Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books

by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013

In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the...

In Uncertain Times

American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011

In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust...

Leaders at War

How Presidents Shape Military Interventions

by Elizabeth N. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011

One of the most contentious issues in contemporary foreign policy—especially in the United States—is the use of military force to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Some military interventions explicitly try to transform the domestic institutions of the states they target; others...

A Delicate Relationship

The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

by Kenton Clymer
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....

The Empty Seashell

Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island

by Nils Bubandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015

The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people...

Tyranny of the Weak

North Korea and the World, 1950–1992

by Charles K. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the first time the motivations, processes, and effects of North Korea's foreign relations during the...

The Massacres at Mt. Halla

Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea

by Hun Joon Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

In The Massacres at Mt. Halla, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947. The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged...

Rochdale Village

Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

by Peter Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens, New York. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood....

Making Uzbekistan

Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

by Adeeb Khalid
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015

In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on...

Blood Ties

Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908

by İpek Yosmaoğlu
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

The region that is today Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations...

The National Question in Yugoslavia

Origins, History, Politics

by Ivo Banac
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures...

Children of Rus'

Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

by Faith Hillis
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s...

Protest Politics in the Marketplace

Consumer Activism in the Corporate Age

by Caroline Heldman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Caroline Heldman emphasizes that consumer activism is a democratizing force that improves political participation, self-governance, and the accountability...

Under the Surface

Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale

by Tom Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012

Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling...
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