Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of philosophy in its own right and as a complement...
Violence and Vengeance
Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting...
The End of Grand Strategy
US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s...
Excavating Modernity
The Roman Past in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it the "Eternal City." Too often, however, this patrimony has caused Rome to be seen as static and antique, insulated from the transformations of the modern world. In Excavating Modernity, Joshua...
The Memory of All Ancient Customs
Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley—including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians—from the early seventeenth century through the...
Red Brethren
The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that...
Wild Yankees
The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth...
The Triumph of Improvisation
Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation,...
A Natural History of Revolution
Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution...
Romantic Catholics
France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include,...
Becoming Bourgeois
Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...
Feminizing the Fetish
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...
by John C. Hartsock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1998, Gary and Rosemary Barletta purchased seven acres of land on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. Descending to the west from the state route that runs along on the ridge overlooking the lake, the land was fertile, rich with shalestone and limestone bedrock, and exposed to moderating air currents...