Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Hollywood's Last Golden Age
Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created...
Privatizing Poland
Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like...
A Factious People
Politics and Society in Colonial New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York’s highly volatile and contentious political...
States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
From Bretton Woods to the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central...
Aggressive Fictions
Reading the Contemporary American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers—or...
America's First Great Depression
Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed...
In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt
Quotations from the Man in the Arena
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness."—on Action
"The American people are good-natured to the point of lax indifference; but once roused, they act with the most straightforward and practical resolution."—on America
"Speak...
by Alan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of...
Vico's "New Science"
A Philosophical Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of humanity and gives an account of the stages common to the development of all societies in their historical life. Controversial at the time of its publication...
The Poetry of Everyday Life
Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, The Poetry of Everyday Life taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love, the metaphors used by scientists,...
Alias Olympia
A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study...
Curse on This Country
The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long history as one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged coups d'états,...
Screening Enlightenment
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studios—in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this...