 | Gilbert M. Joseph edited "In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War," which is considered one of the first books to explore the impact of the Cold War on the Latin American region. |
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members
of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.
Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to Susan Gonzalez. Representing a collaboration among 11 North American, Latin American and European
historians, this volume analyzes how international conflict during the Cold
War era transformed the Latin American region’s political, social and
cultural life. “In from the Cold” shifts the focus away from the
biopolar conflict — the preoccupation of recent Cold War history — in
order to showcase research, discussion and an array of new archival and oral
sources centering on the grass roots, where conflicts actually brewed. The
contributors examine international and everyday contests over political power
and cultural representation, concentrating on communities and groups above
ground and underground, on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by
Latin American and international governing elites, on the relations among the
states regionally, and, less frequently, on the dynamics between the United
States and the Soviet Union. The Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and became
one of the most avant-garde theaters in Europe. While it flourished in the
1920s, under Bolshevik pressure it lost much of the originality that had distinguished
it. It was liquidated after Stalin’s henchmen murdered GOSET’s
legendary actor and director Solomon Mikhoels in 1948. “The Moscow Yiddish
Theater” focuses on the theater’s beginnings as an organization
of artistic exploration, for the first time bringing English readers selected
writings that reflect the aesthetics and politics of Yiddish revolutionary
theater. The book also incorporates salvaged images of Marc Chagall’s
famous theater murals, as well as paintings of costumes and stage sets created
by noted artists of the day. These illustrations, discovered after the fall
of the Soviet Union, have never been published before. “The Theory and Treatment of Depression” facilitates the development
of more encompassing theories and more effective treatments for this disabling
disorder by fostering dialogue and integration across different approaches
to depression. The chapters each offer an overview of a particular area — cognitive-behavioral
therapy, psychodynamic therapy, epidemiology, developmental psychopathology,
neurobiology — and explore the barriers to constructive collaboration
across these areas. In their epilogue, the editors note their dissatisfaction
with the traditional psychiatric approach to depression, arguing that it is
insufficiently informed by basic research. They also say existing guidelines
for intervention often underestimate the need for more extended treatments
for many patients, the importance of patient and therapist factors, and the
central role of the therapeutic alliance. They propose an etiologically based,
dynamic interactionism model of depression that emphasizes recursive interactions
among genetic and neurobiological factors, personality and life stress in the
etiology of depression, noting the potential of this model to guide future
research and treatment that are better informed by science and more congruent
with complex clinical reality. In this book Thomas Kolditz explains that his research on in extremis leadership — where
followers perceive their lives to be threatened — reveals that the leadership
lessons and principles in evidence in dangerous settings also apply to leading
in business and everyday life. He shows how leadership literally defines the
promise of hope or future life and that extremely capable leaders are needed
in all walks of life. The book describes a variety of high-risk situations
that are ideal settings to seek and find great leaders, to assess how they
might be different, and to glean valuable insights for extraordinary leadership
in people’s everyday lives. Through real-life stories of leaders in these
extreme situations, Kolditz insists that leaders at all levels can improve
their effectiveness. In “Modernism: The Thrill of Heresy,” Peter Gay tells how Modernism
swept through the arts beginning in the mid-19th-century, destroying traditional
and classical artistic forms, and creating the modern world as we know it.
He opens the book with Charles Baudelaire, showing how the poet’s sexually
explicit poetry scandalized Paris in the 1840s and 1850s. He goes on to examine
the Modernist influences in literature, other works of poetry, music and architecture,
among other art forms. Gay presents a pageant of historical characters and
legendary heretics, including Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and Andy Warhol.
In a final chapter devoted to Pop Art, he reveals how a new generation of artists
brought together high and low art, thus sounding the death knell of a movement
that had dominated Western culture for over 120 years. Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives
surviving — only a small number of which are first-person accounts by
slaves who ran away and freed themselves. “A Slave No More” features
two newly uncovered narratives and the David Blight’s biographies of
the men who wrote them. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives
tell stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring and luck,
the men reached the protection of the occupying Union troops. Walter Turnage
(1846-1916) was born in North Carolina and spent his adult life in New York
City and Jersey City, New Jersey. John Washington (1838-1918) was born in Virginia,
and worked as a house and sign painter in Washington, D.C. after his escape,
retiring in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Using genealogical information, Blight
has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service
as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their climb to working-class
stability in the North, where they reunited with their families. The former
slaves tell their own stories in narratives discovered in 2004. In his new book, Ian Ayres shows how today’s organizations are analyzing
massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human
behaviors. He calls them the “Super Crunchers.” From internet sites
like Google and Amazon, which “know” customers’ tastes, to
board rooms and government agencies, this new breed of decision makers are
calling the shots, according to Ayres. He shows the benefits and risks of this
new world of equation versus expertise, pointing out how data-mining and statistical
analysis can both manipulate people and help them. In this history of the Southern movement that gave birth to civil rights,
Glenda Gilmore describes how home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper
editors, black workers and intellectuals employed various strategies to take “Dixie” down.
She shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments,
gaining focus and arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing
desegregation and political rights. Gilmore’s account highlights the
sometimes marginalized, little-known heroes of the movement to show how many
of these dissenters were resisting racial segregation long before the traditionally
celebrated civil rights initiatives of the mid-1950s. The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic
to the islands of the Caribbean. Yet until recently, France had not publicly
acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. In his new book, Christopher
Miller contends that the French slave trade connected France, Africa and the
Caribbean so profoundly and permanently that a thorough assessment of its ramifications
requires a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. His book is the first comprehensive
examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented
in the history, literature and film of France and its former colonies in Africa
and the Caribbean. “Monteverdi’s Last Operas” examines the composer’s
celebrated final works, “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” and “L’incoronazione
di Poppea,” from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works — completed
in 1640 and 1642 respectively — as not merely a pair but constituents
of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, she argues, properly includes a third opera, “Le
Nozze d’Enea e Lavinia” (1641). Although the music of this third
opera has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas
opens prospects for better understanding all three, Rosand claims. She writes
that “Le nozze d’Enea” also helps to explain the striking
differences between the other two operas, casting light on their contrasting
moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint
and one of hedonistic abandon.
T H I S
IN MEMORIAM
Yale Books in Brief
In from the Cold: Latin America’s
New Encounter with the Cold War
Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, the Farnam Professor of History and International
Studies, and Daniela Spenser
(Duke University Press)
The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art
on Stage in the Time of Revolution
Benjamin Harshav, professor of
comparative literature and the
J. & H. Blaustein Professor of
Hebrew Language and Literature
(Yale University Press)
The Theory and Treatment
of Depression: Towards a
Dynamic Interactionism Model
Edited by Sidney J. Blatt, professor
of psychiatry and psychology and chief
of the Psychology Section of the Department of Psychiatry, and Jozef Corveleyn
and Patrick Luyten
(Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., jointly
with Leuven Press, Belgium)
In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It
Thomas A. Kolditz, visiting professor
at the Yale School of Management
(Jossey-Bass)
Modernism: The Thrill of Heresy
Peter Gay, Sterling Professor Emeritus
of History
(W.W. Norton)
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives
of Emancipation
David W. Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman
Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
(Harcourt Trade Publishers)
Super Crunchers
Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at the Law School
and Yale School of Management
(Bantam Dell Publishing Group)
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots
of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Glenda E. Gilmore, the Peter V. and
C. Vann Woodward Professor of History
(W.W. Norton)
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Christopher L. Miller, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of French
and African and Afro-American Studies
(Duke University Press)
Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy
Ellen Rosand, the George A. Saden Professor of Music
(Univerity of California Press)
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