Cornell University Press

Glenn Altschuler, Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick

"Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League. . . . It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institution 'where any one person could find instruction in any study.' . . . Cornell has played a...

A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course

Book 1

J. Marvin Brown

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course

Book 2

J. Marvin Brown

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course

Book 3

J. Marvin Brown

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

The Abolitionist Sisterhood

Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America

Absolute Destruction

Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

Isabel V. Hull

In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly...

Accommodation without Assimilation

Sikh Immigrants in an American High School

Margaret Gibson

A holistic portrait which reveals why Sikh high school students, despite language barriers, prejudice, and significant cultural differences, often outperform their majority peers and other United States minority groups.

Acid Rain in the Adirondacks

An Environmental History

Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles T. Driscoll, Christopher Buerkett

Acid rain has changed the face of the Adirondacks, created political tensions between the Northeast and the Midwest, and served as both a harbinger of global climate change and a "fire drill" for public- and private-sector responses to environmental...

Acquiring Intercultural Communicative Competence from Textbooks

The Case of the Flemish Adolescent Pupils Learning German

Lies Sercu

This book investigates whether and to what extent foreign language textbooks can contribute to promoting adolescent pupils' acquisition of intercultural communicative competence. It gives a full scientific account of a research project carried out...

Activists beyond Borders

Advocacy Networks in International Politics

Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink

In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be...

Activists in City Hall

The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

Pierre Clavel

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington...

Ad fines imperii Romani anno bismillesimo cladis Varianae

Acta conventus Academiae Latinitati Fovendae XII Ratisbonensis

During the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, or clades Variana (9 AD), an alliance of Germanic tribes led by the German "hero" Arminius defeated three Roman legions and their auxiliaries led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.

Adam Mickiewicz

The Life of a Romantic

Roman Koropeckyj

Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Poland's national poet, was one of the extraordinary personalities of the age. In chronicling the events of his life—his travels, numerous loves, a troubled marriage, years spent as a member of a heterodox religious sect...

Adoption Matters

Philosophical and Feminist Essays

"As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a personal experience of members of the adoption triad, adoption provides a fresh vantage point on an important set of philosophical and feminist issues. The family is often thought to be...

The Aesthetic Function of Art

Gary Iseminger

How can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the informal institution of the artworld is to promote aesthetic communication. He concludes that the fundamental criteria for evaluating a...

The Aesthetic Relation

Gérard Genette

One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Gérard Genette here explores our aesthetic relation to works of art. Through an analysis of the views of thinkers ranging from David Hume and Immanuel Kant to Monroe C. Beardsley, Arthur...

The Aesthetics of Antichrist

From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe

John Parker

In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that...

Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt

Pascal Vernus

Drawing on ancient texts, archaeological reports, and other sources, Pascal Vernus focuses attention on the human failings of the too-often-mythologized Egyptians.

The Affirmative Action Empire

Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

Terry Martin

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms...

Affirmative Action for the Future

James P. Sterba

At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In...

Affirmative Exclusion

Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France

Jean-Loup Amselle

Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and...

The African Food System and Its Interactions with Human Health and Nutrition

This book examines how public policy and research aimed at the food system and its interaction with human health and nutrition can improve the well-being of Africans and help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Afro-Creole

Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean

Richard D.E. Burton

This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food...

After Antiquity

Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor

Margaret Alexiou

With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient...

After Lean Production

Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry

"This book has two main strengths. First, its approach gives a sense of the texture and variety of the implementation of lean production, the forces that shape it in practice, and the alternatives that may be available. Second, the book's...

After the Peace

Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-Accord Northern Ireland

Carolyn Gallaher

The 1998 Belfast Agreement promised to release citizens of Northern Ireland from the grip of paramilitarism. However, almost a decade later, Loyalist paramilitaries were still on the battlefield. After the Peace examines the delayed business of...

After-Images of the City

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a...

Against Liberalism

John Kekes

Against Proclus' "On the Eternity of the World 12–18"

Philoponus

In chapters 12-18 of "Against Proclus", Philoponus continues to do battle against Proclus' arguments for the beginninglessness and everlastingness of the ordered universe. In this final section there are three notable issues under discussion. The...

Against Proclus' "On the Eternity of the World 1–5"

Philoponus

This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emporor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant...

Against Proclus' "On the Eternity of the World 6–8"

Philoponus

This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emperor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens...

Age of Contradiction

American Thought and Culture in the 1960s

Howard Brick

In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and comprehensive book combines the best methods of historical analysis and assessment with fascinating subject matter to create a three-dimensional portrait of a complicated time. In one of the only books on the 1960s to put ideas at the center of the period's history, Brick carefully explores the dilemmas, the promise, and the legacy of American thought in that time.

Agents of Empire

Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Michael J. Levin

Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica."...

Aggressive Fictions

Reading the Contemporary American Novel

Kathryn Hume

Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.

Agitate! Educate! Organize!

American Labor Posters

Lincoln Cushing, Timothy W. Drescher

"We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were produced with a dual purpose: to entertain...

Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

The Contemporary Core Literature

Wallace C. Olsen

The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other...

Agricultural Product Prices

William G. Tomek, Kenneth L. Robinson

In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily revised and...

Air Plants

Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens

David H. Benzing

David H. Benzing explains in nontechnical language the anatomical and physiological adaptations that allow ephiphytes to conserve water, thrive without the benefit of soil, and engage in unusual relationships with animals.

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

Erik Hornung

Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. E. Called the "religious revolutionary," he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with...

Albert Camus

Elements of a Life

Robert Zaretsky

Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More...

Algeria in Others' Languages

For decades the superimposition of languages in Algeria has had growing cultural and political consequences. The relations between identity and language, already complicated before independence, became all the more entangled after 1962 when the new...

Algeria, 1830–2000

A Short History

Benjamin Stora

A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher.

Alias Olympia

A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire

Eunice Lipton

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...

Aliens in America

Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace

Jodi Dean

In a provocative analysis of public culture and popular concerns, Jodi Dean examines how serious UFO-logists and their pop-culture counterparts tap into fears, phobias, and conspiracy theories with a deep past and a vivid present in American society...

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater

Benjamin Bennett

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from...

Allegoresis

Reading Canonical Literature East and West

Zhang Longxi

Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the...

Allegory and Violence

Gordon Teskey

The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works...

The Allegory of Female Authority

Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames"

Maureen Quilligan

The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work...

Alliance Politics

Glenn H. Snyder

Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the international system, by integrating ideas from neorealism, coalition formation, bargaining, and game theory, and by empirical generalization from international history...

Alone Together

A History of New York's Early Apartments

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of...

Alternatives to Lean Production

Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry

Christian Berggren

The Altruistic Imagination

A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States

John H. Ehrenreich

Am I a Snob?

Modernism and the Novel

Sean Latham

Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another? Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a...

Amakudari

The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy

Richard A. Colignon, Chikako Usui

The widespread migration of civil servants to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors is known in Japan as amakudari, or "descent from heaven." Recent media stories associate the practice with corruption as the former officials seek...

Amazing Dogs

A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

Jan Bondeson

Bondeson tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

The Ambiguities of Experience

James March

The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good...

The Ambiguous Allure of the West

Traces of the Colonial in Thailand

The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present.

The Ambivalent Consumer

Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West

A comparative examination of the ambivalence provoked, especially in East and Southeast Asia, by the global spread of "American" consumer culture.

America Unrivaled

The Future of the Balance of Power

American power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No other nation has enjoyed such formidable advantages in military, economic, technological, cultural, and political capabilities. How stable is this unipolar American...

American Abyss

Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry

Daniel E. Bender

At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of...

The American Century in Europe

The notion of an American Century has fallen out of favor in recent years—historians prefer to focus on the United States as part of a transatlantic community. The contributors to this volume edited by R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna seek to...

The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940

David O. Levine

The first in-depth history of higher education during the era in which colleges and universities became arbiters of social and economic mobility.

The American Dream in Black and White

The Clarence Thomas Hearings

Jane Flax

"This is not . . . the nomination of a justice of the peace to some small county in some small state. This involves the very integrity and fabric of our country."—Senator Orrin G. Hatch The transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on...

The American Indian Intellectual Tradition

An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972

Thirty-one essays that exemplify Native American thinking on such issues as identity, autonomy, and sovereignty over two centuries.

American Literature and the Culture Wars

Gregory S. Jay

Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great...

American Odyssey

Haitians in New York City

Michel S. Laguerre

Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in...

The American War in Vietnam

This collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War.

America's First Great Depression

Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

Alasdair Roberts

In this book, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837.

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality

Timothy D. Barnes

The Townsend Lectures Much of what we know today of Rome in the fourth century has its source in Res Gestae, the sole surviving work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The accuracy of Ammianus' reporting has come under question over the past...

Amphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast

Arthur C. Hulse, Ellen Censky, C.J. McCoy

Until now, no detailed treatment of the Pennsylvania herpetofauna has ever been published, nor have recent books dealt with the herpetofauna of the entire northeastern United States. Amphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast is a...

Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa

Alan Channing

Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa is the first comprehensive guide to the frogs, toads, and caecilians of the ten sub-equatorial African countries—Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and...

Amphibians of East Africa

Alan Channing, Kim Howell

Published in Cooperation with the Wildlife Conservation Society "East Africa is well known for its wealth of plants and animals, represented in game reserves, such as the Serengeti in Tanzania, the Maasai-Mara in Kenya, and the Bwindi Impenetrable...

The Anabasis of Cyrus

Xenophon

In this new translation of the Anabasis, Wayne Ambler achieves a masterful combination of liveliness and a fidelity to the original uncommon in other versions.

The Analytic Imaginary

Marguerite Caze

The notion of the philosophical imaginary developed by Michéle Le Doeuff refers to the capacity to imagine as well as to the stock of images philosophers employ. Making use of this notion, Marguerite La Caze explores the idea of the imaginary of...

Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period

Stan Hendrickx

An analytical bibliography that contains 7407 references, covering the Egyptian prehistory (palaeolithic, neolithic and predynastic) as well as the period of the first two dynasties.

Anatomy of Mistrust

U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War

Deborah Welch Larson

Anatomy of the Honey Bee

R. E. Snodgrass

This book should be in the library of every student of the honey bee and bee behavior—beekeepers (both amateur and professional) as well as scientists.

Anatomy of the Red Brigades

The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

Alessandro Orsini

An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.

An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing

Value, Consent, and Community

Lianna Farber

Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts...

Ancestral Images

The Iconography of Human Origins

Stephanie Moser

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human...

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

Erik Hornung

Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts...

Ancient Greek Architects at Work

Problems of Structure and Design

J.J. Coulton

Ancient Israel

Harry M. Orlinsky

This revised edition, published in 1960, brings up to date a book first published in 1954—a concisely organized, simply written account of the society that produced the Bible. As the author traces the fluctuating fortunes of the Hebrews and Israelites...

Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle's "De Anima"

Gerd Van Riel, Pierre Destrée

Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of...

Ancient Stones

Quarrying Trade and Provenance—Interdisciplinary Studies on Stones and Stone Technology in Europe and the Near East from the Prehistoric to the Early Christian Period

The meeting assembled an interdisciplinary group of nearly 50 archaeologists and art historians, geologists and geochemists from the U.S.A. and 14 European and Near Eastern countries to discuss the provenance, quarrying, transport and use of stone...

The Angel's Cry

Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera

Michel Poizat

What is it about opera that can bring unashamed tears to the eyes of adoring fans? In this book, first published in French in 1986 and now available in English, Michel Poizat explains in a charming way the fascination of the interaction between music...

Angels on the Edge of the World

Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000–1534

Kathy Lavezzo

"The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity. . . . Above all, the wonderful aspects of geographic otherness made it possible for...

The Anger of Achilles

Mênis in Greek Epic

Leonard Muellner

"Menis opens for consideration an immense range of significant poetic possibilities, not the least of which is that of an ethical sense for the term."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Henceforth no one will be able to claim that menis merely connotes...

Anger's Past

The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages

This book considers the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants.

AngloModern

Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States

Janet Wolff

Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of...

Anglo-Saxon Art

Leslie Webster

This is the first new introduction to Anglo-Saxon art in twenty-five years and the first book to take account of the 2009 discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard—the largest cache of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found.

Animal Minds and Human Morals

The Origins of the Western Debate

Richard Sorabji

The Townsend Lectures "Sorabji starts . . . by examining philosophical treatments of animals in ancient Greece. From there he goes on to current thinking and argues that the animal rights movement is philosophically incoherent. His philosophical...

The Annales School

An Intellectual History

Andre Burguiere

A new approach to the study of history emerged in France in the late 1920s around the history journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale. The Annales school, as it came to be identified, grew to be the preeminent twentieth-century movement in...

An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ, 1970–1989

Including Arabic and Persian Publications and Turkish and Russian References

Jules L. Janssens

n this bibliography, more extensive and systematic attention is paid to non-Western publications, especially Arabian, persian, Turkish and Russian. Of special interest is the inclusion of a number of Indian publications.

Anti-Americanisms in World Politics

A distinguished group of experts, including historians, polling data analysts, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists, to explore global anti-Americanism in depth, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Antiques

The History of an Idea

Leon Rosenstein

The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the...

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland

From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By 1970, the combination of Nazi genocide, postwar pogroms, mass emigration, and communist repression had virtually destroyed Poland's...

Antler on the Sea

The Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East

Anna M. Kerttula

Anna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup'ik community, it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup'ik...

Antwerp and the World

Richard Verstegan and the International Culture of Catholic Reformation

Paul Arblaster

Richard Verstegan is the usual English name of a man who went through early life as Richard Rowlands, before reverting to his ancestral Dutch surname in exile. Born in Mid-Tudor London around 1550 and dying in the Baroque Antwerp of 1640, his...

Anxiety Veiled

Euripides and the Traffic in Women

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female...

Ape to Apollo

Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

David Bindman

Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth century of the idea of race as it shaped and was shaped by the idea of aesthetics. Twelve full-color illustrations and sixty-five black-and-white illustrations from...

The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.

Appetite for Change

How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry

Warren James Belasco

In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola...

Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins

This text is the fourth and final volume in a series of essays by Japanese scholars of Southeast Asia. The authors examine issues such as the political styles and methodologies of Suharto's New Order government, the economic development of Indonesia...

Aquinas and Problems of His Time

Aquinas's Moral Theory

Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann

Aquinas's discussions of moral issues are extensive, and range well beyond the narrowly defined set of issues in the modern tradition of moral philosophy. This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide selection of philosophical and theological...

Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies

Album Amicorum André Van Doorselaer

Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece

Anthony M. Snodgrass

"The papers in this book presume to stray across the traditional boundaries with the domains of prehistorians, ancient historians, and literary critics. . . . It had been regarded as somehow out of order for Classical archaeologists to meddle with...

The Archaeology of Disease

Charlotte Roberts, Keith Manchester

The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in antiquity. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester offer a vivid picture of...

The Archaeology of Greece

An Introduction

William R. Biers

"Well-written and exceptionally well-illustrated. . . . An invaluable guidebook for people who want to visit Greece and understand what it is they are seeing." —Times Literary Supplement William R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce...

The Archidamian War

Donald Kagan

This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices...

Architect of Justice

Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell

A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907–1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural...

Architectures of Russian Identity, 1500 to the Present

From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl—across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used...

Arctic Mirrors

Russia and the Small Peoples of the North

Yuri Slezkine

Ariadne's Thread

A Guide to International Stories in Classical Literature

William Hansen

From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an...

Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity

Interpretations of the "De anima"

H.J. Blumenthal

"H. J. Blumenthal is such an eminent scholar in the field of Neoplatonic Studies, and the scholarship exhibited by this book is so wide-ranging and impressive, that I would venture to say that this is the most important book on Neoplatonism to be...

Aristotle and Other Platonists

Lloyd P. Gerson

"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it...

Aristotle's "Problemata" in Different Times and Tongues

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 39 Communication leads to an evolution of knowledge, and the free exchange of knowledge leads to fresh findings. In the Middle Ages things were no different. The inheritance of ancient knowledge deeply influenced medieval...

Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Carlos Steel, Guy Guldentops, Pieter Beullens

Aristotle's Zoology and Its Renaissance Commentators (1521–1601)

Stefano Perfetti

Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)

Douglass R. Miller, John A. Davidson

Armored scale insects are among the most damaging and least understood of the pests that prey on forest trees, fruit and nut crops, landscape ornamentals, and greenhouse plants. The passage of U.S. plant quarantine laws was prompted by devastation...

The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.

Jeffrey M. Hurwit

This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual...

Art as Language

Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory

G.L. Hagberg

"[Art as Language] is in itself extremely valuable as an example of the still largely unappreciated relevance of Wittgenstein's work to traditional philosophical issues. . . . This book, as a more or less encyclopedic critique of aesthetic theories...

The Art of English Poesy

George Puttenham

George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable...

The Art of Humane Education

Donald Phillip Verene

In The Art of Humane Education, Donald Phillip Verene presents a new statement of the classical and humanist ideals that he believes should guide education in the liberal arts and sciences. These ideals are lost, he contends, in the corporate...

The Art of Life

John Kekes

"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean . . . that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in...

The Art of Quartet Playing

The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum

David Blum

The Art of Strip Photography

Making Still Images with a Moving Camera

Maarten Vanvolsem

Maarten Vanvolsem explains how the strip technique can tell a different story of time and space in photographic images, a story that leads to new expressions and experiences of time and movement.

Art of the Celts

700 B.C. to A.D. 700

Distributed in North America for Mercatorfonds. Celtic art is the first important contribution made by the peoples of Northern Europe to European art. In this book, masterpieces of Celtic art covering fourteen centuries from its origins in the early...

The Art of War in the Middle Ages

A.D. 378–1515

Charles Oman

One of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages between Adrianople (378 A.D.) and Marignano (1515 A.D.)

Articulate Silences

Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa

King-Kok Cheung

Artifice and Design

Art and Technology in Human Experience

Barry Allen

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best...

Artillery of Heaven

American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

Ussama Makdisi

The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century...

The Artistic Turn

A Manifesto

Kathleen Coessens, Darla Crispin, Anne Douglas

Through a study of the interrelationship between artistic fields and theories of knowledge, and through consciously metaphorical readings, the authors examine the contexts within which artistic research has developed.

Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction

A Compendium of Species-Specific Data

Virginia Hayssen, Ari Tienhoven, Ans Tienhoven

Since the appearance of the second edition of Sydney A. Asdell's widely used Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction in 1964, the field of reproductive physiology has expanded dramatically. Accordingly, this revision adopts a different structure from...

Asian States, Asian Bankers

Central Banking in Southeast Asia

Natasha Hamilton-Hart

Financial markets are given to instability, but some financial systems are more crisis-prone than others. Natasha Hamilton-Hart's historically grounded investigation of central banks, governments, and private bankers in Southeast Asia helps explain...

Asia's Flying Geese

How Regionalization Shapes Japan

Walter F. Hatch

In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in...

Aspects of the Medieval Animal Epic

Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, May 15–17, 1972

Assembling Women

The Feminization of Global Manufacturing

Teri L. Caraway

Despite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely unchanged. This book addresses two related questions: What has prompted the feminization of manufacturing work...

Asylum for Mankind

America, 1607–1800

Marilyn C. Baseler

Ever since the Age of Discovery, Europeans have viewed the New World as a haven for the victims of religious persecution and a dumping ground for social liabilities. Marilyn C. Baseler shows how the New World's role as a refuge for the victims of...

At Home Abroad

Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy

Henry R. Nau, Richard C. Leone

The United States has never felt at home abroad. The reason for this unease, even after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is not frequent threats to American security. It is America's identity. The United States, its citizens believe, is...

At Home with the Diplomats

Inside a European Foreign Ministry

Iver B. Neumann

There is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry.

At the Edge of the Forest

Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler

Inspired by David Chandler's groundbreaking work on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and...

"At the Hawk's Well" and "The Cat and the Moon"

Manuscript Materials

W. B. Yeats

Both At the Hawk's Well (1917) and The Cat and the Moon (1924) dramatize their characters' journeys of the soul to magic wells. The Cornell Yeats edition of these plays presents photographs and transcriptions of the typescripts in various revisions.

At the Margins of Orthodoxy

Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827–1905

Paul W. Werth

In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various...

Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy

What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is addressed here by thirteen historians, classicists, and political theorists, who examine ancient Greek institutions, texts, and ideas in light of today's political values.

Atomic Assistance

How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity

Matthew Fuhrmann

Atomic Assistance explores the history of interstate cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Atomic Tragedy

Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan

Sean L. Malloy

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an...

The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds

Creating Natural Habitats for Properties Large and Small, Second Edition

Stephen W. Kress

"Improving the quality of land for wildlife is the single most constructive step that anyone can take to assist wild bird populations. Happily, it is well within almost everyone's capability to improve bird habitats by providing important food and...

Australian Frogs

A Natural History

Michael J. Tyler

"This book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding and enjoyment of frogs by an eminent leader in the field of amphibian biology. It is written in an engaging style, which reflects the author's long interest in popularizing natural history...

Australian Snakes

A Natural History

Richard Shine

Drawing on years of experience and an impressive grasp of the literature, Richard Shine covers the day-to-day lives of snakes, discussing their anatomy, evolution, and habitat, and describing their behavior, sex habits, life history, and...

Austria as Theater and Ideology

The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival

Michael P. Steinberg

Austria's renowned Salzburg Festival has from the outset engaged issues of cultural identity in a country that has difficulty coming to terms with its twentieth-century history. That this is the case was especially apparent in 1999, when the Austrian...

Authentic Chinese Christianity

Prelude to Its Development (19th–20th Centuries)

This volume intends to tackle two problems. The first is the historical framework of imperialism - until now widely applied by Western and Chinese scholars as an approach to the Christian evangelization movement in China. The theological aspect of the...

Authenticities

Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

Peter Kivy

"In his latest book on the aesthetics of music, Peter Kivy presents an argument not for authenticity but for authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice, and the authenticity of personal interpretation in...

Authoritarianism in Syria

Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946–1970

Steven Heydemann

For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social...

Autobiographics

A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation

Leigh Gilmore

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Isaac Phillips Roberts

This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a...

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

Averroes on Plato's "Republic"

Averroes

"Because of the importance of Averroes (as a Muslim he is significant for both Platonic and Islamic thought), it is good to have Lerner's new and thoughtful interpretation, with lucid introduction, three helpful appendixes, glossary, and...

Aversion and Erasure

The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust

Carolyn J. Dean

In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West.

Aves de Cuba

Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba, Spanish-Language Edition

Orlando H. Garrido, Arturo Kirkconnell

The first Spanish-language edition of the Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba.

Avicenna

Lenn E. Goodman

In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now...

Avicenna and His Heritage

Acts of the International Colloquium, Leuven, September 8–11, 1999

Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, may be considered to be a major figure of the history of Arabo-Islamic philosophy, medicine and science. His influence was substantial and enduring, not only in the Islamic world, but also in medieval...

Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context

Robert Wisnovsky

The eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 1037) was known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna. An analysis of the sources and evolution of Avicenna's metaphysics, this book focuses on the answers he and his...

The Avila of Saint Teresa

Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City

Jodi Bilinkoff

Awaiting the Heavenly Country

The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

Mark S. Schantz

"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death...

Awkward Dominion

American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919–1933

Frank Costigliola

In Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War...

Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

Celia Applegate

Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in...

Back-Alley Banking

Private Entrepreneurs in China

Kellee S. Tsai

Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing instituted economic reforms in the late 1970s. Most of these private ventures, however, have been denied access to official sources of credit. State banks...

Balancing Risks

Great Power Intervention in the Periphery

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

Great powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peripheral regions that pose no direct threat to them, risking direct confrontation with rivals in strategically inconsequential places. Why do powerful countries behave...

