Cornell University Press: 1150 books
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies
The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood’s alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political...
Taming Cannibals
Race and the Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain...
Rule of Darkness
British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal...
The Peace Puzzle
America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy,...
Nuclear Statecraft
History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential...
Brethren by Nature
New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar's de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar's preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than...
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological...
The Politics of Voter Suppression
Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated...
Nobility Lost
French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events...
By Sword and Plow
France and the Conquest of Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer...
Suffrage Reconstructed
Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment’s authors made this decision....
Barns of New York
Rural Architecture of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance...
The Eccentric Realist
Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal...