Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Necessary Luxuries
Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital...
Legal Tender
Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic...
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul...
Humanitarianism in Question
Politics, Power, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader...
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts
The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Big, attention-grabbing numbers are frequently used in policy debates and media reporting: "At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia." "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between...
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Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential...
The City Is the Factory
New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a...
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
Asian Designs
Governance in the Contemporary World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims...
Presence
Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The philosophy of "presence" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of history as Frank...
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training...
The Agenda Mover
When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Organizations, institutions, and individuals get stuck in spite of their innovative ideas and ambitious agendas. Never has the timing been better for a book that cuts through the theoretical jargon and delineates the exact political and managerial skills leaders need to move agendas forward. Whether...
by Giambattista Vico
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person,...