Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Brabbling Women
Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers...
The Transmission of "Beowulf"
Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite...
"Gorgias" and "Phaedrus"
Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols Jr., offers precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.
The Gorgias...
The Stag of Love
The Chase in Medieval Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing...
The Wages of Oil
Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait, meanwhile,...
Darfur
A 21st-Century Genocide, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Praise for the 2005 Edition:
"A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account...
by Stuart J. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J. Kaufman elaborates a compelling...
"Getting By"
Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide...
Making Sense of Taste
Food and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience,...
Mixed
Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally...
Logics of War
Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive?...
by John Kekes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding...
by Jenny Jochens
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old...
Philosophers in the "Republic"
Plato's Two Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In Plato’s Republic Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind’s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual,...