Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Site Fights
Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with...
Love's Wounds
Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhēsia....
Qatar
Small State, Big Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international...
Continent by Default
The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in...
Cities for Profit
The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive...
by Martin Seel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film’s connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema’s singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films—from...
A Scrap of Paper
Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict's origins and conduct. In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision-making in Germany, Great Britain,...
Viking Friendship
The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000)
Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains,...
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout...
Tearing Apart the Land
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from exploiting...
Emotional Diplomacy
Official Emotion on the International Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others. Examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Hall reveals...
The Burdens of Perfection
On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its...
War, States, and Contention
A Comparative Historical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"—disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows...