Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Mobilizing against Inequality
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
Unsettled Americans
Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of...
The Great Wall of Money
Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In Soundings in Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his attempt to fashion a historiography that is at once critical and self-critical—a project he initiated in Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language (1983); and History and Criticism (1985), both available from Cornell...
I Am Where I Come From
Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common Native American heritage of its authors; and yet that thread proves to be the most tenuous of all, as the experience of indigeneity differs radically for each of them. While many experience a centripetal pull toward a cohesive Indian experience,...
The Prince of Darkness
Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity to the present. While recounting how past...
The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
"How should we approach The History of the Five Indian Nations today? The book's information—rich as it is—should be critically interrogated and placed in social, political, and cultural context. The book reflects the outlook of a colonial British agent and, in a more general sense, of early modern...
The Avila of Saint Teresa
Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates...
Islam in the World Today
A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Considered the most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world, the German-language Der Islam in der Gegenwart, currently in its fifth edition, offers a wealth of authoritative information on the religious, political, social, and cultural life of Islamic nations...
by Christopher D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the...
Rigorism of Truth
"Moses the Egyptian" and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In "Moses the Egyptian"—the centerpiece of Rigorism of Truth, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectual history of the twentieth century: Sigmund Freud and Hannah Arendt. Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud’s Moses and Monotheism...
Libanius the Sophist
Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s...
Mixed Feelings
Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature...