Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Thinking from Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.
Following a strong narrative line, Harding sets...
The Pathological Family
Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed...
Inequality and Prosperity
Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity,...
Fighting for Rights
Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship....
The Hour of Eugenics"
Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology...
New York Amish
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.
While...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what various forms of constructivism mean, both as ways...
Strategic Coupling
East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success...
Rebels without Borders
Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. "Internal" wars often spill...
Activists beyond Borders
Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples...
Latinos in American Society
Families and Communities in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in...
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...
The End of the West?
Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents...
The Specter of "the People"
Urban Poverty in Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban...