Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Intimate Violence
Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors...
The Technocratic Antarctic
An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform...
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...
Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages
Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation...
Victory's Shadow
Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south. Over the next two centuries, the region underwent a dramatic transformation. The counts of Barcelona secured title to the neighboring kingdom of...
Salvage
Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach...
The Military Lens
Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Military Lens, Christopher P. Twomey shows how differing military doctrines have led to misperceptions between the United States and China over foreign policy—and the potential dangers these might pose in future relations. Because of their different strategic situations, histories, and military...
Our Frontier Is the World
The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Mischa Honeck’s Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have,...
by William P. Alston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston, one of America's most distinguished and prolific analytic philosophers, addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play...
Scribes of Space
Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers...
Order at the Bazaar
Power and Trade in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Order at the Bazaar delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of Central Asia. Bazaars are the economic bedrock for many throughout the region—they are the entrepreneurial hubs of Central Asia. However, they are often regarded as mafia-governed environments that are...
Sex, Love, and Migration
Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of...
Speaking of Slavery
Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery"...
Raja Yudhisthira
Kingship in Epic Mahabharata
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary...