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Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 23/4/09 11:18 Page 1 yale autumn & winter 2009 Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 23/4/09 11:18 Page 2 New Paperbacks see pages 23–26 & 73–78 £12.99* £14.99* £12.99* £9.99* The Serbs The Ukrainians Pakistan India Tim Judah Andrew Wilson Owen Bennett Jones Dietmar Rothermund Subject Page This catalogue contains details of all Yale books scheduled for publication between July 2009 and February 2010. ■ Art/Architecture 5, 16, 17, 21, 26, 33–60, 73 Trade orders from UK, Continental Europe, ■ Biography/Literature 3, 10, 14, 16, 18, 21, 27, 60–62 Africa, The Middle East, India, Pakistan, China and S.E. 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Index 79, 80 All queries should be addressed to: Anne Bihan, Head of Rights, Yale University Press, at the address given below; or e-mailed to: [email protected] Front Cover: Welcome Home, by Jack Esten. Getty Images. From: Demobbed, by Alan Allport, see page 2. Review Copies All requests for review copies should be made Back Cover: Mary Delany, Pancratium maritimum (Sea Daffodil). British Museum. in writing and sent or faxed to: From: Mrs. Delany and Her Circle, by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, Katie Harris, Publicity Manager, see page 16. Yale University Press, at the address given below. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS • 47 BEDFORD SQUARE • LONDON WC1B 3DP tel: 020 7079 4900 fax: 020 7079 4901 e-mail: [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:43 Page 1 History 1 A panoramic account of private lives in Georgian England, written with clarity and panache by a celebrated historian The Good House-wife, n.d., coloured mezzotint, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1958–357. Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery The Georgian house is a byword for proportion and elegance, but what did it mean to its inhabitants? In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of English men and women, from the Oxfordshire mansion of the unhappy gentlewoman Anne Dormer in the 1680s to the dreary London lodgings of the bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in the 1830s. With wit and verve, she evokes the interiors of a wide range of homes, introducing us to genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, professional couples setting up home in rented houses, widowers frantic to keep their households afloat without a mistress and servants with only a locking box to call their own. Delving into over fifty archives, Vickery makes ingenious use of unusual sources—from upholsterers’ ledgers to burglary trials—to tease out the hidden or taken-for-granted. She reveals the determining role of house and home in power and status, sentiments and strategies. In Amanda Vickery is Reader in History, traditional political theory, the household was a microcosm of the state. Royal Holloway University of London, The pecking order of master, mistress, servants, apprentices and author of The Gentleman’s Daughter: children crystallised the social hierarchy and resisted social and political Women's Lives in Georgian England change. Yet even modest homes were redefined as arenas of social and co-editor, with John Styles, of Gender, Taste and Material Culture in campaign and exhibition because of the spread of formal visiting, the Britain and North America, 1700–1830, proliferation of affordable, ornamental furnishings, the commercial both published by Yale. celebration of feminine artistry at home and the unisex language of taste. Vickery shows how domestic life came under everyday scrutiny and how the nimble hostess appreciated in value to men, who October 368 pp. 234x156mm. frequently yearned for the domesticity only a wife could provide. 80 b/w + 25 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15453-5 £18.99* Translation rights: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:43 Page 2 2 History The trials, troubles and triumphs for men returning home after the end of World War Two—a gripping story that’s in danger of being lost to national memory RAF soldier being fitted with a demob suit. Imperial War Museum. Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two Alan Allport Snapshots of gaiety and celebration—the street parties, the victory speeches—is often how we think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a ‘golden age’ of pride and self-confidence. The country was troubled though triumphant, subject to continued rationing and political change. Wracked by social disorder, austerity and disillusion, Britain was exhausted—and it was the return of those men who had fought for their country who seemed to be a root cause of the trouble. Demobbed is the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much- altered labour force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarised by their experiences and would bring crime and Alan Allport was born in Whiston, England, and grew up in East violence back from the battlefield. ‘Problem veterans’ preoccupied the Yorkshire. An expert on the Second entire country. Alan Allport draws on their personal letters and diaries, World War, he is currently a on newspapers, reports, novels and films to illuminate the darker side postdoctoral lecturer at Princeton. of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large. “Wonderfully researched, sensitively written and often very moving, Demobbed tells an important, underappreciated story that still resonates today.”—David Kynaston October 336 pp. 229x152mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14043-9 £20.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 3 Biography/Literature 3 A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Ebenezer Scrooge Drawing published in the journal Fun, 25 June 1870. Charles Dickens A Life Defined by Writing Michael Slater This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers the man Dickens was through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime’s study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens’ career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing—letters, journalism, shorter fiction, play and verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationship between them. Slater’s account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels, while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens’ boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of with disorder, his organisational genius, his deep concern for the poor and Victorian Literature at Birkbeck outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young College, University of London. He is women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales and his hatred of tyranny. past president of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work Dickens Society of America and the on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable author of many books. guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language. “A magisterial exploration . The breadth and acuity of Slater’s knowledge of Dickens is staggering, and yet the material is presented September in an unpretentious, economical and compelling manner. This is a 640 pp. 234x156mm. study which will enlighten every student of Dickens, and fascinate the 40 b/w illus. + 60 line drawings general reader.”—Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen ISBN 978-0-300-11207-8 £25.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 4 4 Science The remarkable story of how mimicry is used by some of the most extraordinary creatures in the world, told by the author of The Gecko’s Foot Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage Peter Forbes Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world—including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes—have honed and practiced camouflage over hundreds of millions of years.