Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Imperial Eclipse
Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan’s defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan’s capitulation, and its recasting...
This Could Be the Start of Something Big
How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the...
Courting Sanctity
Holy Women and the Capetians
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity,...
Participation without Democracy
Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations...
The Morning Breaks
The Trial of Angela Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in New York City two months...
The One-Way Street of Integration
Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn’t see the solution...
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters—petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy...
The Affirmative Action Empire
Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s,...
A Community of Europeans?
Transnational Identities and Public Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of...
The Fight for Local Control
Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment...
Constitutional Originalism
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Problems of constitutional interpretation have many faces, but much of the contemporary discussion has focused on what has come to be called "originalism." The core of originalism is the belief that fidelity to the original understanding of the Constitution should constrain contemporary judges. As...
Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively...
by Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes...
The Battle for Fortune
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space...