Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 - Yale University Press

78 PaperbacksThe American Far Westin the Twentieth CenturyEarl PomeroyEdited by Richard W. Etulain • Foreword by Howard R. LamarIn this richly insightful survey that represents the culminationof decades of research, a leading western specialist argues thatthe unique history of the American West did not end in theyear 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped asmuch—if not more—by events and innovations in thetwentieth century.Earl Pomeroy (1915–2005) was Emeritus Professor of Historyat the University of California, San Diego, and at theUniversity of Oregon, Eugene. Richard W. Etulain is EmeritusProfessor of History at the University of New Mexico.The Lamar Series in Western HistoryNovember 600 pp. 234x156mm. 62 b/w illus. + mapsPaper ISBN 978-0-300-15852-6 £20.00*Lost WorldsAdventures in the Tropical RainforestBruce M. BeehlerUnique tales and reflections of a scientist-explorer on hisadventures in some of the world’s most remote tropical rainforests.Bruce M. Beehler is Vice President for the Melanesia andPacific Islands programs at Conservation International.September 272 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15833-5 £12.50*Rights sold: Eng. Reprint (India)The Great AwakeningThe Roots of Evangelical Christianityin Colonial AmericaThomas S. Kidd“Kidd creatively synthesises a wide range of recenthistoriography and, thus, provides fresh insight into earlyevangelicalism’s inner workings and cultural impact onAmerica. Historians, theologians and graduate students will allappreciate Kidd’s ability to demonstrate the interconnectednessof the social and theological motives that drove the earlyevangelicals’ behaviour.”—John Ellis, Ecclesiastical HistoryThomas S. Kidd is Associate Professor of History, BaylorUniversity, and author of The Protestant Interest:New England after Puritanism, published by Yale.September 416 pp. 234x156mm. 15 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15846-5 £18.00*Forgive Us Our DebtsThe Intergenerational Dangersof Fiscal IrresponsibilityAndrew YarrowA plain-English explanation of federal deficits and debt andthe threat they pose to the American nation and the future.Andrew L. Yarrow is Vice President and Washington Directorof Public Agenda at American University.February 184 pp. 234x156mm. 14 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15863-2 £12.00Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism,and the Economics of Growthand ProsperityWilliam J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. SchrammThree prominent economists focus new attention on theessential role of entrepreneurship in capitalism.“helpfully moves the debate on from competing nationalmodels to the underlying structures that shape the relativeeffectiveness of different sorts of capitalism.”—The EconomistWilliam J. Baumol is Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurshipand Academic Director of the Berkley Center for EntrepreneurialStudies in the Stern School of Business, New York University,and Senior Economist and Professor Emeritus at PrincetonUniversity. Robert E. Litan is Vice President for Research andPolicy at the Kauffman Foundation and Senior Fellow at theBrookings Institution. Carl J. Schramm is President and ChiefExecutive Officer of the Kauffman Foundation and a BattenFellow at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.November 336 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus.Paper 978-0-300-15832-8 £16.00*Rights sold: Chinese (cc and sc), Eng. Reprint (India), Italian, Japanese,Korean, Romanian, VietnameseThe Woman Who Walked into the SeaHuntington’s and the Making of a Genetic DiseaseAlice Wexler • Foreword by Nancy S. WexlerA groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastatinghereditary neurological disorder once demonised as ‘thewitchcraft disease’.Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for theStudy of Women.February 288 pp. 234x156mm.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15861-8 £15.00Preserving Nature in the National ParksA History • With a New Preface and EpilogueRichard SellarsThis groundbreaking book—now reissued with a newforeword and epilogue—traces the epic clash of values betweentraditional scenery-and-tourism management and emergingecological concepts in America’s national parks.Historian Richard Sellars was with the National Park Servicefor thirty-five years.October 448 pp. 234x156m. 16 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15414-6 £20.00War of a Thousand DesertsIndian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican WarBrian DeLayHow Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas and especially Comanchesplayed a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico.Brian DeLay is Assistant Professor of History, University ofColorado, Boulder.The Lamar Series in Western HistoryJanuary 496 pp. 234x156mm. 31 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15837-3 £20.00