Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
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...
Empire of Dogs
Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming...
by Charles Homer Haskins, Theodor E. Mommsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witty set of lectures by the man whom eminent scholars have called "without exaggeration... the soul of the renascence of medieval studies in the United States." Great as the differences are between the earliest...
by Johan Heilbron
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
French Sociology offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant national traditions in sociology. Johan Heilbron covers the development of sociology in France from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century through the discipline's expansion in the late twentieth...
Queen of Vaudeville
The Story of Eva Tanguay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879–1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"—named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona—Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1901 with the New York City...
The Greengrocer and His TV
The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the...