Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes...
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism,...
Revolution of the Mind
Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains...
All Good Books Are Catholic Books
Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions...
Project Plowshare
The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California’s Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders,...
The Poor and the Perfect
The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks....
Vico and Naples
The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Vico and Naples is an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe’s first scientists of society. According to the commonplaces of the literature on the Neapolitan, Vico was a solitary figure who, at...
Appetite for Change
How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other "revolutionary" foodstuffs...
Exclusions
Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews...
My Word!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers." "Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers." "Faking the Grade." Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated;...
Feeling Like Saints
Lollard Writings after Wyclif
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
"Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought...
by Linda C. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde...
The Evils of Polygyny
Evidence of Its Harm to Women, Men, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Why do men act violently toward women?
What are the consequences of "normal violence," not only for women and children but also for the men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it?
The Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that instigates, enforces,...
A New Moral Vision
Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical...