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Alexander McQueen 

Savage Beauty 

Andrew Bolton 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16978-2 £30.00* 

WikiLeaks 

and the Age of Transparency 

Micah L. Sifry 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17676-6 £9.99* 

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■ Architecture 35,36,38,39,45,54–56 

■ Art 6,18,20,31–59,75 

■ Biography 6,11,14,17,19,24,28,60,74 

■ Current Affairs 8,20,21,23,25 

■ Fashion 14,15 

■ History 2,3,5,9,10–13,16,17,19,23,26–30,72–74 

■ Law & American Studies 68,69,76–78 

■ Literary Studies & Language 17,24,61–63,70,71,74 

■ Music 24,25,30,61 

■ Paperback Reprints 23–25,72–78 

■ Photography 35,45,49,57 

■ Politics & Economics 25,65,74,77,78 

■ Religion & Philosophy 1,4,17,18,22,30,63,64 

■ Science, Technology, Nature, Environment 66,67,69,75 

■ Sociology 22,66 

■ Index 79,80 

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edited by Earl Martin, see page 33. 

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Philosophy 1 

For reader’s of Gombrich’s 

A Little History of the 

World, an equally 

irresistible volume that 

brings history’s greatest 

philosophers to life 

Above: The Death of Socrates. 

Left: author, Nigel Warburton. 

“A lively and eye-catching book, 

written in an easy style which 

should have splendid appeal for a 

young audience.”—Peter Cave, 

author of Can a Robot be Human: 

33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles 

September 

288 pp. 216x138mm. 40 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-15208-1 £14.99* 

A Little History of Philosophy 

Nigel Warburton 

Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. 

These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient 

Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the 

people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. 

This engaging history introduces the great thinkers in Western 

philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world 

and how best to live in it. 

In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a tour of the 

major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and 

often quirky stories from the lives and deaths of thought-provoking 

philosophers from the ancients, who debated freedom and the spirit, 

to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical 

questions that haunt our own times. 

Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration 

to think, argue, reason and ask. A Little History of Philosophy presents 

the grand sweep of humanity’s search for philosophical understanding 

and invites all to join in the discussion. 

Nigel Warburton is a contemporary philosopher. As well as being 

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, he hosts a 

weekly podcast and an integrated philosophy website and he teaches a 

popular course on art and philosophy at the Tate Modern. He is the 

author of many very popular introductions to philosophy including 

Philosophy: The Basics, Thinking from A to Z and Free Speech: A Very 

Short Introduction.

2 History 

ILLUSTRATED EDITION 

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR GOMBRICH’S A Little History 

“His enthusiasm for his subject is irresistible . . . 

With Gombrich’s Little History, at last available in English 

there will be many generations of future historians who will 

attribute to it their lifelong passion for history—and for truth.” 

—Lisa Jardine, The Times 

“The book charms, amuses and informs superbly . . . In A Little History, 

Gombrich triumphantly proves he is as much a story teller as a professor.” 

—Andrew Roberts, Daily Express 

“The publishers tell us that Philip Pullman calls it ‘irresistible’. So it is . . . 

as an outline of how we have come to be where we are I doubt it could be 

bettered . . . a perfect birthday present for a child with an enquiring mind. 

I wish it had been available when I was young.”—Allan Massie, Literary Review 

“A delight for all ages. The pages sparkle with the learned author’s wit and 

wisdom—and reading them, one feels as if Gombrich . . . is guiding one 

through time with a grandfatherly gleam in his eye.” 

—Ben Schott, The Observer 

E. H. Gombrich, author of the classic The Story of Art, was born in 

Vienna in 1909 and moved to London in 1936. Winner of the 

Erasmus Prize, the Hegel Prize, the Wittgenstein Prize and the 

Goethe Prize, he was admitted to Britain’s highest honour, 

the Order of Merit, in 1988. 

September 304 pp. 234x189mm. 200 b/w & colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17614-8 £25.00* 

Translation rights: DuMont Verlag, Cologne

History 3 

Blending high-grade design, 

fine paper and classic 

binding, this is both a 

sumptuous gift book and an 

enhanced edition of a timeless 

account of human history 

A Little History of the World 

Illustrated Edition 

E. H. Gombrich 

E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, though written in 1935, 

has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first 

publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold 

over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in 

almost thirty languages. 

Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and 

his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of 

the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative 

with the images that may well have been in his mind’s eye as he wrote 

the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full 

colour—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. 

They emerge from the text, enrich the author’s intention and deepen 

the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. 

For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around 

illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, 

motifs and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a 

revised preface and a new index.

4 

Religion 

Of all the men who have 

served the Catholic Church 

as pope, who were the ten 

most influential 

G. C. von Prenner, Pope Paul III announcing the excommunication of Henry VIII. 

Engraving, 1736. British Museum. 

October 

176 pp. 198x129mm. 30 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17688-9 £14.99* 

Ten Popes Who Shook the World 

Eamon Duffy 

Catholic popes have been powerful spiritual leaders for nearly two 

millennia, but their influence is not confined exclusively to Church 

matters. Many popes have played a central role in the history of Europe 

and the wider world, not only shouldering the spiritual burdens of their 

office but also contending with the political crises of their times. In an 

acclaimed series of BBC radio broadcasts, Eamon Duffy enthralled 

listeners with vivid stories of the ten popes he judges ‘the most 

influential in history’. With this book, readers may now also enjoy 

Duffy’s portraits of ten exceptional men who shook the world. 

The book begins with St Peter, the Rock upon whom the Catholic 

Church was built, and follows with Leo the Great (fifth century), 

Gregory the Great (sixth century), Gregory VII (eleventh century), 

Innocent III (thirteenth century), Paul III (sixteenth century), and Pius 

IX (nineteenth century). Among twentieth-century popes, Duffy 

examines the lives and contributions of Pius XII, who was elected on 

the eve of the Second World War, the kindly John XXIII, who captured 

the world’s imagination, and John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 

450 years. Each of these ten, Duffy shows, was an extraordinary 

individual who helped shape the world we know today. 

Eamon Duffy is professor of the history of Christianity, Cambridge 

University, and fellow and former president of Magdalene College. 

He is the author of many prize-winning books, among them Fires of 

Faith, Marking the Hours, Saints and Sinners and The Stripping of the 

Altars, all available from Yale. 

Translation rights: BBC Books, London

History 5 

A major new history of 

war that challenges our 

understanding of military 

dominance and how it is 

achieved 

Jacob de Gheyn II (after), Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen 

(The Exercise of Arms), 1607 (detail). © Trustees of the British Museum. 

John France is Professor Emeritus, 

Department of History and Classics, 

Swansea University. He is author of 

The Crusades and the Expansion of 

Catholic Christendom, among 

numerous other books and articles. 

September 

448 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-12074-5 £25.00* 

Perilous Glory 

The Rise of Western Military Power 

John France 

This expansive history surveys warfare from ancient times to the current 

wars of the Middle East in search of a deeper understanding of the origins 

of Western warfare and reasons for its preeminence today. Historian John 

France explores the experience of war around the globe, in Europe, Asia, 

Africa and America. His bold conclusions cast doubt on well-entrenched 

attitudes about the development of military strength, the impact of 

culture on warfare, the future of Western dominance and much more. 

Taking into account wars waged by virtually all civilizations since the 

beginning of recorded history, France finds that despite enormous 

cultural differences, war was conducted in distinctly similar ways right 

up to the Military Revolution and the pursuit of technological warfare in 

the nineteenth century. Since then, European and American culture has 

shaped warfare, but only because we have achieved a sense of distance 

from it, France argues. He warns that the present global domination by 

U.S. power is much more precarious and accidental than commonly 

believed. The notion that war is a distant phenomenon is only an 

illusion, and our attitudes and priorities must change accordingly. 

“An ambitious book written with vigour and assertiveness” 

—Hew Strachan, Oxford University 

“An outstanding work—the best response to date to Victor Davis 

Hanson’s Carnage and Culture. Offering a global perspective and tour 

de force juxtapositions of different military cultures through the ages, 

France’s concluding analysis of the ‘new age of war’ that has emerged 

since 1945 is eloquent and perceptive in warning that there are no 

opt-outs, technological or ideological.”—Dennis Showalter

6 

Art 

Not only a scholarly study, 

which it is impossible to 

imagine ever being 

surpassed, this book is also 

a compelling narrative of 

an amazing life 

October 

416 pp. 234x156mm. 70 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11861-2 £30.00* 

Michelangelo 

Volume I: The Achievement of Fame, 1475–1534 

Michael Hirst 

This remarkable book is the first volume in what will be the definitive 

modern biography of Michelangelo. An illuminating study of 

Michelangelo’s extraordinary career, it follows the artist from his 

apprenticeship in Ghirlandaio’s workshop to his definitive move to 

Rome in 1534, when, at the age of fifty-nine, he left behind his native 

Florence, never to return. During these years he created such 

outstanding works as the marble Pietà, the giant marble David, 

commissioned for the cathedral in Florence, the Sistine Ceiling frescoes, 

and the new sacristy and library for the Medici family at San Lorenzo, 

he began the monumental tomb for Pope Julius II in Rome, and he 

became one of the most sought-after artists of the early sixteenth 

century. 

Written by the leading Michelangelo scholar, this prodigiously 

informative account benefits from recent archival discoveries and 

restorations, and is enriched by material from the long-awaited editions 

of the artist’s correspondence and artistic contracts. The wealth of new 

information enables new light to be shed on the genesis of 

Michelangelo’s works in sculpture, painting and architecture, and on his 

complex psychological relations with his family, friends and powerful 

patrons. 

Michael Hirst, Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the 

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, is the foremost art-historical 

scholar of Michelangelo in the English-speaking world.

Art 7 

A new examination of 

Leonardo’s career that 

illuminates his time as court 

painter to the Duke of 

Milan, an experience that 

fundamentally changed his 

outlook and his legacy 

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), The Virgin of the Rocks (detail), ca. 1491–1508. 

© The National Gallery, London (NG 1093). 

This catalogue accompanies the 

major exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: 

Painter at the Court of Milan 

at the National Gallery, London, 

9/11/11–5/2/12 

Also available: 

National Gallery Technical Bulletin 

Leonardo da Vinci: Pupil, Painter 

and Master (see page 52) 

November 

304 pp. 320x240mm. 190 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-1-85709-491-6 £40.00* 

Leonardo da Vinci 

Painter at the Court of Milan 

Luke Syson 

With Larry Keith and Antonio Mazzotta, Minna Moore Ede, 

Scott Nethersole, Arturo Galansino and Per Rumberg 

Leonardo da Vinci’s reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the 

complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost 

overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. 

This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in the 1480s and ’90s when, 

as a salaried court artist to Duke Ludovico Sforza in the city-state of 

Milan, freed from the pressures of making a living in the commercially 

minded Florentine republic, Leonardo produced some of the most 

celebrated—and influential—work of his career. 

The Last Supper, his two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks, and the 

beautiful portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, Ludovico’s mistress (The Lady 

with an Ermine) were paintings that set a new standard for his Milanese 

contemporaries. Leonardo’s style was magnified, through collaboration 

and imitation, to become the visual language of the regime, and by the 

time of his return to Florence in 1500, his status was utterly transformed. 

Works from British, U.S. and European collections represent the 

diverse range of Leonardo’s artistic output, from drawings in chalk, ink 

or metalpoint to full-scale oil paintings. Together with the authors’ 

meticulous research and detailed analysis, they demonstrate Leonardo’s 

consummate skill and extraordinary ambition as a painter. 

Luke Syson is Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 and Head of 

Research, The National Gallery, London. Larry Keith is Director of 

Conservation, The National Gallery, London. 

Translation rights: The National Gallery Company Limited, London 

The National Gallery • London

8 

Current Affairs 

‘A superb and very 

interesting book’ 

—Professor Anthony King, 

University of Exeter 

A British soldier watches a plane deliver its payload, Afghanistan, February 2009. 

Stephen Mulcahey/Alamy. 

Losing Small Wars 

British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan 

Frank Ledwidge 

Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as 

Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been 

perceived as world class, if not world-beating. However, their recent 

performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as—at best— 

disappointing; under British control, Basra degenerated into a lawless 

city riven with internecine violence, while tactical mistakes and strategic 

incompetence in Helmand province resulted in heavy civilian and 

military casualties and a climate of violence and insecurity. In both 

cases the British were eventually and humiliatingly bailed out by the 

U.S. army. 

In this thoughtful and compellingly readable book, Frank Ledwidge 

examines the British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking how 

and why it went so wrong. With the aid of copious research, interviews 

with senior officers and his own personal experiences, he looks in detail 

at the failures of strategic thinking and culture that led to defeat in 

Britain’s latest ‘small wars’. This is an eye-opening analysis of the causes 

of military failure, and its enormous costs. 

Frank Ledwidge served in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq as a military 

intelligence officer and in Afghanistan as a civilian justice advisor. 

He is currently a lecturer for Kings College, London at the RAF 

College, Cranwell. 

August 

304 pp. 234x156mm. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16671-2 £20.00*

History 9 

A powerful account of the 

effects of war on early 

modern Britain, showing 

how war forged the British 

state, and exploring 

personal experiences of 

battle and bloodshed 

Benjamin West, The Battle of the Boyne in 1690, 1778. 

September 

336 pp. 234x156mm. 

24 b/w illus. + 10 maps 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-13913-6 £25.00* 

This Seat of Mars 

War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 

Charles Carlton 

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as 

one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many 

millions of young men from the four corners of the present United 

Kingdom went to war, often—and most bloodily—against each other. 

The almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and onehalf 

centuries between Bosworth and Culloden decimated lives, but 

created the British state and forged the nation as the world’s 

predominant power. 

In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the 

glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual 

levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political 

narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience 

of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death. 

Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the 

period, as well as war’s enduring corollaries—camaraderie, courage, fear 

and grief—to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on 

the British Isles and its peoples. 

“Carlton explores with great insight the many dimensions of warfare 

over an impressive chronological span. This Seat of Mars is a major 

achievement.”—Mark Charles Fissel, author of English Warfare, 

1511–1642 

Charles Carlton is Professor Emeritus of History at North Carolina 

State University and the author of Going to the Wars and Royal Warriors.

10 History 

A history of the twelve 

pivotal days in 1941 which 

changed the course of World 

War Two and the second half 

of the twentieth century 

Avenge December 7, propaganda poster by Bernard Perkin. Private collection. 

Evan Mawdsley is Honorary 

Professorial Research Fellow, School of 

Humanities, University of Glasgow. 

His books include World War II: 

A New History, Thunder in the East: 

The Nazi-Soviet Struggle, 1941–1945 

and The Russian Civil War. 

November 336 pp. 234x156mm. 

16 b/w illus. + maps 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-15445-0 £25.00* 

December 1941 

Evan Mawdsley 

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of 

international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 

1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the 

story unfolded. He demonstrates how these dramatic encounters and 

conflicts marked a turning point not only in the course of World War 

II but also in the direction of the entire century. 

On Monday, December 1, 1941, the Japanese government made its 

final decision to attack Britain and America. In the following days, the 

Red Army launched a counterthrust in Moscow while the Japanese 

bombed Pearl Harbor and invaded Malaya. By December 12, Hitler 

had declared war on the United States, the collapse of British forces in 

the Far East had begun, and Hitler had secretly laid out his policy of 

genocide. Churchill was leaving London to meet Roosevelt as 

Anthony Eden arrived in Russia to discuss the postwar world with 

Stalin. Combined, these occurrences brought about a ‘new war’, as 

Churchill put it, with Japan and America deeply involved and Russia 

resurgent. This book, a truly international history, examines the 

momentous happenings of December 1941 from a variety of 

perspectives. Only when together is their significance apparent. 

“Mawdsley’s grasp of the complexities of military operations and 

grand strategy is second to none. Weaving together the national 

strands of this global story in a compelling narrative, he underscores 

just how crucial that first week of 1941 was.”—Joe Maiolo, 

author of Cry Havoc: Arms Races and the Second World War 

Translation rights: David Higham Associates, London

History 11 

A chilling biography of the 

head of Nazi Germany’s 

terror apparatus, a key 

player in the Third Reich 

whose full story has never 

before been told 

Heydrich looks on as Hitler observes the front line in Poland, 1939. 

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of 

Modern History and Director of the 

Centre for War Studies, University 

College Dublin and the author of 

The Bismarck Myth. 

September 336 pp. 234x156mm. 

16 pp. b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11575-8 £20.00* 

Hitler’s Hangman 

The Life of Heydrich 

Robert Gerwarth 

Reinhard Heydrich was one of the most feared men of the twentieth 

century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi 

leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service 

and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and 

Moravia, and leading planner of the ‘Final Solution’, Heydrich played a 

central role in Hitler’s Germany. He shouldered a major share of 

responsibility for some of the worst Nazi atrocities, and up to his 

assassination in Prague in 1942, he was widely seen as one of the most 

dangerous men in Nazi Germany. Yet Heydrich has received remarkably 

modest attention in the extensive literature of the Third Reich. 

Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Heydrich’s 

private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main 

Office. Fully exploring Heydrich’s progression from a privileged 

middle-class youth to a rapacious mass murderer, Gerwarth sheds new 

light on the complexity of Heydrich’s adult character, his motivations, 

the incremental steps that led to unimaginable atrocities, and the 

consequences of his murderous efforts toward recreating the entire 

ethnic makeup of Europe. 

“An excellent book on a major figure in the Nazi dictatorship, its 

secret police and the Holocaust. Gerwarth’s illumination of the 

development of the security complex under Heydrich, actions in the 

Protectorate, and especially the war in the East, is of real value.” 

—Tim Kirk, author of Nazi Germany 

Rights sold: German

12 History 

‘Enjoyable, informative 

and enlightening . . . John 

Marriott is an experienced 

and skilful historian’ 

—Dr Stephen Inwood, 

author of A History of London 

Beyond the Tower 

A History of East London 

John Marriott 

From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient 

docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played 

a crucial role in London’s history. The East End, as it has been known, 

was the home to Shakespeare’s first theatre and to the early stirrings of a 

mass labour movement; it has also traditionally been seen as a place of 

darkness and despair, where Jack the Ripper committed his gruesome 

murders, and cholera and poverty stalked the Victorian streets. 

In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott 

draws on 25 years of research into the subject to present an 

authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. With the aid of copious 

maps, archive prints and photographs, and the words of East 

Londoners from seventeenth-century silk-weavers to Cockneys during 

the Blitz, he explores the relationship between the East End and the rest 

of London, and challenges many of the myths which surround the area. 

John Marriott is Professor in History at the Raphael Samuel History 

Centre, University of East London, and author of The Culture of 

Labourism: The East End between the Wars and The Other Empire: 

Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination. 

September 

384 pp. 234x156mm. 50 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-14880-0 £25.00*

History 13 

Unearthing the people 

and publications at the 

root of a national obsession 

Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, ca. 1620–25. 

© Tate, London 2011. 

September 

336 pp. 234x156mm. 

80 b/w + 24pp. colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16382-7 £25.00* 

The Making of the English Gardener 

Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560–1660 

Margaret Willes 

The horticultural revolution in Britain took place, not as so often 

assumed, in the eighteenth century but, as this sumptuously illustrated 

book shows, during the preceding two hundred years. By the time 

Charles II was restored to his throne, England had become a leading 

player in the European horticultural game. Gardeners, botanists, 

scholars and courtiers used their social networks to exchange the latest 

ideas. Exotic flowers and foodstuffs found their way to London’s 

quaysides, while botany was one of the branches of scientific 

exploration. And the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new 

knowledge still further—reaching even the growing number of 

gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation 

and its young colonies in the Americas. 

Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts from the 

renowned—the Tradescants, father and son, Sir Francis Bacon and 

John Evelyn—to the legions of anonymous workers who created and 

tended kitchen and flower gardens on the great estates. With her 

knowledge of the books that inspired these men—and occasionally 

women—from herbals and design treatises to practical manuals and 

catalogues, Willes enthrallingly charts how England’s garden grew. 

Margaret Willes is the former Publisher for the National Trust and 

the author of Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books, 

published by Yale, and Pick of the Bunch: the Story of Twelve Treasured 

Flowers. She lives in London where, when she is not writing about 

gardens, she loves cultivating her own.

Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

14 Fashion 

introduction by 

Sarah Jessica Parker 

Harold Koda is curator in charge at 

the Costume Institute at The 

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is known 

for her unique sense of fashion and 

her love of shoes. 


16 b/w + 194 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17240-9 £16.99* 

100 Shoes 

The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Edited by Harold Koda 

With an introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker 

In a brilliant follow-up to 100 Dresses, published in 2010, the Costume 

Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of 

its heralded permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich 

diversity of shoes within its holdings. A hundred pairs of shoes, from 

the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, paint a vivid picture of how 

styles have changed—sometimes radically—over the years. They also 

reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For 

instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women 

from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century and by Manchu Chinese 

women in the 1800s. In the late 1930s, Salvatore Ferragamo 

introduced a modern version of the platform shoe, and updated 

versions appeared in the 1970s and 1990s. 

Beautifully designed and produced, 100 Shoes presents examples of 

fashionable footwear in a range of styles, from flats to stilettos and 

everything in between. Among them are shoes designed by Manolo 

Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Roger Vivier and Vivienne Westwood. 

Images of the shoes are accompanied by informative text and enhanced 

by works of art, contemporary photos and portraits of designers. 

Sure to spark the imaginations of anyone interested in fashion and 

design, 100 Shoes details how women have used these essential fashion 

accessories to elevate their style, stature and status throughout the 

centuries. An introduction by fashion-forward actress Sarah Jessica 

Parker adds to the accessibility and appeal of this delightful volume. 

Translation rights: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

Daphne Guinness 

Valerie Steele and Daphne Guinness 

‘She is one of the—if not the—most stylish women living’, says 

designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, 

the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her 

platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inch heels, her todie-for 

couture collection and amazing diamond jewellery, 

Daphne Guinness embodies the rarified, personal style of a true fashion 

icon. A designer, editor, model, muse and stylist, Ms. Guinness is 

renowned for the way she uses fashion to transform herself. As her 

friend, the art historian John Richardson puts it: ‘She is the object of 

her own creativity. Her persona is her own masterpiece.’ 

Exhibition 

The Fashion Institute of Technology, 

New York, 11/9/11 – 31/1/12 

Valerie Steele is director and chief 

curator of The Museum at FIT, 

New York. 


100 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17663-6 £30.00* 

Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, Valentino, Azzedine Alaia and the late 

Alexander McQueen are among the designers whose garments form 

part of Daphne Guinness’s personal collection of haute couture. But 

Guinness is far more than a great couture client, she is an inspiration to 

designers because of her fearless personal style. In an interview with 

curator and fashion historian Valerie Steele, Daphne Guinness explains 

the origins and characteristics of her style. She also discusses her 

friendships and collaborations with other creative fashion personalities 

from the late Isabella Blow to the photographer Steven Klein and the 

jeweller Shaun Leane. Sumptuously illustrated with high-fashion 

photographs and paparazzi shots, the book is a spectacular showcase for 

the world of Daphne Guinness. 

Published in association with The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Fashion 15 

This wide-ranging survey, 

spanning four centuries, 

illuminates shifting 

perceptions of female 

beauty through works of 

art and the evolution of 

cosmetics 

Isaac Soyer, Art Beauty Shoppe, 1934. 

Aileen Ribeiro is Professor Emeritus 

in the history of art at the Courtauld 

Institute of Art, London. 

October 

256 pp. 280x230mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-12486-6 £30.00* 

Facing Beauty 

Painted Women and Cosmetic Art 

Aileen Ribeiro 

Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have 

been made to define beauty in art and life, especially with regard to 

women’s bodies and faces. Facing Beauty examines concepts of female 

beauty in terms of the ideal and the real, investigating paradigms of 

beauty as represented in art and literature and how beauty has been 

enhanced by cosmetics and hairstyles. 

This thought-provoking book discusses the shifting perceptions of 

female beauty, concentrating on the period from about 1540 to 1940. 

It begins with the Renaissance, when a renewed emphasis on the 

individual was reflected in the celebration of beauty in the portraits of 

the day. The fluid, sensual lines of the Baroque period initiated a shift 

toward a more ‘natural’ look, giving way in the eighteenth century to a 

more stylised and artificial face, a mask of ideal beauty. By the late 

nineteenth century, commercial beauty preparations had become more 

readily available, leading to new technological developments in the 

beauty industry early in the twentieth century. Beauty salons and the 

wider availability of cosmetics revolutionised the way women saw 

themselves. 

Ravishing images of some of the most beautiful women in history, 

both real and ideal, accompanied by illustrations from costume books, 

fashion plates, advertisements, caricatures and cosmetics, bring the 

evolving story of beauty to life.

16 History 

The Artist and the Warrior 

From Assyria to Guernica 

Theodore K. Rabb 

How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare In this 

uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history 

and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention 

to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century— 

paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture and 

photographs—and documents the evolving nature of warfare as artists 

have perceived it. 

The selected works represent landmarks in the history of art and are 

drawn mainly from the western tradition, though important examples 

from Japan, India and the Middle East are also brought into the 

discussion. Together these works tell a story of long centuries during 

which warfare inspired admiration and celebration. Yet a shift toward 

criticism and condemnation emerged in the Renaissance, and by the 

end of the nineteenth century, glorification of the warrior by leading 

artists had ceased. Rabb traces this progression, from such works as the 

Column of Trajan and the Titian Battle of Lepanto, whose makers 

celebrated glorious victories, to the antiwar depictions created by 

Brueghel, Goya, Picasso and others. Fully illustrated and accessibly 

written, this book presents a study of unprecedented sweep and multidisciplinary 

interest. 

October 288 pp. 234x189mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-12637-2 £25.00* 

Theodore K. Rabb is emeritus professor of history, Princeton 

University. A historian of early modern Europe, he has published many 

books and has contributed reviews in history and art to The Times 

Literary Supplement, The New York Times and other journals. 

A Genius for Money 

Business, Art and the Morrisons 

Caroline Dakers 

This is the spectacular rags-to-riches story of James Morrison 

(1789–1857), who began life humbly but through hard work and 

entrepreneurial brilliance acquired a fortune unequalled in nineteenthcentury 

England. Carolyn Dakers offers the first in-depth biography of 

the richest commoner in nineteenth-century England, recounting the 

details of Morrison’s personal life while also placing him in the 

Victorian age of enterprise that made his success possible. 

Tapping into extensive Morrison family archives and unpublished 

material, Dakers rescues from obscurity this affectionate husband and 

father of ten whose success—first in textiles and then in international 

finance—enabled him to acquire land, houses and works of art on a 

scale to rival the grandest of aristocrats. He was a man born in a unique 

moment of possibility, and this book explores how he embraced his 

opportunities with enthusiasm and innovative flair. 


60 b/w & colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11220-7 £25.00* 

Caroline Dakers is professor of cultural history, University of Arts 

London. She is the author of The Holland Park Circle: Artists and 

Victorian Society and Clouds: Biography of a Country House, both 

published by Yale. 

Translation rights: David Higham Associates, London

Unpacking My Library 

Writers and Their Books 

Edited by Leah Price 

Biography & Religion 17 

As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital 

means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine 

collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: 

Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen 

novelists. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and 

close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine 

hardcovers and childhood companions. 

Philip Pullman in his home library, Oxford. 

In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the 

bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what 

readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the 

photographs are Price’s interviews with each author, which probe the 

relation of writing to reading, collecting and arranging books. 

Each writer provides a list of top ten favourite titles, offering unique 

personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile. 

Features the libraries of Philip Pullman, Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, 

Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Stephen Pinker, Lev Grossman and 

Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, 

Gary Shteyngart and Edmund White. 

January 208 pp. 140x203mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17092-4 £16.00* 

Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the 

author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Literary Secretaries/ 

Secretarial Culture and Reader’s Block: The Uses of Books in Nineteenth- 

Century Britain. She writes for the New York Times Book Review, the 

London Review of Books and the Boston Globe. 

The Shadow of a Great Rock 

A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible 

Harold Bloom 

The King James Bible stands at ‘the sublime summit of literature in 

English’, sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom 

contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. 

Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career 

as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers at last the book he has 

been writing ‘all my long life’, a magisterial and intimately perceptive 

reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece. 

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor 

of the Humanities at Yale University. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16683-5 £18.00* 

Bloom calls it an ‘inexplicable wonder’ that a rather undistinguished 

group of writers could bring forth such a magnificent work of 

literature, and he credits William Tyndale as their fountainhead. 

Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale’s Bible, the Geneva 

Bible and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, Bloom highlights how 

the translators and editors improved upon—or, in some cases, 

diminished—the earlier versions. He invites readers to hear the baroque 

inventiveness in such sublime books as the Songs of Songs, Ecclesiastes 

and Job, and alerts us to the echoes of the King James Bible in works 

from the Romantic period to the present day. Throughout, Bloom 

makes an impassioned and convincing case for reading the King James 

Bible as literature, free from dogma and with an appreciation of its 

enduring aesthetic value. 

Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives Agency, New York

The National Gallery • London 

18 

Art 

Nicholas Holtam has been vicar of 

St Martin-in-the-Fields and the 

National Gallery London’s parish 

priest since 1995. Richard Chartres 

is the Bishop of London. 

June 120 pp. 200x150mm. 


HB ISBN 978-1-85709-531-9 £12.99* 

The Art of Worship 

Paintings, Prayers, and Readings for Meditation 

Nicholas Holtam 

With a foreword by Richard Chartres 

The Art of Worship: Paintings, Prayers, and Readings for Meditation 

represents a unique collaboration between two famous Trafalgar Square 

institutions: the National Gallery and the church of St Martin-in-the- 

Fields. In this beautifully illustrated book, the Reverend Nicholas 

Holtam—vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields—presents his favourite 

paintings from the National Gallery, alongside religious commentary, 

Bible quotations, prayers and poetry. 

The illustrations encourage the reader to think about how art can 

sometimes be a surprising doorway into our own spirituality. Holtam 

gives his own personal response to the paintings and presents them as a 

source of reflection and contemplation. 

Many works in the National Gallery feature Christian subjects, but 

Nicholas Holtam has chosen paintings from a wide range of artists. 

His more unexpected choices include Edgar Degas’s Miss La La at the 

Cirque Fernando, Vincent van Gogh’s Long Grass with Butterflies and 

J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire. There are, too, beautiful texts, 

from writers as diverse as Iris Murdoch and Rabindranath Tagore. 

Holtam writes accessibly on themes that concern us all: struggle, 

blessing and our search for peace. This book will delight, comfort and 

challenge the reader, encouraging us to look beyond our own 

preoccupation with the self through the simple act of worship. 

Translation rights: The National Gallery Company Limited, London 

August 264 pp. 246x171mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16280-6 £25.00* 

Earthly Visions 

Theology and the Challenges of Art 

T. J. Gorringe 

This stimulating book argues that great art can function as a ‘secular 

parable’—that is, like the parables of Jesus, art can lead viewers to 

reflect on the reality and presence of God in the world. T. J. Gorringe 

examines representative secular paintings of the most significant types 

(mythological themes, genre painting, portraiture, landscape, still life, 

abstract art), showing how each type can point toward God, whether by 

envisaging an alternative future, creating aesthetic delight or teaching us 

to see things differently. His provocative study challenges the notion 

that art since the fifteenth century has become increasingly secularised. 

Gorringe gives careful consideration to each work’s historical 

background and artistic context, as well as to art historical and critical 

appraisals. With an ecumenical approach, he then provides an 

insightful argument for how each piece can be read theologically. 

Although readers may sometimes disagree with his theological stance or 

his interpretation of specific works, his engaging commentary provokes 

reflection and challenges deeper questioning and awareness. 

T. J. Gorringe is St Luke’s Professor of Theological Studies at the 

University of Exeter.

Savonarola 

The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet 

Donald Weinstein 

Biography & History 19 

Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century millenarian friar, embraced 

the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would 

become the centre of a New Age of Christian renewal and world 

domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of 

study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola’s prophetic 

career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations. 

Weinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his 

time and place, following him from his youthful rejection of a world he 

regarded as corrupt, to his engagement with that world to save it from 

itself, to his shattering confession—an admission that he had invented 

his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere 

A forgery circulated by his inquisitors Or an attempt to escape 

bone-breaking torture Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of 

the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola 

and his fate as a failed prophet. 

“Weinstein’s scholarship is impeccable and his brilliant work is both 

comprehensive and detailed.”—Stefano Dall’Aglio, Fellow at the 

Medici Archive Project 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-11193-4 £25.00* 

Donald Weinstein is professor emeritus, University of Arizona. 

He is the author of several books on Italian history and is a world 

authority on Savonarola and the Italian Renaissance. 

The Romans and Their World 

A Short Introduction 

Brian Campbell 

This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early 

years of the Republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years 

forward to 476 AD, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman 

emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell presents a fascinating and 

wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ancient 

sources and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior 

background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the 

great civilization. 

Campbell explores several themes, including the fall of the Republic, 

the impact of colourful and diverse emperors on imperial politics, the 

administrative structure of empire, and the Roman army and how 

warfare affected the Roman world. He also surveys cultural and social 

life, including religion and the rise of Christianity. Generously 

enhanced with maps and illustrations, this book is a rich and inspiring 

account of a mighty civilization and the citizens who made it so. 


42 b/w illus. 10 maps + 5 plans 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11795-0 £20.00* 

Brian Campbell is Professor of Roman History, Queen’s University, 

Belfast. His previous books include The Emperor and the Roman Army 

and Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome.

20 Art & Current Affairs 

Capturing the Essence 

Techniques for Bird Artists 

William T. Cooper 

In this stunningly beautiful book, bird artist William T. Cooper 

explores and demonstrates all aspects of drawing and painting birds. 

Renowned for his gorgeous and accurate wildlife renderings, Cooper 

here explains in detail how to create a true impression of a bird’s 

appearance. The author describes his own experiences among birds in 

the wild, discusses bird anatomy and lays out the essential principles of 

realistic painting. He guides both seasoned artists and enthusiastic 

beginners through all the techniques and processes involved in 

depicting birds anywhere in the world. 

In the first part of the book, Cooper covers materials, bird anatomy, 

methods of working from captive birds (in zoos, for example) and 

methods for working in the field. He places special emphasis on the 

artist’s understanding of the subject and how this knowledge can be 

transformed into drawings and paintings. The second part of the book 

deals with watercolours, acrylics and oil paints, explaining for each 

medium the step-by-step processes leading from beginning sketches to 

finished work. 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-17626-1 £25.00* 

William T. Cooper is a freelance artist specialising in birds. For over 

forty years he has illustrated wildlife books and exhibited artworks to 

international acclaim. 

Translation rights: CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 

The Very Hungry City 

Urban Energy Efficiency and 

the Economic Fate of Cities 

Austin Troy 

As global demand for energy grows 

and prices rise, a city’s energy 

consumption becomes increasingly 

tied to its economic viability, warns 

the author of The Very Hungry 

City. Austin Troy, a seasoned expert 

in urban environmental 

management, explains for general readers how a city with a 

high ‘urban energy metabolism’—that is, a city that needs 

large amounts of energy in order to function—will be at a 

competitive disadvantage in the future. He explores why cities 

have different energy metabolisms and discusses an array of 

innovative approaches to the problems of expensive energy 

consumption. Troy looks at dozens of cities and suburbs in 

Europe and the United States to understand the diverse factors 

that affect their energy use: behaviour, climate, water supply, 

building quality, transportation and others. 

“Austin Troy delivers a fascinating—and chilling—look at 

our cities’ dangerous dependence on an unpredictable world 

energy market. He shows why we need to break our 

addiction to cheap energy, and offers practical solutions on 

how to do it.”—Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post 

Austin Troy is associate professor in the Rubenstein School of 

Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. 

February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 47 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16231-8 £25.00* 

The Daily You 

How the Advertising Industry 

Is Defining Your Identity 

and Your World 

Joseph Turow 

The Internet is often hyped as a 

means to enhanced consumer 

power: a hypercustomised media 

world where individuals exercise 

unprecedented control over what 

they see and do. That is the 

scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted in the 

1990s, with his hypothetical online newspaper The Daily 

Me—and it is one we experience now in daily ways. But, as 

media expert Joseph Turow shows, the customised media 

environment we inhabit today reflects diminished consumer 

power. Not only ads and discounts but even news and 

entertainment are being customised by newly powerful media 

agencies on the basis of data we don’t know they are collecting 

and individualised profiles we don’t know we have. 

Drawing on groundbreaking research, including interviews 

with industry insiders, this important book shows how 

advertisers have come to wield such power over individuals 

and media outlets—and what can be done to stop it. 

Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of 

Communications and director of the Information and Society 

Division, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania. 

He is the author of eight books. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16501-2 £20.00*

Belarus 

The Last European Dictatorship 

Andrew Wilson 

Current Affairs 21 

This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus’s complicated 

road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics 

since 1991, the nation’s first year of true independence. Andrew Wilson 

focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s surprising 

longevity as president, despite human rights abuses and involvement in 

yet another rigged election in December 2010. 

Wilson looks at Belarusian history as a series of false starts in the 

medieval and pre-modern periods, and at the many rival versions of 

Belarusian identity, culminating with the Soviet Belarusian project and 

the establishment of Belarus’s current borders during World War II. 

He also addresses Belarus’s on-off relationship with Russia, its 

simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in the no-man’s-land 

between Russia and the West, and how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last 

becoming a true nation under the rule of Europe’s ‘last dictator’. 


16 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-13435-3 £20.00* 

Andrew Wilson is reader in Ukrainian studies, at the School 

of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is the author of 

The Ukrainians, Virtual Politics and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, 

all published by Yale. 

Kenya 

Between Hope and Despair, 1963–2011 

Daniel Branch 

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated 

independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of 

prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth 

anniversary of its independence, however, the people’s dream remains 

elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced 

assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence and political 

corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed and the poor 

have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya’s 

history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light 

on the nation’s struggles and the complicated causes behind them. 

Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how 

ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, 

as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues 

as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain 

and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic 

development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over 

time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular 

attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise 

government, and Kenya’s prospects as a still-evolving independent state. 


20 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-14876-3 £25.00* 

Daniel Branch is assistant professor of African history, University of 

Warwick. He is the author of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: 

Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization.

22 Sociology 

Losing It 

In which an Aging Professor laments his shrinking Brain . . . 

William Ian Miller 

In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old. 

The ‘it’ in Miller’s ‘losing it’ refers mainly to mental faculties—memory, processing speed, sensory 

acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well—sags and flaccidities, aches and 

pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs Does growing old 

gracefully mean more than simply refusing unseemly cosmetic surgeries How do we face decline and 

the final drawing of the blinds Will we know if and when we have lingered too long 

Drawing on a lifetime of deep study and anxious observation, Miller enlists the wisdom of the ancients 

to confront these vexed questions head on. Debunking the glossy new image of old age that has accompanied the graying of the 

Baby Boomers, he conjures a lost world of aging rituals—complaints, taking to bed, resentments of one’s heirs, schemes for taking 

it with you or settling up accounts and scores—to remind us of the ongoing dilemmas of old age. Darkly intelligent and 

sublimely written, this exhilarating and eccentric book will raise the spirits of readers, young and old. 

William Ian Miller is Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of seven previous 

books, including The Anatomy of Disgust. 

November 352 pp. 210x140mm. 4 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17101-3 £18.99* 

Dignity 

The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict in Our Lives and Relationships 

Donna Hicks, Ph.D. • Foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu 

The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction 

—in families, in communities, in the business world and in relationships at the international level. 

When dignity is violated, the response is likely to involve aggression, even violence, hatred and 

vengeance. On the other hand, when people treat one another with dignity they become more 

connected and are able to create more meaningful relationships. Surprisingly, most people have little 

understanding of dignity, observes Donna Hicks in this important book. She examines the reasons for 

this gap and offers a new set of strategies for becoming aware of dignity’s vital role in our lives and 

learning to put it into practice in everyday life. 

Drawing on her own extensive experience in international conflict resolution and on insights from evolutionary biology, 

psychology and neuroscience, the author explains the elements of dignity, how to recognise dignity violations, how to respond 

when we are not treated with dignity, how dignity can restore a broken relationship, why leaders must understand the concept of 

dignity and more. 

Donna Hicks is associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. 

October 240 pp. 210x140mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16392-6 £20.00* 

Elizabeth and Hazel 

Two Women of Little Rock 

David Margolick 

The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them 

from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of 

Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, 

screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation—in Little 

Rock and throughout the American South—and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. 

In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly 

braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its 

significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from 

its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth’s struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel’s long efforts 

to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness 

to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed—perhaps inevitably—over the same fissures 

and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable 

photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures. 

David Margolick is contributing editor, Vanity Fair, and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review. He was for fifteen years a 

legal affairs reporter at the New York Times. He is author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. 

October 256 pp. 234x156mm. 33 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14193-1 £18.99*

Egypt on the Brink 

Paperbacks 

From the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak • Revised Edition 

Tarek Osman 

Tarek Osman’s lively account of Egypt, its recent history, and myriad 

internal conflicts and frustrations, was published in November 2010 to 

immediate acclaim. Within months, the Egyptian people had risen in 

protest against the regime and President Mubarak was forced to resign. 

In this fully revised and updated edition, Osman tells the extraordinary 

story of the February 2011 protests, and discusses their implications for 

Egypt and the rest of the world. 

“Osman writes with a focused and uncluttered style [which will] 

retain the interest of even the most general reader.”—Joyce Tyldesley, 

Financial Times 

“[Osman] writes with feeling, backed up by an impressively broad list 

of sources as well as sharp critical insight and astute judgment.” 

—The Economist 

“[A] well researched and closely argued book.”—John R. Bradley, 

Literary Review 

“Full marks to Tarek Osman and Yale University Press for the bull’s 

eye title of Egypt on the Brink.”—Boyd Tonkin, The Independent 

23 


20 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17726-8 £9.99* 

Born and raised in Egypt, Tarek Osman was educated at the American 

University in Cairo and Bocconi University in Italy. 

Rights sold: Arabic, Dutch and French 

In Ishmael’s House 

A History of Jews in Muslim Lands 

Martin Gilbert 

In this absorbing and eloquent book Martin Gilbert presents a 

fascinating account of hope, opportunity, fear and terror that have 

characterised the relationship between Jews and Muslims through the 

1,400 years of their intertwined history. 

“[Gilbert’s] scholarship is meticulous, his tone balanced, and he takes 

care to include painstaking details.”—Marina Benjamin, 

London Evening Standard 

“A nonstop barrage of compelling facts from a breathtakingly wide 

collection of archives, to build up an overwhelming portrait of a 

people’s suffering.”—Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times 

“Gilbert explores the relationship between Jews and Muslims from 

the seventh century to the present day. A valuable, balanced 

contribution.”—Iain Finlayson, The Times 

“[This] account of the slow burning tragedy of the extinction of 

Jewish communities in the Arab world is moving and important. 

It should be read.”—Robert Irwin, The Independent 


30 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17798-5 £14.99* 

Sir Martin Gilbert is the author of more than eighty books, including the 

six-volume authorised biography of Winston Churchill. In 1995 he was 

knighted for services to British history and international relations, and in 

2009 he was appointed to the British Government’s Iraq War Inquiry. 

Translation rights: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto

24 Paperbacks 

The Anthology of Rap 

Edited by Adam Bradley 

and Andrew DuBois 

This extraordinary collection of 

lyrics showcases the poetic depth 

and diversity of rap. 

“The Anthology of Rap is among the 

best books of its kind ever 

published.”—Dan Chiasson, 

The New York Review of Books 

“Groundbreaking . . . it makes the history, development and 

variety of the genre plain to see in vivid detail.”—Bernadine 

Evaristo, The Independent 

“For the reader who’s really interested in modern poetics 

a profitable week or three could be spent sitting with 

The Anthology of Rap.”—Will Self, The Times 

“Bradley and Dubois succeed in lucidly explaining how 

societal shifts have been reflected in rap lyrics . . . This book 

is a fitting tribute to a genre not far short of its fortieth 

anniversary and which was once dismissed as a passing fad.” 

—Geoff St Louis, Time Out 

Adam Bradley is Associate Professor of English at the 

University of Colorado and the author of Book of Rhymes: The 

Poetics of Hip-Hop and Ralph Ellison in Progress. Andrew 

DuBois is Associate Professor of English at the University of 

Toronto at Scarborough and the author of Ashbery’s Forms of 

Attention. He is also co-editor of Close Reading: The Reader. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-14191-7 £16.99* 

Edward II 

Seymour Phillips 

This biography does not present 

Edward II as a heroic or successful 

king: his deposition after a turbulent 

reign of nearly twenty years is proof 

enough that it went terribly wrong. 

But Seymour Phillips’ scrutiny of the 

sources shows that a richer picture 

emerges, in line with the complexity 

of events and of the man himself. 

“This massive deeply nuanced biography draws out not only 

the King’s own contradictions but the political pressures and 

diplomatic tensions he had to contend with.” 

—Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman 

“Seymour Phillips has written an absorbing blow-by-blow 

account of the follies and misfortunes of this dark and 

depressing interlude in English History.” 

—Chris Given-Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement 

“Phillips takes us deftly through the twists and turns of 

Edward’s eventful career.”—Nigel Saul, History Today 

Seymour Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, 

University College, Dublin. 

Yale English Monarchs Series 

November 704 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17802-9 £18.99* 

What Ever Happened 

to Modernism 

Gabriel Josipovici 

A personal, penetrating and 

polemical account of what 

Modernism is, this book explores 

the literature, fine art and music 

that it has inspired—and how 

contemporary literary writing has 

failed it. 

“Josipovici’s erudite and intelligent polemic raises more 

questions than it answers—always a good thing.” 

—Tom McCarthy, The Daily Telegraph 

“A personal mapping of what modernism means to 

Josipovici, and what makes it both difficult and irreplaceable 

in his eyes . . . His books is similarly eloquent, besides being, 

in its task of charting modernism’s uniqueness, ingenious, 

unexpected, astute and insightful. It’s also—because of its 

passion and intelligence—readable, in a way a modernist 

would approve of.”—Amit Chaudhuri, The Independent 

“A welcome intervention in the long debate about the difference 

between art and entertainment.”—James Purdon, The Observer 

Gabriel Josipovici is a novelist, literary theorist, critic and 

scholar. He was Professor of English at the University of 

Sussex, and Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at 

Oxford, and is now research professor in the Graduate School 

of Humanities, Sussex. 

August 224 pp. 216x138mm. 6 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17800-5 £10.99* 

Translation rights: Johnson & Alcock, London 

Joe Louis 

Hard Times Man 

Randy Roberts 

Now available in paperback, this is 

the definitive biography of boxer 

Joe Louis, the most famous African 

American of the mid-twentieth 

century: his life, the complex cast of 

characters around him and his 

importance to the American civil 

rights movement. 

“[A] gripping life and times.”—Chris Maume, 

The Independent 

“At a time when boxing is in the doldrums, it is hard for 

Americans to fathom the magnitude of this fighter’s 

importance. Randy Roberts’s Joe Louis should jog our 

collective memory. The author of superb studies of the boxers 

Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey, Mr. Roberts spins a graceful 

and reliable narrative of Louis’s life.”—Wall Street Journal 

“A wide-ranging and convincing explanation of [Joe Louis’s] 

popularity and significance.”—Nick Pitt, The Sunday Times 

Randy Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at 

Purdue University. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17763-3 £11.99*

Music and Sentiment 

Charles Rosen 

Paperbacks 

In a succinct and penetrating work, Charles Rosen reveals how composers from Bach to Berg have used 

sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways. 

“Rosen continuously reveals and explains the fantastic, largely unglimpsed, subtlety of music’s 

expressive vocabulary . . . This book could be a revelation even to the musically illiterate.” 

—Jeremy Siepmann, BBC Music Magazine 

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“What is astonishing, given the rigour of the analysis and the apparent technicality of the approach, 

is how moving the book is.”—Simon Callow, The Guardian 

“Rosen is among the most consistently enlightening of writers . . . In this stimulating, thoroughly 

recommendable book, including dozens of music examples, Rosen once again enriches our understanding of music.” 

—Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music 

Charles Rosen is a writer and pianist of international standing. He frequently reviews The New York Review of Books and his 

published volumes include The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, The Romantic Generation, Sonata Forms, Romantic Poets, 

Critics and Other Madmen, Critical Entertainments, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas and Piano Notes. 

October 160 pp. 216x138mm. musical examples throughout PB ISBN 978-0-300-17803-6 £10.99* 

Rights sold: Italian, Japanese and Spanish 

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. Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and pertinent case studies, this much-needed 

behind-the-scenes survey reveals an emerging Asian power in a period of breathtaking social and 

economic change. 

“This is a cleverly pitched book, one that will appeal equally to a businessman or investor seeking a 

briefing on Vietnam, an old Asia hand, or an inquisitive backpacker.”—Petroc Trelawny, Irish Times 

“Examining nearly every aspect of Vietnamese politics and society, from the economy and family life, 

to religion and the plight of indigenous minorities, Hayton gives a balanced, intelligent account of a country whose history so 

differs from our own.”—Justin Wintle, Financial Times 

“An insightful book.”—Leanda de Lisle, The Spectator 

Bill Hayton is a reporter and producer who has covered Vietnam as the BBC’s correspondent. While there, he also wrote for the 

Times, the Financial Times and the Bangkok Post. 

October 272 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-17814-2 £12.99* 

Rights sold: Korean 

The Euro 

The Battle for the New Global Currency • New Edition 

David Marsh 

This book takes a look at the tumultuous history of the Euro, its status in global economics and politics and 

the pressures that present enormous challenges for the Euro’s future. This new edition has been fully updated 

to cover the dramatic events of 2010–2011, including Ireland, Greece and Portugal’s debt crises and the 

continuing tension between France and Germany over the future of the Euro. 

“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 

“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. He is especially good on the way that the two great 

European projects of our time—economic and political union—have counteracted each other.”—Philip Collins, The Times 

“Gripping . . . An indispensable guide to monetary union.”—The Economist 

“A compelling political story . . . [Marsh has] an eye for captivating details.”—Ralph Atkins, Financial Times 

David Marsh is chairman of SCCO International and co-chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. 

August 352 pp. 198x129mm. 22 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-17674-2 £12.99* 

Rights held by the author

26 History 

The Zong 

A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery 

James Walvin 

On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship 

Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: 

a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain 

believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough 

drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in 

detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how 

the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we 

remember the infamous Zong today. 

Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the Zong’s voyage and the 

subsequent trial—a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves 

but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners’ claim that their 

‘cargo’ had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted 

wide debate and fueled Britain’s awakening abolition movement. 

Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the process of 

ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and 

political trajectory. He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the 

case of the Zong, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come 

to be understood as typical of life on all such ships. 


12 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-12555-9 £18.99* 

James Walvin is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York, 

and a world expert on transatlantic slavery. He has published over thirty 

books, including Black Ivory, the seminal account of the British slave trade. 

The Problem of Slavery as History 

A Global Approach 

Joseph C. Miller 

Why did slavery—an accepted evil for thousands of years—suddenly 

become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so 

compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in 

ways that transformed the modern world Joseph C. Miller turns this 

classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, 

arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an 

institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of 

years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define 

slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places 

and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be 

understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances. 

“Breathtaking in its erudition, The Problem of Slavery as History 

speaks forcefully to the canon of slavery scholarship. It takes a 

provocative stance against the prevailing interpretation and challenges 

us to think hard and critically about how we have written the history 

of slavery. Miller’s work is a truly brilliant scholarly statement that 

deserves the widest attention.”—James Stewart, Macalester College 

Joseph C. Miller is T. Cary Johnson Jr. Professor in the Department of 

History at the University of Virginia and a pre-eminent historian of 

world slavery. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-11315-0 £25.00

Ralph Tailor’s Summer 

A Scrivener, his City and the Plague 

Keith Wrightson 

History 27 

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the 

most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in 

detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as 

others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor. 

As a scrivener Tailor was responsible for many of the wills and 

inventories of his fellow citizens. By listening to and writing down the 

final wishes of the dying, the young scrivener often became the 

principal provider of comfort in people’s last hours. 

Drawing on the rich records left by Tailor during the course of his 

work along with many other sources, Keith Wrightson vividly 

reconstructs life in the early modern city during a time of crisis and 

envisions what such a calamitous decimation of the population must 

have meant for personal, familial and social relations. 

Keith Wrightson is the Townsend Professor of History at Yale 

University and the author of Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early 

Modern Britain. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17447-2 £20.00* 

The Serpent and the Lamb 

Cranach, Luther and the Making of the Reformation 

Steven Ozment 

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German 

Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial 

men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach 

(the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin 

Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each was godfather to 

the other’s children), Cranach and Luther were very different Germans, 

yet their collaborative successes merged art and religion into a 

revolutionary force that became the Protestant Reformation. Steven 

Ozment, an internationally recognised historian of the Reformation 

era, reprises the lives and works of Cranach (1472–1553) and Luther 

(1483–1546) in this generously illustrated book. He contends that 

Cranach’s new art and Luther’s oratory released a barrage of criticism 

upon the Vatican, the force of which secured a new freedom of faith 

and pluralism of religion in the Western world. Between Luther’s pulpit 

praise of the sex drive within the divine estate of marriage and 

Cranach’s parade of strong, lithe women, a new romantic, familial 

consciousness was born. The ‘Cranach woman’ and the ‘Lutheran 

household’—both products of the merged Renaissance and 

Reformation worlds—evoked a new organisation of society and 

foretold a new direction for Germany. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-16985-0 £25.00* 

Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, 

Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including 

Age of Reform, 1250–1550.

28 History 

YALE ENGLISH MONARCHS 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-11810-0 £25.00* 


28 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11910-7 £30.00* 

Mary I 

England’s Catholic Queen 

John Edwards 

The lifestory of Mary I—daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, 

Catherine of Aragon—is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her 

victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment 

of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants, her short 

marriage to Philip of Spain. This original and deeply researched 

biography paints a far more detailed portrait of Mary and offers a fresh 

understanding of her religious faith and policies, as well as her 

historical significance in England and beyond. 

John Edwards, a leading scholar of English and Spanish history, is the 

first to make full use of Continental archives in this context, especially 

Spanish ones, to demonstrate how Mary’s culture, Catholic faith and 

politics were thoroughly Spanish. Edwards begins with Mary’s origins, 

follows her as she battles her increasingly erratic father, and focuses 

particular attention on her notorious religious policies, some of which 

went horribly wrong from her point of view. Edwards evaluates Mary’s 

five-year reign and the frustrations that plagued her final years. 

John Edwards is Modern Languages Faculty Research Fellow in 

Spanish, University of Oxford. His recent books include The Spanish 

Inquisition, Ferdinand and Isabella and Isabella: Catholic Queen and 

Madam of Spain. 

Edward III 

W. Mark Ormrod 

Edward III (1312–1377) was the most successful European ruler of his 

age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military 

triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from 

parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by his subjects as a 

chivalric dynamo, he initiated the Hundred Years War and led his men 

into battle against the Scots and the French. 

In this illuminating biography, W. Mark Ormrod takes a deeper look at 

Edward to reveal the man beneath the military muscle. What emerges 

is Edward’s clear sense of his duty to rebuild the prestige of the Crown, 

and through military gains and shifting diplomacy, to secure a legacy 

for posterity. New details of the splendour of Edward’s court, lavish 

national celebrations, and innovative use of imagery establish the king’s 

instinctive understanding of the bond between ruler and people. 

With fresh emphasis on how Edward’s rule was affected by his family 

relationships—including his roles as traumatised son, loving husband 

and dutiful father—Ormrod gives a valuable new dimension to our 

understanding of this remarkable warrior king. 

W. Mark Ormrod is a Professor in the Department of History, 

University of York. 

Also newly available from this series: Edward II, now in paperback (see page 24)

It Was a Long Time 

Ago, and It Never 

Happened Anyway 

Russia and the Communist Past 

David Satter 

Russia today is haunted by deeds 

that have been unexamined and 

words that have been left unsaid. 

A serious attempt to understand 

the meaning of the communist 

experience has not been undertaken and millions of victims of 

Soviet communism are all but forgotten. In this book, 

David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the 

Financial Times and long-time writer on Russia and the Soviet 

Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia’s great 

historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia’s failure fully to 

appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the 

objectives of the state. 

Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the 

living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the 

individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new 

way of understanding the Russian experience. 

David Satter is senior fellow, Hudson Institute, and fellow, 

Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of 

Advanced International Studies. His previous books Age of 

Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and 

Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State are 

both available from Yale. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-11145-3 £25.00* 

History 29 

The Stalin Cult 

A Study in the Alchemy of Power 

Jan Plamper 

Between the late 1920s and the 

early 1950s, one of the most 

persuasive personality cults of all 

times saturated Soviet public space 

with images of Stalin. A torrent of 

portraits, posters, statues, films, 

plays, songs and poems galvanized 

the Soviet population and inspired 

leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine 

the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin 

cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, 

party patrons, state functionaries and ultimately Stalin himself 

in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked 

Georgian into the embodiment of global communism. 

Departing from interpretations of the Stalin cult as an 

outgrowth of Russian mysticism or Stalin’s psychopathology, 

Plamper establishes the cult’s context within a broader 

international history of modern personality cults constructed 

around Napoleon III, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao. Drawing 

upon evidence from previously inaccessible Russian archives, 

Plamper’s lavishly illustrated and accessibly written study will 

appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century history, visual 

studies, the politics of representation, dictator biography, 

socialist realism and real socialism. 

Jan Plamper is Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for 

Human Development in Berlin. 

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War 

February 352 pp. 254x178mm. 62 b/w + 21 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16952-2 £40.00* No Russian rights 

Petersburg Fin de Siècle 

Mark D. Steinberg 

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time 

of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired 

an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores 

how journalists and other writers in St Petersburg described 

and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian 

revolutions of 1905 and 1917. 

Mark Steinberg examines the work of writers of all kinds, 

from anonymous journalists to well-known public 

intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. 

Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were 

remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They 

grappled with the impact of technological and material 

progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety 

and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker 

perspective on the history of St Petersburg on the eve of 

revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia’s experience of 

modernity. 

Mark D. Steinberg is professor of history at the University of 

Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Fall of 

the Romanovs and Voices of Revolution, 1917, both published 

by Yale. 

January 400 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16504-3 £35.00* 

Propaganda State in Crisis 

Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 

1927–1941 

David Brandenberger 

The USSR is often regarded as the world’s first propaganda 

state. Particularly under Stalin, politically-charged rhetoric and 

imagery dominated the press, the schools, and the cultural 

forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party 

propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to 

promote a coherent sense of ‘Soviet’ identity during the 

interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilise 

society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the 

party’s ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. 

It also analyses the impact that the ‘official line’ had at the 

grassroots by tracking the resonance that this propaganda 

generated within society at large. An exposé of systemic failure 

within Stalin’s ideological establishment, Propaganda State in 

Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination 

and mass mobilisation between 1927 and 1941. 

David Brandenberger is associate professor of history at the 

University of Richmond, Virginia. 

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-15537-2 £40.00

30 History 

The Music Libel Against the Jews 

Ruth HaCohen 

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, 

since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have 

associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study 

on a ‘musical libel’—a variation on the Passion story that 

recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent 

Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his 

‘harmonious musicality’. In paying close attention to how and 

where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swathe of 

western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetictheological 

assumptions have persistently defined European 

culture and its internal moral and political orientations. 

Ruth HaCohen combines in her analysis the perspectives of 

musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology and 

anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish ‘noise’ and 

idealised Christian ‘harmony’ and their artistic manifestations 

from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and 

beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving 

argument for humanising contemporary soundspaces. 

Ruth HaCohen is Arthur Rubinstein Chair of Musicology at 

Hebrew University. 

November 512 pp. 234x156mm. 80 b/w + 9 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16778-8 £40.00 

A German Generation 

An experiential History of the Twentieth Century 

Thomas A. Kohut 

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of 

World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic 

century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so 

doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as 

experienced and made by ordinary human beings. 

On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book 

shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a 

series of historically engendered losses over the course of the 

century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to 

repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the 

community of the ‘Volk’ during the Third Reich, a racial 

collective to which this generation was passionately committed 

and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its 

popular appeal. 

Thomas A. Kohut is the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III 

Professor of History at Williams College and author of 

Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership. 

New Directions in Narrative History 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17003-0 £30.00 

Israel 

An Introduction 

Edited by Barry Rubin 

This comprehensive book provides a 

well-rounded introduction to Israel— 

a definitive account of the nation’s past, 

its often controversial present and much 

more. Edited by a leading historian of 

the Middle East, Israel is organised 

around six major themes: land and 

people, history, society, politics, 

economics and culture. The only 

available volume to offer such a 

complete account, this book is written 

for general readers and students who 

may have little background knowledge 

of this nation or its rich culture. 

The contributors to the book offer 

accessible, clearly explained material, 

enhanced with a generous selection of 

images, maps, charts, tables, graphs and 

sidebars. 

Barry Rubin is professor and director 

of the Global Research in International 

Affairs Center at the Interdisciplinary 

Center, Herzliya, Israel. He is also 

editor of the Middle East Review of 

International Affairs and author of 

numerous books on the Middle East. 

February 320 pp. 254x178mm. 

86 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-16230-1 £20.00* 

The Rise of Female Kings 

in Europe, 1300–1800 

William Monter 

In this lively and pathbreaking book, 

William Monter sketches Europe’s 

increasing acceptance of autonomous 

female rulers between the late Middle 

Ages and the French Revolution. 

Monter surveys the governmental 

records of Europe’s thirty women 

monarch—the famous (Mary Stuart, 

Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well 

as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, 

Isabel Clara Eugenia of the 

Netherlands)—describing how each of 

them achieved sovereign authority, 

wielded it and (more often than men) 

abandoned it. Monter argues that 

Europe’s female kings, who ruled by 

divine right, experienced no significant 

political opposition despite their gender. 

“Informative, provocative, and 

engaging, Monter’s study of queens who 

ruled in their own name illuminates 

their lives and accomplishments and 

offers readers rich and intriguing fare.” 

—Kathleen Wellman, 

Southern Methodist University 

William Monter is professor emeritus 

of history, Northwestern University. 


19 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17327-7 £25.00* 

The Conversion 

of Scandinavia 

Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries 

in the Remaking of Northern Europe 

Anders Winroth 

In this book an award-winning scholar 

argues for a radically new interpretation 

of the conversion of Scandinavia from 

paganism to Christianity in the early 

Middle Ages. Overturning the received 

narrative of Europe’s military and 

religious conquest and colonisation of 

the region, Anders Winroth contends 

that rather than acting as passive 

recipients, Scandinavians converted to 

Christianity because it was in individual 

chieftains’ political, economic and 

cultural interests to do so. 

Through a painstaking analysis and 

historical reconstruction of both 

archeological and literary sources, and 

drawing on scholarly work that has 

been unavailable in English, Winroth 

opens up new avenues for studying 

European ascendency and the expansion 

of Christianity in the medieval period. 

Anders Winroth, professor of history at 

Yale, is the author of The Making of 

Gratian’s Decretum. 


24 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17026-9 £30.00

Art 31 

A visually stunning and 

seductive book that celebrates 

the mysterious and enigmatic 

world created by Vermeer in 

some of the best-loved and 

most characteristic works 

from late in his career 

Johannes Vermeer, A Woman Holding a Balance (detail), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 

Widener Collection. 

Vermeer’s Women 

Secrets and Silence 

Marjorie E. Wieseman, Wayne E. Franits 

and H. Perry Chapman 

Centring on the extraordinary Lacemaker from the Musée du Louvre, 

this beautiful book investigates the subtle and enigmatic paintings by 

Johannes Vermeer that celebrate the intimacy of the Dutch household. 

Moments frozen in paint that reveal young women sewing, reading or 

playing musical instruments, captured in Vermeer’s uniquely luminous 

style, recreate a silent, mysterious domestic realm, closed to the outside 

world and inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. 

Exhibition 

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 

5/10/11 – 15/1/12 

Published in association with the 

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 

November 

224 pp. 256x192mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17899-9 £20.00* 

Three experts explain why women engaged in mundane domestic tasks 

or in pleasurable pastimes are some of the most popular Dutch 

paintings of the seventeenth century. Among the most intriguing of 

these compositions are those that consciously avoid any engagement 

with the viewer. Rather than acknowledging our presence, figures avert 

their gazes or turn their backs; they stare moodily into space or focus 

intently on the activities at hand, giving the impression that we have 

stumbled upon a private world kept hidden from casual regard. 

Other Dutch painters also imbued domestic scenes with an air of silent 

mystery, and the book features works by some of the most important 

masters of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, among them 

Gerard ter Borch, Gerrit Dou, Pieter de Hooch and Jan Steen. 

Marjorie E. Wieseman is Curator of Dutch Paintings 1600–1800 

at the National Gallery, London. Wayne E. Franits is professor 

and chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University. 

H. Perry Chapman is professor of art history at the University of Delaware. 

Translation rights: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

32 

Art 

Exhibition 

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 

2/7/11 – 2/1/12 

Philip Long is a senior curator at the 

Scottish National Gallery of Modern 

Art in Edinburgh and is an 

acknowledged expert on Scottish art. 

He is the author of books on 

William Gillies, John Maxwell and 

Anne Redpath as well as on the 

Scottish Colourists. 

July 112 pp. 265x245mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17900-2 £20.00* 

Elizabeth Blackadder 

Phil Long 

Elizabeth Blackadder is one of Britain’s best-known and respected 

artists. She has played a major role in revitalising long-established 

traditions of landscape, still life and flower painting in Scotland. 

At once profoundly Scottish and enticingly exotic, her art is also 

both familiar and mysterious. As she approaches her eightieth birthday, 

there are no signs that her passion for making art is diminishing. 

This generously illustrated book tells the fascinating story of her career, 

from her early days as a student in Edinburgh, and her friendships with 

Scottish painters William Gillies, William MacTaggart and Anne 

Redpath, to her very recent work. 

Blackadder has developed an art that is highly personal, yet accessible and 

beautiful. It explores a diverse range of subjects through many media, 

drawing on the artist’s experiences of foreign travel, as well as plant forms 

and animals closer to home. Her analytical eye allows her to see the 

underlying structure, design and colour harmony in both the exotic and 

the everyday. Her success can be mapped out easily with impressive lists of 

exhibitions, steady sales and official honours, and her art is represented in 

many museums and private collections. Yet, in spite of all these accolades, 

there remains a lingering sense that Blackadder’s art has not received the 

attention it deserves. Perhaps this is because the power of her art is 

sometimes masked by the charm of her subject matter or the deceptive 

ease of her technique, while her quiet mastery and natural reticence seem 

at odds with much of the work of today’s artists. As a result, we still seem 

some distance from establishing a definitive view of Blackadder’s 

achievement. This book, therefore, is both a celebration of and an 

invitation to look again at the work of one of our greatest living painters. 

Published in association with the National Galleries of Scotland

Art 33 

The first comprehensive study 

of Knoll’s innovative textile 

designs and the company’s 

role within the history of 

interior design 

Eszter Haraszty, Perspective of Dallas exhibition, ca. 1952. Handwoven textiles and mixed 

media on paper. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts de Montréal, Liliane and David M. Stewart 

Collection, gift of the American Friends of Canada through the generosity of Eszter Haraszty. 

Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010 

Exhibition 

Bard Graduate Center, 18/5 – 31/7/11 

Published for the Bard Graduate Center 

for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 

Design, and Culture, New York 

July 400 pp. 265x216mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17069-6 £45.00* 

Edited by Earl Martin • With essays by Paul Makovsky, 

Bobbye Tigerman, Angela Völker and Susan Ward 

In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon 

earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust 

joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, Knoll 

Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after their marriage, Hans and 

Florence Knoll added a third division, Knoll Textiles, which brought 

textile production in line with a modern sensibility that used colour 

and texture as primary design elements. In the early years, the company 

hired leading proponents of modern design as well as new young, 

untried designers to create textile patterns. The division thrived in the 

late 1940s through 1960s and, in the following decade, adopted a more 

international outlook as design direction shifted to Europe. In the late 

1970s and 1980s, Knoll tapped fashion designers and architects to 

bolster its brand. The pioneering use of new materials and a 

commitment to innovative design have remained Knoll’s hallmarks. 

With essays by experts, biographies of about seventy-five designers and 

images of textiles, drawings, furniture and ephemera, Knoll Textiles, 

1945–2010 is the first comprehensive study devoted to a leading 

contributor to modern textile design. Highlighting the individuals and 

ideas that shaped Knoll Textiles, this book brings the brand and the role 

of textiles in the history of design to the forefront of public attention. 

Earl Martin is associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center, 

New York. Paul Makovsky is editorial director of Metropolis Magazine. 

Bobbye Tigerman is assistant curator of decorative arts at the Los 

Angeles County Museum of Art. Angela Völker is emeritus curator of 

textiles at the MAK, Vienna. Susan Ward is an independent scholar. 

Translation rights: Bard Graduate Center, New York

34 Art 

Tony Cragg 

Patrick Elliott 

Born in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of today’s most celebrated and 

popular sculptors. Before studying art he worked as a laboratory 

technician, which has had an enormous influence on his practice. 

His work fuses art and science in a rich and arresting way, and he 

works in an astonishing variety of styles and materials, including 

bronze, glass, plaster, wood, fibreglass and plastics. In 1988 he won 

the Turner Prize. 

This beautiful book, celebrating the work of one of the world’s most 

successful and respected artists, concentrates on works made in the last 

ten years, but it includes also examples of earlier work, and has been 

produced in close consultation with Cragg. 

Exhibition 

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 

Edinburgh, 3/7 – 6/11/11 

July 100 pp. 300x240mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17898-2 £19.95* 

Patrick Elliott is a senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery 

of Modern Art in Edinburgh. He has written widely on British art 

including on the Boyle Family, Richard Long and Tracey Emin, 

and he is the author of Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miro and the 

Surrealists (2010). 

Published in association with the National Galleries of Scotland 

Ron Mueck 

David Hurlston is Curator, 

Australian Art, National Gallery 

of Victoria. 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-17683-4 £19.99* 

David Hurlston • With essays by Lisa Baldissera, Nicholas Chambers, 

James Fox, Kelly Gellatly, Ted Gott, Susanna Greeves, Philip Long, 

Angela Ndalianis, Justin Paton, Craig Raine and Angus Trumble 

Ron Mueck is known for his extraordinarily lifelike sculptures of people 

in fragile, naked states: a postpartum woman, a crouching, cornered 

man, and, perhaps most famously, the body of his dead father. Mueck 

plays dramatically with scale; a newborn baby, with traces of afterbirth 

and blood, looms impressively over viewers, measuring sixteen feet 

from crown to foot, while an embracing couple would fit easily on a 

coffee table. In each case, the amount of detail—individual pores and 

dimples, hairs and blemishes—is uncanny. Mueck’s obsessive attention 

to detail and craft has its beginnings in his early days as a model maker 

and puppeteer for films like Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. It was in 1997, 

when noted dealer Charles Saatchi discovered Mueck’s work and 

included his sculpture Dead Dad in the groundbreaking Sensation show, 

that Mueck began to attract international attention. Today, the artist’s 

sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent and 

identifiable works of contemporary art. 

Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this beautifully illustrated 

book is the first to provide a comprehensive look at Mueck’s work to 

date. The book offers detailed insight into the artist’s ideas and methods 

and features a catalogue raisonné. Essays by leading scholars highlight the 

depth of his practice and further affirm Mueck’s importance. 

Published in association with the National Gallery of Victoria 

Translation rights: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 

Not for sale in Australia and New Zealand

In the Picture 

Self-Portraits, 1958–2011 

Art 

Lee Friedlander 

With an afterword by Richard Benson 

Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of 

self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an 

unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful 

engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compilation, 

which includes hundreds of previously unpublished pictures, we follow 

the famous photographer through the years as his personal and creative 

lives unfold and intertwine. 

Produced to the highest production standards and featuring over 400 

duotone images—from his first self-portraits, taken with cable release 

in hand, to recent images of the photographer with his family and 

extended network of friends—In the Picture explores Friedlander’s 

various guises throughout a rich and colourful life. 

35 


450 duotone illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17729-9 £50.00* 

Lee Friedlander is a photographer based in New York City. 

Richard Benson is a photographer and former dean of the Yale 

University School of Art. 

Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery 

Sol LeWitt, Splotch #15 (2005). Acrylic on 

fiberglass. View from ‘Sol LeWitt on the Roof: 

Splotches, Whirls, and Twirls’ 

(April 26– October 30, 2005), 

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. 

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17861-6 £35.00* 

Sol LeWitt 

Structures, 1965–2005 

Edited by Nicholas Baume 

With essays by Nicholas Baume, Rachel Haidu, Anna Lovatt, Joe Madura 

and Kirsten Swenson • Foreword by Susan K. Freedman 

Sol LeWitt, renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and 

Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps 

best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. 

Throughout his career, however, LeWitt also created many remarkable 

three-dimensional works suitable for display in outdoor settings. In this 

handsome publication, which accompanies the first major career survey of 

LeWitt’s ‘structures’, the artist’s modular works are traced from their 

simplest manifestation in a single large-scale cube through multiple 

variations, with examples from the 1960s through the 1990s. Works from 

the 1980s onward explore the three-dimensional possibilities of diverse 

geometric forms, such as stars, and the introduction of new materials, 

including concrete block and fiberglass, stimulating experimentation with 

non-geometric, irregular forms on an increasing scale. 

Nicholas Baume is director and chief curator, Public Art Fund; 

Susan K. Freedman is president, Public Art Fund; Rachel Haidu is 

associate professor of Art History, University of Rochester; Joe Madura 

is research associate, Public Art Fund; Anna Lovatt is lecturer in Art 

History, University of Nottingham; Kirsten Swenson is assistant 

professor of Art History, University of Nevada. 

Distributed for the Public Art Fund, New York City 

Translation rights: Public Art Fund, New York

36 Art 

Kosta Alex 

Florian Rodari 

The Greek-American artist Kosta Alex initially trained in figure sculpture in Manhattan. In 1947 

he moved to Paris, where he mingled with and exhibited alongside the avant-garde artists of his 

day. His interest in the flattening of forms led him to create his first series of decoupage-collages 

in about 1950. Like many other artists of the time, he was drawn to using humble, utilitarian 

materials such as corrugated cardboard, packaging, newspapers, magazines, wallpaper, timetables, 

lists, maps and other scraps culled from daily urban life. He integrated these elements into his art 

in an often poetic and humorous manner, using screws, nuts, staples, rope, string and glue to 

connect them into a cohesive whole. 

Alex also drew inspiration from classical sculpture, primitive art and Islamic art, and employed 

repetitive themes and rhythmic arrangements in his compositions. In the late 1960s and early 

1970s he produced groundbreaking collage-reliefs in expanded polystyrene, which Man Ray praised for breaking ‘the twodimensional 

barrier’. Handsomely illustrated, Kosta Alex is the first monograph on this intriguing artist. 

Florian Rodari is the former director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, curator of the Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier 

de Saint-Prex and curator of the Fondation Jean et Suzanne Planque at the Musée Granet d’Aix-en-Provence. 

Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris 

October 180 pp. 300x248mm. 30 b/w + 100 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17665-0 £40.00* 

Translation rights: Editions Hazan, Paris 

Dubuffet as Architect 

Daniel Abadie 

As the champion of ‘Art Brut’, the artist Jean Dubuffet is remembered foremost as a painter. Yet 

his creative instinct extended far beyond the parameters of paint. Later in his life, in 1965, his 

interest in architecture was sparked by a commission for two large-scale paintings for the 

University of Nanterre in Paris. Although he ultimately abandoned that project, he became 

intrigued by the idea of producing large works in a more enduring format, capable of 

withstanding the elements. He experimented with different media in search of a solution, 

producing works in ceramic, concrete and eventually plastic resin. 

The large size and relief surface of his 1967 Mur Bleu (Blue Wall) catapulted his painting into the 

third dimension. Commissions followed, and today Dubuffet’s massive architectural forms grace 

cities across the globe, earning him a medal from the American Institute of Architects in 1982. These inventive and playful works 

are testament to Dubuffet’s desire to expand his practice through new materials and techniques into new dimensions. 

Exhibition 

Henie Onstad Foundation, Hovikodden-Oslo, 10/3 – 29/5/11 

Skissernas Museum, Lund, 30/6 – 1/9/11; Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, 20/10/11 – 22/1/12 

Daniel Abadie’s former positions have included curator at the French Musée National d’Art Moderne and director of the Musée 

du Jeu de Paume in Paris. 


July 192 pp. 290x240mm. 160 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-17661-2 £25.00* 

Aalto and America 

Edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske and David Fixler 


Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career: 

the Finland Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, Baker House at MIT and the Library at 

Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. Beyond the works themselves, the interaction of Aalto and 

America proved to be significant for both Aalto and American architecture. Aalto’s engagement 

reached far beyond that of a tourist or casual traveller, or even an astute observer. It involved, 

rather, virtually all facets of his life and work. Aalto and America calls attention to the complex 

nature of Aalto’s experience with America. It explores his key works in depth while examining 

larger themes in international politics, architectural culture, housing research, and modernist 

criticism and design. In doing so, it highlights the distinctive strain of modernism that Aalto and 

others practised around 1940 in Europe and the United States. 

Stanford Anderson is professor and former head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Gail Fenske is professor of architecture at Roger Williams University. David Fixler is an architect with EYP in Boston. 

October 320 pp. 267x216mm. 100 b/w + 150 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17600-1 £45.00*

Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921 

Reinventing Tradition 

Susan Grace Galassi and Marilyn McCully 

Art 

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is acknowledged as one of the greatest 

draftsmen of the twentieth century. Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921 

follows the dazzling development of his drawing practice from the 

precocious academic exercises of his youth to his renewal of classicism in 

his virtuoso output of the early 1920s. A selection of more than seventy 

works on paper, with extended entries, highlights his stylistic experiments 

and techniques during this roughly thirty-year period, which begins and 

ends in a classical mode and encompasses his most radical innovations. 

37 

Exhibition 

The Frick Collection, New York, 

4/10/11 – 8/1/12 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 

5/2/12 – 6/5/12 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17073-3 £35.00* 

An essay by Susan Grace Galassi provides a detailed study of Picasso’s 

drawing practice and explores his interest in the Old Masters, and 

Marilyn McCully considers the early critical responses to Picasso’s 

drawings. These discussions demonstrate how drawing served as an 

essential means of invention and discovery for the artist. This book 

brings to the fore Picasso’s engagement with artists of the past and ways 

in which he perpetuated, competed with and reinvented the practices 

of his artistic mentors. Through emulation, allusion, dissection and 

outright hijacking, Picasso continued the grand tradition of drawing in 

a revitalised form. This study reveals the extent to which the artist 

relied on drawing as a means of synthesising past and present, tradition 

and innovation, to give his own art a bold and vigorous expression. 

Susan Grace Galassi is senior curator at The Frick Collection, 

New York. Marilyn McCully is an independent scholar. 

Translation rights: The Frick Collection, New York 

Alighiero e Boetti 

Mark Godfrey 

Alighiero e Boetti (1940–1994) has emerged as one of the most 

significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an 

unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be 

attributed to the material diversity of his work, its conceptual ingenuity 

and his political sensibility. His work, though usually associated with 

the Italian Arte Povera group and Conceptual Art, never quite fitted 

into these contexts. Boetti ceased making Arte Povera-type objects in 

1969 after a few years of association with the group, and his later 

choice of materials (embroidery, calligraphy, mosaic, kilims) put a gulf 

between his work and that of most artists of the 1970s and 1980s. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-14875-6 £35.00* 

Boetti had an idiosyncratic style of working, and he often collaborated 

with or commissioned others to execute his ideas, including his 

celebrated maps of the world, colourfully embroidered by women in 

Afghanistan and Pakistan. He tended to create several divergent bodies 

of work at once in series that he continued throughout his life. This is 

the first monograph covering the whole career of this crucial artist to 

be published in English. Rather than present a linear account of the 

artist’s creative practice, the book contains linked chapters that 

expound the key subjects of Boetti’s art, and position this work in 

relation to that of his European and American contemporaries. 

Mark Godfrey is a curator at Tate Modern in London and a former 

lecturer at the Slade School of Art, University College London.

38 Art 

Inigo Jones 

The Architect of Kings 

Vaughan Hart 

Inigo Jones (1573–1652) is widely acknowledged to have been 

England’s most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart 

kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical 

language of architecture to the country. He famously travelled to Italy 

and studied firsthand the buildings of the Italian masters, particularly 

admiring those by Andrea Palladio. 

Much less well known is the profound influence of native British arts 

and crafts on Jones’s architecture. Likewise, his hostility to the more 

opulent forms of Italian architecture he saw on his travels has largely 

gone unnoted. This book examines both of these overlooked issues. 

Vaughan Hart identifies well-established links between the classical 

column and the crown prior to Jones, in early Stuart masques, 

processions, heraldry, paintings and poems. He goes on to discuss 

Jones’s preference for a ‘masculine and unaffected’ architecture, 

demonstrating that this plain style was consistent with the Puritan 

artistic sensitivities of Stuart England. For the first time, the work of 

Inigo Jones is understood in its national religious and political context. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-14149-8 £35.00* 

Vaughan Hart is professor of architecture in the Department of 

Architecture and Civil Engineering, Bath University. 

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 

Canterbury Cathedral Priory 

in the Age of Becket 

Peter Fergusson 

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building programme that 

took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, from 1153 to 1167, during 

the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as 

archbishop of Canterbury. Masterminded by Prior Wibert, the renewal 

included the physical expansion of the cathedral’s precinct, the 

construction of new buildings and the installation of a pioneering 

pressurized water system. This ambitious undertaking utilised a Late 

Romanesque style, lavish materials and sculpture, and drew on the 

optimism and creative energy of the young Angevin rulers of England, 

Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. 

Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket reassesses the surviving 

remains and relates them to important changes in Benedictine 

monasticism concerned with hospitality, hygiene, the administration of 

law, liturgy and the care of the sick. It also restores to history a 

neglected major patron of unusual breadth and accomplishments. 

Peter Fergusson sheds fresh light on the social and cultural history of 

the mid-twelfth century. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17569-1 £50.00* 

Peter Fergusson is emeritus professor of art history at Wellesley College. 

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Venice Disputed 

Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550–1600 

Deborah Howard 

Art 39 

In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians 

argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously 

reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, 

engineers and members of the public. Written by a leading authority on 

Venetian architecture, Venice Disputed explores the complex dialectic 

between theory and practice, between utopia and reality, and between 

design and technology that infused these disputes. 

Deborah Howard is professor of 

architectural history, University of 

Cambridge, and fellow of St John’s 

College, Cambridge. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17685-8 £45.00* 

The bitterly contested debates are seen through the experiences of one 

particular Venetian nobleman, Marc’Antonio Barbaro (1518–1595). 

Recognised as a gifted stuccoist and draftsman, Barbaro played a 

prominent role in the discussions about major state building projects 

such as Palladio’s church of the Redentore, the restoration of the Doge’s 

Palace, and the erection of the Rialto Bridge. He was a distinguished 

statesman and a renowned orator, but his idealistic views about the 

rhetorical power of classicism frequently clashed with local 

technological expertise. The book recounts not only his public role but 

also his private life, centred on the now-famous family villa that he and 

his brother commissioned. Barbaro’s compelling story thus weaves 

together politics, architectural history and private life in early modern 

Venice. 

And Diverse 

Are Their Hues 

Color in Islamic Art 

and Culture 

Edited by Jonathan M. 

Bloom and Sheila S. Blair 

The Koran uses the phrase 

‘and diverse are their hues’ to 

describe the glorious 

chromatic variety of God’s 

creation. This comprehensive volume is the first to analyse the 

use of colour in Islamic art and architecture from a range of 

artistic and cultural perspectives. 

A team of scholars discuss the applications and implications of 

colour in Islamic cultures from medieval to modern times and 

from Central Asia to Spain and beyond. They look at art, 

architecture, literature, philosophy, mysticism, optics and 

conservation studies. Amply and vividly illustrated, And 

Diverse Are Their Hues is also a remarkable visual resource for 

Islamic carpets, ceramic tiles, manuscripts, gardens and 

buildings. 

Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair share the Hamad bin Khalifa 

Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth 

University and the Norma Jean Calderwood University 

Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. 

The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art 

Published in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia 

Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth 

University School of the Arts in Qatar 

October 408 pp. 290x230mm. 5 b/w + 265 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17572-1 £45.00* 

Imprinting the Divine 

Byzantine and Russian Icons 

from The Menil Collection 

Annemarie Weyl Carr, 

Bertrand Davezac 

and Clare Elliott 

The Menil Collection in 

Houston houses an important 

collection of Byzantine and 

Russian icons that spans over 

one thousand years, from the seventh to the eighteenth 

century. Imprinting the Divine presents sixty of these exquisite 

works in full colour, accompanied by compelling descriptions 

and essays that explore the history and artistry of these images. 

Christian Orthodoxy developed in the Near East during the 

Byzantine Empire and eventually spread to the surrounding 

regions of Greece, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria. Along with the 

practices of the faith came the tradition of icons, which varied 

stylistically by region. Most often painted on wooden panels, 

these icons are more than just depictions of holy people; they 

are, in effect, holy images that transcend time and place. 

Exhibition The Menil Collection, 21/10/11 – 4/3/12 

Annemarie Weyl Carr is a university distinguished professor 

emerita of art history at Southern Methodist University. 

Bertrand Davezac is a scholar of early medieval art and a 

former curator at The Menil Collection. Clare Elliott is 

assistant curator at The Menil Collection. 

Distributed for the Menil Collection 

January 160 pp. 279x222mm. 85 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16968-3 £35.00* 

Translation rights: Menil Foundation, Houston

40 Art 

William Nicholson 

Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 

Patricia Reed • With Wendy Baron and Merlin James 

William Nicholson is among the most admired and elusive painters in 

British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing 

paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. 

Nicholson made his name as a graphic artist in the 1890s before turning 

to painting full-time. Over the next four decades he explored the genres 

of portraiture, landscape and still life with exceptional inventiveness, wit 

and technical skill. Yet his aversion to art groups and his reluctance to 

make public pronouncements about art have made it difficult to place 

his work within the main narratives of twentieth-century art history. 

Patricia Reed is an independent art 

historian and is the principal scholar 

on the oil paintings of William 

Nicholson. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17054-2 £95.00* 

The breadth of Nicholson’s painting is revealed in this sumptuous 

book, the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the oils. Many of 

Nicholson’s pictures have not been recorded before and most are 

reproduced here for the first time. The catalogue, which represents 

more than twenty years of scholarship on the part of its author, Patricia 

Reed, includes detailed entries on all Nicholson’s oil paintings and the 

most comprehensive chronology of his life to date. The art historian 

Wendy Baron gives a context for Nicholson in British art at the 

beginning of the twentieth century, and the painter and critic Merlin 

James celebrates the virtuosity of Nicholson’s painting technique and 

the cerebral subtlety of this most individual of painters. 

Distributed for Modern Art Press Ltd 

Translation rights: Modern Art Press, Ltd 

The New Painting of the 1860s 

Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement 

Allen Staley 

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the 

most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade 

of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting 

of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, 

Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon 

and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings by Frederick 

Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and 

his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. 

Allen Staley argues that engagement in the decorative arts, particularly 

by Burne-Jones, Moore and Poynter at the outset of their careers, led to 

a transcending of traditional expectations of painting, making abstract 

formal qualities, or beauty for beauty’s sake, the main goal. Rather than 

being about what it depicts, the painting itself becomes its own subject. 

The New Painting of the 1860s examines the interplay among the artists 

and the shared ambitions underlying their works, giving impetus to 

what would soon come to be known as the Aesthetic Movement. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17567-7 £50.00* 

Allen Staley is professor emeritus of art history, Columbia University. 

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Art 

41 

A sparkling overview of 

Johan Zoffany’s finest works 

Johan Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with her two eldest sons, ca. 1765, oil on canvas. 

The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 

Exhibition 

Yale Center for British Art, 

27/10/11 – 12/2/12 

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 

10/3 – 10/6/12 

October 

320 pp. 292x241mm. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17604-9 £40.00* 

Johan Zoffany 

Society Observed 

Edited by Martin Postle 

The eighteenth-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733–1810) was an 

astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an 

artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue investigates his 

sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal and perceptive social commentary 

(including subtle allusions to illicit relationships)—all achieved while 

presenting his subjects as delightful and sophisticated members of polite 

society. 

A skilled networker, Zoffany established himself at the court of George 

III and Queen Charlotte soon after his arrival in England from his 

native Germany. At the same time, he befriended the leading actor 

David Garrick and through him became the foremost portrayer of 

Georgian theatre. His brilliant effects and deft style were well suited to 

theatricality of all sorts, enabling him to secure patronage in England 

and on the continent. Following a prolonged visit to Italy he travelled 

to India, where he quickly became a popular and established figure 

within the circle of Warren Hastings, the governor-general. Zoffany’s 

Indian paintings are among his most spectacular; their success allowed 

him to return to England enriched and warmly welcomed. 

Martin Postle is assistant director for academic activities at the Paul 

Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He was formerly a curator at 

Tate Britain. 

Published for the Yale Center for British Art and the Royal Academy

42 Art 

Exhibition 

National Museum of Singapore, 

23/6 – 14/8/11 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17856-2 £35.00* 

Treasures of Vacheron Constantin 

A Legacy of Watchmaking since 1755 

Julien Marchenoir 

This sumptuous book brings to life the rich past and the landmark 

creations of one of the world’s great watchmakers. Founded in the Swiss 

city of Geneva in 1755 by the gifted craftsman and businessman Jean- 

Marc Vacheron, Vacheron Constantin is the oldest watch manufacturer 

in the world with an uninterrupted history. Its phenomenal rise to an 

international reputation of the highest standing in turn throws light on 

the global success of the great Swiss watchmaking tradition. 

The book traces the milestones in the company’s history: its founding 

during the Age of Enlightenment; the successive generations of the 

Vacheron family; the association in 1819 with François Constantin, who 

opened up the North American market to the company; the 

transformational relationship with inventor Georges-Auguste Leschot; 

and the company’s subsequent international recognition. Through an 

array of glorious illustrations, it presents Vacheron Constantin’s historical 

collections, while highlighting the creations of the craftsmen who 

contribute to the technical excellence of its timepieces—the masterwatchmakers—and 

the artisans who transform them into genuine objets 

d’art—the master engravers, guillocheurs, jewellers and enamellers. 

Julien Marchenoir is Head of Marketing and Communication at 

Vacheron Constantin. 



The American 

Christmas Card 

Imagery, Culture, and 

Context, 1900–1960 

Kenneth L. Ames 

The power of Christmas 

derives from the appeal of its 

repeated rituals, the presumed 

antiquity of its traditions and 

from its ability to adapt to 

changing cultural conditions. 

Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in 

recent years the genre has been visibly in decline. It is now 

evident that the Christmas card was a culturally specific 

artifact, a distinctive way in which a fundamental human 

gesture could be expressed within a commercial, materialistic 

and rapidly changing society. This book explores the imagery, 

graphic forms, subject matter and significance of Christmas 

cards in their chronological timeframe to reveal an important 

area of American material culture. 

Exhibition Bard Graduate Center, 28/9 – 30/12/11 

Kenneth L. Ames is professor of American decorative arts 

at the Bard Graduate Center. He is the author of 

Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition and Death in the 

Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture. 

Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center 

October 320 pp. 229x178mm. 250 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17687-2 £25.00* 

Translation rights: Bard Graduate Center, New York 

Degas’s Dancers 

at the Barre 

Point and Counterpoint 

Eliza Rathbone 

and Elizabeth Steele 

Edgar Degas was fascinated 

with ballet dancers, whom he 

depicted with great frequency 

in many media throughout his 

career. Degas’s Dancers at the 

Barre (The Phillips Collection) 

is one of the crowning achievements of the artist’s career and 

the cornerstone of this insightful publication. 

Bringing together carefully chosen drawings, pastels, prints, 

paintings and mixed media, which relate to the Phillips’s 

masterpiece, the authors build on recent scholarship about 

Degas’s approach to work, his technique and the subject 

matter. This book also features fascinating results from recent 

conservation of the work, the first campaign since the painting 

was acquired in 1944, which brought to light important new 

facts about its sources, dating and complicated history. 

Exhibition The Phillips Collection, 1/10/11 – 8/1/12 

Eliza Rathbone is Chief Curator and Elizabeth Steele is 

Head of Conservation, The Phillips Collection. 

Distributed for The Phillips Collection 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17632-2 £30.00* 

Translation rights: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC 

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Dancers at the Barre, ca. 1900. Oil on canvas. 

Acquired 1944, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Murillo 

Virtuoso Draftsman 

Jonathan Brown 

Art 43 

Known primarily as a great painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 

(1617–1682) was also one of the best draftsmen of the seventeenth 

century. Although his devotional paintings seem to have been created 

effortlessly, they are the result of careful thought and study, a process 

that comes alive in the preparatory drawings. Murillo used a variety of 

techniques, favouring pen and ink and brown wash and red-and-black 

chalk. Like painters schooled in Italian Renaissance practice, the 

Spaniard developed his paintings in stages, starting with sketches of the 

full composition and then focusing on details that posed specific 

problems. Occasionally, Murillo used drawings as a medium for 

original compositions; these are highly finished pieces, usually 

enhanced by the use of wash and unmistakably stamped with the 

artist’s personality. 

This sumptuous book is a thoroughly revised edition of the 1976 

publication Murillo and His Drawings. Twenty sheets have been added 

to the catalogue of authentic works, the bibliography has been brought 

up to date and the entries have been revised. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17570-7 £50.00* 

Jonathan Brown has been Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine 

Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, since 1973. 

Published in association with The Centro de Estudios Europa Hispana, Madrid 

Contested Visions in the 

Spanish Colonial World 

Edited by Ilona Katzew 

Contested Visions offers a comparative view of the two principal 

viceroyalties of Spanish America: Mexico and Peru. Spanning 

developments from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, this ambitious 

book looks at the many ways and contexts in which indigenous peoples 

were represented in art of the early modern period—by colonial artists, 

European artists and themselves. More than two hundred works of art, 

including paintings, sculptures, illustrated books, maps, codices, 

manuscripts and other materials such as textiles, keros and feather works, 

are reproduced, demonstrating the variety of these artistic approaches. 

Our Lady of Cocharcas under the Baldaquin, 

eighteenth century, private collection. 

Exhibition 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 

6/11/11 – 29/1/12 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17664-3 £45.00* 

Essays by scholars in the field uncover the meanings and purposes 

behind these depictions of native populations of the Americas. These 

experts explore the role of the visual arts in negotiating a sense of place 

in late pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America. They address a 

range of topics, such as the construct of the Indian as a good Christian; 

how Amerindians drew on their pre-Columbian past to stake out a 

place within the Spanish body politic; their participation in festive 

rites; and their role as artists. Lavishly illustrated, this book provides a 

compelling and original framework by which to understand the 

intersection of vision and power in the Spanish colonial world. 

Ilona Katzew is curator and Co-Department Head of Latin American 

art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Distributed for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Translation rights: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

44 

Art 

Exhibition The Jewish Museum, 

New York, 6/11/11 – 25/3/12 

Columbus Museum of Art, 20/4 – 26/8/12 

Contemporary Jewish Museum, 

San Francisco, 11/10/12 – 21/1/13 

Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, 

12/1 – 14/4/13 


76 b/w + 150 duotone illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-14687-5 £35.00* 

The Radical Camera 

New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951 

Mason Klein and Catherine Evans 

Artists in the Photo League, active from 1936 to 1951, were known for 

capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. 

Their focus centred on New York City and its vibrant streets—a 

newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling corner, a crowded beach at 

Coney Island—and though beautiful, the images harbour strong social 

commentary. The Radical Camera explores the fascinating blend of 

aesthetics and social activism at the heart of the Photo League, tracing 

the group’s left-leaning roots and idealism to the worker-photography 

movement in Europe. Influenced by mentors Lewis Hine, Berenice 

Abbott and Paul Strand, artists in the Photo League worked within a 

unique complex comprising a school, a darkroom, a gallery and a salon, 

in which photography was discussed as both a means for social change 

and an art form. The influence of the Photo League artists on modern 

photography was enormous, ushering in the New York School. 

The book features artists including Margaret Bourke-White, Sid 

Grossman, Morris Engel, Lisette Model, Ruth Orkin, Walter Rosenblum, 

Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee, among many others. 

Mason Klein is curator at The Jewish Museum, New York. 

Catherine Evans is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of 

Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art. 

Published in association with The Jewish Museum 

Translation rights: The Jewish Museum, New York 

Light Years 

Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977 

Edited by Matthew S. Witkovksy 

Essays by Mark Godfrey, Robin Kelsey, Anne Rorimer, 

Giuliano Sergio, Joshua Shannon and Matthew S. Witkovksy 

Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 

1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject 

matter. Light Years offers the first major survey of the key artists of this 

period who used photography to new ends. Whereas some employed 

photographic images to create slide projections, photographic canvases 

and artists’ books, others integrated them into sculptural assemblages 

and multimedia installations. This book highlights the work of 

international artists such as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, 

Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone and Ed Ruscha. 

Dan Graham, Binocular Zoom (Parallax or 

Distance between the Eyes), 1969–70. Gelatin 

silver print and text on board, Private collection. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15971-4 £40.00* 

Matthew Witkovsky’s essay provides the larger context for photography 

within conceptual art, a theme that is further elaborated in texts by 

Mark Godfrey, Anne Rorimer and Joshua Shannon. An essay by Robin 

Kelsey focuses on the pioneering work of John Baldessari in which he 

explored the element of chance, and an essay by Giuliano Sergio 

illuminates the lesser-known work of Arte Povera, an Italian movement 

that sought to dismantle established conventions. 

Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 11/12/11 – 11/3/12 

Matthew S. Witkovsky is chair and curator of photography at 

The Art Institute of Chicago. 

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago 

Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago

Pierre Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel and Edouard 

Vuillard, Venice, 1899. Modern print from 

original negative. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of the 

children of Charles Terrasse (PHO 1987–27-6). 

Exhibition 

The Van Gogh Museum, 

10/14/2011–01/08/2012 

The Phillips Collection, 

02/04/2012–05/06/2012 

The Indianapolis Museum of Art, 

06/08/2012–09/02/2012 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17236-2 £35.00* 

Snapshot 

Painter/Photographers from Bonnard to Vuillard 

Art 45 

Edited by Elizabeth W. Easton • With contributions by Clément Chéroux, 

Michel Frizot, Todd Gustavson, Françoise Heilbrun, Ellen W. Lee, Anne McCauley, 

Saskia Ooms, Katia Poletti, Eliza Rathbone and Hans Rooseboom 

The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible 

to the public as well as to professionals. At the same time many artists 

began using the camera as an amusing toy, a means of capturing images 

to be used as studies for final works, and a way to observe the world. 

Snapshot investigates the intriguing photographic experiments of seven 

Post-Impressionist painters and printmakers: Pierre Bonnard, George 

Hendrik Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Rivière, 

Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard. Although celebrated for their 

works on canvas and paper, these artists also made many personal and 

informal snapshots. Depicting a wide range of subjects, including 

interiors, city streets, nudes and portraits, these photographs were never 

exhibited. As a result, they have received little attention in scholarly 

studies, and most have never been published. 

Juxtaposing personal photographs with related paintings and prints, 

Snapshot offers a new perspective on the story of early photography and the 

synthesis of painting and photography at the end of the nineteenth century. 

Elizabeth W. Easton is the cofounder and director of the Center for 

Curatorial Leadership. 

Published in association with the Phillips Collection 

Translation rights: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC 

Sherrie Levine, La Fortune (After Man Ray), 1990. Felt, mahogany and resin. © Sherrie Levine. 

Sherrie Levine 

Mayhem 

Johanna Burton 

With contributions by 

Thomas Crow, David 

Joselit, Maria H. Loh, 

Howard Singerman, 

Carrie Springer, 

Elisabeth Sussman 

and Adam D. Weinberg 

Although the American artist 

and conceptual photographer 

Sherrie Levine has been the subject of much critical discourse 

for the past thirty years, she has not been the subject of a 

comprehensive survey—until now. This handsome volume, 

created in close collaboration with the artist, contains 100 

colour images that cover the full range of Levine’s practice, 

from classic photographic works and sculptures to lesserknown 

drawings, paintings and objects. A selection of writings 

by the artist and several essays by distinguished art historians 

augment the artworks. 

Exhibition 

Whitney Museum of American Art, 10/11/11 – 2/12 

Johanna Burton is director of the graduate program, Center 

for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. 

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17596-7 £40.00* 

Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 

The Life and 

Death of Buildings 

On Photography 

and Time 

Joel Smith 

Buildings inhabit and 

symbolise time, giving form 

to history and making 

public space an index of the 

past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections 

of past states of their subjects. This meditation on architecture 

in photography, indirectly marking the tenth anniversary of 

9/11, explores the intersection between these two ways of 

embodying the past, by contemplating photographs of buildings 

as simultaneously the agents, vehicles and cargo of social 

memory. The Life and Death of Buildings features images by 

such renowned photographers as Edouard-Denis Baldus, Bernd 

and Hilla Becher, Laura Gilpin, Lewis W. Hine and William 

Henry Fox Talbot, alongside those by amateurs, architects, 

propagandists and insurance adjusters. Rather than examine 

these photographers’ aims in isolation, the author considers how 

their images reflect and inflect the passage of time. 

Joel Smith is curator of photography at the Princeton 

University Art Museum. 

Exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, 23/7 – 6/11/11 

Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum 

August 104 pp. 215x215mm. 80 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17435-9 £28.00* 

Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum

46 Art 

The Healing Presence of Art 

A History of Western Art in Hospitals 

Richard Cork 

Between birth and death, many of life’s most critical moments occur in hospital, and they deserve 

to take place in surroundings that match their significance. In this spirit, from the early 

Renaissance through to the modern period, artists have made immensely powerful work in 

hospitals across the western world, enhancing the environments where patients and medical staff 

strive towards better health. Distinguished art historian Richard Cork became fascinated by the 

extraordinary richness of art produced in hospitals, encompassing work by many of the great 

masters—Piero della Francesca, Rogier van der Weyden, El Greco, William Hogarth, Jacques-Louis 

David, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall and Naum Gabo. Cork’s brilliant survey 

discovers the astonishing variety of images found in medical settings, ranging from dramatic confrontations with suffering 

(Matthias Grunewald at Isenheim) to the most sublime celebrations of heavenly ecstasy (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Venice). 

In the process, he reveals art’s prodigious ability to humanise our hospitals, alleviate their clinical bleakness and leave a profound, 

lasting impression on patients, staff and visitors. 

Richard Cork is an award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster, exhibition curator, and former Slade Professor of Fine Art 

at Cambridge University and Senior Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. 

November 496 pp. 285x245mm. 200 b/w + 240 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17036-8 £50.00* 

Empire to Nation 

Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768–1829 

Geoff Quilley 

Empire to Nation offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during 

a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation’s 

imperial power. It argues that maritime imagery was central to cultivating a sense of nationhood in 

relation to rapidly expanding geographical knowledge and burgeoning imperial ambition. At the 

same time, the growth of the maritime empire presented new opportunities for artistic enterprise. 

Taking as its starting point the year 1768, which marks the foundation of the Royal Academy and 

the launch of Captain Cook’s first circumnavigation, it asserts that this was not just an interesting 

coincidence but symptomatic of the relationship between art and empire. This relationship was 

officially sanctioned in the establishment of the Naval Gallery at Greenwich Hospital and the installation there of J. M. W. 

Turner’s great Battle of Trafalgar in 1829, the year that closes this study. Between these two poles, the book traces a changing 

historical discourse that informed visual representation of maritime subjects. 

Geoff Quilley is senior lecturer in art history at the University of Sussex. He was formerly curator of fine art at the National 

Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. 


August 304 pp. 256x192mm. 100 b/w + 40 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17568-4 £40.00* 

Richard Parkes Bonington 

The Complete Drawings 

Patrick Noon 

By the time of Richard Parkes Bonington’s tragic death from tuberculosis in 1828, the 25-year-old 

artist, who was born in England and moved to France as a teenager, was already a seminal figure in 

the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. This catalogue raisonné of 

his drawings serves as a companion to Patrick Noon’s Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete 

Paintings and represents the next stage in his objective to present the artist’s complete known oeuvre. 

Drawing on more than 25 years of research, Noon catalogues, analyses and reproduces more than 

400 drawings now indisputably attributed to Bonington. This is the first time many of these 

exquisite works are appearing in print, among them drawings composed during an 1826 trip 

through Switzerland and northern Italy. 

Patrick Noon is Patrick and Aimee Butler Chair of Paintings, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He was previously Curator of Prints, 

Drawings and Rare Books at the Yale Center for British Art. 


October 220 pp. 330x246mm. 400 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17045-0 £50.00*

Eye to Eye 

European Portraits, 1450–1850 

Richard Rand and Kathleen M. Morris • With an essay by David Ekserdjian 

Art 47 

Portraiture is an enduring genre that has captivated artists and viewers for hundreds of years. 

From the late fifteenth through the early nineteenth century, artists continued to find new ways of 

approaching the portrait by exploring a range of styles, strategies and themes. In this beautiful 

book, noted scholars discuss these various approaches and explain how they apply to specific 

examples, focusing on thirty superb portraits drawn from a distinguished private collection. 

Although many of these portraits are by renowned artists such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, 

Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hans Memling and Anthony van Dyck, others testify to the talents of lesser-known 

artists who are equally deserving of attention. Several of the featured paintings have never before been published, including 

outstanding portraits by acclaimed European masters such as Giovanni Battista Moroni, Parmigianino, Jusepe de Ribera and 

Peter Paul Rubens. Eye to Eye offers a new understanding of these exceptional and rarely seen works within the portrait genre. 

Exhibition Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 23/1 – 27/3/11 

Richard Rand is the Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator, and Kathleen M. Morris is the Sylvia and Leonard Marx 

Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. 

Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 

July 160 pp. 279x241mm. 78 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17564-6 £40.00* 

Translation rights: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 

Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students and Circle 

from the Maida and George Abrams Collection 

Peter Sutton • With William W. Robinson 

Over the course of several decades, George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private 

collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selection of these 

superb works, and explores the role of drawing in the creative process in Rembrandt’s studio and 

wider circle. 

The artists featured include among others Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck, Samuel van Hoogstraten, 

Jan Lievens and Nicolas Maes: the key figures in Rembrandt’s circle, who at times were deeply 

influenced by his remarkable style and on other occasions explored different approaches. Their 

works range from figure studies to landscapes, from narrative and biblical scenes to lively genre 

scenes. At the heart of the catalogue are ten exceptional drawings by Rembrandt himself, including two highly finished landscape 

drawings and a variety of figure studies. The accompanying text is written by two leading scholars of Dutch art, both of whom 

have worked closely with the Abrams drawings, having advised the Boston lawyer on his collecting for many years. 

Exhibition Bruce Museum, 24/9/11 – 8/1/12 

Peter C. Sutton is Executive Director of the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. William W. Robinson is Maida and 

George Abrams Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. 

Published in association with the Bruce Museum 

August 208 pp. 279x216mm. 175 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17606-3 £40.00* 

Translation rights: Bruce Museum, Greenwich 

Gabriel Metsu: Life and Work 

Catalogue Raisonné 

Adriaan E. Waiboer 

Despite his untimely death in 1667 at the age of thirty-seven, Gabriel Metsu left a substantial 

oeuvre of history paintings, portraits, still lifes and a large number of exquisite genre scenes. 

These charming depictions of kitchen maids, elegant young ladies, hunters, drinkers and amorous 

couples have gained Metsu a place among the most celebrated painters of seventeenth-century 

Holland. But his personal life has remained enigmatic. This absorbing book presents the 

information for Metsu’s life and his network of connections, and details the complete range of his 

work. It will become the standard work on the artist. 

Adriaan E. Waiboer is Curator of Northern European Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, where he curated the 

Gabriel Metsu exhibition in 2010. 

October 320 pp. 285x245mm. 190 b/w + 58 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17048-1 £50.00*

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Distributed by Yale University Press 

48 Art 

Exhibition 

Bode Museum, Berlin, 

25/8 – 20/11/11 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

21/12/11 – 18/3/12 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17591-2 £40.00* 

European Sculpture, 

1400–1900 in 

The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art 

Ian Wardropper 

This stunning volume features 

masterpieces of sculpture from 

the Renaissance through the 

nineteenth century. Well-known 

works by the great European 

sculptors—including Luca and 

Andrea della Robbia, Juan Martínez Montañés, Gianlorenzo 

Bernini, François Girardon, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel 

Thorvaldsen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 

and Auguste Rodin—are joined by recent additions to the 

collection, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s mesmerising 

psychological study of an introspective man. 

The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media and 

size—ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and 

decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to 

Antonio Canova’s eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of 

Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. 

Ian Wardropper is the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman 

of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative 

Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17589-9 £45.00* 

The Renaissance Portrait 

From Donatello to Bellini 

Edited by Keith Christiansen and Stefan Weppelmann 

Essays by Patricia Lee Rubin, Beverly Louise Brown, Peter Humfrey and 

Rudolf Preimesberger • Contributions by Andrea Bayer, Francesco Caglioti, 

Eleonara Luciano and Stephen K. Scher 

Written by a team of international scholars, The Renaissance Portrait 

provides new research and insight into the early history of portraiture. 

Unlike most surveys of Renaissance art, it introduces and studies in 

detail the three major Italian art centres of the fifteenth century, 

exploring how the rapid development of portraiture was closely linked 

to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual and concepts 

of beauty. Close to 190 works, in media ranging from painting and 

manuscript illumination to marble sculpture and bronze medals, 

created by artists that include Donatello, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, 

Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Pisanello, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini and 

Antonello da Messina, are illustrated and extensively discussed. 

Accompanying a major exhibition in Berlin and New York and 

featuring artworks from international museums and collectors, 

The Renaissance Portrait is a visual and literary delight to scholars and 

to any lover of Renaissance art. 

Keith Christiansen is John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European 

Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stefan Weppelmann is 

curator of early Italian and Spanish painting at the Gemäldegalerie 

in Berlin. 

Frans Hals 

Style and Substance 

Walter Liedtke 

Portraits and genre scenes by 

the great Dutch painter Frans 

Hals are celebrated for their 

immediacy and dazzling 

brushwork. His dramatic 

compositions brought his 

subjects to life in an 

unprecedented way. This book 

showcases eleven major works 

by Hals from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, 

supplemented by two Hals paintings from private collections 

and a selection of other Dutch paintings and prints. 

The pictures included here span forty years of Hals’s career, 

from the early Merrymakers at Shrovetide of about 1616 to 

engaging portraits he painted in Haarlem during his later 

years. The author discusses the formation of Hals’s style, 

emphasising his stay in Antwerp in 1616 and his knowledge of 

Flemish masters and of contemporary critical thinking. For the 

first time, Hals’s work is considered in the context of broader 

European trends, in particular the Early Baroque movement. 

Exhibition 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26/7 – 10/10/11 

Walter Liedtke is curator of European paintings at 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

September 48 pp. 279x216mm. 50 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-16982-9 £10.00* 

Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), Merrymakers at Shrovetide, ca. 1616–17. Oil on canvas. 

Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913, 14.40.605.

Infinite Jest 

Art 49 

Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine 

Constance C. McPhee and Nadine M. Orenstein 

From Leonardo’s drawings of grotesque heads to contemporary prints 

lampooning American politicians, the Metropolitan Museum has a vast 

and largely unknown collection of caricatures and satirical works. 

This handsome volume offers 160 examples dating from about 1500 to 

the present—many of them previously unpublished—that reflect the 

age-old tradition of employing exaggeration and humour to convey 

personal, social or political meaning. 

Exhibition 


13/9/11 – 4/4/12 

Stressing the continuity of certain artistic approaches, Infinite Jest 

examines the development of the genre across a broad expanse of 

centuries. The basic visual components of caricature are discussed and 

illustrated, as are significant themes such as physical types, people as 

animals or objects, social satire (food, fashion and foreigners) and 

politics (British, French and American). Artists as well known as 

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, William Hogarth, 

Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, Eugène Delacroix, Honoré 

Daumier and David Levine contribute their distinctive talents to this 

fascinating and very amusing compilation. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17581-3 £30.00* 

Unidentified photographer. Artists at Mount 

Kisco, 1912. Black-and-white print, 12x16 cm). 

Property of Walkowitz family. Abraham 

Walkowitz Papers, Archives of American Art, 

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 

From left to right: Paul Haviland, Abraham 

Walkowitz, Katharine N. Rhoades, Mrs. Alfred 

Stieglitz, Agnes Ernst (Mrs. Eugene Meyer), 

Alfred Stieglitz, J. B. Kerfoot, John Marin. 

Exhibition 


13/10/11 – 2/1/12 

Constance C. McPhee is associate curator and Nadine M. Orenstein 

is curator, both in the Department of Drawings and Prints at 


Stieglitz and His Artists 

Matisse to O’Keeffe 

Edited by Lisa Mintz Messinger 

Essays and Entries by Magdalena Dabrowski, Cristel Hollevoet-Force, 

Lisa Mintz Messinger, Cora Michael, Jessica Murphy, Sabine Rewald, 

Samantha Rippner and Thayer Tolles 

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter 

and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first 

half of the twentieth century. This publication is the first fully illustrated 

catalogue of works in the unparalleled Alfred Stieglitz Collection, which 

was given to the Metropolitan Museum after Stieglitz’s death. 

Operating a succession of influential New York galleries between 1905 

and 1946, Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the 

era. He assembled a vast collection of exceptional breadth and depth that 

has since become the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum’s holdings 

of modern art, containing such masterworks as Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse, 

Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, Hartley’s Portrait of a German 

Officer, Kandinsky’s Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), O’Keeffe’s Black 

Iris and Picasso’s Woman Ironing and Standing Female Nude. 

More than four hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are 

presented in this catalogue, many published here for the first time. 

Informative essays, augmented by archival photographs and letters, new 

scholarship, and technical analysis, bring this fascinating period to life. 




20 b/w illus. + 760 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17588-2 £45.00* 

Lisa Mintz Messinger is associate curator in the Department of 

Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

50 Art 



Heroic Africans 

Legendary Leaders, 

Iconic Sculptures 

Alisa LaGamma 

Heroic Africans considers the 

landmark sculptural traditions of 

the Kingdom of Benin and the 

Ife civilization in Nigeria; the 

Akan peoples of Ghana; the 

Bangwa, Kom and related 

chiefdoms of the Cameroon 

Grassfields; the Chokwe of Angola and Zambia; and the 

Luluwa, Hemba and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the 

Congo (DRC). Some 106 masterpieces created between the 

twelfth and the early twentieth century—complemented by 

maps, drawings and excavation and documentary 

photographs—reveal the religious and aesthetic conventions 

that defined distinct regional genres. 

Exhibition 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20/9/11 – 29/1/12 

Rietberg Museum, Zürich, 2/12 – 4/12 

Alisa LaGamma is Curator in the Department of the Arts of 

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. 

D.Phyfe & Son. Couch, 1841, 35 3/8 x 73 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. Collection of Richard Hampton Jenrette. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17584-4 £40.00* 

Duncan Phyfe 

Master Cabinetmaker 

in New York 

Peter M. Kenny and 

Michael K. Brown, with 

Frances F. Bretter and 

Matthew A. Thurlow 

Duncan Phyfe (1768–1854) 

remains America’s best-known 

cabinetmaker. Establishing his 

reputation as a purveyor of 

luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York’s 

moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients 

some of America’s most notable families. 

This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological 

sweep of the craftsman’s career, from his earliest furniture— 

which bore the influence of his eighteenth-century predecessors 

George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton—to the elaborately 

embellished Grecian pieces that were entirely his own. 

Exhibition 


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 20/6 – 11/9/12 

Peter M. Kenny is Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American 

Decorative Arts and Administrator, The American Wing, The 

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael K. Brown is curator, 

Bayou Bend Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15511-2 £45.00* 

Translation rights, pages 48–51: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

Storytelling in 

Japanese Painting 

Masako Watanabe 

Nearly as old as humanity itself is 

the impulse to tell and illustrate 

stories. In Japan, the narrative 

drive has been expressed both in 

sweeping literary sagas and in 

beautiful handscrolls. Storytelling 

in Japanese Painting presents 

seventeen Japanese stories—tales 

romantic, horrifying, epic and meditative—told through 30 

remarkable scrolls, ranging from the thirteenth to nineteenth 

centuries. Among them are the supernatural Great Woven Cap; 

the story of the Peach Boy and his battle against the ogres; the 

eleventh-century psychological novel The Tale of Genji; and the 

political allegory Tale of a Strange Marriage. Each scroll is 

accompanied by a brief relation of the tale being illustrated, 

while the book’s introduction discusses the history and tradition 

of storytelling in Japanese art. Multiple gatefolds allows many 

of these scrolls to be appreciated in detail, while preserving the 

grandeur of these works of visual and narrative wonder. 

Exhibition 


Masako Watanabe is senior research associate in the 

department of Asian art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17590-5 £16.99* 

Washington Crossing 

the Delaware 

Restoring an 

American Masterpiece 

Carrie Rebora Barratt, 

Lance Mayer and 

Gay Myers, Suzanne 

Smeaton and Eli Wilner 

Emanuel Leutze’s life-size 

Washington Crossing the Delaware 

commemorates the critical moment in the American 

Revolution when George Washington led a surprise attack 

against troops supporting the British forces in Trenton. When 

Leutze created the painting in 1850, after he had returned 

from America to his native Germany, he was hoping to rally 

support for the revolutionary movements then sweeping 

Europe. He sent the work to New York in 1851, and within 

four months 50,000 people had paid to see it. Today the 

painting is an icon of American visual culture. In 2007, 

Leutze’s masterpiece became the focus of the most ambitious 

conservation and reframing project in the museum’s history. 

This book is a behind-the-scenes report on that project. 

Carrie Rebora Barratt is associate director for collections and 

administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lance 

Mayer and Gay Myers of art conservation firm Mayer & Myers, 

undertook the treatment of the painting. Suzanne Smeaton and 

Eli Wilner oversaw the design and carving of its new frame. 

January 48 pp. 279x216mm. 10 b/w + 55 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17642-1 £12.00* 

Ukita Ikkei (1795–1859), Tale of a Strange Marriage, Edo Period (1615–1868); 

Handscroll; ink and colour on paper; 29.8x777.2 cm; 57.156.7. 

Emanuel Leutze, American (1816–1868), Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. 

Oil on canvas. Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897 (97.34).

Attributed to Abd al-Aziz, The Shah’s Wise Men Approve Zal’s Marriage: From the Shahnama (Book of Kings) 

of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525–30. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 190 (1970.301.13). 

The Shahnama 

of Shah Tahmasp 

The Persian Book of Kings 

Introduction by 

Sheila R. Canby 

One of the most voluminous 

epics of world literature, the 

Shahnama (or ‘Book of Kings’) 

narrates the history of the ancient 

kings of Iran, from their mythical 

beginnings to the Arab conquest 

in 651 A.D. Although illustrated copies of the poem were 

commissioned by numerous Iranian kings, the Shahnama of 

Shah Tahmasp is arguably the most important and beautifullyillustrated 

version ever produced. 

After its creation, the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp travelled 

through several royal collections until it was broken up and 

dispersed in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, all 

258 illuminated pages of this famous volume are reproduced 

in colour and close to their original size in this sumptuous 

publication. 

Sheila R. Canby is the Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge 

of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. 


HB with Slipcase ISBN 978-0-300-17586-8 £120.00* 

Wonder of the Age 

Master Painters of India, 

1100–1900 

John Guy 

and Jorrit Britschgi 

Traditionally, Indian paintings 

have been classified according 

to regional styles or dynastic 

periods, with an emphasis on 

subject matter and narrative 

content. This publication counters the view of the anonymity of 

Indian art, emphasising the combined tools of connoisseurship 

and inscription evidence to reveal the identities of individual 

artists and their oeuvres through an analysis of style. The 

introduction outlines the origins of early Indian painting in the 

first millennium, which set the scene for the development of the 

art of the book. The chapters that follow examine manuscript 

painting; the Mughal school; the renaissance of the Hindu 

courts; the later styles of the Punjab Hill and Rajasthani courts; 

Company School painting; and the coming of photography. 

Exhibition 

Museum Rietberg Zürich, Switzerland, 1/5 – 2/8/11 


John Guy is curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, 

Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Jorrit Britschgi is curator of Indian Painting, Museum 

Rietberg Zürich. 

November 224 pp. 254x229mm. 143 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17582-0 £30.00* 

Not for sale in India and Pakistan 

Chapter 8, Shah Jahan Album, India (ca. 1645). Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955. 

Art 51 

Neither East 

nor West 

Masterpieces from the 

Department of Islamic Art 

in The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art 

Maryam Ekhtiar, Priscilla 

Soucek, Sheila R. Canby 

and Navina Najat Haidar 

Introduction by 

Sheila R. Canby 

This lavish and informative book explores the great diversity 

and range of Islamic culture through one of the finest 

collections in the world. Published to coincide with the 

historic reopening of the galleries of the Metropolitan 

Museum’s Islamic Art Department, it presents nearly three 

hundred masterworks created in the rich tradition of the 

Islamic faith and culture. 

Sheila R. Canby is the Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge 

of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. Maryam Ekhtiar is senior research associate, 

Navina Najat Haidar is associate curator and administrator, 

and Priscilla Soucek is senior consultant, all in the 

Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17585-1 £45.00* 

Sultans of the South 

Arts of India’s Deccan 

Courts, 1323–1687 

Edited by 

Navina Najat Haidar 

and Marika Sardar 

Between the 14th and the 17th 

centuries, the Deccan plateau of 

south-central India was home to 

a series of important and highly 

cultured Muslim courts. Subtly blending elements from Iran, 

West Asia, southern India and northern India, the arts produced 

under these sultanates are markedly different from those of the 

rest of India and especially from those produced under Mughal 

patronage. This publication, a result of a 2008 symposium held 

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, investigates the arts of the 

Deccan and its unique output in the fields of painting, 

literature, architecture, arms, textiles and carpets. 

Special features of the book are the illustration of all thirtyfour 

paintings from a sixteenth-century copy of the poem the 

Pem Nem, images of several paintings and textiles that have 

only recently been discovered or identified and new 

photographs of the Ibrahim Rauza monument in Bijapur, with 

a full transcription and translation of the tomb’s inscriptions. 

Navina Najat Haidar is associate curator and Marika Sardar is 

a research associate, both in the Department of Islamic Art at 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-17587-5 £35.00* 

Not for sale in India and Pakistan 


Distributed by Yale University Press

The National Gallery • London 

52 Art 

“A good, solid, intelligent and 

well-produced book.”—Liz James, 

Times Higher Education 

June 

224 pp. 250x250mm. 


PB ISBN 978-1-85709-292-9 £14.99* 

A Closer Look: 

Techniques 

of Painting 

Jo Kirby 

Materials and working 

practices influence a painter 

just as much as contemporary 

intellectual and cultural 

developments. Techniques of 

Paintings aims to help readers 

develop a painterly eye by 

learning to recognise 

different materials and methods of application and to 

appreciate how these features contribute to how a painting 

looks. Like all Closer Look volumes, this is a ‘how-to-look’ 

guide, rather than a ‘how-to-do’ guide, enabling readers to 

identify different painting techniques in all collections. The 

pictures illustrated range from thirteenth-century panel 

paintings in egg tempera to nineteenth-century oils on 

canvas, all from the National Gallery, London. 

In addition, there are fascinating illustrations showing an 

unusual level of detail, with macro photography presenting 

paintings at high magnification, and infrared reflectograms 

that ‘see through’ paint layers, showing the evolving 

intentions of the artist. 

Jo Kirby works in the Scientific Department of the National 

Gallery, London, and is a world-renowned expert in pigments 

and paint materials. 

November 96 pp. 210x148mm. 80 illus. 

PB ISBN 978-1-85709-534-0 £7.99* 

The Image of Christ 

Gabriele Finaldi, with an introduction by Neil MacGregor, 

and contributions by Susanna Avery-Quash, Xavier Bray, 

Erika Langmuir, Neil MacGregor and Alexander Sturgis 

Rather than presenting a life of Christ in art, this beautiful book 

explores the challenges facing artists when representing Jesus—God 

who became a man. Though we have no contemporary records of 

Christ’s appearance, we do, astonishingly, all know what he looked like. 

The authors trace how the image of Christ we recognise today evolved 

over two millennia, from the earliest metaphorical symbols to the 

emergence of a ‘true likeness’. 

The book elegantly describes how artists have conveyed Christ’s dual 

nature—human and divine, weak and powerful—in portrayals of his 

infancy, and it also shows how images of his suffering convey a cosmic, 

as well as personal, significance. 

A reissue of a successful book (first published in 2000), The Image of 

Christ helps the viewer understand these paintings by focusing on their 

purpose and exploring their significance to their original viewers. It is an 

essential volume for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of European 

art, in which Christian subjects have featured so prominently. 

Gabriele Finaldi is Deputy Director of the Prado Museum, Madrid, and 

a former Curator at the National Gallery. Neil McGregor is Director of 

the British Museum and former Director of the National Gallery. 

Translation rights for all titles on this page: The National Gallery Company Limited, London 

National Gallery 

Technical Bulletin 

Volume 32 

Leonardo da Vinci: 

Pupil, Painter and Master 

Series Editor: Ashok Roy 

Authors: Rachel Billinge, 

Jill Dunkerton, Larry Keith, 

Antonio Mazzotta, Rachel 

Morrison, David Peggie, 

Ashok Roy, Peter Schade and 

Marika Spring 

Published to accompany the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: 

Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery, London, 

this extended Technical Bulletin documents new research on the 

life and work of Leonardo. It includes an analysis of his time in 

Verrocchio’s workshop, where he adopted the new technique of 

oil painting; an article on the recent conservation and redisplay 

of the London version of The Virgin of the Rocks; and examples 

of Leonardo’s painting practice and influence while he was 

court painter to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. 

Ashok Roy, Rachel Morrison, David Peggie and Marika 

Spring are all staff members of the National Gallery Scientific 

Department; Rachel Billinge, Jill Dunkerton and Larry Keith 

are all staff members of the National Gallery Conservation 

Department; Peter Schade is staff member of the National 

Gallery Framing Department; Antonio Mazzotta was formerly 

Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery. 

November 128 pp. 297x210 mm. 100 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-1-85709-530-2 £40.00*

Princely Armor 

in the Age of Dürer 

A Renaissance Masterpiece in 

the Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Pierre Terjanian 

This striking publication examines 

two masterful armours for man and 

horse recently acquired by the 

Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

Among the earliest complete European examples in existence, 

these German works demonstrate the superior design and 

craftsmanship of princely armour in the early sixteenth 

century. The celebrated master Wilhelm von Worms the Elder 

of Nuremberg made the luxurious, exquisitely decorated steel 

horse armour for Duke Ulrich of Württemberg (1487–1550). 

The man armour was crafted by Matthes Deutsch of 

Landshut, another distinguished armourer patronised by 

German princes; it is his latest and richest known work. 

Princely Armor discusses the function, design, decoration and 

manufacture of these masterpieces and situates them within 

German art, culture and politics, and the development of 

European armour in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. 

Pierre Terjanian is the J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of 

Arms and Armor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17631-5 £12.00* 

Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Art 53 

Prints and the Pursuit 

of Knowledge in Early 

Modern Europe 

Edited by Susan Dackerman 

With essays by Susan 

Dackerman, Lorraine 

Daston, Katharine Park, 

Suzanne Karr Schmidt 

and Claudia Swan 

An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians 

and historians of science, this book demonstrates how 

printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely 

illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific 

investigations of their time. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge 

in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of 

woodcuts, engravings and etchings; maps, globe gores and 

globes; multilayered anatomical ‘flap’ prints; and paper 

scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. 

Exhibition Harvard Art Museums, 6/9 – 10/12/11 

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern 

University, 17/1 – 8/4/12 

Susan Dackerman is Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, 

Harvard Art Museums. 

Distributed for Harvard Art Museum 

October 440 pp. 292x229mm. 276 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17107-5 £40.00* 

Translation rights: Harvard University Art Museum 

The Anglo-Florentine 

Renaissance 

Art for the Early Tudors 

Edited by Cinzia Maria Sicca 

and Louis Waldman 

With a foreword by Brian 

Allen and Joseph Connors 

Under the rule of Henry VII the 

Tudor court sought to express its 

worldliness and political clout 

through major artistic commissions, employing Florentine 

sculptors and painters to create lavish new interiors, suitable 

for entertaining foreign dignitaries, for its royal palaces. 

Generously illustrated throughout, The Anglo-Florentine 

Renaissance traces the artistic links between Medicean Florence 

and Tudor England through essays by an international team of 

scholars and explores how the language of Florentine art 

effectively expressed England’s political aspirations and rose to 

prominence as a new international courtly style. 

Cinzia Maria Sicca is professor and director of the art history 

doctoral program in the Department of Art History at the 

Università di Pisa, Italy. Louis Waldman in an associate 

professor of art history at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Studies in British Art • Distributed for the Yale Center for 

British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17608-7 £50.00* 

Translation rights: Yale Center for British Art 

Samurai Armor from 

the Ann and Gabriel 

Barbier-Mueller 

Museum 

Essays by L. John Anderson, 

Sachiko Hori, Morihiro 

Ogawa, Thom Richardson, 

John Stevenson and 

Stephen Turnbull 

This publication presents for the first time the samurai armour 

collection of the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in 

Dallas, Texas. Offering an exciting look into the world of the 

samurai warrior, the book begins with an introduction by 

Morihiro Ogawa. Essays by prominent scholars in the field 

highlight topics such as the phenomenon of the warrior in 

Japan, the development of the samurai helmet, castle 

architecture, women in samurai culture and Japanese horse 

armour. The book’s final section consists of an extensive 

catalogue of objects, concentrating on 120 significant works in 

the collection. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, each object is 

accompanied by an entry written by a scholar of Japanese 

armour. A map, chronology and glossary are also included. 

Exhibition Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 8/11/11 – 29/1/12 

Published in association with the Ann 

and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum 

November 320 pp. 305x254mm. 300 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17636-0 £45.00* 

Translation rights: Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva

54 Art 

The Looshaus 

Christopher Long 

When it was completed in 1911, the 

Goldman & Salatsch Building in 

Vienna, commonly known as the 

Looshaus, incited controversy for its 

austerity and plainness. It represented 

a stark rejection of the contemporary 

preference for ornamentation, 

though its architect, Adolf Loos, had 

intended it to preserve Viennese 

tradition within a new modernist language. The heated debate 

that ensued among critics and the public set the project apart, 

distinguishing it as one of the most important and contentious 

buildings of the early twentieth century. 

In celebration of the Looshaus’s centennial year, Christopher 

Long brings to light extensive new research and careful 

analysis that dispel long-held myths about Loos, his building 

and its critical reception. The book, which features new colour 

photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for 

the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus’s 

design and construction, the political and social restlessness it 

reflected and the building’s fundamental role in defining the 

look of modernism. 

Christopher Long is professor and chair of history/theory at 

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17453-3 £35.00* 

American Vanguards 

Graham, Davis, Gorky, 

de Kooning, and Their 

Circle, 1927–1942 

William C. Agee, Irving 

Sandler and Karen Wilkin 

The enigmatic and charismatic 

John Graham was an important 

influence on his fellow New 

York artists in the 1920s 

through 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart 

Davis, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine 

ideas of what painting and sculpture could be. They, along 

with others in Graham’s orbit, such as Jackson Pollock and 

David Smith, played a critical role in developing and defining 

American modernism. American Vanguards showcases about 

eighty-seven works of art from this vital period that 

demonstrate the interconnections, common sources and 

shared stimuli among the members of Graham’s circle. 

Exhibition Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 

29/1 – 28/4/12; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 

9/6 – 19/8/12; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 

MA, September – 31/12/12 

William C. Agee is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art 

History at Hunter College. Irving Sandler and Karen Wilkin 

are distinguished independent curators, scholars and critics. 

Published in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-12167-4 £45.00* 

Translation rights: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover 

Building After 

Auschwitz 

Jewish Architecture and the 

Memory of the Holocaust 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld 

Since the end of World War II, 

Jewish architects have risen to 

unprecedented international 

prominence. Whether as 

modernists, postmodernists or 

deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank 

Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, 

Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern and Stanley Tigerman have 

made pivotal contributions to postwar architecture. They have 

also decisively shaped Jewish architectural history, as many of 

their designs are influenced by Jewish themes, ideas and 

imagery. Building After Auschwitz is the first major study to 

examine the origins of this ‘new Jewish architecture’. 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld describes this cultural development as 

the result of important shifts in Jewish memory and identity 

since the Holocaust, and cites the rise of postmodernism, 

multiculturalism and Holocaust consciousness as a catalyst. 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is associate professor of history at 

Fairfield University. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-16914-0 £35.00* 

El Anatsui 

Introduction Alisa LaGamma 

Conversation with El Anatsui by 

Chika Okeke-Agulu 

The Ghanaian-born sculptor 

El Anatsui is one of the most 

significant artistic innovators of our 

time, merging personal, local and 

global concerns in his visual 

creations. By weaving together 

discarded aluminum tops from Nigerian liquor bottles, Anatsui 

creates large-scale sculptures called gawu (‘metal’ or ‘fashioned 

cloth’ in Anatsui’s native language) that demonstrate a 

fascinating interplay of colour, shape and fluidity. 

In an illustrated essay, Alisa LaGamma provides a brief history 

of El Anatsui’s career and an analysis of his practice. The 

catalogue also includes a never-before-published conversation 

between noted artist and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu and 

Anatsui, as they discuss the themes of history, economy, 

sustainability and identity explored within Anatsui’s work. 

Exhibition 

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 12/6 – 16/10/11 

Alisa LaGamma is curator in the Department of the Arts of 

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. Chika Okeke-Agulu is Assistant Professor in 

the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton University. 

Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 

September 48 pp. 229x235mm. 32 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17575-2 £10.99* 

Translation rights: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 

El Anatsui, Intermittent Signals, 2009. Found aluminum and copper wire . 

The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica (Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY).

Cheshire 

The Buildings of England 

Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner 

Art 55 

A comprehensive guide to the buildings of Cheshire in all their 

variety, from Pennine villages to coastal plains and seaside resorts. 

Chester, the regional capital and cathedral city, is famous for its 

Roman walls and black-and-white timber architecture, its noble 

Neoclassical monuments and its unique medieval shopping ‘rows’ 

with their upper walkways. Timber-framed architecture elsewhere 

includes a rewarding sequence of medieval churches, and Little 

Moreton Hall, with England’s most extravagant display of decorative 

work of this kind. Other country houses include splendid examples 

of almost every period and style, especially Late Georgian and 

Victorian. But Cheshire is also a major industrial county, with 

spectacular and internationally significant mills and canal structures. 

Specialist settlements include the famous railway borough of Crewe, the 

salt towns of Nantwich, Northwich and Middlewich, and Lord 

Leverhulme’s celebrated garden suburb at Port Sunlight. Here, and in 

the leafy suburbs of Manchester’s stockbroker belt, the distinctive halftimbered 

Cheshire style can be seen at its best. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 £35.00* 

Clare Hartwell is an architectural historian based in Manchester. 

Her previous work for the Buildings of England includes the City 

Guide to Manchester and Lancashire: North. Matthew Hyde lives in 

Macclesfield and has written extensively on the architecture and history 

of the region. For this series he is the author of Cumbria, and co-author 

with Clare Hartwell of Lancashire: Manchester and the South East. 

Somerset: North and Bristol 

The Buildings of England 

Andrew Foyle and Nikolaus Pevsner 

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture 

of one of England’s most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath 

and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each 

the finest of its kind in the country. A separate section covers the port 

of Bristol, with its rich and confident buildings of every period and 

type. 

Pevsner Architectural Guides 

The lush and beautiful landscape is studded with ambitious medieval 

church towers and plentifully supplied with country houses, including a 

multitude of villas and manors for the gentry and merchant class. 

Other highlights include John Nash’s picturesque masterpiece of Blaise 

Hamlet, a noble inheritance of Gothic Revival churches, and some of 

the greatest structures designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 

The excellent local building stones lend consistent interest and quality, 

making North Somerset an exceptionally enjoyable area for 

architectural exploration. 

Andrew Foyle is a freelance architectural historian and author of the 

Pevsner City Guide to Bristol, published by Yale. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-12658-7 £35.00*

56 Art 

Jackson Pollock 

Evelyn Toynton 

Jackson Pollock not only put 

American art on the map with his 

famous ‘drip paintings’, he also served 

as an inspiration for the character of 

Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee 

Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire— 

the role that made Marlon Brando 

famous. Like Brando, Pollock became 

an icon of rebellion in 1950s 

America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in 

photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as 

much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his 

death in a drunken car crash, Pollock’s hold on the public 

imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring 

symbol of the tormented artist—an American van Gogh. 

In this engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollock’s 

poverty-stricken childhood, encounters with contemporary art 

in Depression-era new York, and his years in the rundown Long 

Island fishing village, that was transformed into a fashionable 

resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his 

time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that 

swirled around his work and that continue to do so. 

Evelyn Toynton’s work has appeared in Harper’s, The Times 

Literary Supplement and The New York Times Book Review. She 

is the author of the novels Modern Art and The Oriental Wife. 

Icons of America 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16325-4 £18.99* 

Schlepping Through 

Ambivalence 

Essays on an American 

Architectural Condition 

Stanley Tigerman 

Edited by Emmanuel Petit 

Chicago architect and iconoclast 

Stanley Tigerman has been called a 

‘design maven who can spit venom 

like a snake’. Though he is at times 

sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural 

discourse has opened this insular world to a broader audience. 

His words and theories are appealing for their candour and are 

backed by his long-standing architectural practice. Since 1964 

Tigerman has made an indelible mark on his hometown and 

on cities across the globe, with projects ranging from the Five 

Polytechnic Institutes in Bangladesh to the Holocaust 

Memorial Foundation Museum in Skokie, Illinois. This 

collection of essays spans the course of Tigerman’s career. 

Stanley Tigerman is an American architect, theorist and 

designer and the former director of the School of Architecture 

at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Emmanuel Petit is 

associate professor of architectural design, history, and theory 

at the Yale School of Architecture. 

Published in association with the Yale School of Architecture 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17541-7 £35.00* 

Translation rights: Yale School of Architecture 

Windows on the War 

Soviet TASS Posters at Home 

and Abroad, 1941–1945 

Edited by Peter Kort Zegers 

and Douglas W. Druick 

With essays by Konstantin 

Akinsha, Robert Bird, Jill Bugajski, 

Adam Jolles and Peter Kort Zegers 

The Soviet Union’s TASS News 

Agency posters were created by a 

large collective of Soviet writers, printers and artists, including 

such notables as Mikhail Cheremnykh, Nikolai Denisovskii, the 

Kukryniksy and Pavel Sokolov-Skalia. Striking and bold, these 

stencilled posters were printed and placed daily in windows for 

the public to see. They were also sent abroad to serve as cultural 

‘ambassadors’, rallying Allied and neutral nations to the Soviet 

cause during the second world war. Windows on the War is the 

first publication in English to focus on these posters, works that 

have not been seen since World War II. 

Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 31/7 – 23/10/11 

Peter Kort Zegers is the Rothman Family Research Curator, 

Department of Prints and Drawings, at the Art Institute of 

Chicago. Douglas W. Druick is Chair and Searle Curator of 

Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture, and 

Chair and Prince Trust Curator of Prints and Drawings, both 

at the Art Institute of Chicago. 


Sept 400 pp. 324x248mm. 140 b/w + 300 colour illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17023-8 £45.00* 

Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago 

Bertrand Goldberg 

Architecture of Invention 

Edited by Zoë Ryan 

With essays by Alison Fisher, 

Zoë Ryan, Elizabeth Smith 

and Sarah Whiting 

Bertrand Goldberg 

(1913–1997) was a visionary 

Chicago architect whose designs 

for housing, urban planning and 

industrial design made a 

distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome 

publication, the first to focus in-depth on the entirety of 

Goldberg’s life and work, traces his development from his 

early Bauhaus training to his notable architectural 

achievements. Featuring previously unpublished material, it 

also includes Goldberg’s plans for unrealised projects as well as 

his collaborations with other prominent modern architects, 

such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Buckminster Fuller. 

Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 7/9/11 – 12/2/12 

Zoë Ryan is acting chair of the Department of Architecture 

and Design and Neville Bryan Curator of Design, at The Art 

Institute of Chicago. 




HB ISBN 978-0-300-16704-7 £40.00* 

Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago

New Formations 

Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern 

Glass from the Roy and Mary 

Cullen Collection 

Karel Srp and Lenka Bydžovská 

With Jan Mergl and Alison de Lima Greene 

This catalogue presents a collection of 

avant-garde and modernist works, 

showcasing the rich artistic output of 

Czechoslovakia in the 20th centruy. 

Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston, 13/11/11 – 5/2/12 

Karel Srp is a curator at the City Gallery 

Prague. Lenka Bydžovská is a researcher 

at the Institute of Art History of the 

Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. 

Distributed for the Museum of 

Fine Arts, Houston 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-16996-6 £50.00* 

Translation rights: Museum of Fine Art Houston 

The Three Graces 

Art 57 

Snapshots of 20th-Century Women 

Michal Raz-Russo 

Snapshots preserve more than individual likeness 

and memory. Photographs of celebrations, 

holidays and gatherings are accumulated with the 

aim of preserving a personal identity for future 

generations. What happens, however, when a 

snapshot is discarded or displaced and becomes 

merely an ‘anonymous’ image This and many 

other questions are discussed in this selection of 

anonymous images depicting three women. 

Presumably all taken by nonprofessionals, these 

snapshots were acquired by a collector interested in their eclectic yet familiar 

details and who named the grouping after the iconic Greco-Roman motif. 

In the 150 snapshots assembled here, the remarkable consistency of 

confidence and poise projected by the trios of women—in varied settings, in 

various states of dress/undress, and over a period of more than fifty years— 

reveals the formal and behavioural conventions that evolved as 

photography’s popularity skyrocketed among amateurs. To this end, the 

iconography of The Three Graces provides a framework for understanding 

the generational differences and cultural influences that shaped women’s selfpresentation 

in front of the camera in the first half of the twentieth century. 

Exhibition Art Institute of Chicago, 29/10/11 – 22/1/12 

Michal Raz-Russo is curatorial assistant for exhibitions in the Department 

of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17734-3 £18.50* Translation rights: Art Institute of Chicago 

Experiencing 

Gego’s Reticulárea 

A Critical Anthology of Response 

Edited by María Elena Huizi 

and Ester Crespín • Introduction 

by Mari Carmen Ramírez 

Reticulárea, is Gego’s massive netlike 

sculptural installation first presented at 

the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, in 

1969. Centred on the various iterations 

of this work and its impact, this 

anthology brings together images as well 

as documentary materials and primary 

texts in English and Spanish by artists, 

writers and Gego herself. 

María Elena Huizi is an independent 

poet, essayist and art writer. Ester Crespín 

is an independent scholar and curator. 

Distributed for the Museum of Fine 

Arts, Houston, and Fundación Gego 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-16613-2 £35.00 

Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts Houston 

Resisting Categories: Latin 

American and/or Latino 

Volume 1 

Mari Carmen Ramírez, Héctor 

Olea and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto 

The terms ‘Latin American’ and ‘Latino’ 

have been used broadly to describe 

artists from a number of different 

countries, races and cultures. Yet these 

reductive terms fail to clearly define 

these artists, who ultimately resist 

categorisation. 

This comprehensive volume brings to 

light more than 170 crucial texts 

written by influential artists and critics 

who explore what it means to be ‘Latin 

American’ or ‘Latino’. 

Critical Documents 

Distributed for the 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-14697-4 £35.00* 

Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts Houston 

A Modern World 

American Design from the Yale 

University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 

John Stuart Gordon 

With an introduction by Sandy 

Isenstadt and contributions by Keely 

Orgeman, Emily M. Orr, Pan Wendt, 

Justin Woo and Diane C. Wright 

A Modern World provides a 

comprehensive look at the Yale 

University Art Gallery’s holdings of 

modernist design made in America or 

for the American market. 

John Stuart Gordon is Benjamin 

Attmore Hewitt Assistant Curator of 

American Decorative Arts at the Yale 

University Art Gallery. 

Published in association with 

the Yale University Art Gallery 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15301-9 £50.00* 

Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery

58 Art 

Contemporary Drawings 

from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection 

Mark Pascale 

This handsome volume offers a rare and 

exclusive look at important holdings of 

a private collection in Chicago, 

showcasing 120 drawings by some of 

the leading artists of the postwar period. 

Exhibition The Art Institute of 

Chicago, 19/11/11 – 26/2/12 

Mark Pascale is curator in the 

Department of Prints and Drawings at 

the Art Institute of Chicago. 




HB ISBN 978-0-300-17573-8 £25.00* 


Fiber Futures 

Japan’s Textile Pioneers 

Joe Earle and Hiroko Watanabe 

Japan is a world leader in fibre arts. 

This handsome book shows how the 

medium has advanced and diversified 

dramatically over the past decade and 

focuses on sculptural and installation 

works. The remarkable pieces are made 

of materials ranging from ethereal silk 

gauze through banana-bark and 

handmade paper to fine steel thread, 

synthetics and glass fibre, using 

methods that are sometimes deeply 

traditional, but sometimes employ the 

latest weaving and dyeing technology. 

Exhibition 

Japan Society Gallery, 16/9 – 18/12/11 

Joe Earle is Vice-President and Director, 

Japan Society Gallery. Hiroko Watanabe 

is Professor Emerita of Tama Art 

University and President of 

International Textile Network Japan. 

Distributed for Japan Society 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-17576-9 £25.00* 

Get There First, 

Decide Promptly 

The Richard Brown Baker Collection 

of Postwar Art 

Jennifer Farrell 

With essays by Thomas Crow, Serge 

Guilbaut, Jan Howard, Robert Storr 

and Judith Tannenbaum 

Richard Brown Baker began collecting 

works by emerging artists in the 1940s, 

becoming one of the first collectors to 

actively embrace both Abstract 

Expressionism and Pop Art and 

eventually amassing more than 1,600 

works from the postwar period. Baker 

bequeathed the majority of his 

collection to the Yale University Art 

Gallery. Highlighting 130 works, this is 

the first complete history of Baker’s 

important collection. 

Jennifer Farrell is a former assistant 

curator at the Yale University Art Gallery. 

Distributed for the Yale University 

Art Gallery 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15302-6 £35.00* 

Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery 

Elegant Perfection 

Masterpieces of Courtly and 

Religious Art from the Tokyo 

National Museum 

Tokyo National Museum staff 

With contributions by 

Melissa McCormick 

As the oldest and largest museum in 

Japan, the Tokyo National Museum 

houses a vast collection of culturally 

important artworks. Elegant Perfection 

highlights twenty-six masterpieces from 

this collection, and together these objects 

tell the story of the country’s artistic 

development from the prehistoric Jōmon 

era through the nineteenth century. 

Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston, 17/2 – 6/5/12 

Melissa McCormick is professor of 

Japanese art and culture at Harvard 

University. 





HB with Slipcase 

ISBN 978-0-300-17593-6 £35.00* 


Masterworks of Pre- 

Columbian, Indonesian, 

and African Gold 

The Glassell Collections of the 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

Frances Marzio 

Masterworks of Pre-Columbian, 

Indonesian, and African Gold explores 

two hundred of these dazzling works, 

many published here for the first time. 

Frances Marzio is curator of the 

Glassell Collections of The Museum of 

Fine Arts, Houston. 





HB ISBN 978-0-300-17595-0 £40.00* 


Chinese Art in an 

Age of Revolution 

Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) 

Edited by Anita Chung 

With contributions by Julia F. Andrews, 

Tamaki Maeda, Kuiyi Shen and 

Aida Yuen Wong 

One of the preeminent figures in 

twentieth-century Chinese art, Fu 

Baoshi, revolutionised the tradition of 

Chinese ink painting, opening the door 

to innovations by subsequent 

generations. 

This is the first comprehensive 

retrospective of Fu’s work to be 

published in the West. 

Exhibition Cleveland Museum of Art, 

16/10/11 – 8/1/12 


30/1 – 29/4/12 

Anita Chung is curator of Chinese art 

at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 

Published in association with the 

Cleveland Museum of Art 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-16974-4 £35.00*

A Time and a Place 

‘Near Sydenham Hill’ 

by Camille Pissarro 

Kathleen Adler 

Camille Pissarro received his 

artistic training in Paris, however 

a seven-month stay in London, 

beginning in December of 1870, 

had a lasting impact on his 

artistic development. Fleeing 

Paris during the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War, 

Pissarro settled in the South London suburb of Norwood. 

Pissarro produced a number of paintings inspired by his 

surroundings, including Near Sydenham Hill, which depicts a 

view of Norwood bordered by fields and flanked by trees. 

The brushstrokes and atmospherics of this painting are 

indicators of the Impressionist style that Pissarro would pursue 

in the years after his return to France. Kathleen Adler analyses 

this pivotal work and uses it as a launching point for a wider 

discussion of the artist’s life and artistic trajectory. 

Kathleen Adler is the former director of education at the 

National Gallery, London. 

Kimbell Masterpiece Series • Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum 

November 94 pp. 191x235mm. 15 b/w + 40 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17577-6 £12.00* 

Translation rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth 

The Age of American 

Impressionism 

Edited by Judith A. Barter 

With contributions by Judith A. 

Barter, Sarah E. Kelly, Denise 

Mahoney and Ellen E. Roberts 

Art 59 

Although renowned for its holdings 

of works by French Impressionists, 

the Art Institute of Chicago also 

houses superb examples by 

American proponents of this distinctive style. The collection 

includes works by such notable artists as Cecilia Beaux, George 

Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, 

Winslow Homer, George Inness, Maurice Prendergast, John 

Singer Sargent, John Twachtman and James McNeill Whistler, 

as well as by lesser-known artists who worked within the 

Impressionist vein. This beautiful volume features around 

ninety objects—paintings, watercolours, pastels and prints— 

several of which have never been published, and others that 

have recently been restored to their original glory. 

Judith A. Barter is chair and Field-McCormick Curator of 

American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17574-5 £35.00* 


Knowing Nature 

Art and Science in Philadelphia, 

1740–1840 

Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers 

With the assistance of Lisa L. Ford 

Philadelphia developed the most active 

scientific community in early America, 

fostering an influential group of 

naturalist-artists. However, as the essays 

in Knowing Nature demonstrate, the 

examination of nature stimulated not 

only forms of artistic production 

traditionally associated with scientific 

practice of the day, but processes of 

making not ordinarily linked to science. 

Amy R. W. Meyers is Director of the 

Yale Center for British Art. Lisa L. Ford 

is Associate Head of Research at the 

Yale Center for British Art. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-11104-0 £45.00* 

Expressions of Innocence 

and Eloquence 

Selections from the Jane Katcher 

Collection of Americana, Volume II 

Edited by Jane Katcher, David A. 

Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe 

Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence 

presents a group of American folk and 

decorative arts created primarily in New 

England, New York and Pennsylvania in 

the 18th and 19th centuries. This 

second volume of selections from the 

Jane Katcher Collection contains more 

than one hundred recent acquisitions. 

Jane Katcher is an arts patron. David 

A. Schorsch is a specialist in American 

antiques and folk art. Ruth Wolfe is an 

editor and writer on American folk art. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17580-6 £50.00* 

Translation rights: Marquand Books, Seattle 

The Snowy Day and the 

Art of Ezra Jack Keats 

Claudia J. Nahson 

With an essay by Maurice Berger 

An exciting new look at the life and 

work of acclaimed children’s book 

author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. 

Exhibition The Jewish Museum, 

9/9/11 – 21/1/12; The Eric Carle 

Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, 

MA, 26/6 – 14/10/12 

Contemporary Jewish Museum, 

San Francisco, 15/11/12 – 24/2/13 

Claudia J. Nahson is curator at 

The Jewish Museum, New York. 

Published in association with 

The Jewish Museum, New York 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17022-1 £18.00 

Translation rights: The Jewish Museum, NY

60 Biography 

Leon Trotsky 

A Revolutionary’s Life 

Joshua Rubenstein 

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and 

a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military 

strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager 

foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards 

badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, 

indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler’s triumph would mean disaster for his 

fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet 

overtures to the Western democracies failed. 

Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and 

impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party 

organisation in the 1920s, when Stalin was manoeuvering, inexorably, towards Trotsky’s own political oblivion. In this lucid 

and judicious evocation of Trotsky’s life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century. 

Joshua Rubenstein is the northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard 

University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. 

November 240 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-13724-8 £18.99* 

Jewish Lives Series 

Emma Goldman 

Revolution as a Way of Life 

Vivian Gornick 

Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is 

the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to 

that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one’s senses, to 

enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power—these were key demands 

in the many public protest movements she helped mount. 

Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is a memorable political figure of our time, not because of her 

gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, 

without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity—and she was able to make the thousands of 

people who flocked to her lectures, feel connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. As the women and men in 

her audience listened, the homeliness of their own lives became invested with a sense of drama that acted as a catalyst for the 

wild, vagrant hope that things need not always be as they were. All you had to do, she promised, was resist. In time, she herself 

would become a worldfamous symbol for the spirit of resistance to the power of institutional authority over the lone individual. 

Vivian Gornick is the author of, among other books, the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments and three essay collections. 

October 160 pp. 210x140mm. 1 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-13726-2 £18.99* 

Walther Rathenau 

The Limits of Success 

Shulamit Volkov 

This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867–1922) tells the full story of a man who 

—both thoroughly German and proudly Jewish—rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry 

Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the 

early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented—no Jew in Germany had 

ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau’s success came hand-in-hand with tragedy: 

within months he was assassinated by right-wing activists seeking to undermine the young Republic. 

Drawing on Rathenau’s papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German- 

Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled 

with his Jewish identity and who treasured his ‘otherness’. Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Weimar Germany 

and of Berlin’s financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German 

Jewry in the period before Hitler’s rise to power. 

Shulamit Volkov is professor emeritus of modern European history, Tel Aviv University. Her most recent book is Germans, Jews, 

and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation. 

February 256 pp. 210x140mm. 9 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14431-4 £18.99*

Yale Musical Instrument Series 


45 b/w illus. + musical examples 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-11230-6 £30.00* 

The Trumpet 

John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan 

Music & Literary Studies 61 

In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two 

decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising 

evolution and colourful performance history of one of the world’s 

oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its 

family into art music, and its rise to prominence as a solo instrument, 

from the Baroque ‘golden age’, through the advent of valved brass 

instruments in the nineteenth century, and the trumpet’s renaissance in 

the jazz age. The authors offer abundant insights into the trumpet’s 

repertoire, with detailed analyses of works by Haydn, Handel and 

Bach, and fresh material on the importance of jazz and influential jazz 

trumpeters for the re-emergence of the trumpet as a solo instrument in 

classical music today. 

Wallace and McGrattan draw on deep research, lifetimes of experience 

in performing and teaching the trumpet in its various forms, and 

numerous interviews to illuminate the trumpet’s history, music and 

players. Copiously illustrated with photographs, facsimiles and music 

examples throughout, The Trumpet will enlighten and fascinate all 

performers and enthusiasts. 

Trumpeter John Wallace is principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of 

Music and Drama, Glasgow. Alexander McGrattan is a freelance 

trumpeter who teaches natural trumpet and music history at the Royal 

Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 

Announcing 

the 2010 

winner of the 

Yale Drama 

Prize 

Second Simplicity 

New Poetry and Prose, 1991–2011 

Yves Bonnefoy 

Translated by Hoyt Rogers 

This volume presents in English and 

French an inviting array of Yves 

Bonnefoy’s recent writings. The first 

anthology of Bonnefoy’s work to appear 

since 1995, this collection reflects the 

poet’s powerful engagement with the 

New England landscape. 

Yves Bonnefoy is widely admired 

as France’s greatest living poet. 

Hoyt Rogers’s poems, stories and essays, 

as well as his translations, appear in a 

wide variety of books and periodicals. 

The Margellos World Republic of Letters 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17625-4 £18.99 

Notturno 

Gabriele D’Annunzio 

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli 

Introduction by Virginia Jewiss 

Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Notturno 

is a moving prose poem in which 

imagination, experience and 

remembrance intertwine. With his vision 

threatened and his eyes bandaged, 

D’Annunzio suffered months of infirmity 

in 1921, yet managed to write on small 

strips of paper, each wide enough for a 

single line. When the poet regained his 

sight, he put together these strips to 

create the lyrical and innovative Notturno. 

Gabriele D’Annunzio was a major 

figure in modern Italian literature. 

The Margellos World Republic of Letters 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-15542-6 £20.00* 

blu 

Virginia Grise 

Foreword by David Hare 

Soledad, the ex-wife of a gang member, 

works to support her children. 

Her eldest son, Blu, joins the military 

and dies in Iraq. Selected as the winner 

of the 2010 Yale Drama Competition, 

Virginia Grise’s play takes place in the 

present, but looks back on the past 

through a series of memories, dreams, 

rituals and prayers. 

Virginia Grise received her MFA degree 

from the California Institute of the Arts 

and is a recipient of the 2010 Princess 

Grace Award in Theater Directing. 

Yale Drama Series 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-16922-5 £15.00* 

Translation rights: Playrights Center, Minneapolis

62 Literary Studies 

Renegade 

Henry Miller and the Making 

of Tropic of Cancer 

Frederick Turner 

Though branded as pornography, 

Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is 

far more than a work that tested 

American censorship laws. In this 

book, published to coincide with 

the fiftieth anniversary of Tropic 

of Cancer’s initial U.S. release, 

Frederick Turner investigates 

Miller’s unconventional novel, its tumultuous publishing 

history and its unique place in American letters. 

Written in a foreign city by a man who was a literary failure in 

his homeland, Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by a 

pornographer in Paris, but soon banned in the United States. 

Not until 1961, when Grove Press triumphed over the censors, 

did Miller’s book appear in America. Turner argues that 

Tropic of Cancer is ‘lawless, violent, colourful, misogynistic, 

anarchical, bigoted and shaped by the same forces that shaped 

the nation’. How Henry Miller, outcast and renegade, came to 

understand what literary dynamite he had within him, is the 

subject of Turner’s revelatory study. 

Frederick Turner is the author or editor of a dozen books. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-14949-4 £20.00* 

Translation rights: Robin Straus Agency, New York 

Stanzas in Meditation 

The Corrected Edition 

Gertrude Stein 

Edited by Susannah Hollister 

and Emily Setina • With an 

Introduction by Joan Retallack 

In the 1950s, Yale University 

Press published a number of 

Gertrude Stein’s posthumous 

works, among them her 

incomparable Stanzas in 

Meditation. Since that time, 

scholars have discovered that Stein’s poem exists in several 

versions: a manuscript that Stein wrote and two typescripts 

that her partner Alice B. Toklas prepared. Toklas’s work on the 

second typescript changed the poem when, enraged upon 

detecting in it references to a former lover, she not only 

adjusted the typescript but insisted that Stein make revisions 

in the original manuscript. This edition of Stanzas in 

Meditation is the first to confront the complicated story of its 

composition and revision. 

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, PA, of German-Jewish 

immigrants. She moved to Paris in 1903 and lived in France 

for the rest of her life. Susannah Hollister is ACLS New 

Faculty Fellow, University of Texas at Austin. Emily Setina is 

an Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-15309-5 £15.00* 

Translation rights: Estate of Gertrude Stein 

The Golden Ass 

Apuleius 

Translated by Sarah Ruden 

This extraordinary new 

translation of The Golden Ass 

stands alone among modern 

Apuleius translations for its 

accuracy and cleverly farcical 

rendering. Sarah Ruden, a lyric 

poet as well as a highly-respected 

translator, skilfully duplicates the 

verbal high jinks of Apuleius’s 

ever-popular novel. It tells the story of Lucius, a licentious and 

curious young man, who is turned into a donkey when he 

meddles with witchcraft. Doomed to wander from land to 

land, mistreated by a deplorable series of owners, Lucius at last 

is restored to human form with the help of the goddess Isis. 

The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety, 

belongs to the Second Sophistic, a movement of bizarrely 

flashy, often humorous literature. In a translation that is both 

the most faithful and the most entertaining to date, Ruden 

reveals to modern readers the vivid, farcical ingenuity of 

Apuleius’s style. 

Sarah Ruden is a visiting scholar at Wesleyan University. 

Her previous books include Vergil’s Aeneid, published by Yale. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-15477-1 £20.00* 

Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives Agency, New York 

Three Thousand Years 

of Hebrew Verse 

Encounters of Sound and Meaning 

Benjamin Harshav 

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, 

preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew 

verse during three millennia of changing historical and 

cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish 

Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came 

into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, Arabic, Italian, 

German, Russian, Yiddish and English poetic forms. 

Harshav explores the types and constraints of free rhythms, 

the meanings of sound patterns, the historical and linguistic 

frameworks that produced the first accentual iambs in English, 

German, Russian, Hebrew, and the first discovery of these 

iambs in a Yiddish romance written in Venice in 1508. 

In each chapter, the author presents an innovative analytical 

theory on a particular poetic domain, drawing on his close 

study of thousands of Hebrew poems. 

Benjamin Harshav is Professor Emeritus of Comparative 

Literature, J. & H. Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language 

and Literature, Yale University and Professor Emeritus of 

Literary Theory, Tel Aviv University. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-14487-1 £50.00 

No Hebrew rights

Why Niebuhr Matters 

Charles Lemert 

Reinhold Niebuhr was a 

Protestant preacher and 

influential religious thinker in 

mid-twentieth century America. 

But what does he have to say to 

us now In what way does he 

inform the thinking of leaders 

and commentators from Barack 

Obama and Madeleine Albright 

to David Brooks and Walter 

Russell Mead, all of whom 

acknowledge his influence In this overview of Niebuhr’s career, 

Charles Lemert analyses why interest in Niebuhr is rising. 

In the middle of the twentieth century Niebuhr challenged and 

re-thought the non-socialist Left in American politics. He 

developed a political realism that refused to sacrifice ideals to 

pragmatism, or politics to bitterness and greed. He examined 

the problem of morality in an immoral society and re-imagined 

the relationship between the individual’s rights and freedom and 

the need for social justice. With brevity and insight, Lemert 

shows how Niebuhr’s ideas illuminate difficult questions today. 

Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of 

Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and Senior Fellow 

of the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University. 

Why X Matters Series 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17542-4 £18.99* 

Rights held by the author 

Rome and Rhetoric 

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 

Garry Wills 

Renaissance plays and poetry in 

England were saturated with the 

formal rhetorical twists that 

Latin education made familiar to 

audiences and readers. Yet a 

formally educated man like 

Ben Jonson was unable to make 

these ornaments come to life in 

his two classical Roman plays. 

Garry Wills, focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, here 

demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these 

ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal 

styles of Roman speech. 

In chapters, devoted to four of the play’s main characters, Wills 

shows how Caesar, Brutus, Antony and Cassius each has his 

own take on the rhetorical ornaments that Elizabethans learned 

in school. Shakespeare also makes Rome present by casting his 

troupe of players to make their strengths shine through the 

historical facts that Plutarch supplied him with. The result is 

that the Rome English-speaking people carry about in their 

minds is the Rome that Shakespeare created. And that is even 

true, Wills affirms, for today’s classical scholars. 

Garry Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15218-0 £18.00 

Literary Studies & Philosophy 63 

Why Trilling Matters 

Adam Kirsch 

Lionel Trilling, regarded at the 

time of his death in 1975 as 

America’s preeminent literary 

critic, is today often seen as a 

relic of a vanished era. His was 

an age when literary criticism 

and ideas seemed to matter 

profoundly in the intellectual life 

of a country. In this eloquent 

book, Adam Kirsch shows that 

Trilling, far from being obsolete, 

is essential to understanding our current crisis of literary 

confidence—and to overcoming it. 

By reading Trilling as a writer and thinker, Kirsch demonstrates 

how Trilling’s work continues to provide an inspiring example 

of a mind creating itself through its encounters with texts. 

Why Trilling Matters introduces all of Trilling’s major writings 

and situates him in the intellectual landscape of his century. 

But Kirsch goes deeper, addressing today’s concerns about the 

decline of literature, reading and even the book itself, and 

finds that Trilling has more to teach us now than ever before. 

Adam Kirsch is a senior editor of New Republic and a columnist 

for Tablet magazine. He is the author of several books of poetry 

and criticism, and recently a biography of Disraeli. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-15269-2 £20.00* 

Rights held by the author 

Abandoned to Ourselves 

Being an Essay on the Emergence and Implications 

of Sociology in the Writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques 

Rousseau... 

Peter Alexander Meyers 

In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how 

the centrepiece of the Enlightenment—society as the symbol 

of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of 

human practice—was primarily composed and animated by its 

most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Displaying 

this new society as an evolving field of interdependence, 

Abandoned to Ourselves traces the emergence and moral 

significance of dependence itself within Rousseau’s encounters 

with a variety of discourses of order, including theology, 

natural philosophy and music. Underpinning this whole scene 

we discover a modernising conception of the human Will, one 

that runs far deeper than Rousseau’s most famous trope, the 

‘general Will’. As Abandoned to Ourselves weaves together 

historical acuity with theoretical insight, readers will find here 

elements for a reconstructed sociology inclusive of things and 

persons and, as a consequence, a new foundation for 

contemporary political theory. 

Peter Alexander Meyers is professor of American studies at the 

Université Paris III—Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a recurring 

visitor in the departments of Politics, Philosophy, History and 

Sociology at Princeton University. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17205-8 £45.00

64 Religion 

The Spirit of Mary 

Sarah Jane Boss 

Said to be ‘next to Christ, yet closest to us’, the Virgin Mary has been 

and remains a major figure in world religion. Mary, who carried the 

Word of God in her very body, is a potent symbol for Christians: by 

conforming their souls to her likeness, they invite Christ to live within 

them spiritually. As such, Mary’s spirit has pervaded, and partly 

constituted, the spirit of Christianity itself. 

Contextualising a selection of writings that illustrate Mary’s role in the 

Christian tradition, Sarah Jane Boss—a leading authority on Mary— 

shows how the Marian cult, doctrines, and devotion have developed 

over the centuries, from widely differing cultural backgrounds and 

from both Eastern and Western churches. Together with Boss’s 

enlightening and incisive introductions to the texts, this book is a 

colourful and engaging introduction to the meaning of Mary. 

Sarah Jane Boss is director of the Centre for Marian Studies at 

Roehampton University, where she is senior lecturer in theology 

and Catholic studies. 

The Spirit of X Series 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-16926-3 £9.99* 

Conversions 

Two Family Stories from the 

Reformation and Modern America 

Craig Harline 

This work explores the effects of 

religious conversion, showing how the 

challenges of the reformation can offer 

insight to families facing similar 

challenges today. 

“Once I started, I could not put it down. 

It is hugely compelling. All the narrative 

skills which are so apparent in Harline’s 

earlier work are now bent towards a 

purpose which shows what history is for: 

illuminating present concerns through 

wise, informed, and serious reflection 

upon the past. A superb, important 

book.”—Diarmaid MacCulloch 

October 320 pp. 234x156mm. 3 illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16701-6 £20.00* 

Sunday 

A History of the First Day from 

Babylonia to the Super Bowl 

Craig Harline 

For early Christians, the first day of the 

week was a time to celebrate the liturgy 

and observe the Resurrection. But over 

time, Sunday in the Western world took 

on still other meanings and rituals, 

especially in the addition of both rest 

and recreation to the day’s activities. 

Harline illuminates these changes in 

enlightening profiles of Sunday in 

medieval Catholic England, Sunday in 

the Reformation and Sunday in 

nineteenth-century France—home of 

the most envied and sometimes 

despised Sunday of the modern world. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-16703-0 £16.00 

Translation rights for the above three titles: 

John Ware Literary Agency, New York 

Miracles at the Jesus Oak 

Histories of the Supernatural 

in Reformation Europe 

Craig Harline 

In the musty archive of a Belgian abbey, 

historian Craig Harline happened upon 

a vast collection of documents written in 

the seventeenth century by people who 

claimed to have experienced miracles 

and wonders. In Miracles at the Jesus 

Oak, Harline recasts these testimonies 

into engaging vignettes that open a 

window onto the believers, unbelievers 

and religious movements of Catholic 

europe in the age of Reformation. 

Craig Harline is professor of history at 

Brigham Young University. He is the 

author of A Bishop’s Tale, The Burdens of 

Sister Margaret, Sunday and Conversions. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-16702-3 £16.00

The Hour of Europe 

Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia 

Josip Glaurdic 

By looking through the prism of the West’s involvement in the 

breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of 

the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified 

documents from the CIA, the administration of George H.W. 

Bush and the British Foreign Office; evidence generated by 

The Hague Tribunal and more than forty personal interviews 

with former diplomats and policy makers, Glaurdic exposes 

how the realist policies of the Western powers failed to prop up 

Yugoslavia’s continuing existence as intended, and instead 

encouraged the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian regime of 

Slobodan Miloševic to pursue violent means. 

The book also sheds light on the dramatic clash of opinions 

within the Western alliance regarding how to respond to the 

crisis. Glaurdic traces the origins of this clash in the Western 

powers’ different preferences regarding the roles of Germany, 

Eastern Europe, and foreign and security policy in the future 

of European integration. With subtlety and acute insight, 

The Hour of Europe provides a fresh understanding of events 

that continue to influence the shape of post-Cold War Balkans 

and the whole of Europe. 

Josip Glaurdic received his Ph.D. from Yale and is junior 

research fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge. 

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January 416 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16629-3 £40.00* 

Rights sold: Croatian 

The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras 

Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges 

Robert J. Flanagan 

This book analyses the economic challenges facing symphony 

orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United 

States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad 

(where governments typically provide large subsidies). 

Robert J. Flanagan is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of 

International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis, Emeritus, 

at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17193-8 £40.00 

The Peacekeeping Economy 

Using Economic Relationships to Build a More Peaceful, 

Prosperous, and Secure World 

Lloyd J. Dumas 

The idea that military strength is synonymous with security is 

deeply entrenched, but economic relationships can offer a far 

more effective, and far less costly, means of maintaining 

security. After defining the right kind of economic 

relationship, Dumas addresses practical concerns in 

establishing and maintaining these relationships. 

Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Political Economy, Economics 

and Public Policy at the University of Texas, Dallas. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16634-7 £35.00 

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Politics & Economics 65 

Realeconomik 

The Hidden Cause of the Great 

Recession (And How 

To Avert the Next One) 

Grigory Yavlinsky 

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis 

This book directly confronts 

uncomfortable questions that many 

prefer to brush aside: if economists 

and other scholars, politicians and 

business professionals understand the 

causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such 

damaging crises continue to occur Can we trust business and 

intellectual elites who advocate the principles of Realpolitik and 

claim the ‘public good’ as their priority, yet consistently favour 

maximisation of profit over ethical issues 

Former deputy prime minister of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky, 

makes a powerful case that the often-cited causes of global 

economic instability—institutional failings, wrong decisions by 

regulators, insufficient or incorrect information—are only 

secondary to a far more significant underlying cause: the failure 

to understand that universal social norms are essential to 

thriving businesses and social and economic progress. 

Grigory Yavlinsky is a Russian economist and founder and 

member of the Russian United Democratic Party. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-15910-3 £20.00* 

No Russian rights 

The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen 

Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman 

Thorstein Veblen is best known for The Theory of the Leisure 

Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise, which made him a 

celebrated figure in economics and sociology at the turn of the 

twentieth century. Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman argue that in 

addition to his work in these fields Veblen also made important 

—and until now overlooked—statements about politics. 

Sidney Plotkin is professor of political science at Vassar 

College. Rick Tilman is professor emeritus of public 

administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-15999-8 £20.00 

‘I Am Not Master of Events’ 

The Speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry 

in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles 

Larry Neal 

A distinguished economic historian explores two of the 

greatest financial fiascos of all time and the outsized 

personalities involved with them: the Mississippi Bubble and 

the South Sea Bubble of the early eighteenth century. 

Larry Neal is emeritus professor of economics at the 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Yale Series in Economic and Financial History 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-15316-3 £35.00

66 

Sociology, Science & Technology 

Childism 

Confronting Prejudice 

Against Children 

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 

In this groundbreaking volume on 

the human rights of children, 

acclaimed analyst, political theorist 

and biographer Elisabeth Young- 

Bruehl argues that prejudice exists 

against children as a group and that 

it is comparable to racism, sexism 

and homophobia. This prejudice—‘childism’—legitimates and 

rationalises a broad continuum of acts that are not ‘in the best 

interests of children’, including the often violent extreme of 

child abuse and neglect. According to Young-Bruehl, reform is 

possible only if we acknowledge this prejudice in its basic 

forms and address the motives and cultural forces that drive it. 

Many years in the making, Childism draws upon a wide range 

of sources, from the literary and philosophical to the legal and 

psychoanalytic. Woven into this extraordinary volume are case 

studies that illuminate the profound importance of listening to 

the victims who have so much to tell us about the visible and 

invisible ways in which childism is expressed. 

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a psychoanalyst and the author 

of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Anna Freud: 

A Biography and Why Arendt Matters, all published by Yale. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17311-6 £20.00* 

Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Agency, New York 

Fandom Unbound 

Otaku Culture in a Connected Age 

Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Izumi Tsuji 

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan’s 

major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational 

phenomenon. This volume investigates how a once 

marginalised popular culture has come to play a major role in 

Japan’s identity at home and abroad. In the American context, 

the word otaku is best translated as ‘geek’, but is associated 

especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, 

including anime, manga and video games. Most important of 

all, as this collection of essays shows, is the way otaku culture 

represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not 

only organise around niche interests but produce and distribute 

their own media content. The book offers descriptions of how 

this once stigmatised Japanese youth culture created its own 

alternative markets and products such as fan fiction, comics, 

costumes and remixes, becoming a major international force 

that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. 

Mizuko Ito is Professor in Residence and John D. 

and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital 

Media and Learning, Department of Anthropology and 

Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine. 

Daisuke Okabe is research associate in psychology, Keio 

University, Japan. Izumi Tsuji is associate professor of 

sociology at Matsuyama University, Japan. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-15864-9 £25.00* 

No Japanese rights 

Simplexity 

Simplifying Principles for a Complex World 

Alain Berthoz 

Translated by Giselle Weiss 

In this book a noted physiologist and neuroscientist introduces 

the concept of simplexity, the set of solutions living organisms 

find that enable them to deal with information and situations, 

while taking into account past experiences and anticipating 

future ones. Such solutions are new ways of addressing 

problems so that actions may be taken more quickly, more 

elegantly and more efficiently. 

In a sense, the history of living organisms may be summed up 

by their remarkable ability to find solutions that avoid the 

world’s complexity by imposing on it their own rules and 

functions. Evolution has resolved the problem of complexity 

not by simplifying but by finding solutions whose processes— 

though they can sometimes be complex—allow us to act in 

the midst of complexity and of uncertainty. Nature can inspire 

us by making us realise that simplification is never simple and 

requires instead that we inhibit, select, relate and imagine, in 

order to act in the best possible manner. 

Alain Berthoz is professor of physiology emeritus at the 

Collège de France, where he heads the Laboratory of the 

Physiology of Perception and Action. 

An Editions Odile Jacob Book 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-16934-8 £25.00* 

Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob, Paris 

Listen. Write. Present. 

The Elements for Communicating Science 

and Technology 

Stephanie Roberson Barnard 

and Deborah St James 

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained 

clearly, concisely and convincingly to others. Scientists, 

engineers, physicians and technology specialists become leaders 

in their fields not just by way of discovery, but by 

communicating their ideas. In this essential book, two 

seasoned communication consultants offer specific, focused 

advice to help professionals develop, improve and polish their 

interpersonal communication, writing and presentation skills. 

The authors explain exactly how to manage multiple projects 

and interactions, collaborate with colleagues and others, gain 

support for ideas through presentations and proposals, and 

much more. 

Stephanie Roberson Barnard is a communication consultant, 

Business Image Consulting. Deborah St James is deputy 

director, Publications and Scientific Communications, Talecris 

Center for Science and Education. The authors have extensive 

experience in training biomedical, scientific and technology 

professionals to communicate effectively. They are co-authors 

of Writing, Speaking, and Communications Skills for Health 

Professionals, published by Yale. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17627-8 £16.00

Nature & Environment 67 

The Roof at the Bottom of the World 

Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains 

Edmund Stump 

The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on 

Earth, an utterly pristine wilderness of ice and rock rising to majestic 

heights and extending for 1,500 miles. In this book, Edmund Stump is 

the first to show us this continental-scale mountain system in all its 

stunning beauty and desolation, and the first to provide a 

comprehensive, fully illustrated history of the region’s discovery and 

exploration. 

Edmund Stump is professor of 

exploration at Arizona State University. 

He is also a geologist, polar explorer, 

mountaineer and photographer 

specialising in the geology of the 

Transantarctic Mountains. 

January 272 pp. 

143 colour illus. 254x178mm. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-17197-6 £25.00* 

The author not only has conducted extensive research in the 

Transantarctic Mountains during his forty-year career as a geologist but 

has also systematically photographed the entire region. Selecting the 

best of the best of his more than 8,000 photographs, he presents 

nothing less than the first atlas of these mountains. In addition, he 

examines the original firsthand accounts of the heroic Antarctic 

explorations of James Clark Ross (who discovered the mountain range 

in the early 1840s), Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, 

Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd and scientists participating in the 

International Geophysical Year (1957–1958). From these records, 

Stump is now able to trace the actual routes of the early explorers with 

unprecedented accuracy. With maps old and new, stunning 

photographs never before published, and tales of intrepid explorers, this 

book takes the armchair traveller on an expedition to the Antarctic 

wilderness that few have ever seen. 

Every Twelve Seconds 

Industrialized Slaughter 

and the Politics of Sight 

Timothy Pachirat 

This is an account of industrialised 

killing from a participant’s point of 

view. The author, political scientist 

Timothy Pachirat, was employed 

undercover for five months in a 

slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were 

killed per day—one every twelve 

seconds. Working in the cooler as a liver 

hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, 

and on the kill floor as a food-safety 

quality-control worker, Pachirat 

experienced firsthand the realities of the 

work of killing in modern society. 

He uses those experiences to explore 

not only the slaughter industry but also 

how, as a society, we facilitate violent 

work and hide away that which is too 

repugnant to contemplate. 

Timothy Pachirat is assistant professor, 

Department of Politics, the New School 


Yale Agrarian Studies Series 


10 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-15267-8 £30.00 

Technology, Globalization, 

and Sustainable 

Development 

Transforming the Industrial State 

Nicholas A. Ashford 

and Ralph P. Hall 

In this book Nicholas A. Ashford and 

Ralph P. Hall offer a unified, 

transdisciplinary approach for achieving 

sustainable development in industrialised 

nations. This is essential reading for 

anyone with a policy or scholarly interest 

in sustainable development and the 

critical roles of the economy, 

employment and the environment. 

Nicholas A. Ashford is a professor of 

technology and policy at the 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

the director of the MIT Technology and 

Law Program, and a faculty associate at 

the Sloan School of Management. 

Ralph P. Hall is an assistant professor in 

the School of Public and International 

Affairs in the College of Architecture 

and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. 


65 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16972-0 £75.00 

Riddle of the 

Feathered Dragons 

Hidden Birds of China 

Alan Feduccia 

Examining and interpreting recent 

spectacular fossil discoveries in China, 

paleontologists have arrived at a 

prevailing view: there is now 

incontrovertible evidence that birds 

represent the last living dinosaur. But is 

this conclusion beyond dispute 

In this book, evolutionary biologist 

Alan Feduccia provides the most 

comprehensive discussion yet of the 

avian and associated evidence found in 

China, then exposes the massive, 

unfounded speculation that has 

accompanied these discoveries and been 

published in the pages of prestigious 

scientific journals. 

Alan Feduccia is S. K. Heninger 

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 

University of North Carolina, Chapel 

Hill. He is the author of numerous 

books, including The Origin and 

Evolution of Birds, published by Yale. 


242 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16435-0 £45.00*

68 Law & American Studies 

Lawtalk 

The Unknown Stories Behind 

Familiar Legal Expressions 

James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. 

Thornburg, Marc Galanter 

and Fred R. Shapiro 

Law-related words and phrases 

abound in our everyday language, 

often without our being aware of 

their origins or their particular 

legal significance: jailbait, pound 

of flesh, the third degree. This book reveals the unknown 

stories behind familiar legal expressions that come from 

sources as diverse as Shakespeare, vaudeville and Dr. Seuss. 

Separate entries for each expression focus on the most 

interesting, enlightening and surprising aspects of the words 

and their evolution. Myths and misunderstandings are 

explored and exploded, and the entries are augmented with 

historical images and humorous sidebars. 

James E. Clapp is member of the New York and District of 

Columbia bars and a former litigator. He is the author of Webster’s 

Dictionary of the Law. Elizabeth G. Thornburg is a professor at 

SMU Dedman School of Law. Marc Galanter is John & Rylla 

Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies, 

University of Wisconsin–Madison. Fred R. Shapiro is associate 

librarian and lecturer in legal research, Yale Law School. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17246-1 £35.00 

Configuring the Networked Self 

Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice 

Julie E. Cohen 

The legal and technical rules governing flows of information 

are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original 

analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and 

technical information are overly restricted, while flows of 

personal information often are not restricted at all. The author 

investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging 

information society and the contradictions between those 

forces and the ways that people use information and 

information technologies in their everyday lives. She then 

proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample 

room for cultural and material participation as well as greater 

control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of 

information to, from and about them. 

Julie E. Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property 

law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and 

on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the 

networked information society. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-12543-6 £40.00* 

Constitutional Cliffhangers 

A Legal Guide for Presidents 

and Their Enemies 

Brian C. Kalt 

The United States Constitution contains 

some potentially fatal weaknesses 

surrounding presidential selection, 

replacement or punishment, that could 

lead to constitutional crises. In this book 

Brian Kalt envisions six presidential crisis 

scenarios, ranging from the criminal 

prosecution of a sitting president to a 

two-term president’s attempt to stay in 

power to the ousting of an allegedly 

disabled president. None of these things 

have ever occurred—but in recent years, 

many of them almost have. 

The events Kalt describes are all 

situations where matters of 

constitutional and even procedural 

interpretaton would carry enormous 

political consequences. Because events 

such as these would put so much stress 

on the structure of government, we 

need to establish clear rules that would 

resolve these situations peacefully. 

Brian C. Kalt is associate professor of 

law at Michigan State University. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-12351-7 £35.00 

The End of Race 

Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics 

in America 

Donald R. Kinder 

and Allison Dale-Riddle 

How did race affect the election that 

gave America its first African American 

president This book offers fascinating, 

and perhaps controversial, findings. 

Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale- 

Riddle assert that racism was in fact an 

important factor in 2008, and that if 

not for racism, Barack Obama would 

have won in a landslide. On the way to 

this conclusion, they make several other 

important arguments. In an analysis of 

the nomination battle between Obama 

and Hillary Clinton, they show why 

racial identity matters more in electoral 

politics than gender identity. 

Donald R. Kinder is Philip E. Converse 

Collegiate Professor of Political Science 

at the University of Michigan. 

Allison Dale-Riddle is a doctoral 

candidate in political science at the 

University of Michigan. 


32 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17519-6 £20.00 

Democracy, Expertise, 

and Academic Freedom 

A First Amendment Jurisprudence 

for the Modern State 

Robert C. Post 

In this concise, penetrating book, a 

leading American legal scholar offers a 

surprising account of the 

incompleteness of prevailing theories of 

freedom of speech. Post develops a 

theory of First Amendment rights that 

seeks to explain both the need for the 

free formation of public opinion and 

the need for the distribution and 

creation of expertise. Along the way he 

offers a new and useful account of 

constitutional doctrines of academic 

freedom. These doctrines depend both 

upon free expression and the necessity 

of the kinds of professional judgment 

that universities exercise when they 

grant or deny tenure, or that 

professional journals exercise when they 

accept or reject submissions. 

Robert C. Post is Sol & Lillian 

Goldman Professor of Law and Dean 

of the Yale Law School. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-14863-3 £20.00*

A Field Guide to the 

Southeast Coast and 

Gulf of Mexico 

Coastal Habitats, Seabirds, 

Marine Mammals, Fish, 

and Other Wildlife 

Noble S. Proctor 

and Patrick J. Lynch 

This superb book, with its unique 

focus on the entire marine coastal 

environment, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date field 

guide available on the southeastern Atlantic Coast and the 

Gulf Coast. Not just for beachgoers, the book is essential for 

birders, whale watchers, fishers, boaters, scuba divers and 

snorkelers and shoreline visitors. 

Features of the guide: Entries on 619 coastal and ocean species; 

more than 1,100 colour illustrations, plus 121 photographs; 

450 up-to-date range maps; overviews of key ecological 

communities; special attention to threatened and endangered 

species; discussions of environmental issues; glossary; excellent 

organisational aids for locating information quickly. 

Noble S. Proctor is professor emeritus, biological sciences, 

Southern Connecticut State University. Patrick J. Lynch, an 

illustrator, artist and computer programmer, is also director, 

Design and User Experience, Yale University. 

February 432 pp. 210x140mm. 1,221 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-11328-0 £20.00* 

American Studies 69 

The Iron Way 

Railroads, the Civil War, and 

the Making of Modern America 

William G. Thomas 

Beginning with Frederick Douglass’ 

escape from slavery in 1838 on the 

railroad, and ending with the 

driving of the golden spike to link 

the transcontinental in 1869, this 

book charts a critical period of 

American expansion and national 

formation, one dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads 

and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to 

bear on railroads, the Confederate South, slavery and the 

Civil War era, based on research in digitised sources never 

available before. 

Both the North and the South invested in railroads to serve 

their larger purposes, Thomas contends. Though railroads are 

often cited as a major factor in the Union’s victory, he shows 

that they were also essential to the formation of ‘the South’ as 

a unified region. He discusses the many effects of railroad 

expansion and proposes that America’s great railroads became a 

symbolic touchstone for the nation’s vision of itself. 

William G. Thomas is professor of history and John and 

Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities, University of 

Nebraska-Lincoln. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-14107-8 £20.00* 

Liberty’s Refuge 

The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly 

John D. Inazu 

This original and provocative book 

looks at an important constitutional 

freedom that today is largely forgotten: 

the right of assembly. While this right 

lay at the heart of some of the most 

important social movements in 

American history—abolitionism, 

women’s suffrage, the labour and civil 

rights movements—courts now prefer 

to speak about the freedoms of 

association and speech. But the right of 

‘expressive association’ undermines 

protections for groups whose purposes 

are demonstrable not by speech or 

expression but through ways of being. 

John D. Inazu demonstrates that the 

forgetting of assembly and the embrace 

of association loses sight of important 

dimensions of the American 

constitutional tradition. 

John D. Inazu is associate professor 

of law at Washington University in 

St. Louis. 


HB ISBN 978-0-300-17315-4 £45.00 

The Elizabethan Club 

of Yale University 

and Its Library 

Centenary Edition 

Stephen Parks 

Introduction by Alan Bell 

The Elizabethan Club of Yale University 

and Its Library was first published in 

1986 to celebrate the 75th anniversary 

of the founding of the Elizabethan 

Club. This second, greatly enlarged 

edition is being published in celebration 

of the Club’s centenary. 

This edition includes full descriptions 

of the rare books in the Elizabethan 

Club’s collection, including the nearly 

sixty new acquisitions of the past 

quarter century, and for the first time a 

listing of manuscripts and objects. Fullcolour 

photographs by Richard Cheek 

elegantly display the Club’s rooms and 

garden, and nearly all its rare books, 

manuscripts and objects are beautifully 

presented in full-colour reproductions. 

Stephen Parks is Curator of the Osborn 

Collection at the Beinecke Library. 



HB ISBN 978-0-300-17185-3 £60.00 

Subverting Exclusion 

Transpacific Encounters with Race, 

Caste, and Borders, 1885–1928 

Andrea Geiger 

The Japanese immigrants who arrived 

in the North American West in the late 

nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 

included individuals with historical ties 

to Japan’s outcaste communities. In the 

only English-language book on the 

subject, Andrea Geiger examines the 

history of these immigrants in the U.S. 

and Canada and their encounters with 

two separate cultures of exclusion, 

including the notion of outcaste status. 

Geiger reveals that the experiences of 

Japanese immigrants in North America 

were shaped in part by Japan’s formal 

status system, mibunsei, decades after it 

was abolished, and shows how the 

influence of this system affected their 

perceptions and understandings of race 

in the North American West in the 

early twentieth century. 

Andrea Geiger is assistant professor of 

history at Simon Fraser University. 

The Lamar Series in Western History 


18 b/w illus. 

HB ISBN 978-0-300-16963-8 £35.00

70 Language 

Learn to Read Greek 

Textbook, Part 2 

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell 

Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for 

students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. 

It is the companion volume to the authors’ 

Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its 

Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based 

approach and is intended for students who 

have a serious interest in learning the language. 

The text and workbook include carefully chosen vocabularies and extensive 

vocabulary notes; clear presentations of all necessary morphology and 

syntax; large numbers of drills and drill sentences; and abundant 

unabridged sample passages from a variety of Greek authors and texts. 

Learn to Read Greek, text and workbook Part 1 is already available. 

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell both teach Classics at the Collegiate 

School in New York City. They are the authors of Learn to Read Latin, 

published by Yale. 


Textbook, Part 2 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-11590-1 £35.00 

Workbook, Part 2 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-11592-5 £20.00 

Part 2, Textbook and Workbook Set 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-16772-6 £55.00 

The Meek One: 

A Fantastic Story 

An Annotated Russian Reader 

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Edited by Julia Titus 

Illustrations by 

Kristen Robinson 

This fully annotated paperback learner’s 

edition of Dostoevsky’s short story 

The Meek One is intended for 

intermediate and advanced Russian 

students. In addition to the Russian 

text, the book includes an introduction 

discussing the story’s historical context, 

literary significance and critical 

response; an extensive glossary and a 

learner’s dictionary; discussion 

questions; and vocabulary quizzes, 

exercises and self-tests. All of these 

components will also be available 

online, accompanied by a complete 

soundtrack. 

Julia Titus is senior lector in the 

Department of Slavic Languages and 

Literatures at Yale University. 


6 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-16232-5 £14.99* 

Tu sais quoi! 

Cours de conversation en français 

Annabelle Dolidon 

and Norma López-Burton 

Tu sais quoi! is a function-based text 

that helps students practice French for 

application in real life. It includes 

current idiomatic expressions and slang, 

which are not found in most textbooks. 

It is primarily intended to prepare 

students to function linguistically and 

culturally in French-speaking countries 

where they will study abroad, visit or 

work. The book will be accompanied by 

a Web site with grammar and culture 

links, and audio and video files. 

Annabelle Dolidon is an assistant 

professor of French at Portland State 

University. Norma López-Burton is 

a lecturer at the University of 

California, Davis. 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-16624-8 £55.00 

Kunterbunt und 

kurz geschrieben 

An Interactive German Reader 

for the Intermediate German 

Classroom 

James Pfrehm 

Kunterbunt und kurz geschrieben is an 

intermediate-level German reader. 

James Pfrehm uses an innovative 

approach, which includes text and 

audio podcasts of German short stories 

that are distinctly different from 

canonical texts studied in upper-level 

courses. Some of the features of the 

book include: topical, engaging and 

often humorous modern short stories; 

a grammar activity in each chapter; 

and video podcasts of short stories 

created by Pfrehm. 

James Pfrehm is an assistant professor 

of German at Ithaca College. 


18 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-16602-6 £20.00 

Fundamentos teóricos 

y practicos de historia 

de la lengua española 

Eva Núñez Méndez 

This is a comprehensive language text 

about the evolution of Spanish, from its 

Latin roots to modern Spanish, that is 

intended for advanced undergraduate 

and graduate students. It provides an 

overview of the birth, formation and 

development of the Spanish language in 

a clear and systematic way and includes 

exercises and illustrative texts. It is userfriendly 

for instructors, as it provides all 

the necessary elements (history, exercises 

and primary sources) for use as a main 

text—no supplements are needed. 

Eva Núñez-Méndez is an associate 

professor at Portland State University in 

Oregon. 


26 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17098-6 £45.00

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WEBSITE: 

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Student Book 1 

July 336 pp. 276x215mm. 180 illus. 

PB 978-0-300-16162-5 £65.00 

Student Book 2 


180 illus. 

PB 978-0-300-16163-2 £65.00 

Annotated Instructor’s Edition 1 

July 336 pp. 276x215mm. 180 illus. 

PB 978-0-300-16166-3 FREE 

Annotated Instructor’s Edition 2 


180 illus. 

PB 978-0-300-16167-0 FREE 

Character Writing Workbook 1 

July 256 pp. 280x215mm. 

PB 978-0-300-16170-0 £20.00 

Character Writing Workbook 2 


PB 978-0-300-16171-7 £20.00 

Screenplay 1 

July 160 pp. 280x215mm. 

PB 978-0-300-16605-7 £20.00 

Screenplay 2 


PB 978-0-300-17598-1 £20.00 

DVD Lab Pack 1 

September 

DVD 978-0-300-17565-3 £400.00 

DVD Lab Pack 2 

January 

DVD 978-0-300-17599-8 £400.00 

Encounters 

Chinese Language and Culture 

Cynthia Y. Ning and John S. Montanaro 

Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking Chinese language programme 

that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme’s 

highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese 

language and culture through video episodes that directly correspond to 

units in the textbook. By combining a compelling story line with a 

wealth of educational materials, Encounters weaves a tapestry of Chinese 

language and culture rich in teaching and learning opportunities. 

Encounters follows a carefully structured and cumulative approach. 

Students progress from listening and speaking to the more difficult 

skills of reading and writing Chinese characters, building grammar, 

vocabulary and pronunciation skills along the way. 

The Encounters programme includes: 

• Two full-colour Student Books for introductory Chinese study 

• Annotated Instructor’s editions with answer keys and suggested 

class activities 

• Two Character Writing Workbooks linked directly to the Student Book 

• Ten hours of video materials, comprising dramatic episodes, cultural 

segments and animations, all integrated with the Student Books 

• A total of 200 minutes of audio material, linked to the Student Books, 

for listening and speaking practice 

• A website, www.encounterschinese.com, providing a year’s free access 

to all audiovisual material of the programme upon adoption 

Cynthia Y. Ning is associate director of the Center for Chinese Studies 

and U.S. director of the Confucius Institute of the University of 

Hawai’i at Manoa, where she has taught for more than 25 years. 

John S. Montanaro recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Chinese at 

Yale University, where he taught for more than 30 years.

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Exploring Happiness 

From Aristotle to Brain Science 

Sissela Bok 

From the acclaimed author of 

Lying, a brilliant exploration of 

happiness set in the context of 

the world’s great philosophers, 

leaders, writers and artists. 

“Sissela Bok makes sense of 

happiness for adults: what sort 

of happiness we can seek, and 

what lies beyond our grasp. 

The book illuminates ‘the pursuit of happiness’ in modern 

economics, psychiatry and philosophy, but she addresses, in 

the end, any intelligent reader. Sissela Bok writes so clearly 

and directly that the reader is often caught up short, suddenly 

realising that her arguments are always provocations to think 

more deeply. This is a wise book.”—Richard Sennett 

“Bok’s essay is timely.”—Marek Kohn, Financial Times 

“It is hard to imagine how anyone else, in fewer than 200 

pages of text, could better encompass so much Western 

thinking about a question so important to the way we live.” 

—Wall Street Journal 

Sissela Bok is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for 

Population and Development Studies, and a philosopher. 

July 224 pp. 216x138mm. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17810-4 £11.99* 

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Moon 

A Brief History 

Bernd Brunner 

An entertaining, often surprising 

cultural examination of Earth’s 

moon, through history, science 

and literature, from ancient 

times to the present. 

“Brunner’s perky cultural 

history—of the Moon in 

superstition, song and indeed 

science—encompasses many 

wonderful things both 

imaginary (inhabitants including man-bats or cat-women) 

and actual (strange lights known as ‘lunar transient 

phenomena’, or the burial on the Moon of an American 

geologist’s ashes).”—Steven Poole, The Guardian 

“We know perfectly well that the Moon is a cold, rocky, 

lifeless little satellite, but where’s the romance in that 

Brunner shows how it has shone silver through our dreams 

and destinies. It is the inspiration for myths and marvels.” 

—Kate Saunders, The Times 

Bernd Brunner is a freelance writer. He is the author of other 

successful works intersecting history, science and literature, 

including Bears and The Ocean at Home. 

October 304 pp. 210x140mm. 93 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17769-5 £9.99* 

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The Finger 

A Handbook 

Angus Trumble 

In this collision between art and 

science, history and pop culture, 

the acclaimed art historian Angus 

Trumble examines the finger 

from every possible angle. His 

inquiries into its representation 

in art take us from Buddhist 

statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of 

the Sistine Chapel, from cave art 

to Picasso’s Guernica, from Van Dyck’s and Rubens’ winning 

ways with gloves to the longstanding French taste for tapering 

digits. But Trumble also asks intriguing questions about the 

finger in general and the book is filled with diverse anecdotes, 

side by side with historical discussion. 

“In an easy yet learned style he traces the finger through art, 

culture, myth and biology to deliver a comprehensive story 

of this most obvious yet overlooked digit. A really enjoyable 

read.”—Alexandra Henton, The Field 

“Written skippingly, and wears its wide-ranging scholarship 

lightly.”—Michael Glover, The Independent 

Angus Trumble is Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture 

at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, 

and the author of A Brief History of the Smile. 

September 256 pp. 216x138mm. 20 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17907-1 £12.99* 

Translation rights: AP Watt Agency, London 

The Book in the 

Renaissance 

Andrew Pettegree 

This groundbreaking study of 

the fascinating world of books 

in the first great age of print, 

from 1450 to 1600, was 

awarded the main prize by the 

Renaissance Society of America. 

“It is more fun than a book on 

bibliography has any right to 

be: as well as emphasising 

what a cut-throat, pragmatic 

and disreputable business the early modern book trade was, 

it’s a salient reminder of how little we really know about the 

subject.”—Alec Ryie, Times Higher Education 

“There is so much to enjoy here.”—Martin Davies, 

The Times Literary Supplement 

“A remarkable book.”—Christopher Hawtree, 

The Independent 

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. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17821-0 £16.99* 

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Defiance 

of the Patriots 

The Boston Tea Party and 

the Making of America 

Benjamin L. Carp 

This evocative and enthralling 

book presents the broadest 

account yet of a defining event 

in American history, which 

forged the American character 

and continues to shape its 

politics today. 

“A thoughtful, balanced corrective to partisan treatments of 

the Boston Tea Party.”—Maya Jasanoff, The Guardian 

“An illuminating account of a singular moment in history.” 

—Siobhan Murphy, Metro 

“An impressively researched account.”—T. H. Breen, 


“Carp’s book will tell you everything you could possibly 

want to know about the Boston Tea Party. His research is 

meticulous.”—Raymond Seitz, Literary Review 

Benjamin L. Carp is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts 

University, where he teaches the history of early America. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17812-8 £12.99* 

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When London Was 

Capital of America 

Julie Flavell 

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. 

“Julie Flavell has produced not 

an account of the administration 

of the American colonies from London but something much 

more original . . . She reveals an extraordinary, almost forgotten 

world, rich with anecdote.”—Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express 

“A well-researched and enjoyable book”—Leslie Mitchell, 

Literary Review 

“This is a fine, original book, and a jolly good read.” 

—Tim Richardson, Country Life 

“An engaging social history, written with a novelist’s eye for 

character and plot.”—Gaiutra Bahadur, The Observer 

Julie Flavell, the author of many scholarly and popular 

publications on the relationship between colonial America 

and Britain, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 

August 320 pp. 216x138mm. 36 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17813-5 £12.99* 

The Battle of 

Marathon 

Peter Krentz 

Drawing on early travellers, 

archaeologists, geologists, 

reenactors and soldiers, Peter 

Krentz tells a compelling story 

that defends Herodotus’ account 

of how the Athenians won their 

most famous victory. 

“It submits all the evidence to 

careful scrutiny, and adds a 

good deal more, to present a pretty convincing picture of 

what happened and why . . . Read this compelling book” 

—Peter Jones, The Daily Telegraph 

“Historians, topographers, reenactors, and general readers alike 

will all be indebted to cutting-edge military historian Peter 

Krentz’s original, insightful, witty, provocative and brilliantly 

illustrated account.”—Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge 

“It is hard to images that Krentz’s account of the events of 

that sweltering day can be improved on.” 

—Peter Thonemann, The Times Literary Supplement 

Peter Krentz is W. R. Grey Professor of Classics and History, 

Davidson College, where he teaches Greek and Roman history. 

Yale Library of Military History 


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Eleanor of Aquitaine 

Queen of France, 

Queen of England 

Ralph V. Turner 

This gripping biography is the 

definitive account of the most 

important queen of the Middle 

Ages. Ralph Turner, a leading 

historian of the twelfth century, 

strips away the myths that have 

accumulated around Eleanor— 

the ‘black legend’ of her sexual 

appetite, for example—and challenges the accounts that 

relegate her to the shadows of the kings she married and bore. 

Turner focuses on a wealth of primary sources, including a 

collection of Eleanor’s own documents not previously 

accessible to scholars, and portrays a woman who sought 

control of her own destiny in the face of forceful resistance. 

A queen of unparalleled appeal, Eleanor of Aquitaine retains 

her power to fascinate even 800 years after her death. 

“Eleanor’s is a great story, and Ralph V. Turner tells it well.” 

—Brendan Smith, The Tablet 

Ralph V. Turner is Emeritus Professor of History, Florida State 

University. He is the author of King John and The Reign of 

Richard Lionheart, among many other publications on 

European medieval history. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17820-3 £14.99* 

Rights sold: French and German

74 Paperbacks 

A Complicated Man 

The Life of Bill Clinton as Told 

by Those Who Know Him 

Michael Takiff 

In this, the first complete oral 

history of Clinton’s life, 

historian Michael Takiff presents 

the first truly balanced book on 

one of America’s most 

controversial and fascinating 

presidents. Through more than 

150 chronologically arranged 

interviews with key figures 

including Bob Dole, James Carville and Tom Brokaw, among 

many others, A Complicated Man goes far beyond the wellworn 

party-line territory to capture the larger-than-life essence 

of Clinton the man. With the tremendous attention given to 

the Lewinsky scandal, it is easy to overlook the president’s 

humble upbringing, as well as his achievements at home and 

abroad. Through the candid recollections of Takiff’s many 

subjects, A Complicated Man leaves no area unexplored, 

revealing the most complete and unexpected portrait of the 

forty-second president published to date. 

Michael Takiff is an independent scholar and oral historian 

whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington 

Post and Los Angeles Times. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17768-8 £16.00* 

Fruitlands 

The Alcott Family 

and Their Search for Utopia 

Richard Francis 

This is the first definitive 

account of Fruitlands, one of 

history’s most unsuccessful—but 

most significant—utopian 

experiments. It was established in 

Massachusetts in 1843 by 

Bronson Alcott (whose daughter 

Louisa May, future author of 

Little Women, was among the 

members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the 

watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau and other intellectuals. 

“Francis brilliantly dissects it all: the diction, the false hopes, 

the sheer naivety . . . But he somehow manages to be 

admirably even-handed, acknowledging that many of Alcott’s 

ideas . . . were more than a century ahead of their time.” 

—Toblas Jones, The Observer 

“Francis writes with rare elegance and a well-turned wit that 

makes Fruitlands a beguiling treat: stylish, instructive and 

hugely entertaining.”—Miranda Seymour, The Daily Telegraph 

Richard Francis has taught at universities on both sides of the 

Atlantic and has previously written on Ann Lee, founder of 

the Shakers, and on the Salem witch trials. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17790-9 £14.99* 

Translation rights: United Agents, London 

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’s Red River, 

and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot 

Liberty Valance and The Searchers. 

“I loved it.”—Clive Sinclair, 


Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn 

Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service 

Professor in the John U. Nef 

Committee on Social Thought, the 

Department of Philosophy, and the 

College at the University of Chicago. 

Castle Lectures Series 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-17206-5 £16.99* 

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 never published the 

second novel he had been composing 

for more than forty years. 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. 

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... . 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17119-8 £16.00* 

The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair 

America on Trial 

Moshik Temkin 

This book is the first to reveal the full 

international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti 

affair, tracing its enduring implications 

for America at home and abroad. 

“What could possibly have united so 

many unlikely bedfellows in support of 

a pair of radical anarchists Why did 

Sacco and Vanzetti attract so much 

attention . . . Why did a cause that 

gained so much national and 

international support ultimately fail 

And what does the case tell us about 

relations between the United States 

and the rest of the world between the 

wars Moshik Temkin does a brilliant 

job answering these questions. And in 

his answers, it turns out, lie the roots 

of the current controversy over 

America’s war on terror.” 

—David Cole, London Review of Books 

Moshik Temkin is an assistant professor 

at Harvard University’s Kennedy School 

of Government. 


20 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17785-5 £18.00*

Matisse 

Radical Invention, 

1913–1917 

Stephanie D’Alessandro 

and John Elderfield 

The works that Henri 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. This handsome 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. It features in-depth studies of individual works and 

facilitates a greater understanding of the artist’s innovative 

process and radical stylistic evolution. 

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. 

Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago 

July 368 pp. 324x248mm. 138 b/w + 515 colour illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17724-4 £35.00* 


The Invisible 

Harry Gold 

The Man Who Gave the 

Soviets the Atom Bomb 

Allen M. Hornblum 

Journalist and historian 

Allen Hornblum paints a 

surprising portrait of one of the 

most important and enigmatic 

spies in U.S. history: the man 

who delivered the plans for the 

atom bomb to the Soviets. 

Through interviews with many individuals who knew 

Harry Gold and years of research into primary documents, 

Hornblum has produced a gripping account of how a 

fundamentally decent and well-intentioned man helped 

commit the greatest scientific theft of the twentieth century. 

“Hornblum tells this gripping story with verve and an eye for 

detail that both humanises the sly and powers the narrative 

. . . a thought-provoking, finely told and compassionate 

account of Gold’s life.”—Tim Tzouliadis, Literary Review 

Allen M. Hornblum has been executive director of Americans 

for Democratic Action, chief of staff of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s 

Office and college lecturer. His previous books include Sentenced 

to Science, Acres of Skin and Confessions of a Second Story Man. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17757-2 £15.00* 

Translation rights: Sandra Dijkstra Agency, Del Mar 

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Dazzled and Deceived 

Mimicry and Camouflage 

Peter Forbes 

This fascinating book tells the 

unique story of mimicry and 

camouflage in science, art, warfare 

and the natural world. 

“Forbes presents an authoritative 

account of research into mimicry, 

and brings it bang up to date with 

today’s molecular studies. Cultural 

spin-offs of camouflage abound, and everything from 

Picasso’s cubism to quixotic military attempts to disguise 

battleships and soldiers are covered.”—New Scientist 

“In this excellent and wide-ranging book, Forbes makes the 

hidden histories of science recognisable.” 

—Leena Lindstrom, Nature 

“Forbes sees with lovely clarity that nature, like art, is a 

bricoleur.”—Veronica Horwell, The Guardian 

Winner of the Warwick Prize for Writing 2011 

Peter Forbes, a writer, journalist and editor, is the author of 

The Gecko’s Foot. Since 2004 he has been a Royal Literary 

Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. 


20 colour illus. + 6 diagrams 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17896-8 £10.99* 

Translation rights, Andrew Lownie Agency, London 

How Intelligence 

Happens 

John Duncan 

Human intelligence is among the 

most powerful forces on earth. 

It builds sprawling cities, vast 

cornfields and coffee plantations, 

complex microchips; it takes us 

from the atom to the limits of 

the universe. How does the 

biological brain, a collection of 

billions of cells, enable us to do 

things no other species can do In this book John Duncan, a 

scientist who has spent thirty years studying the human brain, 

offers an adventure story—the story of the hunt for basic 

principles of human intelligence, behaviour and thought. 

“John Duncan . . . makes a convincing case that [the brain’s 

frontal and parietal lobes] constitute a special circuit that is 

crucial for both [British psychologist Charles] Spearman’s ‘g’ 

and for intelligent behavior more generally.” 

—Christopher F. Chabris, Wall Street Journal 

John Duncan is assistant director of the MRC Cognition and 

Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, honorary professor of 

cognitive neuroscience at the Universities of Cambridge and 

Bangor, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and 

fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17772-5 £10.99* 

Translation rights: The Science Factory Agency, London

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Virtual Justice 

Greg Lastowka 

In Virtual Justice, Greg Lastowka 

illustrates the real legal dilemmas posed 

by virtual worlds. Presenting recent 

lawsuits and controversies, he explains 

how governments are responding to the 

chaos on the cyberspace frontier. After 

an engaging overview of the history 

and business models of today’s virtual 

worlds, he explores how laws of 

property, jurisdiction, crime and 

copyright are being adapted to pave the 

path of virtual law. 

“Greg Lastowka shows how blurry the 

line can be between private and public, 

between a customer base and a polity. 

He makes a compelling and 

impassioned case for why what happens 

in online worlds matters to us all—and 

how what is unfolding there now is 

determining how free we will be.”— 

Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future 

of the Internet—And How to Stop It 

Greg Lastowka is a Professor of Law at 

Rutgers University. 


9 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17774-9 £15.00* 

Pivotal Decade 

How the United States Traded 

Factories for Finance in the Seventies 

Judith Stein 

In this fascinating history, Judith Stein 

argues that in order to understand the 

current economic crisis, America needs 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. 

Drawing on extensive 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. 


10 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17150-1 £18.00 

Translation rights: 

Sandra Dijkstra Agency, Del Mar 

The Trouble with 

City Planning 

What New Orleans Can Teach Us 

Kristina Ford 

After the vast destruction wrought by 

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faced a 

rare chance to rebuild, with an 

unprecedented opportunity to plan 

what gets built. As the city’s director of 

planning from 1992 until 2000, 

Kristina Ford is uniquely placed to use 

these opportunities as a springboard for 

an eye-opening discussion of the 

intransigent problems and promising 

possibilities facing city planners across 

the American nation and beyond. 

Kristina Ford is one of America’s best 

known urban planners and writers on 

planning. In the immediate aftermath of 

Katrina, Ford’s thoughtful assessments— 

heard on CNN, the BBC and National 

Public Radio—became the first public 

voice of reason to mediate the great 

storm’s human and civic consequences. 


8 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17742-8 £18.00* 

Translation rights, ICM Agency, New York 

Why the Constitution 

Matters 

Mark Tushnet 

In this surprising and highly 

unconventional work, Harvard law 

professor Mark Tushnet poses a 

seemingly simple question that yields a 

thoroughly unexpected answer. The 

American Constitution matters, he 

argues, not because it structures 

government but because it structures 

politics. He maintains that politicians 

and political parties—not Supreme 

Court decisions—are the true engines of 

constitutional change. This message will 

empower all citizens who use direct 

political action to define and protect 

their rights and liberties as Americans. 

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson 

Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard 

University. A graduate of Yale Law 

School, he served as law clerk to Justice 

Thurgood Marshall and now specialises 

in constitutional law and theory, 

including comparative constitutional law. 



PB ISBN 978-0-300-15037-7 £10.99 

Acting White 

The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation 

Stuart Buck 

Stuart Buck argues that desegregation, 

while beneficial overall, had the 

unexpected side effect of causing some 

black children to view doing 

schoolwork as ‘acting white’. 

He suggests solutions for making racial 

identification a positive force in the 

classroom. 

“[Buck] reminds us that we should 

remember that everything is composed 

of light and shadow. Before we attempt 

to improve schools, we need to 

understand the impact of change on 

culture, on deeply ingrained habits and 

ways of thinking.”—Phil Brand, 

Washington Times 

A member of Harvard Law School, 

Stuart Buck’s work has appeared in the 

Harvard Law Review, the Administrative 

Law Review and several other scholarly 

journals. 


9 b/w illus. 

PB ISBN 978-0-300-17120-4 £12.00 

‘Apologia Pro Vita Sua’ 

and Six Sermons 

John Henry Cardinal Newman 

Edited, annotated and with an 

introduction by Frank M. Turner 

This version of John Henry Newman’s 

Apologia Pro Vita Sua sheds new light 

on Newman’s celebrated account of his 

passage from the Church of England to 

the Roman Catholic Church and 

repositions his narrative within the 

context of transformative religious 

journeys of other Victorian intellectuals. 

Frank M. Turner is the first historian of 

Victorian thought, religion and culture 

to edit Newman’s classic narrative. 

Drawing on extensive research, Turner’s 

powerfully revisionist Introduction 

reevaluates and challenges the historical 

adequacy of previous interpretations of 

Newman’s life and of the Apologia itself. 

Frank M. Turner was John Hay 

Whitney Professor of History and 

director of the Beinecke Rare Book and 

Manuscript Library at Yale University. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17786-2 £20.00

Love and the Law 

in Cervantes 

Roberto González Echevarría 

The consolidation of law and the 

development of legal writing during 

Spain’s Golden Age not only helped that 

country become a modern state but also 

affected its great literature. 

In this fascinating book, Roberto 

González Echevarría explores the works 

of Cervantes, showing how his 

representations of love were inspired by 

examples of human deviance and desire 

culled from legal discourse. 

González Echevarría describes Spain’s 

new legal policies, legislation and 

institutions and explains how, at the 

same time, its literature became filled 

with love stories derived from classical 

and medieval sources. Examining the 

ways that these legal and literary 

developments interacted in Cervantes’s 

work, he sheds new light on 

Don Quixote and other writings. 

Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling 

Professor of Hispanic and Comparative 

Literature at Yale University. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17784-8 £18.99* 

Rights sold: Spanish 

The Settlers 

Gadi Taub 

The controversy over settlements in 

the occupied territories is a far more 

intractable problem for Israel than is 

widely perceived, Gadi Taub observes 

in this illuminating book. The clash over 

settlement is no mere policy 

disagreement, he maintains, but rather 

a struggle over the very meaning of 

Zionism. The book presents an 

absorbing study of religious settlers’ 

ideology and how it has evolved in 

response to Israel’s history of wars, peace 

efforts, assassination, the pull-out from 

Gaza and other tumultuous events. 

“Anyone who has been concerned or 

angered by the debate over the future 

of liberal Zionism . . . should hurry to 

read The Settlers.”—Adam Kirsch, 

The Tablet 

Gadi Taub is assistant professor, 

Department of Communications and 

the School of Public Policy, Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem. 


PB ISBN 978-0-300-17764-0 £15.99* 

No Hebrew rights 

Cuban Fiestas 



masterfully exposes the distinctive 

elements of the fiesta cubana that give 

depth and coherence to more than two 

centuries of Cuban cultural life. 

Reaching back to nineteenth-century 

traditions of Cuban art and literature, 

and augmenting them, in the twentieth, 

with the arts of narrative, the esthetic 

performances of sport and 

entertainment in nightclubs, on the 

baseball diamond and in movie theatres, 

Cuban Fiestas renders the lilting strains 

of the fiesta and drum beats of the 

passage of time as keys to understanding 

the dynamic quality of Cuban culture. 

González Echevarría’s explorations are 

also illuminated by autobiographical 

vignettes that unveil the ever-shifting 

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36 Aalto and America: Anderson 

36 Abadie: Dubuffet as Architect 

63 Abandoned to Ourselves: Meyers 

76 Acting White: Buck 

59 Adler: Time and a Place 

59 Age of American Impressionism: Barter 

54 Agee: American Vanguards 

37 Alighiero e Boetti: Godfrey 

42 American Christmas Card: Ames 

54 American Vanguards: Agee 

42 Ames: American Christmas Card 

39 And Diverse Are Their Hues: Bloom 

36 Anderson: Aalto and America 

53 Anderson: Samurai Armor 

53 Anglo-Florentine Renaissance: Sicca 

24 Anthology of Rap: Bradley 

76 Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Turner 

62 Apuleius: Golden Ass 

18 Art of Worship: Holtam 

16 Artist and the Warrior: Rabb 

67 Ashford: Technology, Globalization 

66 Barnard: Listen. Write. Present. 

50 Barratt: Washington Crossing the Delaware 

59 Barter: Age of American Impressionism 

73 Battle of Marathon: Krentz 

35 Baume: Sol LeWitt 

21 Belarus: Wilson 

66 Berthoz: Simplexity 

56 Bertrand Goldberg: Ryan 

12 Beyond the Tower: Marriott 

78 Blair: Too Much to Know 

39 Bloom: And Diverse Are Their Hues 

17 Bloom: Shadow of a Great Rock 

61 blu: Grise 

72 Bok: Exploring Happiness 

61 Bonnefoy: Second Simplicity 

72 Book in the Renaissance: Pettegree 

64 Boss: Spirit of Mary 

24 Bradley: Anthology of Rap 

74 Bradley: Ralph Ellison in Progress 

21 Branch: Kenya 

29 Brandenberger: Propaganda State in Crisis 

43 Brown: Murillo 

72 Brunner: Moon 

76 Buck: Acting White 

54 Building After Auschwitz: Rosenfeld 

45 Burton: Sherrie Levine 

19 Campbell: Romans and Their World 

51 Canby: Neither East nor West 

51 Canby: Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp 

38 Canterbury Cathedral Priory: Fergusson 

20 Capturing the Essence: Cooper 

9 Carlton: This Seat of Mars 

73 Carp: Defiance of the Patriots 

39 Carr: Imprinting the Divine 

55 Cheshire: Hartwell 

66 Childism: Young-Bruehl 

58 Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Chung 

48 Christiansen: Renaissance Portrait 

58 Chung: Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution 

68 Clapp: Lawtalk 

52 Closer Look, Techniques of Painting: Kirby 

68 Cohen: Configuring the Networked Self 

74 Complicated Man: Takiff 

68 Configuring the Networked Self: Cohen 

68 Constitutional Cliffhangers: Kalt 

58 Contemporary Drawings: Pascale 

43 Contested Visions: Katzew 

30 Conversion of Scandinavia: Winroth 

64 Conversions: Harline 

20 Cooper: Capturing the Essence 

46 Cork: Healing Presence of Art 

77 Cuban Fiestas: González Echevarría 

75 D’Alessandro: Matisse 

61 D’Annunzio: Notturno 

53 Dackerman: Prints and Pursuit of Knowledge 

20 Daily You: Turow 

16 Dakers: Genius for Money 

77 Dallal: Islam, Science, Challenge of History 

14 Daphne Guinness: Steele 

75 Dazzled and Deceived: Forbes 

10 December 1941: Mawdsley 

73 Defiance of the Patriots: Carp 

42 Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Rathbone 

68 Democracy, Expertise, Freedom: Post 

22 Dignity: Hicks 

70 Dolidon: Tu sais quoi! 

70 Dostoevsky: Meek One 

47 Drawings by Rembrandt: Sutton 

36 Dubuffet as Architect: Abadie 

4 Duffy: Ten Popes Who Shook the World 

65 Dumas: Peacekeeping Economy 

75 Duncan: How Intelligence Happens 

50 Duncan Phyfe: Kenny 

58 Earle: Fiber Futures 

18 Earthly Visions: Gorringe 

45 Easton: Snapshot 

24 Edward II: Phillips 

28 Edward III: Ormrod 

28 Edwards: Mary I 

78 Edwards: Why the Electoral College is Bad 

23 Egypt on the Brink: Osman 

54 El Anatsui: LaGamma 

73 Eleanor of Aquitaine: Turner 

58 Elegant Perfection: McCormick 

22 Elizabeth and Hazel: Margolick 

32 Elizabeth Blackadder: Long 

69 Elizabethan Club of Yale University: Parks 

34 Elliott: Tony Cragg 

60 Emma Goldman: Gornick 

46 Empire to Nation: Quilley 

71 Encounters: Ning, Montanaro & Wang 

68 End of Race: Kinder 

25 Euro: Marsh 

48 European Sculpture: Wardropper 

67 Every Twelve Seconds: Pachirat 

57 Experiencing Gego’s Reticulárea: Huizi 

72 Exploring Happiness: Bok 

59 Expressions of Innocence: Katcher 

47 Eye to Eye: Rand 

15 Facing Beauty: Ribeiro 

66 Fandom Unbound: Ito 

58 Farrell: Get There First, Decide Promptly 

67 Feduccia: Riddle of the Feathered Dragons 

38 Fergusson: Canterbury Cathedral Priory 

58 Fiber Futures: Earle 

69 Field Guide to the Southeast Coast: Proctor 

52 Finaldi: Image of Christ 

77 Findley: Turkey, Islam, Nationalism 

72 Finger: Trumble 

78 Finkin: For the Common Good 

65 Flanagan: Perilous Life of Symphony 

73 Flavell: When London Was Capital 

78 For the Common Good: Finkin 

75 Forbes: Dazzled and Deceived 

76 Ford: Trouble with City Planning 

55 Foyle: Somerset, North and Bristol 

5 France: Perilous Glory 

74 Francis: Fruitlands 

78 Franklin: Papers of Benjamin Franklin 

48 Frans Hals: Liedtke 

35 Friedlander: In the Picture 

74 Fruitlands: Francis 

70 Fundamentos teóricos: Núñez Méndez 

47 Gabriel Metsu, Life and Work: Waiboer 

37 Galassi: Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921 

69 Geiger: Subverting Exclusion 

16 Genius for Money: Dakers 

Index 79 

30 German Generation: Kohut 

11 Gerwarth: Hitler’s Hangman 

58 Get There First, Decide Promptly: Farrell 

23 Gilbert: In Ishmael’s House 

65 Glaurdic: Hour of Europe 

37 Godfrey: Alighiero e Boetti 

62 Golden Ass: Apuleius 

2 Gombrich: Little History of the World 

77 González Echevarría: Cuban Fiestas 

77 González Echevarría: Love and the Law 

57 Gordon: Modern World 

60 Gornick: Emma Goldman 

18 Gorringe: Earthly Visions 

61 Grise: blu 

51 Guy: Wonder of the Age 

30 HaCohen: Music Libel Against the Jews 

51 Haidar: Sultans of the South 

64 Harline: Conversions 

64 Harline: Miracles at the Jesus Oak 

64 Harline: Sunday 

62 Harshav: Three Thousand Years of Hebrew 

38 Hart: Inigo Jones 

55 Hartwell: Cheshire 

77 Havana Habit: Pérez Firmat 

25 Hayton: Vietnam 

46 Healing Presence of Art: Cork 

50 Heroic Africans: LaGamma 

22 Hicks: Dignity 

6 Hirst: Michelangelo 

11 Hitler’s Hangman: Gerwarth 

74 Hollywood Westerns: Pippin 

18 Holtam: Art of Worship 

75 Hornblum: Invisible Harry Gold 

65 Hour of Europe: Glaurdic 

75 How Intelligence Happens: Duncan 

39 Howard: Venice Disputed 

57 Huizi: Experiencing Gego’s Reticulárea 

34 Hurlston: Ron Mueck 

65 I Am Not Master of Events: Neal 

52 Image of Christ: Finaldi 

39 Imprinting the Divine: Carr 

23 In Ishmael’s House: Gilbert 

35 In the Picture: Friedlander 

69 Inazu: Liberty’s Refuge 

49 Infinite Jest: McPhee 

38 Inigo Jones: Hart 

75 Invisible Harry Gold: Hornblum 

69 Iron Way: Thomas 

77 Islam, Science, Challenge of History: Dallal 

30 Israel: Rubin 

29 It Was a Long Time Ago: Satter 

66 Ito: Fandom Unbound 

78 Iversen: Women, Work, and Politics 

56 Jackson Pollock: Toynton 

24 Joe Louis: Roberts 

41 Johan Zoffany: Postle 

24 Josipovici: What Happened to Modernism 

68 Kalt: Constitutional Cliffhangers 

59 Katcher: Expressions of Innocence 

43 Katzew: Contested Visions 

70 Keller: Learn to Read Greek 

50 Kenny: Duncan Phyfe 

21 Kenya: Branch 

68 Kinder: End of Race 

52 Kirby: Closer Look, Techniques of Painting 

63 Kirsch: Why Trilling Matters 

44 Klein: Radical Camera 

33 Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010: Martin 

59 Knowing Nature: Meyers 

14 Koda: 100 Shoes 

30 Kohut: German Generation 

36 Kosta Alex: Rodari 

73 Krentz: Battle of Marathon 

70 Kunterbunt und kurz geschrieben: Pfrehm

80 Index 

54 LaGamma: El Anatsui 

50 LaGamma: Heroic Africans 

76 Lastowka: Virtual Justice 

68 Lawtalk: Clapp 

70 Learn to Read Greek: Keller 

78 Ledbetter: Unwarranted Influence 

8 Ledwidge: Losing Small Wars 

63 Lemert: Why Niebuhr Matters 

60 Leon Trotsky: Rubenstein 

7 Leonardo da Vinci: Syson 

69 Liberty’s Refuge: Inazu 

48 Liedtke: Frans Hals 

45 Life and Death of Buildings: Smith 

44 Light Years: Witkovsky 

66 Listen. Write. Present: Barnard 

1 Little History of Philosophy: Warburton 

2 Little History of the World: Gombrich 

32 Long: Elizabeth Blackadder 

54 Long: Looshaus 

54 Looshaus: Long 

22 Losing It: Miller 

8 Losing Small Wars: Ledwidge 

77 Love and the Law: González Echevarría 

78 Mabanckou: Yale French Studies 

13 Making of the English Gardener: Willes 

42 Marchenoir: Treasures of Vacheron Constantin 

22 Margolick: Elizabeth and Hazel 

12 Marriott: Beyond the Tower 

25 Marsh: Euro 

33 Martin: Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010 

28 Mary I: Edwards 

58 Marzio: Masterworks of Pre-Columbian Gold 

58 Masterworks of Pre-Columbian Gold: Marzio 

75 Matisse: D’Alessandro 

10 Mawdsley: December 1941 

58 McCormick: Elegant Perfection 

49 McPhee: Infinite Jest 

70 Meek One: Dostoevsky 

49 Messinger: Stieglitz and His Artists 

63 Meyers: Abandoned to Ourselves 

59 Meyers: Knowing Nature 

6 Michelangelo: Hirst 

22 Miller: Losing It 

26 Miller: Problem of Slavery as History 

64 Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Harline 

57 Modern World: Gordon 

30 Monter: Rise of Female Kings in Europe 

72 Moon: Brunner 

43 Murillo: Brown 

25 Music and Sentiment: Rosen 

30 Music Libel Against the Jews: HaCohen 

59 Nahson: Snowy Day 

52 National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Roy 

65 Neal: I Am Not Master of Events 

51 Neither East nor West: Canby 

57 New Formations: Srp 

40 New Painting of the 1860s: Staley 

71 Ning: Encounters 

46 Noon: Richard Parkes Bonington 

61 Notturno: D’Annunzio 

70 Núñez Méndez: Fundamentos teóricos 

14 100 Shoes: Koda 

28 Ormrod: Edward III 

23 Osman: Egypt on the Brink 

27 Ozment: Serpent and the Lamb 

67 Pachirat: Every Twelve Seconds 

78 Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Franklin 

69 Parks: Elizabethan Club of Yale University 

58 Pascale:Contemporary Drawings 

65 Peacekeeping Economy: Dumas 

77 Pérez Firmat: Havana Habit 

5 Perilous Glory: France 

65 Perilous Life of Symphony: Flanagan 

29 Petersburg Fin de Siècle: Steinberg 

72 Pettegree: Book in the Renaissance 

70 Pfrehm: Kunterbunt und kurz geschrieben 

24 Phillips: Edward II 

37 Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Galassi 

74 Pippin: Hollywood Westerns 

76 Pivotal Decade: Stein 

29 Plamper: Stalin Cult 

65 Plotkin: Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen 

65 Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen: Plotkin 

68 Post: Democracy, Expertise, Freedom 

41 Postle: Johan Zoffany 

17 Price: Unpacking My Library 

53 Princely Armor: Terjanian 

53 Prints and Pursuit of Knowledge: Dackerman 

26 Problem of Slavery as History: Miller 

69 Proctor: Field Guide to the Southeast Coast 

29 Propaganda State in Crisis: Brandenberger 

46 Quilley: Empire to Nation 

16 Rabb: Artist and the Warrior 

44 Radical Camera: Klein 

74 Ralph Ellison in Progress: Bradley 

27 Ralph Tailor’s Summer: Wrightson 

57 Ramírez: Resisting Categories 

47 Rand: Eye to Eye 

42 Rathbone: Degas’s Dancers at the Barre 

57 Raz-Russo: Three Graces 

65 Realeconomik: Yavlinsky 

40 Reed: William Nicholson 

48 Renaissance Portrait: Christiansen 

62 Renegade: Turner 

57 Resisting Categories: Ramírez 

15 Ribeiro: Facing Beauty 

46 Richard Parkes Bonington: Noon 

67 Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Feduccia 

30 Rise of Female Kings in Europe: Monter 

24 Roberts: Joe Louis 

36 Rodari: Kosta Alex 

19 Romans and Their World: Campbell 

63 Rome and Rhetoric: Wills 

34 Ron Mueck: Hurlston 

67 Roof at the Bottom of the World: Stump 

25 Rosen: Music and Sentiment 

54 Rosenfeld: Building After Auschwitz 

52 Roy: National Gallery Technical Bulletin 

60 Rubenstein: Leon Trotsky 

30 Rubin: Israel 

56 Ryan: Bertrand Goldberg 

74 Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: Temkin 

53 Samurai Armor: Anderson 

29 Satter: It Was a Long Time Ago 

19 Savonarola: Weinstein 

56 Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Tigerman 

61 Second Simplicity: Bonnefoy 

27 Serpent and the Lamb: Ozment 

77 Settlers: Taub 

17 Shadow of a Great Rock: Bloom 

51 Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: Canby 

45 Sherrie Levine: Burton 

53 Sicca: Anglo-Florentine Renaissance 

66 Simplexity: Berthoz 

45 Smith: Life and Death of Buildings 

45 Snapshot: Easton 

59 Snowy Day: Nahson 

35 Sol LeWitt: Baume 

55 Somerset, North and Bristol: Foyle 

64 Spirit of Mary: Boss 

57 Srp: New Formations 

40 Staley: New Painting of the 1860s 

29 Stalin Cult: Plamper 

62 Stanzas in Meditation: Stein 

14 Steele: Daphne Guinness 

76 Stein: Pivotal Decade 

62 Stein: Stanzas in Meditation 

29 Steinberg: Petersburg Fin de Siècle 

49 Stieglitz and His Artists: Messinger 

50 Storytelling in Japanese Painting: Watanabe 

67 Stump: Roof at the Bottom of the World 

69 Subverting Exclusion: Geiger 

51 Sultans of the South: Haidar 

64 Sunday: Harline 

47 Sutton: Drawings by Rembrandt 

7 Syson: Leonardo da Vinci 

74 Takiff: Complicated Man 

77 Taub: Settlers 

67 Technology, Globalization: Ashford 

74 Temkin: Sacco-Vanzetti Affair 

4 Ten Popes Who Shook the World: Duffy 

53 Terjanian: Princely Armor 

9 This Seat of Mars: Carlton 

69 Thomas: Iron Way 

57 Three Graces: Raz-Russo 

62 Three Thousand Years of Hebrew: Harshav 

56 Tigerman: Schlepping Through Ambivalence 

59 Time and a Place: Adler 

34 Tony Cragg: Elliott 

78 Too Much to Know: Blair 

56 Toynton: Jackson Pollock 

42 Treasures of Vacheron Constantin: Marchenoir 

76 Trouble with City Planning: Ford 

20 Troy: Very Hungry City 

72 Trumble: Finger 

61 Trumpet: Wallace 

70 Tu sais quoi!: Dolidon 

77 Turkey, Islam, Nationalism: Findley 

76 Turner: Apologia Pro Vita Sua 

73 Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine 

62 Turner: Renegade 

20 Turow: Daily You 

76 Tushnet: Why the Constitution Matters 

17 Unpacking My Library: Price 

78 Unwarranted Influence: Ledbetter 

39 Venice Disputed: Howard 

31 Vermeer’s Women: Wieseman 

20 Very Hungry City: Troy 

25 Vietnam: Hayton 

76 Virtual Justice: Lastowka 

60 Volkov: Walther Rathenau 

47 Waiboer: Gabriel Metsu: Life and Work 

61 Wallace: Trumpet 

60 Walther Rathenau: Volkov 

26 Walvin: Zong 

1 Warburton: Little History of Philosophy 

48 Wardropper: European Sculpture 

50 Washington Crossing the Delaware: Barratt 

50 Watanabe: Storytelling in Japanese Painting 

19 Weinstein: Savonarola 

24 What Happened to Modernism: Josipovici 

73 When London Was Capital: Flavell 

63 Why Niebuhr Matters: Lemert 

76 Why the Constitution Matters: Tushnet 

78 Why the Electoral College Is Bad: Edwards 

63 Why Trilling Matters: Kirsch 

31 Wieseman: Vermeer’s Women 

13 Willes: Making of the English Gardener 

40 William Nicholson: Reed 

63 Wills: Rome and Rhetoric 

21 Wilson: Belarus 

56 Windows on the War: Zegers 

30 Winroth: Conversion of Scandinavia 

44 Witkovsky: Light Years 

78 Women, Work, and Politics: Iversen 

51 Wonder of the Age: Guy 

27 Wrightson: Ralph Tailor’s Summer 

78 Yale French Studies: Mabanckou 

65 Yavlinsky: Realeconomik 

66 Young-Bruehl: Childism 

56 Zegers: Windows on the War 

26 Zong: Walvin

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