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Contents eBooks Subject Page Many of the titles listed here can be purchased as ebooks from online retailers. You can browse New Paperbacks 2–3 the Yale website to find titles that are available British History 4–12 as ebooks, or visit the ebooks section of our site for new ebooks, bestsellers and short ebooks. Yale English Monarchs 12 International History 1, 3, 13–18 General History 1, 3, 19 Russian History 3, 20–21 PMC Published for The Paul Mellon Centre Medieval History 2, 22 for Studies in British Art EH Published in association with English Heritage European History 23–26 MMA Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jewish History 27 Distributed by Yale University Press AIC Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago World War I & II 2, 28–29 YCBA Published for the Yale Center for British Art Military History 3, 8, 29 RA Published in association with the Real Academia Ancient History & Archaeology 30–31 MF Distributed for Mercatorfonds Science & Medicine 2, 3, 32–33 MFH Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston EHP Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris Religious History 34–35 FWC Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum, American History 36–39 Cambridge CAI Distributed for the Clark Art Institute Index 40–42 HAM Distributed for Harvard Art Museum BGC Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, NY YaleBooks SAM Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum 47 Bedford Square • London WC1B 3DP  Titles receiving full trade discount www.yalebooks.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 1

J. H. Elliott Geoffrey Parker Sir John Elliott is a prize-winning historian Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen and Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern Professor of History at The Ohio State History, University of Oxford. He is the University, and winner of the 2012 author of a sequence of major historical Heineken History Prize. Among his many studies, seven of which are published by books is The Grand Strategy of Philip II, Yale (see also pages 18 and 24). published by Yale. Photo by James T. VanRensselaer Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons

History in the Making Global Crisis From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted War, Climate Change and Catastrophe to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott in the Seventeenth Century steps back from his work to consider the progress of Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a regicides, government collapses – the calamities of historian of Spain, Europe and the Americas, he the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in provides a deft and sharp analysis of the work that both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians do and how the field has changed since historians call the ‘General Crisis’ extended from the 1950s. England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to The author begins by explaining the roots of his sub-Saharan Africa. The Americas, too, did not interest in Spain and its past, then analyses the escape the turbulence of the time. challenges of writing the history of a country other In this meticulously researched volume, Geoffrey than one’s own. In succeeding chapters, he offers Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and acute observations on such topics as the history of women who saw and suffered from the sequence of national and imperial decline, political history, new political, economic and social crises between 1618 new biography, and art and cultural history. Elliott to the late 1680s. Parker also deploys the scientific concludes with an assessment of changes in the evidence of climate change during this period. His approach to history over the past half-century, discoveries revise entirely our understanding of the including the impact of digital technology, and General Crisis: changes in prevailing weather argues that a comprehensive vision of the past An eminent historian offers rare How to account for decades of patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and remains essential. Professional historians, students of insight into his craft, the way it worldwide war, revolution wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and history and those who read history for pleasure will has changed over his lifetime and human suffering in the destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, find in Elliott’s delightful book a new appreciation and the power of historical malnutrition and disease; and as material conditions seventeenth century? of what goes into the shaping of historical works works to shape the world of worsened, wars, rebellions and revolutions rocked A master historian uncovers and how those works in turn can shape the world of thought and action the world. the disturbing answer thought and action. Available January 2013 Available September 2012 672pp. 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15323-1 £29.99* 256pp. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18638-3 £17.50* 1 Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 2

now in now in now in now in now in Available October 2012 Available 288pp. 20 b/w illus. + 5 maps 978-0-300-18770-0 £12.99* PB ISBN JanuaryAvailable 2013 326pp. 54 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18821-9 £10.99* PB ISBN Available October 2012 Available 306pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18430-3 £12.99* paper illus. + 4 maps 2012 512pp. 45 colour £12.99* 978-0-300-18431-0 PB ISBN paper September 2012 Available 336pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. 978-0-300-18772-4 £12.99* PB ISBN paper paper paper New Paperbacks New Captain Cook Hitler’s Hangman Twelve Turning Points of An Empire of Ice Holy Bones, Holy Dust Master of the Seas The Life of Heydrich the Second World War Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic How Relics Shaped the History Frank McLynn Robert Gerwarth P. M. H. Bell Age of Antarctic Science of Medieval Europe Edward J. Larson Charles Freeman Bestselling biographer Frank This chilling biography tells the full A fresh exploration of the Second McLynn presents a vivid, remarkable story of the ‘Butcher of Prague’ for World War through twelve key Shortlisted for the 2012 This intriguing, beautifully reappraisal of Captain James Cook, the first time. One of the most events that shaped the direction and Hessell-Tiltman prize illustrated book encompasses a illuminating an aspect of the dangerous men in the Third Reich, thousand years of holy relics across outcome of the conflict. This riveting account of the Heroic legendary explorer’s life that has been Heydrich commanded the SS Security Europe, deepening our ‘Philip Bell provides a sharp depth Age of Antarctic exploration by largely overlooked by recent writers: Service, the Gestapo and the Nazi understanding of the medieval world of writing that conveys the detail Pulitzer Prize-winning historian his identity as a brilliant seaman. Criminal Police, organised the SS by revealing how relics were used in required in an engaging and Edward J. Larson restores these killing squads and helped plan the religion and also in business, politics ‘Accessible and exciting.’ informative manner about a multi- expeditions’ status as grand ‘Final Solution’. and warfare. – Michael Fathers, Literary Review faceted conflict that still grips our endeavours of science. ‘Gerwarth’s approach is subtle, ‘This superbly put together and ‘Historians thought Beaglehole had attention even after all these years.’ ‘In this fascinating book … Larson’s painstaking and psychologically elegantly written book is the first written the last word about Captain – Leslie J. M. Obre, intriguing accounts begin to reveal acute; it convincingly demonstrates proper history of the cult of relics Cook in his classic study. Frank History Teaching Review the bigger picture of early scientific that the historian’s tool of ‘cold from the early days to Counter- McLynn shows they were wrong, ‘Through a sharp focus on a research in Antarctica and its place empathy’ best clarifies the enduring Reformation. Ranging from the with a more searching, more lively, number of key episodes, Philip in European geopolitics of the question of what brings forth sublime to the ridiculous, this is a more profound reading of the Bell’s lucid and fascinating analysis time.’ – Michael Bravo, New Scientist evidence and of the protagonist’s monsters.’ – Roy Foster, marvellous study.’ – Catholic Herald is able to highlight the uncertainties ‘Larson is a brilliant researcher, character.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘a readable and ambitious panoramic of the Second World War, and show going far beyond the standard – Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Books of the Year) history of medieval society, politics that its outcome was at many points source materials, so even devotees of ‘superb on the making of evil.’ and religion, defined by the impetus ‘Frank McLynn has no doubt about less predictable than we often polar literature will learn things.’ – – Frank Dikotter, The Daily Telegraph of relics, saints cults and miraculous Captain Cook’s status … the finest presume.’ – Ian Kershaw Jennifer Kingson, The Scotsman maritime explorer in the history of (Books of the Year) interventions occurring between the ‘Crammed full of appropriate facts ‘[This] enlightening and the world … [He] proves it in a ‘the outstanding definitive scholarly fall of the Roman Empire and the from impartial and impeccable entertaining new book … seeks to meticulous rollercoaster chronicle.’ and heartbreakingly horrible Reformation.’ – E. L Devlin, sources … An important book for rescue the exploits of Edwardian – Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express biography of the repellent History Today all military and political historians.’ derring-do from the condescension mastermind of the Holocaust.’ ‘Few serious historians have tackled ‘McLynn’s biography is well – Patrick Delaforce, author of of posterity by showing us how – Simon Sebag Montefiore, this subject yet it is of crucial researched and respectful.’ The Rhine Endeavour much more there was to what his BBC History Magazine importance in trying to understand – John de Falbe, The Spectator and Invasion of the Third Reich subtitle refers to as the heroic age of (Books of the Year) the medieval mind.’ Antarctic science.’ – Robert J. – Church of England Newspaper Mayhew, Times Higher Education 2 Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 3 New Paperbacks 544pp.

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Russias Cold War fills a shrewd philosopher, looks at the – Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times Islanders reveals there was gain as History of the World. A tall order; significant gap in our understanding relation between our two brain- ‘One of the most upsetting books I well as loss, survival as well as that Warburton (of the excellent of the most important geopolitical hemispheres in a new light, not just have read about Britain’s part in the suffering, and invention as well as podcast Philosophy Bites) has rivalry of the twentieth century. as an interesting neurological wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. exploitation. succeeded so well is a triumph.’ – ‘Russia’s Cold War is an exciting ride problem but as a crucial shaping Anyone who wants to understand ‘Thomas’s description of the Steven Poole, The Guardian through post-war history … [This] factor in our culture … splendidly what happened should read it.’ journey into the imperial world of book lets off fireworks that light up ‘Warburton packs a heck of a lot in thought-provoking … I couldn't – Sherard Cowper-Coles, the Pacific is made inclusive and many shadowy corners.’ – Robert to what is something of a put it down.’ – Mary Midgley, New Statesman companionable with lovely asides Goldilocks volume: neither too Service, Times Literary Supplement The Guardian ‘Controversial, iconoclastic even, … A comprehensive but gripping much nor too little, the exegesis ‘McGilchrist describes broad written by an insider, it casts a ‘Haslam’s superb research puts his book.’ – Katrina Schlunke, neither too thin or too thick and [intellectual] movements and knowledgeable and critical eye over book in a league of its own, and it Times Higher Education lumpy, his Little History can be famous figures as if they were recent British military operations is hard to imagine it being consumed as a nourishing treat in ‘Not only a fine work of scholarship battles and soldiers in a 2,500-year and doesn’t shy away from exposing surpassed as an account of what its own right or provide the perfect but also a lucid and engrossing war between the brain’s hemispheres incompetency and naming the went on inside Russian foreign fuel to kick-start anyone’s journey read.’ – Rod Edmond, … A scintillating intelligence is at guilty.’ – Stuart Crawford, policy in this period.’ into philosophy.’ – Julian Baggini, BBC History Magazine work.’ – The Economist The Scotsman – Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph The Observer ‘bound to stimulate debate for years Look out for exclusive short ebooks by these authors to come.’ – Orlando Figes, more information available from www.yalebooks.co.uk The Sunday Times 3 Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 4 London

now in 2011 400pp. 80 colour + 200 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17382-6 £55.00* HB ISBN Available September 2012 September Available 320pp. 45 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15447-4 £25.00* HB ISBN 2012 432pp. 8 pages of colour + 37 b/w illus. 978-0-300-15194-7 £25.00* HB ISBN 2012 384pp. 50 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18775-5 £12.99* PB ISBN new illus. 2012 348pp. 88 colour + 202 b/w 978-0-300-15201-2 £30.00* HB ISBN new paper new The London Square Nights Out Beyond the Tower Victorian Bloomsbury Vauxhall Gardens PMC Gardens in the Midst of Town Life in Cosmopolitan London A History of East London Rosemary Ashton A History

British HistoryBritish Todd Longstaffe-Gowan PMC Judith R. Walkowitz John Marriott While Bloomsbury is now associated David E. Coke and Alan Borg London’s squares are among the most London’s Soho district underwent a In this beautifully illustrated history with Virginia Woolf and her early- Vauxhall Gardens was the foremost distinctive and admired features of the spectacular transformation between of London’s iconic East End, John twentieth-century circle of writers pleasure garden of eighteenth- and metropolis and are England’s greatest the late Victorian era and the end of Marriott explores the relationship and artists, the neighbourhood was nineteenth-century London. This contribution to the development of the Second World War: its fin-de- between the district and the rest of originally the undisputed intellectual comprehensive and prolifically European town planning and urban siècle buildings and dark streets London, and challenges many of the quarter of nineteenth-century illustrated account makes a major form. Traditionally, inhabitants who infamous for sex, crime, political myths that surround the area. London. Drawing on a wealth of contribution to the study of London untapped archival resources, overlooked these gated communal disloyalty and ethnic diversity ‘He has done a brilliant job of entertainments, culture, class and Rosemary Ashton brings to life the gardens paid for their maintenance became a centre of culinary and gazing past the theme-park standbys ideology, and reveals the teeming life, educational, medical and social and had special access to them. As cultural tourism servicing patrons of (from Jack the Ripper to the Krays) the spectacular art and the ever- reformists who lived and worked in such, they have long been nearby shops and theatres. to give us a portrait of an area that present music of Vauxhall in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led synonymous with privilege, elegance, Treating Soho as exceptional, but also once more – as in the 17th and fascinating detail. crusades for education, emancipation and prosperous metropolitan living. representative of London’s urban 18th centuries – contains pockets of ‘The first book-length treatment of and health for all. They epitomise the classical notion of transformation, Judith Walkowitz wealth, as well as steep poverty … Vauxhall for over 55 years … this rus in urbe, the integration of nature shows how the area’s foreignness, terrific.’ – Sinclair Mckay, Ashton explores the secular impetus fact-filled, lusciously illustrated within the urban plan – a concept that liminality and porousness were key to The Daily Telegraph behind these reforms and the compendium provides the ultimate continues to shape cities to this day. humanitarian and egalitarian character the explosion of culture and ‘[Marriott] is at his most perceptive guide.’ – Hannah Greig, History Today of nineteenth-century Bloomsbury. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan delves into development of modernity in the first and sympathetic in his accounts of ‘[A] beautifully produced biography Thackeray and Dickens jostle with less the history, evolution and social half of the twentieth century. the struggles of the working people of what was once one of London’s famous characters like Henry implications of squares, which have ‘As thought-provoking in its in the East End and its age-old role best loved institutions.’ – PD Smith, Brougham and Mary Ward. been an important element in the conclusions as it is colourful in its as the nursery of the waves of The Guardian Embracing the high life of the squares, planning and expansion of London detail.’ – Michael Kerrigan, immigrants who have enriched the nonconformity of churches, the ‘It feels as if every possible detail since the early 17th century. As an The Scotsman British society’ – Tim Knox, parades of shops, schools, hospitals and document relating to the amenity that fosters health and well- Country Life being and a connection to the natural ‘Nights Out is the result of skilful, and poor homes, this is a major gardens have been scanned and world, the square has played a crucial persevering research and ‘Superb’ – Stephen Howe, contribution to the history of assimilated. The result is the most role in the development of the English conscientious thought … [a] lively, The Independent nineteenth-century London. complete reconstruction of this vital affable, thought-provoking book.’ place there is likely to be.’ capital. ‘[A] major achievement.’ ‘A delightful book that threads the – Richard Davenport-Hines, – Rowan Moore, The Observer – Euan Ferguson, Time Out reader through a maze of streets and ‘An enormous and beautifully Times Literary Supplement produced book.’ squares, stories and structures’ – Gillian Tindall, Literary Review – Peter Mandler 4 Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 5 British History

now in Available October 2012 Available 256pp. 20 b/w illus. £25.00* 978-0-300-14489-5 HB ISBN 2012 352pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18157-9 £12.99* PB ISBN 2012 384pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11719-6 £25.00* HB ISBN 2012 304pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17997-2 £25.00* HB ISBN new new September 2012 Available 420pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. 978-0-300-16023-9 £35.00* HB ISBN new new paper The True History Macaulay and Son The Arch Conjuror The Late Medieval The Wars of the Roses of Merlin the Magician Architects of Imperial Britain of England English Church Michael Hicks Anne Lawrence-Mathers Catherine Hall John Dee Vitality and Vulnerability Written by a renowned historian, Before the Break with Rome This book explores just who Merlin Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Glyn Parry this magisterial account of the Wars was, and what he has meant to Britain. History of England was a phenomenal Based on primary documents, this G. W. Bernard of the Roses explains, for the first time, why they began, why they kept The historical Merlin was no rough Victorian best-seller defining a new biography of John Dee, the The later medieval English church is recurring, and why they ceased. magician: he was a learned figure nation’s sense of self, its triumphant great magus of the Elizabethan invariably viewed through the lens of from the cutting edge of medieval rise to a powerfully homogenous world, challenges many of our beliefs the Reformation that transformed it. ‘[This] handsome book – produced science and adept in astrology, nation built on a global empire and about his occult, religious and But in this bold and provocative to Yale University Press’s cosmology, prophecy and natural its claim to be the modern nation, political involvements. book historian G. W. Bernard customarily beautiful standards – marking the route to civilisation for magic, as well as being a seer and a ‘In Glyn Parry [Dee] has at last examines it on its own terms, seeks not to trace a single thread all others. In this book Catherine Hall proto-alchemist. His powers were attracted a biographer with a talent revealing a church with vibrant faith but to sketch the whole historical explores the emotional, intellectual convincingly real – and useful, for for uncovering fresh archival and great energy. tapestry of the complex and bloody and political roots of Zachary they helped to add credibility to the material, who has conducted Bernard looks at the structure of the conflicts that convulsed England in Macaulay, the leading abolitionist, ‘long-lost’ history of Britain which thorough research both into his life church, the nature of royal control the second half of the fifteenth and his son Thomas’s visions of race, first revealed them to a European and the circles in which he moved … over it, the clergy and bishops, the century.’ – Helen Castor, nation and empire. The contrasting public. Merlin’s prophecies this book makes an admirable intense devotion and deep-rooted Times Literary Supplement moments of evangelical reassuringly foretold Britain’s path, contribution both to an practices of the laity, anti-clerical ‘This book will be required reading humanitarianism and liberal establishing an ancient ancestral line understanding of his career and of the sentiment, and the prevalence of for all serious students of the late- imperialism are read through the and linking biblical prophecy with Elizabethan age.’ – Ronald Hutton, heresy. He argues that the medieval English polity.’ – David writings and careers of the two men. more recent times. Merlin helped to The Independent on Sunday Reformation was not inevitable, nor Grummitt, English Historical Review put British history into world history. ‘Catherine Hall is a good biographer, ‘Parry has rescued Dee from the made unavoidable by the ‘This is a comprehensive account of and alongside the major themes of Lawrence-Mathers also explores the shadows of his own secrecy and defectiveness, corruption, the period, logically laid out, empire, history-writing and meaning of Merlin’s magic across the restored him as a glittering light in superstition or outdatedness of a explaining why the Wars of the masculinity, it is a sensitive and well- centuries, arguing that he embodied the magical Elizabethan firmament.’ church ripe for a fall: the late Roses were fought and why they crafted study of a family and of ancient Christian and pagan magical – Nigel Jones, The Sunday Telegraph medieval church had both vitality ceased.’ – Richard Woulfe, Tribune traditions, recreated for a medieval siblings. The research is first-class, and vulnerabilities, the one often ‘In this intensively researched book, ‘In this impressive book Hicks court and shaped to fit a new moral and the incorporation of existing and linked to the other. The result is a we are invited to imagine Elizabethan reinterprets the wars between York framework. Linking Merlin’s reality ongoing debates around post- thought-provoking study of a church England as a much stranger place than and Lancaster and rejects Tudor and power with the culture of the colonialism, gender and narrations of and society in transformation. we had assumed. John Dee comes inevitability.’ – Desmond Seward, Middle Ages, this remarkable book the nation is very well-handled. An across as a figure of national The Tablet reveals the true impact of the most important and engaging story.’ – significance in an age with a belief famous magician of all time. Miles Taylor, Director, Institute of Historical Research system very different from ours.’ – Graham Parry, The Guardian 5 Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:21 Page 6 British HistoryBritish 2007 752pp. 12 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-12271-8 £18.00* 2010 336pp. 40 b/w illus. 2010 336pp. 40 b/w £35.00* 978-0-300-11908-4 HB ISBN 2011 352pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11455-3 £40.00* HB ISBN 2011 480pp. 250 colour + 100 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11058-6 £45.00* HB ISBN 2011 288pp. 50 colour + 100 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17569-1 £50.00* HB ISBN Christians and Pagans The English Aristocracy, The English Castle Canterbury Cathedral The King’s Reformation The Conversion of Britain 1070–1272 1066–1650 Priory in the Age of Becket Henry VIII and the Remaking from Alban to Bede A Social Transformation John Goodall PMC Peter Fergusson PMC of the English Church Malcolm Lambert G. W. Bernard David Crouch This compellingly written and lavishly This account of the major renewal at ‘Lambert’s engaging and readable This groundbreaking book offers the illustrated volume explores the Canterbury cathedral priory in the ‘A superb achievement. It advances account weaves archaeological and first close examination of the fate of architecture of England’s castles over mid-12th century illuminates an extraordinarily skilled art-historical evidence with the English aristocrats following William six centuries. It brings to life their important shifts in architecture and understanding of the intricate literary record, demonstrating how the Conqueror’s victory. A radical history and describes the changing role monastic life during the early years of relationship of religious belief, the process of conversion changed the transformation ensued, the author of these buildings in warfare, politics, Henry II’s rule and that of his Royal religious life, political necessity hearts and minds of the inhabitants of shows, as society redefined itself domestic living and governance. Chancellor, Thomas Becket, shedding and political opposition.’ – early medieval Britain.’ – Sarah Foot, around the principle of nobility. ‘Majestic in scale and sumptuously fresh light on the social and cultural Lucy Wooding, Literary Review BBC History Magazine history of the mid-twelfth century. ‘A lively and provocative study, produced, it is an authority that fluently written and formidably well scholars will consult for generations.’ informed.’ – Nigel Saul, History Today – Clive Aslet, The Sunday Telegraph ‘[Crouch has] unrivalled knowledge ‘This is the most handsome and of the documents and government extensive tribute to English castle records produced by and for the building yet compiled, ingeniously aristocracy themselves. These are designed to appeal to a wide here in abundance and provide readership.’ – Marcus Binney, precious and telling insights into The Times the real lives of the medieval ‘Beautifully illustrated and aristocracy.’ – Steve Marritt, engagingly written, this scholarly BBC History Magazine yet accessible new history explores 1998 704pp. 44 b/w illus. 978-0-300-07448-2 £18.00* PB ISBN 2011 432pp. 300 b/w + 100 colour illus. 978-0-300-17049-8 £50.00* HB ISBN 2011 492pp. 32 b/w illus. 2011 492pp. 32 b/w 978-0-300-17085-6 £16.99* PB ISBN ‘[A] rich and forceful new study … the strong links between church and Blood and Mistletoe Crouch’s approach represents a castle architecture, as well as tracing The Architecture of the Thomas Cranmer how castles were built and why they The History of the sharp contrast with traditional Scottish Medieval Church Diarmaid MacCulloch Druids in Britain English medieval historiography.’ – were used, together with the political and social context of the 1100–1560 Winner of the James Tait Black Ronald Hutton C. 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Lesch the Aftermath of the June 1967 War Mordechai Bar-On Avi Shilon The MiddleEast This riveting book documents When Syrian President Bashar Avi Raz This arresting biography provides an Translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Qaddafi’s rise and 42-year reign in al-Assad came to power upon his This penetrating book explores intimate view of Moshe Dayan’s Libya, the tenacious Arab Spring rebels’ father’s death in 2000, many in and newly opened archives to uncover private life, his public career and the Menachem Begin, father of Israel’s success in toppling his repressive outside Syria held high hopes that how and why Israeli-Arab political controversies of his time. right wing and sixth prime minister regime, and the challenges that the popular young doctor would peacemaking negotiations failed in Mordechai Bar-On, Dayan’s assistant of the nation, was known for his confront Libya and her new leaders as bring long-awaited reform, that he the crucial years after the Six Day during the Sinai War and an eminent unflinchingly hawkish ideology. 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M. Douglas Edited by María Dolores ruthless tyrant? This masterful From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Once Italy was Europe’s own Immediately after the Second World Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés biography combines new research Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated emerging economy, a society that War, the victorious Allies authorised and Scott Wilcox PMC/YCBA/RA and a deep understanding of the by Germany’s great capital city. In this blended dynamism and super-fast and helped to carry out the forced Laden with works of art acquired by French Revolution to arrive at a fresh vivid and entirely new account of growth with a lifestyle that was the relocation of German speakers from young British travellers on the Grand and nuanced portrait of one of Hitler’s relationship with Berlin, envy of all. Now it is a major threat their homes across central and southern Tour in Italy, the British merchant history’s most controversial figures. 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The numbers ship Westmorland sailed from the ‘Peter McPhee’s fine new life of identified with the city, how his European Union as a whole, as a were almost unimaginable - between Italian port of Livorno before being Robespierre relies on the first hand, political aspirations were reflected in political system shorn of credibility 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, captured by French naval vessels and day-to-day accounts rather than the architectural aspirations for the struggles to deal with huge public most of them women and children – escorted to Malaga in southern Spain. posthumous vilification and capital, and how Berlin surprisingly debts and anaemic levels of economic and the losses horrifying – at least The artistic treasures on board were hagiography, and in it emerges a influenced the development of Hitler’s growth. 500,000 people and perhaps many purchased by King Carlos III of quite different portrait of the man.’ political ideas. 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She was a woman hyperbole. The subjects in scheme. Without Cook’s investigators looking for waste in Utley unfolds the story through the of unusual accomplishment – an The American Circus reflect this participation, the author contends, government offices during World alternating perspectives of whites and anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a complexity, ranging widely from Brown might never have been able to War II to the personal papers of Apaches, and he arrives at a more tireless advocate of women’s rights, thematic explorations of circus music launch the insurrection that sparked Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley nuanced understanding of an outspoken anti-colonial and and elephants, to more narrowly the Civil War. Had Cook remained Brown and Ms. magazine founder Geronimo’s character and motivation antiracist activist, and an focused studies of objects such as true to the cause, history would have Gloria Steinem; and explores how than ever before. 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By giving sex in the office these questions and many more fill biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses contributions from leading scholars, pantheon of disgraced turncoats. a history, she provides valuable the pages of this irresistible volume. attention on Essie, one of the most this stylishly designed volume aims insights into the nature and meaning important and fascinating black to identify the salient features of an of sexual harassment today. women of the twentieth century. Americanised cultural product and to analyse its appeal for American 36 audiences. Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:23 Page 37 American History From Peace new to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of

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12 Æthelstan: Foot 38 Black Gotham: Peterson 7 Cooper: Citizen Portrait 23 Emmott: Good Italy, Bad Italy 31 Afghanistan: Aruz & Fino 24 Blair: Too Much to Know 25 Cosima Wagner: Hilmes 2 Empire of Ice: Larson 16 Afghanistan: Bird & Marshall 6 Blood and Mistletoe: Hutton 16 Crisis of Islamic Civilization: Allawi 9 Empire to Nation: Quilley 25 Against War and Empire: Whatmore 39 Bob Dylan: Yaffe 26 Croatia: Tanner 18 Empires of the Atlantic World: Elliott

Index 10 Age of Doubt: Lane 24 Book in the Renaissance: Pettegree 6 Crouch: The English Aristocracy, 1070–1272 22 Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Oakley 35 Ahmed: A Quiet Revolution 19 Boredom: Toohey 9 Crowley: Imperial Landscapes 39 Encyclopedia of New York City: Jackson 31 Aldhouse-Green: Caesar’s Druids 25 Bosworth: Whispering City 22 Crusader States: Barber 22 End of Byzantium: Harris 30 Alexander to Constantine: Meyers & Chancey 33 Boyle: Hunter 18 Cuba: Gott 6 English Aristocracy, 1070–1272: Crouch 7 Alford: Burghley 16 Branch: Kenya 18 Cuban Fiestas: González Echevarría 6 English Castle: Goodall 15 Ali: Dubai 21 Brandenberger: Propaganda State in Crisis 25 Cultural History of Wallonia: Demoulin 23 English Prize: Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés 16 Allawi: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization 39 Braudy: The Hollywood Sign 31 Cultures in Contact: Aruz et al 36 Eslanda: Ransby 11 Allport: Demobbed 35 Brekus: Sarah Osborn’s World 31 Cunliffe: Europe Between the Oceans 26 Euro: Marsh 38 Ambition, A History: King 35 Bremer: Building a New Jerusalem 26 Czechoslovakia: Heimann 31 Europe Between the Oceans: Cunliffe 36 American Circus: Weber et al. 13 Bride and the Dowry: Raz 33 Dackerman: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge 22 Evans: Byzantium and Islam 37 American Lynching: Rushdy 10 Britons: Colley 14 Daigle: Limits of Detente 19 Facing Beauty: Ribeiro 35 Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Moss 10 Brown: Palmerston 10 Dakers: A Genius for Money 19 Fallen Giants: Isserman & Weaver 31 Ancient Oracles: Stoneman 19 Brunner: Inventing the Christmas Tree 15 Dallal: Islam, Science and Challenge of History 27 Familiarity of Strangers: Trivellato 30 Ancient Rome: Martin 33 Brunner: Moon 38 Dalzell: The Good Rich 30 Faulkner: Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics 8 Andrew Marvell: Smith 35 Building a New Jerusalem: Bremer 24 Dance in the Renaissance: McGowan 6 Fawcett: Architecture of Scottish Medieval Church 7 Anne Boleyn: Bernard 7 Burghley: Alford 27 Dash Moore & Gertz: The Posen Library vol. 10 27 Feiner: Moses Mendelssohn 17 Apocalyptic Realm: Hiro 17 Butterfly’s Sisters: Kawaguchi 29 Davies: Wellington’s Wars 6 Fergusson: Canterbury Cathedral Priory 11 ‘Apologia Pro Vita Sua’: Turner 32 Bynum: A Little History of Science 30 Dawn of Egyptian Art: Patch 39 Field: A Great Leap Forward 20 Applebaum: Gulag Voices 22 Byzantium and Islam: Evans 33 Dazzled and Deceived: Forbes 22 Fighting for the Cross: Housley 37 Arcadian America: Sachs 31 Caesar’s Druids: Aldhouse-Green 21 De Madariaga: Catherine the Great 15 Findley: Turkey, Islam, Nationalism & Modernity 5 Arch Conjuror of England: Parry 34 Calvin: Gordon 21 De Madariaga: Ivan the Terrible 7 Fires of Faith: Duffy 29 Architecture in Uniform: Cohen 31 Campbell: The Romans and Their World 38 De Tocqueville: Letters from America 11 First Day of the Blitz: Stansky 30 Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt: McKenzie 6 Canterbury Cathedral Priory: Fergusson 27 Death of the Shtetl: Bauer 34 First Thousand Years: Wilken 6 Architecture of Scottish Medieval Church: Fawcett 2 Captain Cook: McLynn 28 December 1941: Mawdsley 11 Five Days in London: Lukacs 21 Aron: Roads to the Temple 37 Carey: From Peace to Freedom 37 Defiance of the Patriots: Carp 10 Flavell: When London Was Capital of America 17 Art of Not Being Governed: Scott 39 Carl Van Vechten: Bernard 11 Demobbed: Allport 12 Foot: Æthelstan 29 Artist and the Warrior: Rabb 8 Carlton: This Seat of Mars 25 Demoulin: A Cultural History of Wallonia 33 Forbes: Dazzled and Deceived 10 Arts of Industry: Fox 25 Carmichael: Genocide Before the Holocaust 31 Desdemaines-Hugon: Stepping-Stones 18 Forgotten Continent: Reid 31 Aruz & Fino: Afghanistan 37 Carp: Defiance of the Patriots 32 Dormandy: Opium 14 Forgotten Palestinians: Pappé 31 Aruz et al: Cultures in Contact 11 Carscapes: Morrison & Minnis 23 Douglas: Orderly and Humane 10 Fox: The Arts of Industry 4 Ashton: Victorian Bloomsbury 21 Catherine the Great: De Madariaga 15 Dubai: Ali 29 France: Perilous Glory 29 Atlas of the Peninsular War: Robertson 16 Chan: Southern Africa 7 Duffy: Fires of Faith 38 Francis: Fruitlands 18 Atlas of Transatlantic Slave Trade: Eltis & Richardson 39 Charyn: Joe DiMaggio 7 Duffy: Marking the Hours 34 Francis of Assisi: Vauchez 13 Bar-On: Moshe Dayan 30 Childs et al: City of Gold 35 Duffy: Saints and Sinners 34 Freeman: A New History of Early Christianity 22 Barber: The Crusader States 22 Chivalry: Keen 7 Duffy: The Stripping of the Altars 2 Freeman: Holy Bones, Holy Dust 31 Battle of Marathon: Krentz 6 Christians and Pagans: Lambert 35 Duffy: Ten Popes Who Shook the World 24 French Renaissance Court: Knecht 27 Bauer: The Death of the Shtetl 39 Circus and the City: Wittmann 7 Duffy: The Voices of Morebath 37 From Peace to Freedom: Carey 28 Beckett: The Making of the First World War 7 Citizen Portrait: Cooper 8 Dunlevy: Pomp and Poverty 15 From the Abode of Islam: Özkan 34 Before Religion: Nongbri 30 City of Gold: Childs et al 22 Dyer: Making a Living in the Middle Ages 9 Friedman: The 18th-Century Church in Britain 10 Behind Closed Doors: Vickery 38 Civil War and American Art: Harvey 33 Earthrise: Poole 23 Friedrich: Hitler’s Berlin 26 Belarus: Wilson 16 Clark: Yemen 37 Edward Bancroft: Schaeper 38 Fruitlands: Francis 2 Bell: Twelve Turning Points of the 2nd World War 16 Cockett: Sudan 12 Edward II: Phillips 26 Fulbrook: The People’s State 20 Belova & Lazarev: Funding Loyalty 29 Cohen: Architecture in Uniform 12 Edward III: Ormrod 20 Funding Loyalty: Belova & Lazarev 16 Bennett Jones: Pakistan 37 Cohen: Notes from the Ground 12 Edwards: Mary I 19 Future of History: Lukacs 36 Berebitsky: Sex and the Office 4 Coke & Borg: Vauxhall Gardens 14 Egypt on the Brink: Osman 32 Galileo: Wootton 38 Berenson: The Statue of Liberty 10 Colley: Britons 9 Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain: Friedman 28 Gallipoli: Prior 7 Bernard: Anne Boleyn 17 Colour of Paradise: Lane 22 Eleanor of Aquitaine: Turner 10 Genius for Money: Dakers 39 Bernard: Carl Van Vechten 33 Comfort: The Science of Human Perfection 39 Elizabeth and Hazel: Margolick 25 Genocide Before the Holocaust: Carmichael 6 Bernard: The King’s Reformation 39 Complicated Man: Takiff 18 Elliott: Empires of the Atlantic World 27 Genius: Stern 5 Bernard: The Late Medieval English Church 32 Contagion: Harrison 1 Elliott: History in the Making 10 Gentleman’s Daughter: Vickery 4 Beyond the Tower: Marriott 26 Contesting Democracy: Müller 24 Elliott: Spain, Europe and the Wider World 12 George II: Thompson 20 Bidlack & Lomagin: The Leningrad Blockade 24 Conversion of Scandinavia: Winroth 18 Eltis & Richardson: Atlas of Transatlantic Slave Trade 25 German Generation: Kohut 40 16 Bird & Marshall: Afghanistan 34 Conversions: Harline 27 Emma Goldman: Gornick 36 Geronimo: Utley Web History Catalogue 2012:Layout 1 2/7/12 10:23 Page 41

2 Gerwarth: Hitler’s Hangman 15 Islam, Science and Challenge of History: Dallal 20 Leningrad Blockade: Bidlack & Lomagin 30 Meyers & Chancey: Alexander to Constantine Index 14 Gilbert: In Ishmael’s House 15 Islamic Imperialism: Karsh 20 Leon Trotsky: Rubenstein 18 Mexico: Tuckman 26 Glaurdic: The Hour of Europe 16 Islamization from Below: Peterson 13 Lesch: Syria 19 Milk: Valenze 1 Global Crisis: Parker 3 Islanders: Thomas 38 Letters from America: De Tocqueville 18 Miller: The Problem of Slavery as History 19 Gombrich: A Little History of the World 14 Israel: Rubin 29 Levi: Mozart and the Nazis 34 Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Harline 18 González Echevarría: Cuban Fiestas 19 Isserman & Weaver: Fallen Giants 16 Levine: A Living Man from Africa 15 Modern Iran: Keddie 23 Good Italy, Bad Italy: Emmott 20 It Was a Long Time Ago: Satter 13 Libya: Pargeter 39 Modernist America: Pells 38 Good Rich: Daltzell 21 Ivan the Terrible: De Madariaga 34 Life of the Virgin: Shoemaker 24 Monter: The Rise of Female Kings in Europe 6 Goodall: The English Castle 19 Jack: The Woman Reader 14 Limits of Detente: Daigle 33 Moon: Brunner 34 Gordon: Calvin 39 Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York City 31 Lin: The Search for Immortality 14 Morris: 1948 27 Gornick: Emma Goldman 35 Jacob: Zakovitch 19 Little History of the World: Gombrich 11 Morrison & Minnis: Carscapes 18 Gott: Cuba 38 Jacoby: The Great Agnostic 3 Little History of Philosophy: Warburton 22 Mortgage of the Past: Oakley 38 Great Agnostic: Jacoby 32 Jefferson’s Shadow: Thomson 32 Little History of Science: Bynum 27 Moses Mendelssohn: Feiner 17 Great Famine in China: Zhou 37 Jeffersons at Shadwell: Kern 16 Living Man from Africa: Levine 13 Moshe Dayan: Bar-On 39 Great Leap Forward: Field 27 Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports: Kulka 4 London Square: Longstaffe-Gowan 35 Moss: Ancient Christian Martyrdom 33 Great Manchurian Plague: Summers 39 Joe DiMaggio: Charyn 4 Longstaffe-Gowan: The London Square 29 Mozart and the Nazis: Levi 17 Great Partition: Khan 36 John Brown’s Spy: Lubet 9 Lord: The Hell-Fire Clubs 26 Müller: Contesting Democracy 25 Gregor: Haunted City 11 John Henry Newman: Turner 3 Losing Small Wars: Ledwidge 30 Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: Rogers 20 Gulag Voices: Applebaum 26 Judah: Kosovo 19 Love: May 14 Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: Herf 5 Hall: Macaulay and Son 26 Judah: The Serbs 36 Lubet: John Brown’s Spy 9 Nelson: Vincent 34 Harline: Conversions 35 Julian of Norwich, Theologian: Turner 11 Lukacs: Five Days in London 34 New History of Early Christianity: Freeman 34 Harline: Miracles at the Jesus Oak 31 Juliano: Unearthed 29 Lukacs: June 1941 18 New Worlds: Lynch 22 Harris: The End of Byzantium 29 June 1941: Lukacs 19 Lukacs: The Future of History 4 Nights Out: Walkowitz 32 Harrison: Contagion 9 Kadane: The Watchful Clothier 29 Lukacs: The Legacy of the Second World War 14 1948: Morris 38 Harvey: The Civil War and American Art 35 Kadish: The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland 18 Lynch: New Worlds 34 Nongbri: Before Religion 3 Haslam: Russia’s Cold War 15 Karsh: Islamic Imperialism 18 Lynch: Simón Bolívar 14 Not the Enemy: Shabi 37 Hatch: ‘A Rich Spot of Earth’ 14 Karsh: Palestine Betrayed 5 Macaulay & Son: Hall 37 Notes from the Ground: Cohen 25 Haunted City: Gregor 15 Katouzian: The Persians 6 MacCulloch: Thomas Cranmer 22 Oakley: Empty Bottles of Gentilism 17 Hayton: Vietnam 17 Kawaguchi: Butterfly’s Sisters 10 Magnificent Mrs Tennant: Waller 22 Oakley: The Mortgage of the Past 26 Heimann: Czechoslovakia 15 Keddie: Modern Iran 22 Making a Living