Cornell University Press: 1150 books
A Natural History of Revolution
Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution...
Romantic Catholics
France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include,...
Becoming Bourgeois
Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...
Feminizing the Fetish
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...
by John C. Hartsock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1998, Gary and Rosemary Barletta purchased seven acres of land on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. Descending to the west from the state route that runs along on the ridge overlooking the lake, the land was fertile, rich with shalestone and limestone bedrock, and exposed to moderating air currents...
The Odd Man Karakozov
Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary...
Stories of the Soviet Experience
Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores...
Knowing Poetry
Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....
The Other Dickens
A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly...
by Stephen Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of...
Unbuttoning America
A Biography of "Peyton Place"
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up...
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors,...