Cornell University Press: 1150 books
by William Hasker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His provocative and clearly written book challenges physicalist views of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an emergent individual.Hasker begins...
Sarajevo, 1941–1945
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany's 16th Motorized Infantry Division. The city, along with the rest of Bosnia, was incorporated into the Independent State of Croatia, one of the most brutal of Nazi satellite states run by the ultranationalist Croat Ustasha regime. The occupation posed an...
Only Muslim
Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints,...
Brothers in Arms
Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in...
Machines as the Measure of Men
Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific...
The Consuming Temple
Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Department stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination...
Brabbling Women
Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers...
The Transmission of "Beowulf"
Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite...
"Gorgias" and "Phaedrus"
Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols Jr., offers precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.
The Gorgias...
The Stag of Love
The Chase in Medieval Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing...
The Wages of Oil
Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait, meanwhile,...
Darfur
A 21st-Century Genocide, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Praise for the 2005 Edition:
"A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account...
by Stuart J. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J. Kaufman elaborates a compelling...
"Getting By"
Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide...