Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Working the System
A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system—an emic notion of their current political and...
Wars of Law
Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.
After a brief history of the codification of international humanitarian law...
by Ron E. Hassner
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced...
Sacrifice
My Life in a Fascist Militia
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined...
Rebel Power
Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Many of the world's states—from Algeria to Ireland to the United States—are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power,...
Secession and Security
Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"The book is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers across the globe."—Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan
"With judicious use of empirical evidence and rich case studies,...
Imperfect Strangers
Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western...
New York Amish
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage. While...
by Dara Kay Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during...
Against Immediate Evil
American Internationalists and the Four Freedoms on the Eve of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In Against Immediate Evil, Andrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression. As war approached, the internationalist movement attempted...
Immigrants in the Lands of Promise
Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians from...
Heresy and the Politics of Community
The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites,...
Small Arms
Children and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups.
Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that allows and even encourages the...
Accidental Activists
Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not. Relatively powerless groups like redress claimants...