Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Jonathan Coopersmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods...
The Socialist Car
Automobility in the Eastern Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the...
Broad Is My Native Land
Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and...
The Occult Mind
Magic in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
"Given the historical orientation of philosophy, is it unreasonable to suggest a wider cast of the net into the deep waters of magic? By encountering magical thought as theory, we come to a new understanding of a thought that looks back at us from a funhouse mirror."—The Occult Mind
Divination,...
by Charles W. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of...
Kodiak Kreol
Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work...
The Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive,...
The Depths of Russia
Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Russia is among the world’s leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet’s eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil’s place in...
Desperate Magic
The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often...
War and Shadows
The Haunting of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another...
Where the River Burned
Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in...
Household Accounts
Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues...
Embattled River
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism...
Club Red
Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure...