Cornell University Press: 1150 books
by David A. Lake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority...
by Barrington Moore Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes...
Lovesick Japan
Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections....
The Other Welfare
Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon’s daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI)...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
A Fiery Gospel
The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer...
Euripides' Revolution under Cover
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides’s revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides’s plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought...
Drawing the Lines
Constraints on Partisan Gerrymandering in U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Radical redistricting plans, such as that pushed through by Texas governor Rick Perry in 2003, are frequently used for partisan purposes. Perry's plan sent twenty-one Republicans (and only eleven Democrats) to Congress in the 2004 elections. Such heavy-handed tactics strike many as contrary to basic...
Immigrants and Electoral Politics
Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend...
Regime Shift
Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons...
Popular Democracy in Japan
How Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, Sherry L. Martin argues that the exclusion of women from a full range of opportunities in public life...
Delivering the People's Message
The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Presidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive power. In Delivering the People’s Message, Julia R. Azari draws on an original dataset of more than 1,500 presidential communications, as well as primary documents from six presidential libraries, to systematically examine...
Landscapes of the Jihad
Militancy, Morality, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
What are the motives behind Osama bin Laden's and Al-Qaeda's jihad against America and the West? Innumerable attempts have been made in recent years to explain that mysterious worldview. In Landscapes of the Jihad, Faisal Devji focuses on the ethical content of this jihad as opposed to its purported...
The Smile of the Human Bomb
New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world.
In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb site at the moment of the explosion, during...