Cornell University Press: 1150 books
by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill...
School of Europeanness
Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former...
by C. Douglas Lummis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratia). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender...
Anatomy of the Red Brigades
The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious...
Subsidizing Democracy
How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the case that allowed corporate and union spending in elections, many Americans despaired over the corrosive influence that private and often anonymous money can have on political platforms, campaigns, and outcomes at the federal...
Suburb
Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington,...
The Breakup 2.0
Disconnecting over New Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you...
Hausaland Divided
Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.
In 1983 Miles returned...
Subterranean Estates
Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication,...
Cauldron of Resistance
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial...
by Jeff Kosseff
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
Did you know that these twenty-six words are responsible for much of America's multibillion-dollar online industry? What...
They Will Have Their Game
Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished...
Moral Commerce
Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
by William M. Wiecek
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies,...