Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Breakup 2.0
Disconnecting over New Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you...
Hausaland Divided
Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.
In 1983 Miles returned...
Subterranean Estates
Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication,...
Cauldron of Resistance
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial...
by Jeff Kosseff
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
Did you know that these twenty-six words are responsible for much of America's multibillion-dollar online industry? What...
They Will Have Their Game
Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished...
Moral Commerce
Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
by William M. Wiecek
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies,...
A Living Wage
American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jem'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Available for the first time in English, this groundbreaking book is an in-depth investigation of the development of jihadism from the earliest years of Indonesian independence in the late 1940s to the terrorist bombings of the past decade. The Indonesian journalist Solahudin shows with rare clarity...
Peacebuilding in Practice
Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city’s only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar’s problems are often cited as emblematic...
Fault Lines
Views across Haiti's Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women’s rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and...
Two Weeks Every Summer
Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hosted...
Oneida Utopia
A Community Searching for Human Happiness and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive...