Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Wonder and Science
Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological,...
Venice's Intimate Empire
Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Xenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on leadership. Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon’s eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical...
Infamous Commerce
Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies"...
Untold Futures
Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place...
Armed with Expertise
The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations....
Waging War, Planning Peace
U.S. Noncombat Operations and Major Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stabilization and reconstruction can have a devastating impact on the overall success of a military mission. In Waging War, Planning Peace, Aaron Rapport...
The Power Problem
How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs,...
Deceit on the Road to War
Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits...
Inadvertent Escalation
Conventional War and Nuclear Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures,...
by Mary P. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides’ thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, she explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities and individuals in Thucydides’ history take...
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher
Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation....
Storm of Steel
The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known...