Cornell University Press: 1150 books
New York Amish
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage. While...
by Dara Kay Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during...
Against Immediate Evil
American Internationalists and the Four Freedoms on the Eve of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In Against Immediate Evil, Andrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression. As war approached, the internationalist movement attempted...
Immigrants in the Lands of Promise
Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italians from...
Heresy and the Politics of Community
The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites,...
Small Arms
Children and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups.
Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that allows and even encourages the...
Accidental Activists
Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not. Relatively powerless groups like redress claimants...
A Tremendous Thing
Friendship from the "Iliad" to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
"Why did you do all this for me?" Wilbur asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you."
"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing."
—from Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Friendship encompasses a wide range of social bonds, from playground...
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes...
The Shadow of the Past
Reputation and Military Alliances before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliability—confidence that, based on past political actions, a country will make good on its promises—in the formation of military alliances. Challenging...
Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt
The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the...
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights
Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials’ choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices,...
Redemption and Revolution
American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the...
Chinatown No More
Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements...