Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters—petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy...
The Affirmative Action Empire
Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s,...
A Community of Europeans?
Transnational Identities and Public Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of...
The Fight for Local Control
Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment...
Constitutional Originalism
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Problems of constitutional interpretation have many faces, but much of the contemporary discussion has focused on what has come to be called "originalism." The core of originalism is the belief that fidelity to the original understanding of the Constitution should constrain contemporary judges. As...
Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively...
by Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes...
The Battle for Fortune
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space...
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Thinking from Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.
Following a strong narrative line, Harding sets...
The Pathological Family
Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed...
Inequality and Prosperity
Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity,...
Fighting for Rights
Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship....
The Hour of Eugenics"
Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology...
New York Amish
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.
While...