Cornell University Press: 1150 books
A Moral Technology
Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country's participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power,...
by Valerie Garver
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of...
Spartak Moscow
A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed...
My Reach
A Hudson River Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Low in the water, she explores the bays and the larger estuary, riding the tides, marveling over sturgeons and eels, eagles and herons, and spotting the remains of the ice...
Tax Havens
How Globalization Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping...
China 2020
How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decades...
Postcommunist Welfare States
Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social...
Keepers of the Flame
Understanding Amnesty International
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from Keepers of the FlameThe first...
by Jonathan Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics....
The Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...
The Power of Inaction
Bank Bailouts in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the varying...
by Lorraine C. Minnite
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Allegations that widespread voter fraud is threatening to the integrity of American elections and American democracy itself have intensified since the disputed 2000 presidential election. The claim that elections are being stolen by illegal immigrants and unscrupulous voter registration activists...
Running the Rails
Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation’s largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses...
Going Native
Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as...