Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Armed with Expertise
The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations....
Waging War, Planning Peace
U.S. Noncombat Operations and Major Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stabilization and reconstruction can have a devastating impact on the overall success of a military mission. In Waging War, Planning Peace, Aaron Rapport...
The Power Problem
How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs,...
Deceit on the Road to War
Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits...
Inadvertent Escalation
Conventional War and Nuclear Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures,...
by Mary P. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides’ thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, she explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities and individuals in Thucydides’ history take...
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher
Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation....
Storm of Steel
The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known...
Path of Empire
Panama and the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest...
Becoming American under Fire
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited...
China's Regulatory State
A New Strategy for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Today's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the Mao and Deng eras; it departs fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state and its own Communist past. It has not, however, adopted a liberal economic model. China has retained elements of statist control...
Coping with Adversity
Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors...
Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers
Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more...
Saving Faith
Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In Saving Faith, David Mislin chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples. Between 1875 and 1925, liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable...