Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
A Tremendous Thing
Friendship from the "Iliad" to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
"Why did you do all this for me?" Wilbur asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you."
"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing."
—from Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Friendship encompasses a wide range of social bonds, from playground...
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes...
The Shadow of the Past
Reputation and Military Alliances before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliability—confidence that, based on past political actions, a country will make good on its promises—in the formation of military alliances. Challenging...
Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt
The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the...
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights
Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials’ choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices,...
Redemption and Revolution
American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the...
Chinatown No More
Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements...
Imagining a Greater Germany
Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast...
Proletarian Peasants
The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is...
Seductive Reasoning
Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida,...
Nuclear Summer
The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and...
by Anthony Leeds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings...
Bang Chan
Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings...
Casualties of History
Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences...