Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
City Bound
How States Stifle Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study...
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets
The Art of Social Relationships in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all...
Reprogramming Japan
The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie Anchordoguy's book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected...
A Liberal World Order in Crisis
Choosing between Imposition and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades...
by Jack Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea...
Taming the Disorderly City
The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded...
by William G. Tomek, Harry M. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural...
Taming Tibet
Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects...
China's Water Warriors
Citizen Action and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water...
Chinese Economic Statecraft
Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective. Norris provides...
"We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less"
The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Reconstruction. However, the northern states also witnessed a significant period of struggle during these years. Northern blacks vigorously protested laws establishing inequality in education,...
Freedom Burning
Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave...
From Dependency to Independence
Economic Revolution in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies:...
The Globalizers
The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented...