Cornell University Press: 1150 books
More Than Words
Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing,...
To Shape Our World for Good
Master Narratives and Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900–2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Why does the United States pursue robust military invasions to change some foreign regimes but not others? Conventional accounts focus on geopolitics or elite ideology. C. William Walldorf, Jr., argues that the politics surrounding two broad, public narratives—the liberal narrative and the restraint...
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia
Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire’s Middle Volga region (today’s Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier’s mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The immediate...
Where Three Worlds Met
Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn...
State-Building
Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed...
Empire of Hope
The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country's postwar path. From the medical...
Good Governance Gone Bad
How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition...
New Policies for New Residents
Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In recent decades, many countries have experienced both a rapid increase of in-migration of foreign nationals and a large-scale devolution of governance to the local level. The result has been new government policies to promote the social inclusion of recently arrived residents. In New Policies for...
Singlewide
Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public...
The Viral Network
A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The...
The Price of Wealth
Economies and Institutions in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As the "world’s factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations....
A World of Work
Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Ever wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible look at different types of work around the world delivers a wealth of information and advice about a wide array of jobs and professions. The value...
Rebuilding Public Institutions Together
Professionals and Citizens in a Participatory Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around...