Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Creating Christian Granada
Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January...
Veiled Empire
Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive effort to eliminate the heavy horsehair-and-cotton...
Tolstoy On War
Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays...
Zones of Rebellion
Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in...
by Robert J. Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The United States today is the most powerful nation in the world, perhaps even stronger than Rome was during its heyday. It is likely to remain the world's preeminent power for at least several decades to come. What behavior is appropriate for such a powerful state?
To answer this question,...
Killing Neighbors
Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives...
Everyday Piety
Islam and Economy in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these...
In the Shadow of FDR
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From review of previous editions:
"In the Shadow of FDR shrewdly sets forth the special cruelty of the dilemma Roosevelt's successors have all faced: 'If he did not walk in FDR's footsteps, he ran a risk of having it said that he was not a Roosevelt but a Hoover. Yet to the extent that he did...
Cooperation under Fire
Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine...
by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1985
Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He focuses...
by Dorothee Bohle, Bela Greskovits
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort...
Allegories of America
Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s...
Russian Hajj
Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials...
Small States in World Markets
Industrial Policy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what...