Cornell University Press: 1150 books
A Living Wage
American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jem'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Available for the first time in English, this groundbreaking book is an in-depth investigation of the development of jihadism from the earliest years of Indonesian independence in the late 1940s to the terrorist bombings of the past decade. The Indonesian journalist Solahudin shows with rare clarity...
Peacebuilding in Practice
Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city’s only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar’s problems are often cited as emblematic...
Fault Lines
Views across Haiti's Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women’s rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and...
Two Weeks Every Summer
Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hosted...
Oneida Utopia
A Community Searching for Human Happiness and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive...
The Revolution of ’28
Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith’s work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth...
Memories of War
Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the...
Under the Strain of Color
Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of a largely forgotten New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic was founded in 1946 as both a practical response...
The Tie That Bound Us
The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers...
The Poison Plot
A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the...
Myths of Empire
Domestic Politics and International Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes...
Zion's Dilemmas
How Israel Makes National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile...
by Jane R. Zavisca
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia’s attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet...