Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
MacArthur in Asia
The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Hiroshi Masuda reinterprets MacArthur by going back to his years in the Philippines. In particular, [the book] focuses on the ‘Bataan Boys,’ the group of subordinates who accompanied MacArthur in his 1942 evacuation from the Philippines, and their views of MacArthur. MacArthur in Asia offers...
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's...
"That the People Might Live"
Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That...
On Roman Religion
Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion...
The Making of Southeast Asia
international relations of a region
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War...
Eyewitness to a Genocide
The United Nations and Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand...
Blue Helmets and Black Markets
The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the...
Modern Hatreds
The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?
Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds"...
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included...
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
A Study in Social Values
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting....
Claiming the Pen
Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's...
Sanctified Landscape
Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...
Disowning Slavery
Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
One of the foundational works of military history and political philosophy, and an inspiration for Alexander the Great, the Anabasis of Cyrus recounts the epic story of the Ten Thousand, a band of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to overthrow his brother, Artaxerxes, king of Persia and...