in the Middle Ages: Dyer 8 Ohlmeyer: Making Ireland English 9 Hell-Fire Clubs: Lord 22 Keen: Chivalry 28 Making of the First World War: Beckett 32 Opium: Dormandy 14 Herf: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World 16 Kenya: Branch 8 Making Ireland English: Ohlmeyer 23 Orderly and Humane: Douglas 5 Hicks: The Wars of the Roses 37 Kern: The Jeffersons at Shadwell 7 Making of the English Gardener: Willes 12 Ormrod: Edward III 25 Hilmes: Cosima Wagner 28 Kershaw: Hitler, the Germans, and Final Solution 25 Making Way for Genius: Kete 33 Orrell: Truth or Beauty 17 Hiro: Apocalyptic Realm 25 Kete: Making Way for Genius 39 Margolick: Elizabeth and Hazel 14 Osman: Egypt on the Brink 9 History and the Enlightenment: Trevor-Roper 17 Khan: The Great Partition 25 Mark: The Unfinished Revolution 15 Özkan: From the Abode of Islam 1 History in the Making: Elliott 38 King: Ambition, A History 7 Marking the Hours: Duffy 24 Ozment: The Serpent and the Lamb 28 Hitler, the Germans, and Final Solution: Kershaw 12 King: King Stephen 33 Marks: Sexual Chemistry 25 Paas: The Kipper und Wipper Inflation 23 Hitler’s Berlin: Friedrich 12 King Stephen: King 9 Marlborough’s America: Webb 16 Pakistan: Bennett Jones 2 Hitler’s Hangman: Gerwarth 6 King’s Reformation: Bernard 4 Marriott: Beyond the Tower 14 Palestine Betrayed: Karsh 28 Hitler’s Philosophers: Sherratt 25 Kipper und Wipper Inflation: Paas 26 Marsh: The Euro 10 Palmerston: Brown 39 Hollywood Sign: Braudy 21 Kivelson & Neuberger: Picturing Russia 30 Martin: Ancient Rome 14 Pappé: The Forgotten Palestinians 2 Holy Bones, Holy Dust: Freeman 24 Knecht: The French Renaissance Court 12 Mary I: Edwards 33 Paracelsus: Webster 26 Hour of Europe: Glaurdic 25 Kohut: A German Generation 3 Master and His Emissary: McGilchrist 13 Pargeter: Libya 22 Housley: Fighting for the Cross 26 Kosovo: Judah 15 Mather: Pashas 1 Parker: Global Crisis 21 Hughes: Peter the Great 31 Krentz: The Battle of Marathon 9 Mayhem: Rogers 5 Parry: The Arch Conjuror of England 33 Hunter: Boyle 27 Kulka: The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports 28 Mawdsley: December 1941 15 Parsi: A Single Roll of the Dice 6 Hutton: Blood and Mistletoe 6 Lambert: Christians and Pagans 19 May: Love 15 Pashas: Mather 7 Image Wars: Sharpe 10 Lane: The Age of Doubt 3 McGilchrist: The Master and His Emissary 30 Patch: Dawn of Egyptian Art 9 Imperial Landscapes: Crowley 17 Lane: Colour of Paradise 24 McGowan: Dance in the Renaissance 39 Pells: Modernist America 14 In Ishmael’s House: Gilbert 2 Larson: An Empire of Ice 32 McGrayne: The Theory That Would Not Die 26 People’s State: Fulbrook 17 India: Rothermund 5 Late Medieval English Church: Bernard 30 McKenzie: Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 29 Perilous Glory: France 11 Intellectual Life of British Working Classes: Rose 5 Lawrence-Mathers: The True History of Merlin 2 McLynn: Captain Cook 15 Persians: Katouzian 19 Inventing the Christmas Tree: Brunner 3 Ledwidge: Losing Small Wars 23 McPhee: Robespierre 21 Peter the Great: Hughes 38 Iron Way: Thomas 29 Legacy of the Second World War: Lukacs 13 Menachem Begin: Shilon 21 Petersburg Fin de Siècle: Steinberg

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38 Peterson: Black Gotham 33 Science of Human Perfection: Comfort 38 Thomas: The Iron Way 36 Weber et al: The American Circus 16 Peterson: Islamization from Below 11 Schofield: Witness to History 3 Thomas: Islanders 33 Webster: Paracelsus 24 Pettegree: The Book in the Renaissance 17 Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed 6 Thomas Cranmer: MacCulloch 24 Weinstein: Savonarola 12 Phillips: Edward II 31 Search for Immortality: Lin 12 Thompson: George II 35 Weitzman: Solomon 21 Picturing Russia: Kivelson & Neuberger 7 Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Sharpe 32 Thomson: Jefferson’s Shadow 29 Wellington’s Wars: Davies Index 8 Pincus: 1688 26 Serbs: Judah 17 Tibet: van Schaik 25 Whatmore: Against War and Empire 20 Plamper: The Stalin Cult 24 Serpent and the Lamb: Ozment 24 Too Much to Know: Blair 10 When London Was Capital of America: Flavell 8 Pomp and Poverty: Dunlevy 14 Settlers: Taub 19 Toohey: Boredom 25 Whispering City: Bosworth 33 Poole: Earthrise 36 Sex and the Office: Berebitsky 9 Trevor-Roper: History and the Enlightenment 34 Wilken: The First Thousand Years 27 Posen Library vol. 10: Dash Moore & Gertz 33 Sexual Chemistry: Marks 27 Trivellato: The Familiarity of Strangers 7 Willes: The Making of the English Gardener 28 Prior: Gallipoli 14 Shabi: Not the Enemy 5 True History of Merlin: Lawrence-Mathers 26 Wilson: Belarus 28 Prior & Wilson: The Somme 28 Shameful Peace: Spotts 33 Truth or Beauty: Orrell 26 Wilson: The Ukrainians 33 Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Dackerman 7 Sharpe: Image Wars 29 Tucker: WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY 21 Windows on the War: Zegers & Druick 18 Problem of Slavery as History: Miller 7 Sharpe: Rebranding Rule 18 Tuckman: Mexico 24 Winroth: The Conversion of Scandinavia 21 Propaganda State in Crisis: Brandenberger 7 Sharpe: Selling the Tudor Monarchy 15 Turkey, Islam, Nationalism & Modernity: Findley 11 Witness to History: Schofield 35 Quiet Revolution: Ahmed 28 Sherratt: Hitler’s Philosophers 11 Turner: ‘Apologia Pro Vita Sua’ 39 Wittmann: Circus and the City 9 Quilley: Empire to Nation 13 Shilon: Menachem Begin 22 Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine 19 Woman Reader: Jack 29 Rabb: The Artist and the Warrior 34 Shoemaker: The Life of the Virgin 11 Turner: John Henry Newman 32 Wootton: Galileo 8 Ralph Tailor’s Summer: Wrightson 18 Simón Bolívar: Lynch 35 Turner: Julian of Norwich, Theologian 8 Wrightson: Ralph Tailor’s Summer 36 Ransby: Eslanda 15 Single Roll of the Dice: Parsi 2 Twelve Turning Points of the 2nd World War: Bell 38 Writings of Abraham Lincoln: Smith 13 Raz: The Bride and the Dowry 8 1688: Pincus 26 Ukrainians: Wilson 39 Yaffe: Bob Dylan 7 Rebranding Rule: Sharpe 8 Smith: Andrew Marvell 31 Unearthed: Juliano 16 Yemen: Clark 18 Reid: Forgotten Continent 38 Smith: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln 25 Unfinished Revolution: Mark 35 Zakovitch: Jacob 19 Ribeiro: Facing Beauty 35 Solomon: Weitzman 36 Utley: Geronimo 21 Zegers & Druick: Windows on the War 37 ‘Rich Spot of Earth’: Hatch 28 Somme: Prior & Wilson 19 Valenze: 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