Cornell University Press: 1150 books
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically,...
In Search of Paradise
Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated...
White Flight/Black Flight
The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Urban residential integration is often fleeting—a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents...
The Vanished Imam
Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when...
by Teresa Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the...
In the Museum of Man
Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into...
The Law of Kinship
Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many...
by Frank R. Ankersmit
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm...
by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective...
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
The Sanctity of Louis IX
Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures...
Reappraisals
Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants....
Representing the Holocaust
History, Theory, Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de Man's collaborationist journalism and Martin Heidegger’s...
by Lloyd P. Gerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson...