Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Reforming Asian Labor Systems
Economic Tensions and Worker Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and...
On the Irish Waterfront
The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted...
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today...
Making and Unmaking Nations
War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide...
To Plead Our Own Cause
Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves...
The "Domostroi"
Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the...
Interpretive Conventions
The Reader in the Study of American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser,...
Humanitarian Hypocrisy
Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In Humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civilians in conflict zones and the resources committed for doing so. Examining how powerful governments contribute to peace operations and determine how they are designed, Everett...
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds
National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear...
Magic Lantern Empire
Colonialism and Society in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested...
Saving Our Cities
A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the...
by Nitsan Chorev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives,...
The Order of Genocide
Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the...
Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology
The Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights...