Books published by Cornell University Press

"Explores the connection between social movements, technology, and inequality. It also shows how just as new technologies helped fuel the growth of new movements throughout U.S. history, even newer technologies have emerged in the last decade that are beginning to help groups counter different forms of inequality"--

"This book is a historic restoration of the complete autobiographical manuscript (later heavily edited) of a prominent Cornellian couple, John Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock, and their enduring legacy at Cornell University"--

"Explains why great powers sometimes fight wars to protect access to oil, while in other cases they secure oil with lesser strategies such as oil alliances or domestic conservation programs"--

"Filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials became popular in the 1910s, established a model for incremental storytelling and holdover suspense still employed by filmmakers and television producers more than a century later"--

A full interpretation of Giambattista Vico's thought, based primarily on his major work, the New Science, and on his earlier Latin writings.

"Offers the perspective of a group of privileged women, daughters of the elite in colonial Saigon, who rebel and fight for independence from France"--

"This book examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, the book argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions"--

A brilliant, sometimes unsettling look at how ancient codes of honor figure in the social discomforts of everyday life.

Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community.

Volume III.

The Fate of the New Man traces the dramatic changes in the representation of the Soviet man in the postwar period. It focuses on the two identities that came to dominate such depictions in the two decades after the end of the war: the Soviet man's previous role as a soldier and his new role in the home once the war was over.

"This book is a scholarly examination of events that occurred at and around the famous site of Starved Rock between summer 1673, when European explorers first viewed the bluff, to 1911, when Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois's second state park"--

"This book explores the experiences of Filipino Muslims put on display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the 1904 World's Fair"--

"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"--

This highly readable book offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edmund Burke, drawing on his experiences to illuminate and address fundamental questions of politics and society that are of particular interest today. For Burke, ones imaginative context provides meaning and is central to judgment and behavior. Many of Burkes ideas can be brought together around his concept of the \u201cmoral imagination,\u201d which has received little systematic treatment in the context of Burkes own experience. In Edmund Burke for Our Time, Byrne asserts that Burkes politics is reflective of unique and sophisticated ideas about how people think and learn and about determinants of political behavior. Burkes thought is shown to offer much of contemporary value regarding the sources of order and meaning and the potential for a modern crisis if those sources are weakened or obscured. In addition to providing a re-interpretation of Burkes response to a number of historical situationsincluding problems of colonial or imperial policy with regard to India, Ireland, and AmericaByrne looks at the relationship between emotion and reason, and the role of culture in shaping political, social, and personal behaviors.To assist even readers with limited knowledge of Burke, the book includes biographical and historical information to provide needed context. Byrnes important study will appeal to political philosophers, literature scholars, and those interested in addressing problems of politics and society in this late-modern age.

Epic and nonlinear in nature, A Good High Place chronicles the lives of two womenLuella and Kachinawho, like the orbit of the sun and the moon, both attract and repel each other. Luellas suspicion that her younger sisterwho supposedly died at birthis being raised as the sister of Kachina sets her on a path of self-discovery that generates more questions than answers. The Native American Kachina is an enigma, a person with a special healing touch who, it is rumored, never ages, leaves no footprints, and might never die. Her goal is to help her people, the Aninshinaabek, remain on the Red Path and resist being absorbed by white culture. To do this, she takes guidance from what she refers to as The Day, guidance Luella assumes can be \u201cnothing less than the murmured confidences of God pouring from the sky.\u201d Ultimately, Kachina and Luella find friendship among the conflicts of culture, duty, and even loving the same man.Set during the years prior to World War I in Elk Rapids, Michigan, A Good High Place addresses familial struggles and those of a nation moving inexorably toward the age of the automobile. The sometimes painful adaptations of a faster-paced age are embodied, in part, in the struggles of Luellas father who, already troubled by the death of his wife, wrestles with the realization that his livelihood as a steamboat captain is becoming obsolete.

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future-and their relationship to the present-been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has...

Chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between the 1930s and 1950s. Drawing on a range of British and Chinese sources, the book reveals the complex links between labour activism, imperial reform, revolution, and the global Cold War to shed new light on colonialism and activism in modern China.

A comprehensive treatment of the Progressives' use of Lincoln

A strong case for reconsideration of Old Believers as a significant part of the Russian Orthodox tradition

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825, Andreas Schoenle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of...