Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Preying on the State
The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristic was...
by Dale C. Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war—especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war. In this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to bear on why governments make decisions that...
by Abbey Steele
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars’ work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the...
Petrarchism at Work
Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps...
Chaucer and the Poets
An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly...
The Origin of Sin
An English Translation of the "Hamartigenia"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348–ca. 406) is one of the great Christian Latin writers of late antiquity. Born in northeastern Spain during an era of momentous change for both the Empire and the Christian religion, he was well educated, well connected, and a successful member of the late Roman elite,...
Jacob's Shipwreck
Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Hebrew and Latin translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali...
The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld
Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations...
Summerfolk
A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is...
Raised under Stalin
Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of...
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over...
The Challenge of Bewilderment
Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between...
by J. L. Schellenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is no attempt here to lay down as inviolable or to legislate certain ways of looking at things or ways of proceeding for philosophers of religion, only proposals for how to deal with a range of basic issues—proposals that I hope will ignite much fruitful discussion and which, in any case,...
A Europe Made of Money
The Emergence of the European Monetary System
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first...