Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Blood on the Snow
The Killing of Olof Palme
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq...
The Political Writings
"Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four...
The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)
A Medieval Household Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman...
Art of the Ordinary
The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of...
by Morris Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Every medievalist with a sense of humor has wanted to do this sort of book, but too few have. Morris Bishop gives us a delightful collection of medieval storytelling, ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, in Latin, Norse, French, Spanish, Italian, and English. Recommended for all popular...
Border Games
Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity...
Trafficking Justice
How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this...
Beyond Borders
Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and...
Balkan Smoke
Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
In Balkan Smoke, Mary C. Neuburger leads readers along the Bulgarian-Ottoman caravan routes and into the coffeehouses of Istanbul and Sofia. She reveals how a remote country was drawn into global economic networks through tobacco production and consumption and in the process became modern. In writing...
by Tobin Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and...
Telling the Truth
The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts...
Community Architect
The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Clarence S. Stein (1882–1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines...
No Path Home
Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute...
Missing
Persons and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged....