Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Mao's New World
Political Culture in the Early People's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing...
The Accommodated Jew
English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding...
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma
Why Election Observation Became an International Norm
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion,...
The Burned-over District
The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Burned-over District was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of development. It described the religious character of western New York during the first half of the nineteenth century. Time, subject, and area have thus all combined to...
The Worlds of Langston Hughes
Modernism and Translation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski...
Activists in City Hall
The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them....
Why Intelligence Fails
Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics...
Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called 'the poor man's atomic bomb,' yet they cannot...
Perilous Futures
On Carl Schmitt's Late Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt’s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World...
Blackness Visible
Essays on Philosophy and Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial...
Transcending Capitalism
Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering...
How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In...
Rules for the World
International Organizations in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental...
by Martha Finnemore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state...