Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Summerfolk
A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is...
Raised under Stalin
Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of...
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over...
The Challenge of Bewilderment
Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between...
by J. L. Schellenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is no attempt here to lay down as inviolable or to legislate certain ways of looking at things or ways of proceeding for philosophers of religion, only proposals for how to deal with a range of basic issues—proposals that I hope will ignite much fruitful discussion and which, in any case,...
A Europe Made of Money
The Emergence of the European Monetary System
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first...
by Stephen M. Walt
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the...
Warring Friends
Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention,...
Unclear Physics
Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varying degrees—Iraq almost managed it; Libya did not come close. In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer compares the two failed nuclear weapons...
Catholics in the American Century
Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created...
by Richard Flathman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable...
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement....
Just Politics
Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many foreign policy analysts assume that elite policymakers in liberal democracies consistently ignore humanitarian norms when these norms interfere with commercial and strategic interests. Today's endorsement by Western governments of repressive regimes in countries from Kazakhstan to Pakistan and...
"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through...