Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Balkan Smoke
Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
In Balkan Smoke, Mary C. Neuburger leads readers along the Bulgarian-Ottoman caravan routes and into the coffeehouses of Istanbul and Sofia. She reveals how a remote country was drawn into global economic networks through tobacco production and consumption and in the process became modern. In writing...
by Tobin Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and...
Telling the Truth
The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts...
Community Architect
The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Clarence S. Stein (1882–1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines...
No Path Home
Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute...
Missing
Persons and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged....
Kidnapped Souls
National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became...
Unfinished Utopia
Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland’s "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older...
Lesbian Mothers
Accounts of Gender in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their...
Wines of Eastern North America
From Prohibition to the Present—A History and Desk Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1975 there were 125 wineries in eastern North America. By 2013 there were more than 2,400. How and why the eastern United States and Canada became a major wine region of the world is the subject of this history. Unlike winemakers in California with its Mediterranean climate, the pioneers who founded...
Taming the Wild Field
Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited...
Fighting Westway
Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan’s Lower West Side. The most...
Forgotten Men and Fallen Women
The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
During the Great Depression and into the war years, the Roosevelt administration sought to transform the political, institutional, and social contours of the United States. One result of the New Deal was the emergence and deployment of a novel set of narratives—reflected in social scientific case...
Bitter Choices
Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Russia’s attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky tells a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas during the centuries of Russia’s...