Cornell University Press: 1150 books
To the Tashkent Station
Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Station...
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Disaster and Change in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet...
Armed State Building
Confronting State Failure, 1898–2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic...
Signature Pieces
On the Institution of Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf’s view, studying signature will...
Critical Terrains
French and British Orientalisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady...
The Enlightenment in Practice
Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays...
The French Idea of History
Joseph de Maistre and His Heirs, 1794–1854
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible dogmatism... part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner." Thus did Émile Faguet describe Joseph-Marie de Maistre (1753–1821) in his 1899 history of nineteenth-century thought. This...
Awaiting the Heavenly Country
The Civil War and America's Culture of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed...
Making Morocco
Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco’s historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages...
The Merchants of Siberia
Trade in Early Modern Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well...
Between Two Motherlands
Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900–1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1900, some 100,000 people living in Bulgaria—2 percent of the country's population—could be described as Greek, whether by nationality, language, or religion. The complex identities of the population—proud heirs of ancient Hellenic colonists, loyal citizens of their Bulgarian homeland, members...
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks...
The Clamor of Lawyers
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory,...
by John Agresto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy John Agresto traces the development of American judicial power, paying close attention to what he views as the very real threat of judicial supremacy. Agresto examines the role of the judiciary in a democratic society and discusses the proper place...