Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Hearing Allah’s Call
Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and...
Women without Men
Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Women without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken...
Making All the Difference
Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment...
Base Politics
Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases...
Geology in the Nineteenth Century
Changing Views of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental...
Fifty Early Medieval Things
Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures,...
Breaking the Ties That Bound
The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Russia’s Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia’s social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural,...
Working the System
A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system—an emic notion of their current political and...
Wars of Law
Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.
After a brief history of the codification of international humanitarian law...
by Ron E. Hassner
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced...
Sacrifice
My Life in a Fascist Militia
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined...
Rebel Power
Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Many of the world's states—from Algeria to Ireland to the United States—are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power,...
Secession and Security
Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"The book is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers across the globe."—Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan
"With judicious use of empirical evidence and rich case studies,...
Imperfect Strangers
Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western...