Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Land and Loyalty
Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting...
Whose Ideas Matter?
Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the...
Putting the Barn Before the House
Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that...
Condemned to Repeat?
The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention...
The Concerned Women of Buduburam
Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990 to...
Deaf in the USSR
Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively—...
Spheres of Intervention
US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials...
The Image before the Weapon
A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were an unmistakable and sure distinction to be...
Wonder and Science
Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological,...
Venice's Intimate Empire
Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Xenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on leadership. Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical...
Infamous Commerce
Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies"...
Untold Futures
Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place...