Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Stand, Columbia
A History of Columbia University
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide.
"Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904)
Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and...
Rites of Return
Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic...
The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, 1916–2016
A Dental School on University Lines
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In 1916, Columbia University established the School of Dentistry (now known as the College of Dental Medicine). In 1917, the university merged the school with the newly acquired New York Post-graduate School of Dentistry and New York School of Dental Hygiene. To those working in the health sciences,...
From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana
A Brief History of Italian Studies at Columbia University
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The Casa Italiana—a neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Street—has been the most important expression of the Italian presence on Columbia University’s campus since its construction in 1927. As a site of interdisciplinary scholarship and promotion of Italian culture,...
Changing the Subject
How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers—emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post–Civil War era—pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College...
A Time to Stir
Columbia '68
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism...
Pulitzer's School
Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2003
Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can—or should—be taught in America's universities.
Originally known as "the...
The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard
Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The alumni of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) have made remarkable strides in medicine, academia, public health, and industry. In this they follow in the footsteps of Samuel Bard (1742–1821), a prominent early American physician and a founder of what would...
A Lever Long Enough
A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United...
by Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A major work on the history and culture of Southwest Indians, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest tells a remarkable story of cultural continuity in the face of migration, displacement, violence, and loss. The Native peoples of the American Southwest are a unique group, for while...
An Improbable Life
My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.
According to the New York Times, "If...
Freedom and the Self
Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor...