Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Jacqueline de Romilly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the threat from insiders is on the front page and...
The Space That Remains
Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally recognized, but the final years of the Roman Empire are not normally associated...
by Stephen van Van Evera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Stephen Van Evera's Guide to Methods makes an important contribution toward improving the use of case studies for theory development and testing in the social sciences. His trenchant and concise views on issues ranging from epistemology to specific research techniques manage to convey not only the...
Democracy's Children
Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a...
For the Common Good
A New History of Higher Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?
In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America’s so-called crisis...
Engineering Philadelphia
The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Sellers brothers, Samuel and George, came to North America in 1682 as part of the Quaker migration to William Penn’s new province on the shores of the Delaware River. Across more than two centuries, the Sellers family—especially Samuel’s descendants Nathan, Escol, Coleman, and William—rose...
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Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings...
DPs
Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–51
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."—M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa
"This is a fascinating and very moving book."—International Migration Review
"Wyman has written a highly readable...
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes...
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism,...
Revolution of the Mind
Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains...
All Good Books Are Catholic Books
Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions...
Project Plowshare
The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California’s Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders,...