Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds
National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear...
Magic Lantern Empire
Colonialism and Society in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested...
Saving Our Cities
A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the...
by Nitsan Chorev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives,...
The Order of Genocide
Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the...
Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology
The Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights...
Independent Diplomat
Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs—from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment—we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account...
The Teahouse under Socialism
The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces—perfect sites for examining...
Privatizing China
Socialism from Afar
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society.
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Informal Governance in the European Union
How Governments Make International Organizations Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to...
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties
The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the...
The Light of Knowledge
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are...
The River Runs Black
The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social...
Decadent Genealogies
The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided...