Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militaries—a strategy clearly...
Violence as a Generative Force
Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today’s border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy—in which victims were...
by Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this...
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden
The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America’s preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers’ Camp," the trip included...
News and Politics in the Age of Revolution
Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde"
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Jeremy D. Popkin's book is the first comprehensive examination of the European news industry during the era of the American and French Revolutions. He focuses on the Gazette de Leyde, the period's newspaper of record, and constructs a detailed picture of the'media market'of which it was a part.
The Neoliberal City
Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world...
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant...
Contemporary Slavery
The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might...
Imperial Eclipse
Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan’s defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan’s capitulation, and its recasting...
This Could Be the Start of Something Big
How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the...
Courting Sanctity
Holy Women and the Capetians
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity,...
Participation without Democracy
Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations...
The Morning Breaks
The Trial of Angela Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in New York City two months...
The One-Way Street of Integration
Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn’t see the solution...