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Tumultuous Times
Central Banking in an Era of Crisis
The Japanese economy, once the envy of the world for its dynamism and growth, had lost its shine after a financial bubble burst and slumped further during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. It suffered even more damage in 2011, when...
English Medieval Embroidery
Opus Anglicanum
In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity and magnificence, English embroideries enjoyed international demand and can be traced in Continental sources...
Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment
From one of our leading scholars of comparative constitutionalism, advice for everyone involved in the surprisingly common practice of constitution-writing Enhancing prospects for democracy is an important objective...
A World after Liberalism
Philosophers of the Radical Right
In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements in the twentieth century, the “radical right,” and discusses their different attempts to imagine political societies after...
Artists Making Landscape in Post-war Britain
An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the...
Yale French Studies, Number 139
Photography and the Body in Nineteenth-Century France
The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first issue on...
Hubbub
Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of...
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Third Edition
This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which...
Alma W. Thomas
Everything Is Beautiful
Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas (1891–1978) is known for her large abstract paintings filled with irregular patterns of bright colors. This...
Collecting Inspiration
Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
The first publication to examine the pioneering designer and prolific collector who led Tiffany & Co. to creative and commercial success A silversmith, designer, and prodigious collector, Edward C. Moore ...