Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Populist Persuasion
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day.
Kazin...
Forced to Be Good
Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union...
by Charles K. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly...
Hirelings
African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing...
The Invisible Camorra
Neapolitan Crime Families across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The organized crime group that dominates much of the socioeconomic life of contemporary Naples, the Camorra, is organized by kin and geography, and it is notoriously the most violent, fractious, and disorganized mafia in Italy. The Camorra controls local extortion rackets, the drug and counterfeit...
The Working Class Majority
America's Best Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also...
Whistleblowers
Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story—high-minded individual fights soulless...
by John Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution...
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies
The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood’s alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political...
Taming Cannibals
Race and the Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain...
Rule of Darkness
British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal...
The Peace Puzzle
America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy,...
Nuclear Statecraft
History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential...
Brethren by Nature
New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England...