Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Mi Voz, Mi Vida
Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society.
The fifteen Latino college...
Muslims and Matriarchs
Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also Muslim and famous for their piety. In this book,...
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...
Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts
Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In...
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific...
Empire of Humanity
A History of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism’s remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to...
Interfaces of the Word
Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces...
"No One Helped"
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses...
by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special...
Russia on the Edge
Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical...
by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work...
Welcome to the Suck
Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier’s...
Bureau of Missing Persons
Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men....
Literary Transcendentalism
Style and Vision in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms...