Columbia Press: 2357 books
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite...
by Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, world experts on the study of terror and security, propose a theory of violence that contextualizes not only recent acts of terror but also instances of terrorism that stretch back centuries. Beginning with ancient Palestine and its encounters with Jewish terrorism,...
Shanghai Homes
Palimpsests of Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist,...
by Zhuoliu Wu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu's autobiographical novel, completed...
Classical Arabic Stories
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling life of...
The Art of Sanctions
A View from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard...
Chaos in the Liberal Order
The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists,...
Buying Military Transformation
Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys...
The New Censorship
Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our...
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the...
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
Race and the Politics of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative...
Feasting Our Eyes
Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food—they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance,...
Chop Suey, USA
The Story of Chinese Food in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese...
America’s Response to China
A History of Sino-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.-China policy...