Books from Yale University Press
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Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership
By Eduardo M. Peñalver, Sonia KatyalHow Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership Eduardo M. Penalver, Sonia Katyal ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peñalver, Eduardo Moisés, 1973- Property outlaws: how squatters, pirates, ...
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The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
By Andrew StewartBrian Robertson played a vital role with his preparations and detailed staff work.8 Famed for his ingenuity, Robertson would finish the war as a majorgeneral, renowned as one of the best Allied administrators. He deployed Royal Engineer ...
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Secret World: A History of Intelligence
By Christopher Andrew132 Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), had warned Haig on 29 July 1916 that some ministers were 'beginning to get a little uneasy' about the numbers of British casualties, and 'persist[ed] ...
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Regulating Covert Action: Practices, Contexts, and Policies of Covert Coercion Abroad in International and American Law
By William Michael Reisman, James E. Baker, ReismanPractices, Contexts, and Policies of Covert Coercion Abroad in International and American Law William Michael Reisman ... 17 , 1978 ) ( the first annual authorization bill subjecting the intelligence agencies to the congressional budget ...
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German Romantic Painting
By William Vaughan21 The influence of the English master can be felt particularly in the View over the Gardens of Prince Albrechts Palace ( Plate 110 ) , painted from a window of his new lodgings in Schöneberger Strasse . There is a Constabelian feel ...
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Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
By John Brinckerhoff JacksonThe man who most clearly formulated the new doctrine was Major John Wesley Powell. The first white man to descend the Colorado River, he was recognized as an authority on the geography of the desert Southwest and the culture of its ...
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Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait
By Ruth Lord, R. W. B. LewisProbably because of her less than ideal home life , when she was twelve years old Ruth was sent as a boarder to Miss Spence's School in New York , where she excelled in her studies and made lifelong friends . Photographs from the time ...
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War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
By Jeremy Black... Ontario) in 1813 during the war of 1812, and Black Hawk and the Sauk and Fox peoples in the Black Hawk War in Illinois and Wisconsin in 1832, a war rapidly ended with Black Hawk's crushing defeat at Bad Axe River.
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The Frederick Douglass Papers: 1842-1852: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852
By Frederick DouglassThis volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself: Critical Edition
By Frederick DouglassTo Tell a Free Story: Excerpt (1986) -- From Behind the Veil: Excerpt (1979) -- Afterword -- Chronology -- Four Maryland Families -- Historical Annotation to the Narrative -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E ...
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The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
By Frederick DouglassThis edition reintroduces readers to a long-neglected essential of African-American literature.
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The Speeches of Frederick Douglass
By Frederick DouglassA collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass's most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, ...
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The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, 1853-1865
By Frederick DouglassSeries Three: Correspondence, 1853-1865 Frederick Douglass John R. McKivigan. Montgomery Blair to Frederick Douglass, 11 September 1862 Frederick Douglass to Montgomery Blair, 16 September 1862 Rosetta Douglass to Frederick and Anna ...
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Charles James: Beyond Fashion
By Harold Koda, Jan ReederThis catalogue offers the first comprehensive study of James’s life and work, highlighting his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as the colorful cast of benefactors and clients who supported him.
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An Eames Anthology: Articles, Film Scripts, Interviews, Letters, Notes, Speeches
By Charles Eames, Ray EamesIt began with an architect's mind when it's getting under the skin, looking at baseball, thinking of it as a game, relation of man to man, relation of man to the physical space, a trajectory of a ball as it is hit out, ...
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
By Daniel Defoe, Anthony J. CoulsonMichael Drayton , in Polyolbion ( Song the Fifteenth ) speaks of the marriage of “ the lovely Tame ' ( ʻold Chiltern's son ' ) to his bride Isis ( Cotswold's heir ” ) . Isis is also sometimes represented as Thame's mother .
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1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion
By Daniel SzechiThis book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy.
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
By William G. ThomasThe standard biography of Luther Martin is Paul S. Clarkson and R. Samuel Jett, Luther Martin of Maryland (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970). Clarkson and Jett depict Martin as the “slave's counsel” and an advocate for ...
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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
By John SutherlandThe Times, reviewing Dixon's one novel I spent ten years of my academic life compiling a guide to Victorian fiction. ... Ella was born in London, the daughter and seventh child of William Hepworth Dixon, long—serving (18 53—69) editor ...
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Ezra Stoller, Photographer
By Nina Rappaport, Erica StollerA long-awaited survey of the full range of Stoller's stunning photography