Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Making and Faking Kinship
Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated...
Constructing Grievance
Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Demands for national independence among ethnic minorities around the world suggest the power of nationalism. Contemporary nationalist movements can quickly attract fervent followings, but they can just as rapidly lose support. In Constructing Grievance, Elise Giuliano asks why people with ethnic identities...
Occupational Hazards
Success and Failure in Military Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six...
Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet
Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free and returned home safely, but the audacity of this abduction outraged...
The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby
The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became...
Hell and Its Rivals
Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The idea of punishment after death—whereby the souls of the wicked are consigned to Hell (Gehenna, Gehinnom, or Jahannam)—emerged out of beliefs found across the Mediterranean, from ancient Egypt to Zoroastrian Persia, and became fundamental to the Abrahamic religions. Once Hell achieved doctrinal...
The Wisdom to Doubt
A Justification of Religious Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as...
by Suzy Anger
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fields such as legal theory, psychology, history, and the natural sciences in order to establish the...
Nobody's Business
Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial...
Legal Naturalism
A Marxist Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a forceful contribution to current debates on the foundations of law.
Olufemi Taiwo argues that embedded...
For God and Globe
Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
For God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the...
by Rebecca Krug
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and...
History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the ‘legal’ as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who...
Holy Legionary Youth
Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Founded in 1927, Romania’s Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe’s largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most...