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Cornell

A History, 1940–2015

by Glenn C. Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of...
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by Morris Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly...
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Governing Academia

Who is in Charge at the Modern University?

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that understanding how academic institutions are governed provides...
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Weill Cornell Medicine

A History of Cornell's Medical School

by Antonio M. Gotto, Jennifer Moon
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

Weill Cornell Medicine is a story of continuity and transformation. Throughout its colorful history, Cornell’s medical school has been a leader in education, patient care, and research—from its founding as Cornell University Medical College in 1898, to its renaming as Weill Cornell Medical College...
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Cornell '69

Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University

by Donald A. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you...
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Cornell '77

The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall

by Peter Conners
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017

On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released Terrapin Station and was still finding its feet after...
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The Inauguration of Elizabeth Garrett

Cornell's Thirteenth President

by Elizabeth Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

On the occasion of the inauguration of Cornell's thirteenth president, Elizabeth Garrett, Cornell University Press is pleased to publish the official commemorative edition of her inauguration speech. This handsome volume also includes several other sections of interest to Cornellians, including a...
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Unions and the City

Negotiating Urban Change

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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces....
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The American Way of Bombing

Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous...
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Resister

A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War

by Bruce Dancis
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon...
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Why France?

American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination

by Roger Chartier
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011

France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries,...
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Politics in the New Hard Times

The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis...
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Shopping for Change

Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers "buy green" for the environment or they "buy pink" to combat breast...
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China's Ascent

Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist,...
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