Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Under Siege
PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres,...
by Lorenzo Vidino
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
In Europe and North America, networks tracing their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunctional and richly funded organizations competing to become the major representatives of Western Muslim communities and government interlocutors....
Lust on Trial
Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Anthony Comstock was America’s first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million...
Struggle on Their Minds
The Political Thought of African American Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In...
by Evelyn Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhattan in pursuit of the American dream. Once hailed as a "wonder borough" of beautiful homes,...
Ethnic Americans
A History of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English...
American Force
Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the...
Govern Like Us
U.S. Expectations of Poor Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance"...
J. M. Coetzee and Ethics
Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless...
by Edith Turner, Victor Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and sustaining Christian pilgrimage. The book examines two major aspects of pilgrimage practice: the significance...
Saracens
Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they...
Contested Democracy
Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors...
The Philosophy of Qi
The Record of Great Doubts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
The Record of Great Doubts emphasizes the role of qi in achieving a life of engagement with other humans, with the larger society, and with nature as a whole. Rather than encourage transcendental escapism or quietism, Ekken articulates a philosophy of material force as a basis of living a life of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan...