Yale University Press imprint: 1958 books

by Prof. Yair Zakovitch
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

George Whitefield

America's Spiritual Founding Father

by Thomas S. Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influential figure in the first generation of Anglo-American evangelical Christianity, examining his sometimes...

Leonard Bernstein

An American Musician

by Allen Shawn
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical...

Frederick Barbarossa

The Prince and the Myth

by John Freed
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.   This new biography,...
by Matthew Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession,...
by Professor John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

James II (1633–1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and...
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010

by Chris Given-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

Henry IV (1399–1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful...

Æthelred

The Unready

by Levi Roach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has
by Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas...
by John Hardman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016

Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in the thrall of his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes...
by Seymour Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010

Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

by Miles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

An entirely original account of Victoria’s relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen...
by Andrew C. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

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