Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Recapturing the Oval Office
New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded...
Chinese Working-Class Lives
Getting By in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative...
At Home with the Diplomats
Inside a European Foreign Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the...
Over the Horizon
Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful....
Central Banks and Gold
How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power...
Class Divide
Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Members of the Yale College class of 1964—the first class to matriculate in the 1960s—were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the civil rights...
Twilight of the Titans
Great Power Decline and Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In this bold new perspective on the United States–China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers...
Making Virtual Worlds
Linden Lab and Second Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point...
by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill...
School of Europeanness
Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former...
by C. Douglas Lummis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratia). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender...
Anatomy of the Red Brigades
The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious...
Subsidizing Democracy
How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private and often anonymous money can have on political platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal...
Suburb
Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington,...