Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Arctic Mirrors
Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained...
Impious Fidelity
Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political entity. Stewart-Steinberg argues that because Anna Freud inherited and guided her father's psychoanalytic...
Fictions of Dignity
Embodying Human Rights in World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly...
"Lost" Causes
Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter,...
Before the Gregorian Reform
The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome’s dominance throughout the Middle Ages and...
Spiritual Economies
Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges widespread...
Reframing Decadence
C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of...
by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
"A revealing and concealing intelligence lurks somewhere—but where, exactly?—in Dickens's writing. To capture something of that knowing Dickens who eludes us, I follow some representative clusters of thought and feeling that link Dickens's ways of talking in letters with his concerns in fiction...
Antiques
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the encounter with antiques stems from the palpable...
The Covert Sphere
Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming...
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the addition of "Practic of the New Science"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx.
Double Paradox
Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent....
The Sephardic Frontier
The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare...
The Political Writings
"Political Regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws"
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Alfarabi (ca. 870–950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Political Regime and Summary of Plato's "Laws," accompanied...