis Phillip II of Macedonia: Worthington Phillips: Second Crusade (The) Philosopher’s Quarrel (The): Zaretsky Phipps: Cochineal Red Picasso Challenging the Past: Cowling Picasso in The MMA: Tinterow Picasso Looks at Degas: Cowling Picturing Russia: Kivelson Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art: Proser Pilgrims: Hardman Moore Pippin: Hollywood Westerns Pisano: William Merritt Chase, vol. 4 Podro: Painting History Poole: Earthrise Prehistory of Nevis (The): Wilson Print in Early Modern England: Jones Proser: Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: King Purdy: Meaning of Property (The) Quinnipiac (The): Menta Quito Manuscript (The): Hyland Radical Judaism: Green Rahe: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift Ralph Ellison in Progress: Bradley Reader on Reading (A): Manguel Reading Matters: Willes Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Eagleton Redeemed by Fire: Lian Reeder: High Style Regulating from Nowhere: Kysar Restoring the Power of Unions: Getman Ricks: True Friendship Road to Terror (The): Getty Robert Schumann: Worthen Robinson: Absence of Mind Rogers: Delia’s Tears Roman Frescoes: Bergmann Rose: Intellectual Life (The) Rosen: Music and Sentiment Rowland: Blake and the Bible Russian Orientalism: Schimmelpenninck Sacred Realism: Valis Schimmelpenninck: Russian Orientalism Schoenbrod: Breaking the Logjam Scholes: Modernism in the Magazines Second Crusade (The): Phillips Sex and Religion in the Bible: Carmichael Shameful Peace (The): Spotts Sharpe: Image Wars Shipton: Credit Between Cultures Shostakovich’s Preludes/Fugues: Mazullo Shteir: Gypsy Sibelius: Barnett Siegel: Galleries of Friendship and Fame Sillitoe: From Land to Mouth Sirmans: Maurizio Cattelan Sixty to Zero: Taylor Smith: Andrew Marvell Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Rahe

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Spear: Painting for Profit Spider Silk: Brunetta Spies: Haynes Spirit of the Buddha (The): Batchelor Spotts: Shameful Peace (The) Squeezed: Hamilton Stanovich: What Intelligence Tests Miss Steil: Money, Markets, and Sovereignty Stein: Trading Factories for Finance Stepping-Stones: Desdemaines-Hugon Stoneman: Alexander the Great Strategic Speaker (The): Green Sudan: Cockett Surreal House (The): Alison Tanner: Croatia Taylor: Sixty to Zero Time Out of Joint: Fassi Tinterow: Picasso in The MMA Toxic Bodies: Langston Trachtenberg: Building-in-Time Trading Factories for Finance: Stein Treason: Kaddour Trevor-Roper: History and Enlightenment True Friendship: Ricks Truxes: Defying Empire Tushnet: Why the Constitution Matters 2010: Bonami Tyack: Berkshire Valis: Sacred Realism Vampires, Burial, and Death: Barber Varieties of Experience: Hargraves Venice: Goy Vienna Circa 1780: Koeppe Vietnam: Hayton Virgin of Chartres (The): Fassler Visual World of French Theory: Wilson Volpe: Age of Reptiles (The) Volynsky: Ballet’s Magic Kingdom Voss: Darwin’s Pictures Walker: Alice Neel Wanklyn: Warrior Generals (The) War by Land, Sea and Air: Jablonsky Warrior Generals (The): Wanklyn Wattenmaker: American Paintings Webb: Medieval Heart (The) What Intelligence Tests Miss: Stanovich When London Was Capital: Flavell Why the Constitution Matters: Tushnet Why Translation Matters: Grossman Wieseman: Closer Look (A), Deceptions Wiggins: Hoerengracht (The) Willes: Reading Matters William Merritt Chase, vol. 4: Pisano Wilson: Prehistory of Nevis (The) Wilson: Visual World of French Theory Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes: Frieden Wolf: Fixing Global Finance Wolfthal: In and Out of the Marital Bed Wolk-Simon: Italian Journey (An) Women, Work, and Politics: Iversen Worthen: Robert Schumann Worthington: Phillip II of Macedonia Yale Library Studies: Little Yemen: Clark Zaretsky: Philosopher’s Quarrel (The)

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