Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Odd Man Karakozov
Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary...
Stories of the Soviet Experience
Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores...
Knowing Poetry
Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....
The Other Dickens
A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly...
by Stephen Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of...
Unbuttoning America
A Biography of "Peyton Place"
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up...
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors,...
Who Should Rule at Home?
Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City’s evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from...
In the Words of E. B. White
Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."—E. B. White on fatherhood
"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family."—on luck
"I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else." —on Maine
"The English language is always...
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common....
Jew Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Jew Boy is Alan Kaufman's riveting memoir of being raised by a Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. This pioneering masterpiece, the very first memoir of its kind by a member of the Second Generation is Kaufman's coming-of-age account, by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irreverent...
"Who, What Am I?"
Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do..." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although...
In the Words of Frederick Douglass
Quotations from Liberty's Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us."—Frederick Douglass on African Americans
"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough,...