Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Viking Friendship
The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000)
Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains,...
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout...
Tearing Apart the Land
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from exploiting...
Emotional Diplomacy
Official Emotion on the International Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others. Examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Hall reveals...
The Burdens of Perfection
On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its...
War, States, and Contention
A Comparative Historical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"—disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows...
Fragile Conviction
Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How do specific secular and religious ideologies—such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism—gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies...
Woolf’s Ambiguities
Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating,...
Spaces of Feeling
Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that...
The Taming of Evolution
The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers...
by Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Özge Çelik Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the U.S. setting, but rather it accentuates...
Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment...
The Old Faith and the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world...