Yale University Press: 2009 books
The American West
A New Interpretive History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An...
Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.In Inventing a Nation, Vidal...
Cold War Monks
Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War
How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that...
Ship of Death
A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London.
by Alvin B. Kernan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war. Kernan served in many battles and was aboard the Hornet when it was sunk by torpedoes in the Battle...
Safe Among the Germans
Liberated Jews After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book tells the little-known story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground, where some 1,500 Jews...
by Jack F., Jr. Matlock
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Former U.S. ambassador to the USSR Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist...
by Adrian Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography,...
Praetorian
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A riveting account of ancient Rome’s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make—or destroy—the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded,...
by Charles Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Thirty-Eight
The Hurricane That Transformed New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people...
Surge
My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
“The definitive account . . . A fascinating combination of grand strategy and personal vignettes” (Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal).
Finalist for the 2013 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History
Surge is an insider’s view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After...
A Changing Wind
Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore the experiences of Atlanta’s civilians...