Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Fear and Fortune
Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were...
History and Its Objects
Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in...
Building the City of Spectacle
Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty-two years at the helm of Chicago's City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the city’s history. Richard M. Daley was the son of the legendary machine boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley,...
Under the Surface
Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and legal events leading up to an unprecedented ban of fracking...
Fat-Talk Nation
The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant "fat talk" aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness...
Ethnic Bargaining
The Paradox of Minority Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Ethnic Bargaining introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe with insights from rational choice. Erin K. Jenne finds that claims by ethnic minorities have become more frequent since 1945 even though...
Global Matters
The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature...
The Supplement of Reading
Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic...
by Sarah Beckwith
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental...
Dominion Undeserved
Milton and the Perils of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
That the writings of John Milton continue to provoke study and analysis centuries after his lifetime speaks no doubt to his literary greatness but also to the many ways in which his art both engaged and transcended the political and theological tensions of his age. In Dominion Undeserved, Eric B....
Not Quite Shamans
Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores...
Living Buddhism
Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to grasp, Cassaniti shows that people do in fact make...
Dark Vanishings
Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall...
Haunting Encounters
The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Acts of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting—an intense, temporary,...