Yale Yale Spring & Summer 2021 Yale SPRING & SUMMER 2021 Contents General Interest Highlights 1–22 Paperback Highlights 23–34 Art 4, 35–66 fashion & textile 35, 56 architecture 39, 42, 43, 55–59 design & decorative 36, 42, 43, 48, 54 modern & contemporary 4, 37, 38, 46, 47, 52, 56–58, 62–66 photography 37, 57, 64, 66 18th & 19th century 48, 50, 53–55, 60, 61 baroque & renaissance 41–42, 49–52, 58 Science, Technology & Mathematics 20–22, 26, 67, 79 International Affairs & Political Science 18, 19, 24, 28, 32, 68, 69 Biography & Memoir 2, 4, 15, 25–27, 29–31, 70, 71 History & Jewish Studies 3, 5, 8–17, 25–27, 29–31, 33, 34, 70, 71, 74 Business & Economics 16, 24, 32, 72 Environment & Ecology 72, 73, 83 Religion, Philosophy & Anthropology 6, 33, 34, 74, 75 Literary Studies & Language 2, 7, 18, 22, 24, 28, 33, 76–79, 84 Poetry & Performing Arts 1, 2, 76, 78, 79 American Studies 80–83 Picture Credits & Index 85–87 Sales Contacts 88 Ordering Information 89 Rights, Inspection Copy, Review Copy Information 89 Yale University Press YaleBooks 47 Bedford Square @yalebooks London WC1B 3DP tel 020 7079 4900 yalebooksblog.co.uk general email [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music – across time and cultures ‘A music guru.’ – Joan Bakewell The Life of Music New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition Nicholas Kenyon Nicholas Kenyon is Managing Immersed in music for much of his life as writer, broadcaster and concert Director at London’s Barbican presenter, former director of the BBC Proms, Nicholas Kenyon has long Centre. Formerly, he was Director championed an astonishingly wide range of composers and performers. of the BBC Proms and Controller of Now, as we think about culture in fresh ways, Kenyon revisits the stories BBC Radio 3. He is a music critic that make up the classical tradition and foregrounds those which are and the author of Simon Rattle: too often overlooked. This inclusive, knowledgeable and enthusiastic From Birmingham to Berlin. guide highlights the achievements of the women and men, amateurs and professionals, who bring music to life. Taking us from pianist Myra Hess’ performance in London during the Blitz, to John Adams’ composition of a piece for mourners after New York’s 9/11 attacks, to Italian opera singers singing from their balconies amidst the 2020 pandemic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring us together. His personal, celebratory account transforms our understanding of how classical music is made – and shows us why it is more relevant than ever. 24 colour illus. 320 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-22382-8 Apr £18.99/$27.50 General Interest Highlights 1 A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry – itself written entirely in verse The Craft of Poetry A Primer in Verse Lucy Newlyn Lucy Newlyn is a poet and emeritus How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? fellow in English, St Edmund Hall, Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly Oxford. In addition to studies of the illustrating key approaches and terms – all through her own original verse. Romantic poets, she is the author of Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft – but read together they four collections of poetry, Ginnel, suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in Earth’s Almanac, Vital Stream and myriad ways. The Marriage Hearse. In a series of beautiful meditations, Newlyn guides the reader through key aspects of poetry, from sonnets and haiku to volta and synecdoche. Avoiding glosses and notes, her poems are allowed to speak for themselves, and show that there are no limits to what poetry can communicate. Newlyn’s timeless verse will appeal to lovers of poetry as well as to practitioners, teachers and students of all ages. Onomatopoeia You’d play here all day if you had your way near the stepping-stones, in the clearest of rock-pools, where water slaps and slips; where minnows dart, and a baby trout flop-flips. 192 pp. 216x138mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-25191-3 Mar £14.99/$25.00 2 General Interest Highlights The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Mission France The True History of the Women of SOE Kate Vigurs Kate Vigurs is a freelance historian, Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate academic advisor and researcher. Resistance work overseas. The organisation’s F section sent more than four Her postdoctoral research was used hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while for the BBC World War One at some are widely known – Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Home series. Kate makes regular Khan – others have had their stories largely overlooked. appearances on television and radio. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition. 24 b/w illus. + 1 map 352 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-20857-3 Mar £20.00/$27.50 General Interest Highlights 3 Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious twentieth-century British artist John Craxton A Life of Gifts Ian Collins Ian Collins is an independent art Born into a large, musical and bohemian family in London, the British writer and curator. artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a ‘kind of Arcadian’. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly – including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death. ‘You can live a charmed life if you are charming, and Craxton was charming. He showed me that to live the life of an artist was possible and even pleasurable.’ – Tacita Dean 160 colour + b/w illus. 384 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-25529-4 May £25.00/$35.00 4 General Interest Highlights A tremendously powerful and wide-ranging account – drawing from first-person accounts – of how coerced migration built the British Empire Condemned The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire Graham Seal Graham Seal is emeritus professor In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its of folklore at Curtin University. He unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women and children from their is the author of numerous books homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold of biography and cultural history, off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of including These Few Lines, which human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century. won a National Biography Award, Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters and official documents, Graham and The Savage Shore. Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of those shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of By the same author children to the American colonies were quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal and rebellious to different continents, including Australia. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labour allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Incisive and moving, this account brings to light the true extent of a cruel strand in the history of the British Empire. 24 colour illus. + 1 map 304 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-24648-3 Apr £20.00/$27.50 General Interest Highlights 5 A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world’s best-known popular philosophers Bald 35 Philosophical Short Cuts Simon Critchley Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas The moderator of the New York Times’ Stone column and the author Professor of Philosophy at the New of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, School for Social Research and the Simon Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more moderator of the New York Times’ than a decade. This volume brings together thirty-five essays, originally Stone column. His most recent book published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions is Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us. of Plato’s academy and the mysteries of Eleusis to Philip K. Dick, Mormonism, money and the joy and pain of Liverpool Football Club fans. In an engaging and jargon-free style, Critchley writes with honesty about the state of world as he offers philosophically informed, and insightful considerations of happiness, violence and faith.