Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Losing Hearts and Minds
American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions...
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape
Medieval Southern Italy, 850–1150
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
From the rich archives of the abbey...
By Force and Fear
Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped...
By Honor Bound
State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these...
The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish
Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy, primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet...
by Abdulkader H. Sinno
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"After we had exchanged the requisite formalities over tea in his camp on the southern edge of Kabul's outer defense perimeter, the Afghan field commander told me that two of his bravest mujahideen were martyred because he did not have a pickup truck to take them to a Peshawar hospital. They had succumbed...
The Soul of Armies
Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency...
Small Works
Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow,...
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...
by Matthew M. Carlson, Steven R. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan.
Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese...
Networked Politics
Agency, Power, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked...
When Small States Make Big Leaps
Institutional Innovation and High-Tech Competition in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
At the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-tech competition. In When Small States Make Big Leaps, Darius Ornston reveals how these historically low-tech countries managed to assume leading positions in new industries such as biotechnology,...
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take...
The Hungry Steppe
Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of this...