Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Bones around My Neck
The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based...
From She-Wolf to Martyr
The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe’s most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign...
by Paul F. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides...
by Éric Rebillard
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary...
Nation-Empire
Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism?...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature...
City of Forests, City of Farms
Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million...
by Susan S. Fainstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor...
Hollywood's Last Golden Age
Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created...
Privatizing Poland
Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like...
A Factious People
Politics and Society in Colonial New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York’s highly volatile and contentious political...
States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
From Bretton Woods to the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central...
Aggressive Fictions
Reading the Contemporary American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers—or...
America's First Great Depression
Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed...