Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Between Homeland and Motherland
Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe’s back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black Caucus’ struggle to reach consensus...
Absolute Destruction
Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as...
Idols in the East
European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East,...
Making Good Neighbors
Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together...
The Familiar Made Strange
American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation’s borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational...
The Captive and the Gift
Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record,...
by Jonathan Coopersmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods...
The Socialist Car
Automobility in the Eastern Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the...
Broad Is My Native Land
Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and...
The Occult Mind
Magic in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
"Given the historical orientation of philosophy, is it unreasonable to suggest a wider cast of the net into the deep waters of magic? By encountering magical thought as theory, we come to a new understanding of a thought that looks back at us from a funhouse mirror."—The Occult Mind
Divination,...
by Charles W. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of...
Kodiak Kreol
Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work...
The Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive,...
The Depths of Russia
Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Russia is among the world’s leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet’s eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil’s place in...