Balancing Two Worlds

Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories

"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their own personalities,' melding their point of view with their points of origin and their places of...

Ballots and Bibles

Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence

Evelyn Savidge Sterne

By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and...

Bandits and Bureaucrats

The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

Karen Barkey

Banking on Small Business

Microfinance in Contemporary Russia

Gail Buyske

How do you prime the well of economic growth? First, put a negligible amount of money into exactly the right hands. Then, step back. A vibrant and rapidly expanding national economy needs an active small business sector, but small entrepreneurs need...

Barcelona 1900

Barcelona 1900 explores the city's artistic flowering in all its dimensions, including paintings by Picasso, Casas, and Santiago Rusiñol; Art Nouveau jewelry by Lluís Masriera; public and domestic architecture by Gaudí, Domènech, and Josep Puig.

Barns of New York

Rural Architecture of the Empire State

Cynthia G. Falk

Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State, providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York and an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts.

Base Politics

Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas

Alexander Cooley

According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense...

The Battle of the Books

History and Literature in the Augustan Age

Joseph M. Levine

Baudelaire's World

Rosemary Lloyd

Charles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire's World provides English-language readers with the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts that will lead to a fuller...

Beautiful City

The Dialectical Character of Plato's "Republic"

David Roochnik

To the vast literature on Plato's Republic comes a new interpretation. In Beautiful City, David Roochnik argues convincingly that Plato's masterpiece is misunderstood by modern readers. The work must, he explains, be read dialectically, its parts...

Beauty and Revolution in Science

James A. McAllister

How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of "revolutions" in their thinking and extol certain theories for their "beauty"? James W. McAllister addresses this question with the first systematic study of the aesthetic...

The Beaver

Its Life and Impact, Second Edition

Dietland Muller-Schwarze

A comprehensive look at the natural history and management of this keystone species.

Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters

Dena Goodman

Over the course of the eighteenth century, increasing numbers of French women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to countesses and queens, became writers-not authors, and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking...

Becoming American under Fire

Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era

Christian G. Samito

In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the...

Becoming American, Being Indian

An Immigrant Community in New York City

Madhulika S. Khandelwal

Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed—the highly educated professional elite who came to this...

Becoming German

The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York

Philip Otterness

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty...

Becoming William James

Howard M. Feinstein

For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and...

Becomings

Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures

With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. Although the equally pervasive and abstract concept of space has generated a vast body of disciplines...

The Beekeeper's Handbook, Fourth Edition

Diana Sammataro, Alphonse Avitabile

The definitive guide to raising bees, now thoroughly revised and updated.

The Beggar's Opera

Vaclav Havel

The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for...

Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots

The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt

Peter Arnade

A new history of the Dutch Revolt that shows how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action

Begging Pardon and Favor

Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France

Geoffrey Koziol

Koziol uncovers the dense meanings of early medieval rituals of supplication in France, illuminating the complex changes in social relations and political power in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Beginning Indonesian through Self-Instruction DVD

John U. Wolff

A dual-platform DVD to accompany the Beginning Indonesia through Self Instruction Books, Volumes 1-3.

Beginning Indonesian through Self-Instruction, Volume 1

Preface, Instructions, Key, Glossary, Index

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo, Daniel Fietkiewicz

A complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD...

Beginning Indonesian through Self-Instruction, Volume 2

Lessons 1–15

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo, Daniel Fietkiewicz

A complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD...

Beginning Indonesian through Self-Instruction, Volume 3

Lessons 16–25

John U. Wolff, Dede Oetomo, Daniel Fietkiewicz

A complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD...

A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations

An Analysis of a Social Interaction System, Second Edition

Richard E. Walton

Being and Goodness

The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology

Being Kammu

My Village, My Life

Damrong Tayanin

Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early...

Being Local Worldwide

ABB and the Challenge of Global Management

Fortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch linked up with Britain's Shell in 1907." The coming together of two longtime national champions in the...

Belgian Archaeology in a European Setting, Volume 1

Belgian Archaeology in a European Setting, Volume 2

Belgian National Income during the Interwar Period

Reconstruction of the Database

Stef Peeters, Martine Goossens, Erik Buyst

Historical national accounting is nowadays recognized as an important field of research in economic history. Nevertheless the sub discipline also receives a lot of criticism. Several estimates would be based on shaky data material so that the outcome...

Bell

Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude

Robert V. Bruce

Benedictine Culture, 750–1050

Benedictine Maledictions

Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France

Lester K. Little

"'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at...

Benjamin the Waggoner

William Wordsworth

Benjamin's Library

Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

Jane O. Newman

Recovering Walter Benjamin's connection to seventeenth-century Baroque literature and political theory.

Berkeley's Thought

George Sotiros Pappas

In this highly original account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically...

The Best System Money Can Buy

Corruption in the European Union

Carolyn M. Warner

As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude—or at least reduce—malfeasance: regulatory...

The Betrayal of Local 14

Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements

Julius G. Getman

International Paper, the richest paper company and largest landowner in the United States, enjoyed record profits and gave large bonuses to executives in 1987, that same year the company demanded that employees take a substantial paycut, sacrifice...

Better a Shrew than a Sheep

Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England

Pamela Allen Brown

In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women...

Betting on Biotech

Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental State

Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Between Craft and Science

Technical Work in the United States

Between Craft and Science brings together leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, industrial relations, management, and engineering to consider issues surrounding technical work, the most rapidly expanding sector of the labor force. Part craft...

Between Homeland and Motherland

Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America

Alvin B. Tillery Jr.

The history of African American political engagement with Africa, from back-to-Africa movements to the anti-apartheid campaign.

Between the Sign and the Gaze

Herman Rapaport

A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Carroll); Mont Blanc becomes the maternal breast (Shelley); Hamlet mistakes Ophelia for a phallus (Lacan's...

Between Two Motherlands

Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900–1949

Theodora Dragostinova

Uncovering the shifting allegiances of this Greek minority in Bulgaria before World War II.

Between Two Nations

The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City

Michael Jones-Correa

Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek...

Beyond "Justification"

Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation

William P. Alston

Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the...

Beyond Appeasement

Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics

Cecelia Lynch

The interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineffective. More seriously, the standard histories have also held that they severely weakened national efforts to resist Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia...

Beyond Conflict and Reduction

Between Philosophy, Science, and Religion

While much attention has been devoted to the conflicts between religion and science in the modern age, less rarely has sufficient attention been devoted to the complex interplay between religion, science and philosophy. This book offers a set of...

Beyond Consolation

Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy

Melissa F. Zeiger

Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...

Beyond Empiricism

On Criteria for Educational Research

Beyond Japan

The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism

This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model.

Beyond the Household

Women's Place in the Early South, 1700–1835

Cynthia A. Kierner

Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal—and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern...

Beyond the Ruins

The Meanings of Deindustrialization

The immediate impact of deindustrialization—the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities—has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America's...

The Bible and Medieval Culture

The Big Squeeze

A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram

Dr. Handel Reynolds

The Big Squeeze chronicles the often turbulent history of screening mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s.

Biological Systematics

Principles and Applications, Second Edition

Randall T. Schuh, Andrew V.Z. Brower

Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for...

Biology and Conservation of Martens, Sables, and Fishers

A New Synthesis

This book reflects all of the major developments in research, conservation, and management programs on Martes species that have occurred throughout the world during the last few decades.

The Biology of Death

Origins of Mortality

Andre Klarsfeld, Frederic Revah

Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades, scientists studying the workings of genes and cells...

The Biology of the Cycads

Knut J. Norstog, Trevor J. Nicholls

Thoroughly referenced and generously illustrated, this book discusses all aspects of cycadology. A small group of ancient palmlike seed plants noted for their beautiful foliage and often brightly colored cones and seeds, cycads are believed to have...

Biology of the Domestic Pig, Second Edition

An invaluable resource for animal scientists, veterinarians, and biomedical researchers, this book shows that in the past twenty years, the knowledge base about the physiology and biology of the pig has grown phenomenally. This is because of the...

Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Pests, Predators, Opportunists

Alfred G. Wheeler

Plant bugs—Miridae, the largest family of the Heteroptera, or true bugs—are globally important pests of crops such as alfalfa, apple, cocoa, cotton, sorghum, and tea. Some also are predators of crop pests and have been used successfully in biological...

Biomedical Ambiguity

Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean

Ian Whitmarsh

Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of biomedical researchers, including those searching for a genetic link to the disease. The high rate of asthma among African American...

Bird Trapping and Bird Banding

A Handbook for Trapping Methods All over the World

Hans Bub

A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa Rica

Barrett Lawson

Marked by its superb natural beauty, Costa Rica has the greatest percentage of preserved land of any nation worldwide; nearly a third of the country is protected in national parks, reserves, and refuges. The wildlife that abounds in these tropical...

A Bird-Finding Guide to Mexico

Steve N.G. Howell

With a rich variety of stunning avifauna, Mexico provides the first taste of the Neotropics for many birders. At last here is a guide to Mexico's best birdwatching sites, from Baja California to the Yucatan Peninsula. Steve N. G. Howell, coauthor of...

A Bird-Finding Guide to Panama

George R. Angehr, Dodge Engleman, Lorna Engleman

A Bird-Finding Guide to Panama is an essential tool for anyone traveling in search of Panama's spectacular birds and natural attractions. With more than 970 species and a growing infrastructure of good roads, eco-lodges, and restaurants, Panama is a...

Birding in the American West

A Handbook

Kevin J. Zimmer

From the Great Plains to the Arctic tundra, the American West, including Alaska, is home to a stunning variety of birds. This indispensable volume, both a field guide and a site-finding guide, provides an ideal introduction to the pleasures of birding...

The Birds of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Richard Garrigues, Robert Dean

"Graced with bounteous natural beauty, a stable democratic government, and friendly citizens, Costa Rica has become a popular destination for travelers from all over the world. Birds play a prominent role in attracting visitors, too. The shimmering...

The Birds of Ecuador, Volume I

Status, Distribution and Taxonomy

Robert S. Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield

Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way: "One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed...

The Birds of Ecuador, Volume II

Field Guide

Robert S. Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield

Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way: "One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed...

The Birds of Ecuador

2-volume Set with Slip Case

Robert S. Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield

This two-volume set includes: Volume I, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, contains detailed information on the ecology, status, and distribution of all species. Introductory chapters deal with geography, climate, and vegetation; bird migration in...

The Birds of Panama

A Field Guide

George R. Angehr, Robert Dean

The Birds of Panama will be an essential tool for the new generation of birders traveling in search of Panama's spectacular avifauna.

The Birds of Pennsylvania

Gerald M. McWilliams, Daniel W. Brauning

From Eared Grebes, Tundra Swans, and Peregrine Falcons to Lesser Yellowlegs, and Snowy Owls, Pennsylvania is home to a magnificent array of birds. In the first comprehensive summary and analysis in over a century of the birds of that state, Gerald M...

The Birth of the Despot

Venice and the Sublime Porte

Lucette Valensi

In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines...

The Bishop's Palace

Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy

Maureen C. Miller

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller...

Bitter Choices

Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus

Michael Khodarkovsky

Michael Khodarkovsky's book tells the story of Semën Atarshchikov, a single man with multiple allegiances, and provides a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas.

Black Earth, Red Star

A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991

R. Craig Nation

R. Craig Nation provides the first post-Cold War history of the Soviets' seventy-five-year struggle to maintain an effective national security policy in a hostile world without altogether abandoning the commitment to their original internationalist...

The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America

Peter H. Adler, Douglas C. Currie, Monty Wood

A ROM Publication in Science A Comstock Book Published in association with the Royal Ontario Museum There is much more to black flies than you can learn in the woods on a warm spring day. This book compiles the authors' previously unpublished...

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel

The Struggle for Democratic Unionism

Ruth Needleman

Thousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life without Klansmen, chain gangs, and cotton. Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism by Ruth Needleman...

Black Lung

Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster

Alan Derickson

In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness...

Black Power at Work

Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry

Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s, with case studies of Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle.

Black Subjects

Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery

Arlene R. Keizer

Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers...

Black Yanks in the Pacific

Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II

Michael Cullen Green

By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for...

Blackness Visible

Essays on Philosophy and Race

Charles W. Mills

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has...

A Blessed Shore

England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Alfred Thomas

In The Winter's Tale, Antigonus announces that his ship has washed up on the shores of Bohemia. How and why landlocked Bohemia? Did Shakespeare not know his geography, or is something else at work here? Alfred Thomas answers these questions by...

Blood in the City

Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789–1945

Richard D.E. Burton

The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair—explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton...

Blood on the Snow

The Killing of Olof Palme

Jan Bondeson

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and...

The Blue Eagle at Work

Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace

Charles J. Morris

In The Blue Eagle at Work, Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preeminent authority on the National Labor Relations Act, uncovers a long-forgotten feature of that act that offers an exciting new approach to the revitalization of the...

Blue Helmets and Black Markets

The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo

Peter Andreas

The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under...

Blue-Green Coalitions

Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities

Brian Mayer

What do unions and environmental groups have to gain by working together and how do they overcome their differences? In Blue-Green Coalitions, Brian Mayer answers these questions by focusing on the role that health-related issues have played in...

Boccaccio in Europe

Gilbert Tournoy

Bodies Politic

Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900

Roy Porter

The renowned historian Roy Porter here takes us on an entertaining trip through more than two hundred years of visual and verbal accounts of the body and medicine. Focusing his attention for the first time on visual imagery, Porter examines the ways...

The Bodily Nature of Consciousness

Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Kathleen V. Wider

"The Bodily Nature of Consciousness is a stunning achievement. Combining an existential-phenomenological approach with her knowledge of recent biological research, Wider argues that self-consciousness is rooted in body-awareness. She has taken a great...

The Body Embarrassed

Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

Gail Paster

Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean...

Boethius's "De topicis differentiis"

Boethius

"Students of Boethius and of medieval logic will . . . profit from Stump's work on this difficult treatise. Her translation, . . . the first into English . . . and the interpretative essays, e.g., on dialectic and Aristotle's Topics, Peter of Spain...

Boethius's "In Ciceronis Topica"

An Annotated Translation of a Medieval Dialectical Text

Boethius

In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works present Boethius's theory of the art of discovering arguments, a theory that was highly influential in the history of medieval...

Bolingbroke and His Circle

The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole

Isaac Kramnick

Bombing to Win

Air Power and Coercion in War

Robert Pape

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a...

Bonds of Community

The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York

Nancy Osterud

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...

The Book of Skin

Steven Connor

Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary...

The Book of the Pharaohs

Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

The Book of the Pharaohs is an encyclopedia made up of short essays on the pharaohs themselves, as well as on places, dynasties, personages, subjects, and themes relating to the kings and their rule.

Books As Weapons

Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II

John B. Hench

Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be...

Bootstrap Dreams

U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform

Nancy C. Jurik

Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity of microenterprise development programs (MDPs). These programs typically offer training and loans to...

Border Games

Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, Second Edition

Peter Andreas

In an updated and expanded edition of his essential 2000 book about shifts in how borders are perceived and patrolled, Peter Andreas brings the story into the present day. The second edition of Border Games places the continued sharp escalation of...

The Borderers

William Wordsworth

Borders among Activists

International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France

Sarah S. Stroup

Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. She offers detailed profiles of "varieties of activism" in the United States, Britain, and France.

Bought and Sold

Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

Patrick Hyder Patterson

In Bought and Sold, Patrick Hyder Patterson reveals the extent to which socialist Yugoslavia embraced a consumer culture usually associated with capitalism and explores the role of consumerism in the federation's collapse into civil war in 1991.

Brabbling Women

Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia

Terri L. Snyder

Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To...

Bread and Democracy in Germany

Alexander Gerschenkron

A classic in its field, Bread and Democracy in Germany has been widely praised since its publication in 1943 for its account of German political and economic development.

Breaking the Ashes

The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka

Michele Ruth Gamburd

Gamburd explores the changing role of alcohol consumption in a Sri Lankan village the cultural context for social and antisocial alcohol consumption, insight into everyday and ceremonial drinking, and the illicit alcohol market.

Breaking the Mold

Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives, Second Edition

Lotte Bailyn

In Breaking the Mold Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them. Unless American business is willing to radically rethink some of its basic...

Breaking the Silence

Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity

Yasuko I. Takezawa

Breaking the Ties That Bound

The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

Barbara Alpern Engel

New perspectives on marital relations, domesticity, and intimate life in imperial Russia.

Breaking the Watch

The Meanings of Retirement in America

Joel S. Savishinsky

The topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books about how to plan financially for those years after careers end, but Breaking the Watch focuses on the many ways of creating a life, not just...

The Breakup 2.0

Disconnecting over New Media

Ilana Gershon

A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke...

Bringing Outsiders In

Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation

For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect—and are...

Brittle-Ductile Deformation Behaviour in the Middle Crust as Exemplified by Mullions (Former "Boudins") in the High-Ardenne Slate Belt

Ilse Kenis

Broadcasting Politics in Japan

NHK and Television News

Ellis S. Krauss

The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitimacy was seriously damaged or wholly remade by the postwar occupation. Between 1960 and 1990, however...

Broken Harmony

Shakespeare and the Politics of Music

Joseph M. Ortiz

Revising our understanding of music's relationship to language and literature in Renaissance England.

The Broken Village

Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras

Daniel R. Reichman

Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States.

Brokered Homeland

Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan

Joshua Hotaka Roth

Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are...

Brokering Empire

Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

E. Natalie Rothman

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier.

"Brown" in Baltimore

School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Howell S. Baum

In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the...

Bruc Ealles Well

Archaeological Essays Concerning the Peoples of North-West Europe in the First Millennium A.D

The essays in this book are about the peoples of North-West Europe in the first millenium AD. They were written by archaeologists from various countries who either reveal the results of their archaeological fieldwork or place the knowledge they have...

Brutal Reasoning

Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England

Erica Fudge

Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal...

Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia

Western Support for Grassroots Organizations

Sarah Henderson

Can foreign donors help build new democracies? In the 1990s, public and private organizations such as USAID and the Soros Foundation poured huge amounts of money and expertise into Russia to help build the dream of a vibrant democratic society. Sarah...

Building Diplomacy

The Architecture of American Embassies

Elizabeth Gill Lui

Embassy architecture and design ranges from the humble to the stately, from the practical to the grand. Building Diplomacy is the first comprehensive photographic portrait of the official face of American diplomacy around the world. Elizabeth Gill Lui...

Building More Effective Unions, Second Edition

Paul F. Clark

Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science, and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers a straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides an...

Bull's Birds of New York State

Whether you watch birds on the shores of Long Island, at the Bashakill Marsh, at Niagara Falls, or just at your backyard feeder, this volume will help you appreciate what our Empire State has to offer. It will give you a historical perspective, and it...

The Burdens of Perfection

On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Andrew H. Miller

A study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture, this book reads a wide range of essayists, poets, and novelists through the lens of ethics and philosophy of mind.

Bureau of Missing Persons

Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers

Roger J. Porter

Analyzing contemporary narratives of the secret lives led by writers' fathers.

The Burned-over District

The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850

Whitney R. Cross

During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the "burned-over...

Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers

Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone

Chris Coulter

During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in...

Business and the State in Developing Countries

Much of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states...

The Business of Benevolence

Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America

Andrea Tone

Tone offers a new interpretation of the importance of welfare capitalism in shaping its development.

The Business of Empire

United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America

Jason M. Colby

Colby provides new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean.

Business Planning for Digital Libraries

International Approaches

This book brings together international experience of business planning for digital libraries: the business case, planning processes, costs and benefits, practice and standards, and comparison with the traditional library.

By Force and Fear

Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe

Anne Jacobson Schutte

Schutte's innovative book about involuntary consignment to religious houses will be of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe, especially those who work on religion, the Church, family, and gender.

By Sword and Plow

France and the Conquest of Algeria

Jennifer E. Sessions

Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France.

C. S. Peirce

Categories to Constantinople—Proceedings of the International Symposium on Peirce, Leuven 1997

This book contains the contributions to an international symposium on Peirce. Notwithstanding that much of Peirce's philosophical writings still are to be published, his contributions to contemporary philosophy can be felt in almost every field.

Calculating Credibility

How Leaders Assess Military Threats

Daryl G. Press

Calculating Credibility examines—and ultimately rejects—a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility. Fear of diminished...

Callaloo or Tossed Salad?

East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad

Viranjini Munasinghe

Callaloo or Tossed Salad? is a historical and ethnographic case study of the politics of cultural struggle between two traditionally subordinate ancestral groups in Trinidad, those claiming African and Indian descent. Viranjini Munasinghe argues that...

Cambodian Culture since 1975

Homeland and Exile

Cambodian Literary Reader and Glossary

This Cambodian -English glossary contains over 8,800 words. It was originally published by Yale University Press in...

Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader

Franklin E. Huffman

Originally published by Yale University Press...

Camera Obscura

Of Ideology

Sarah Kofman

Marx, Freud, Nietzsche—in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book—at last available in an English translation—the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended...

Capital Flows and Financial Crises

Capital flows to the developing economies have long displayed a boom-and-bust pattern. Rarely has the cycle turned as abruptly as it did in the 1990s, however: surges in lending were followed by the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the sudden...

Capital Formation in Belgium, 1900–1995

Michelangelo van Meerten

Based on the analysis of more than 35,000 company balance sheets, annual series of gross private investment have been constructed for 15 different sectors in Belgium between 1900 and 1995. The resulting data clearly show that the level of gross...

Capital Moves

RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

Jefferson Cowie

Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American...

Capital Ungoverned

Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States

Michael Loriaux

Japan, South Korea, Mexico, France, and Spain once exercised significant control over the allocation of credit, and used that control to facilitate economic adjustment and industrial development. In the 1980s all that changed. Why and how these states...

Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States

Gerald M. Easter

Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of multiple big and small battles between state coercion and societal capital gave rise to postcommunism's variant political and economic institutions.

Capitalism without Democracy

The Private Sector in Contemporary China

Kellee S. Tsai

Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product...

Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery

Dorothee Bohle, Béla Greskovits

Dorothee Bohle and Bela Geskovits trace the fundamental decisions made by postsocialist countries that have joined the European Union since 2004 or are candidates to do so.

The Captive and the Gift

Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus

Bruce Grant

The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and...

The Captors' Narrative

Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier

William Henry Foster

The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.

The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

Éric Rebillard

In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the...

The Caregiver

A Life with Alzheimer's

Aaron Alterra

The Caregiver is an intelligent, beautifully reflective testimony to how family members turned caregivers become the ultimate advocates for their loved ones in the face of a disease with no cure.

Caribbean Middlebrow

Leisure Culture and the Middle Class

Belinda Edmondson

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island...

Caribbean New York

Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race

Philip Kasinitz

Since 1965, West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers, and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that...

The Caring Self

The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides

Clare L. Stacey

Stacey draws on observations of and interviews with aides working in Ohio and California to explore the physical and emotional labor associated with the care of others.

Carmina Viatoris

Tuomo Pekkanen

Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Volume 1

Because carnivores are at the top of the food chain, their status is an important indicator of the health of the world ecosystem. They are intensely interesting to zoologists and uniquely intriguing to the general public. Devoted primarily to...

The Carnivores

R.F. Ewer

"A masterful synthesis of anatomy, physiology, and behavior into a coherent exposition on the ways these highly specialized mammals make their living. . . . The book is a tremendous addition to the biologist's bookshelf and a 'must' for those who...

Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada

Laurel Hansen, John Klotz

The carpenter ant is one of the most common and destructive pests affecting homes and businesses. However, in natural areas, these ants also play an important role in forest ecology: they break down dead wood and are the principal food source of the...

Cars for Comrades

The Life of the Soviet Automobile

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic—and important—technologies and a novel approach to understanding the USSR.

Cartesian Women

Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime

Erica Harth

The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in...

Cartographies of Tsardom

The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Valerie Kivelson

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry...

A Case for Conservatism

John Kekes

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best...

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume I

Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty

The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? The authors of...

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume II

Domestic Policies for Markets, Production, and Environment

The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? The authors of...

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume III

Institutions and International Trade Policies

The food problems now facing the world-scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity-are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? The authors of...

Casebook European Family Law

Walter Pintens, Koen Vanwinckelen

First of all, this casebook is designed to assist students at the course of comparative family law as lectured at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. It also aims to contribute to the development of European and comparative family law, which has...

Casino Women

Courage in Unexpected Places

Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones

Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, and vice presidents, Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming.

Cassava Production and Marketing in Zaire

The Market of Kinshasa

Frans Goossens

This book, rooted in four years of intensive fieldwork, is about how cassava, produced by smallholders, mainly women, in the adjoining regions of Kinshasa reaches the urban consumers through a network of thousands of par-colis traders and retailers.

Castorland Journal

An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797

Simon Desjardins, Pierre Pharoux

The Castorland Journal is a diary, a travel narrative about early New York, a work of autobiography, and a narrative of a dramatic and complex period in American history. In 1792 Parisian businessmen and speculators established the New York Company...

Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom

A Russian Folktale

Laura Engelstein

Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on...

Catholic Converts

British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome

Patrick Allitt

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again...

Catholics and Contraception

An American History

Leslie Woodcock Tentler

As Americans rethought sex in the twentieth century, the Catholic Church's teachings on the divisive issue of contraception in marriage were in many ways central. In a fascinating history, Leslie Woodcock Tentler traces changing attitudes: from the...

Causes of War

Power and the Roots of Conflict

Stephen Van Evera

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated. Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate...

Celestina

An Annotated Edition of the First Dutch Translation (Antwerp, 1550)

The first edition of Celestina, the Spanish classic attributed to Fernando de Rojas, appeared in 1499 and was followed by an expanded version in 1502. The work underwent numerous reprintings during the sixteenth century and was soon translated into...

The Celestine Priory at Leuven

From Monastery to Library

On the corner of the Croylaan and the Celestijnenlaan stands a red wall. An introverted building which does not immediately reveal its past is hidden behind the wall. Nevertheless, it has an extremely prestigious history.

Central Asians under Russian Rule

A Study in Culture Change

Elizabeth E. Bacon

Originally published in 1966, this edition of Elizabeth E. Bacon's classic work of history and ethnography includes an extensive introduction by Michael M. J. Fischer that surveys developments in our knowledge of Central Asia in the fifteen years...

A Centre of Wonders

The Body in Early America

Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender...

A Century of British Painters

Richard Redgrave, Samuel Redgrave

In the 1860s, the brothers Richard and Samuel Redgrave sat down to write the book that was, in effect, the first popular account of British painting. With remarkable industry, they examined and sifted through the earlier studies and documentary...

A Certain Idea of Europe

Craig Parsons

The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture...

The Challenges of Native American Studies

Essays in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth American Indian Workshop

The essays gathered in this volume celebrate the founding of the American Indian Workshop (AIW) twenty-five years ago as a European forum for Native American studies. We present this collection of ongoing debates on the interlaced and interlocking...

Changing by Design

Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard

Deone Zell

How do corporations achieve change? In the first analytic book about Hewlett-Packard, Deone Zell also offers an ethnography of corporate redesign, documenting Hewlett-Packard's radical reorganization of both a manufacturing and a research...

Changing Enemies

The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany

Noel Gilroy Annan

"Changing Enemies is one of the last accounts we shall have by a witness to some of the high-level decision making during the war and its immediate aftermath. . . . Lord Annan's book valuably points to the contribution to German democracy that was...

The Changing Face of Medicine

Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America

Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs

The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring...

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the essays in this book develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.

Changing Politics in Japan

Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel

Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is...

Changing Prospects

The View from Mount Holyoke

Mt. Holyoke, which overlooks the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, has been a tourist destination and an inspiration for artists and writers for almost two centuries. The view from its summit attracted the Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole...

Changing the Course of AIDS

Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis

David Dickinson

Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS...

Channels of Power

The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq

Alexander Thompson

When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit approval of the Security Council. His father's administration, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through the United Nations and...

Chaos and Cosmos

On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History

Karen Lang

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and...

Chapters of Erie

Henry Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America—in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's successful effort to gain control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 and subsequent attempt to corner the American...

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Sandra Herbert

"Pleasure of imagination. . . . I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."—from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838 The early nineteenth century was a golden age for...

Charles Evans Hughes

Politics and Reform in New York, 1905–1910

Robert F. Wesser

When Charles Evans Hughes defeated William Randolph Hearst for the governorship of New York in 1906, the New York State Republican Party was split between the remnants of the rural, conservative Platt political machine in Albany and the forces loyal...

Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group

Second Revised Edition

The new edition documents the early times of our universities by means of accurate transcriptions and critical discussions of the Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Group's thirty-seven universities.

Chasing the American Dream

New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership

Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans? This book provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership policies and goals.

Chaste Passions

Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends

Karen A. Winstead

Virgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among the most venerated. The legends of virgin martyrs, retold in various ways through the...

Chaucer and the Universe of Learning

Ann W. Astell

The order of the fragments making up the Canterbury Tales and the structure of that collection have long been questioned. Ann W. Astell proposes that Chaucer intended the order that is preserved in what is known as the Ellesmere manuscript. In...

Chaucer's Fabliaux as Analogues

Erik Hertog

The presence of so many fabliaux in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is intriguing in its own right, given the fact that there are no real fabliaux in Middle English befor Chaucer. But these stories are also interesting as instances of a concept and...

The Chemical Weapons Taboo

Richard M. Price

Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any...

Chert Quarrying, Lithic Technology, and a Modern Human Burial at the Palaeolithic Site of Taramsa 1, Upper Egypt

Philip Van Peer, Pierre M. Vermeersch, Etienne Paulissen

This book presents the comprehensive report of the excavations of the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project at the site of Taramsa 1, near Qena in Upper Egypt. Human groups exploited chert cobbles at this locale throughout the Middle Stone Age.

The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism

Andrew Feffer

"In this superb book, Andrew Feffer has provided us with the best account we have of this school and its thought and has placed the work of the Chicago philosophers in a set of illuminating contexts. . . . An important addition to a growing and...

Children Bound to Labor

The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...

China 2020

How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade

Michael A. Santoro

Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal...

China Transformed

Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience

Bin Wong

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China. . . . It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."—Timothy Brook, Stanford...

China's Ascent

Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist, liberal, neorealist—on the significance of the many dimensions of China's regional and global influence and considers the likelihood of conflict or peaceful accommodation.

China's Longest Campaign

Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949–2005

Tyrene White

In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a...

China's Motor

A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism

Hill Gates

"Gates is a Marxist anthropologist with chutzpah. Best known for her compelling portrayal of contemporary working-class Taiwanese, she considerably broadens and deepens her analysis of China's socioeconomy in this work."—Choice This monumental work...

China's Quest for National Identity

How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and...

China's Regulatory State

A New Strategy for Globalization

Roselyn Hsueh

Investigating in depth how China implemented its economic policies between 1978 and 2010, Hsueh gives the most complete picture yet of China's regulatory state, particularly as it has shaped the telecommunications and textiles industries.

China's Water Warriors

Citizen Action and Policy Change

Andrew C. Mertha

Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven and decentralized, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, opposition, and open protest.

The Choice for Europe

Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht

Andrew Moravcsik

The creation of the European Community ranks among the most extraordinary achievements in modern world politics. Observers disagree, however, about the reasons why European governments have chosen to coordinate core economic policies and surrender...

Choose and Focus

Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century

Ulrike Schaede

Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of...

Choosing Character

Responsibility for Virtue and Vice

Jonathan A. Jacobs

Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answers in the affirmative. Moral character is shaped through voluntary habits, including the ways we...

Christian Democracy in the European Union (1945–1995)

Proceedings of the Leuven Colloquium, November 15–18, 1995

Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War

Steven Van Hecke, Emmanuel Gerard

The period since the end of the Cold War has been characterised by an acceleration in the European integration process, a changing pattern of political ideologies and the emergence of new political parties and issues. This book assesses the impact of...

Christian Masculinity

Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds.

Christianizing Death

The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe

Frederick S. Paxton

Christianizing Kinship

Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England

Joseph M. Lynch

When Christianity spread from its Mediterranean base into the Germanic and Celtic north, it initiated profound changes, particularly in kinship relations and sexual mores. Joseph H. Lynch traces the introduction and assimilation of the concept of...

Christopher Marlowe

A Renaissance Life

Constance Brown Kuriyama

Kuriyama's new biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and died violently more than four hundred years ago, yet persists in the romantic imagination even today.

Chronique du Toumet-Ortos

Looking Through the Lens of Joseph Van Oost, Missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921)

Ann Heylen

This book introduces Joseph Van Oost's three-volume missionary chronicle, covering the years 1915-1921 when stationed in Inner Mongolia. The author has provided a thematic reading of the chronicle, divided into seven separate chapters. Relevant...

The Churches

Developments in church-state relationships in Northern Europe between 1780 and 1920 had a substantial impact on reformist ideas, projects, and movements within the churches. To what extent did church and state mutually influence each other?

The Cinema of Globalization

A Guide to Films about the New Economic Order

Tom Zaniello

Tom Zaniello's fascinating new guide to films about globalization—its origins, its relationship with colonialism, neocolonialism, the growth of migratory labor, and movements to counter or protest its adverse effects—offers readers and viewers the...

Circles of Exclusion

The Politics of Health Care in Israel

Dani Filc

In its early years, Israel's dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of their age, income, or ability to pay. However, the system has shifted in recent decades, becoming increasingly privatized and...

Citizen Bachelors

Manhood and the Creation of the United States

John Gilbert Mccurdy

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger...

Citizen Employers

Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916

Jeffrey Haydu

The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionization and collective bargaining. However, the ideology deployed against labor's efforts to organize at the...

Citizen Indians

Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform

Lucy Maddox

By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing...

Citizen Science

Public Participation in Environmental Research

In Citizen Science, experts from a variety of disciplines share their experiences of creating and implementing successful citizen science projects, primarily those that use massive data sets gathered by citizen scientists.

Citizens of Somewhere Else

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James

Dan McCall

I am a citizen of somewhere else, proclaimed Nathaniel Hawthorne in his preface to The Scarlet Letter. In many ways, Henry James shared that citizenship. Intrigued by their resolute stance as outsiders, Dan McCall here reassesses these two...

Citizens without Shelter

Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion

Leonard C. Feldman

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman...

Citizenship across Borders

The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante

Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker

Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border.

City Bound

How States Stifle Urban Innovation

Gerald E. Frug, David J. Barron

Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron...

City of Green Benches

Growing Old in a New Downtown

Maria D. Vesperi

City of Strangers

Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

Andrew M. Gardner

In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Bahrain and the sponsorship system, the kafala, under which they labor and upon which they depend for continued employment.

The City on the Hill

A History of Leuven University, 1968–2005

Jo Tollebeek, Nys Liesbet

This book tells a story of contestation, but also of professionalization, of ever more specialized scholarship and its research triumph.

Civilizing the Margins

Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities

Southeast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate minority ethnic groups into the nation-state. The authors of Civilizing the Margins discuss the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities...

Claiming the City

Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul

Mary Lethert Wingerd

Are Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity only? How can two cities, spoken of so often in one breath, differ so greatly in their histories and characteristics? Claiming the City traces the contours of St. Paul's "civic identity" to show...

Claiming the Pen

Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South

Catherine Kerrison

In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes...

Clandestine Crossings

Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border

David Spener

Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as...

Clara Schumann

The Artist and the Woman

Nancy B. Reich

Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Clara Schumann has become a classic since its publication in 1985. For this new edition Nancy B. Reich has added several photographs and updated the text to include recent discoveries. She has also prepared a...

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World

From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests

Geoffrey E. Maurice Ste. Croix

Classrooms for Distance Teaching and Learning

A Blueprint

Interactive classrooms for distance teaching and learning are part of a new revolution in education. They allow teachers, students and institutions to be linked together in a powerful network so that information can be transmitted rapidly to where it...

The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Sixth Edition

James F. Clements

Birds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as the focus of birders' passionate quests. Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the discovery and description of several entirely new avian species and hundreds...

Cleopatra

Beyond the Myth

Michel Chauveau

Cleopatra: kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality. Cleopatra VII...

Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the Nineties

G. Lietaer, J. Rombauts, R. Van Balen

This voluminous book of 47 chapters offers a good cross section of what is burgeoing in the field of client-centered and experiential psychotherapy on the threshold of the nineties. it does not represent a single vision but gives the floor to the...

Climate Change in the Adirondacks

The Path to Sustainability

Jerry Jenkins

Although global in scale, the impact of climate change will be felt at the local level. Refocusing our attention away from the ice shelves disintegrating in the Antarctic, the flooding of Pacific islands, and carbon inventories measured in billions of...

Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany

A History of Psychiatric Practice

Eric J. Engstrom

The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom...

Clio the Romantic Muse

Historicizing the Faculties in Germany

Theodore Ziolkowski

"It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medicine, and all other fields of intellectual endeavor....

Close Reading New Media

Analyzing Electronic Literature

Jan Van Looy, Jan Baetens

Close Reading New Media is the first publication to apply the method of close analysis to new media. Since the early nineteen-nineties, electronic art and literature have continually gained importance in artistic and academic circles. Significant...

Coalitions across the Class Divide

Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements

Fred Rose

Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across...

Code Green

Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing

Dana Beth Weinberg

We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the...

Collaborations with the Past

Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media

Diana E. Henderson

"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and...

Collaborative One-Act Plays, 1901–1903 ("Cathleen ni Houlihan," "The Pot of Broth," "The Country of the Young," "Heads or Harps")

Manuscript Materials

W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory

From reviews of The Cornell Yeats series: "For students of Yeats the whole series is bound to become an essential reference source and a stimulus to important critical re-readings of Yeats's major works. In a wider context, the series will also...

Collected Studies on Francisco Suarez SJ (1548–1617)

John P. Doyle

John P. Doyle's groundbreaking studies of Francisco Suarez's imposing yet highly original system of scholasticism have helped to make the Jesuit's ideas tractable and accessible. This volume collects Doyle's most important articles on the...

Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

Susan Crane

This provocative book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in Germany. Susan A. Crane argues that the ever-more-elaborate preservation of the historical may actually reduce the likelihood that history can be...

Collective Action in East Asia

How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy

Gregory W. Noble

As one Asian economic crisis follows another, sending shock waves through the global market, questions about the making and conduct of industrial policy in the East take on a special urgency. Observers are sharply divided as to whether the ubiquitous...

Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector

Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness...

Collective Inventions

Surrealism in Belgium

Lieven Gevaert Series 5 Surrealism's French manifestations are best known, but Belgium also had a complex history of Surrealist activity in the early twentieth century, one as radical and visionary as that in France. A number of groups affiliated...

Colonial Intimacies

Indian Marriage in Early New England

Ann Marie Plane

In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely...

Colonial Odysseys

Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel

David Adams

This elegantly written and powerfully argued book focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds.

The Colonial Unconscious

Race and Culture in Interwar France

Elizabeth Ezra

France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more...

Colonialism and Cold War

The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945–49

Robert J. McMahon

McMahon looks closely at one area where American diplomacy played an important role in the end of the European imperial order—Indonesia—placing America's later policy in Indochina, in historical context.

The Colony of New Netherland

A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America

Jaap Jacobs

The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley...

Color Monitors

The Black Face of Technology in America

Martin Kevorkian

"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when...

Coming to Terms

The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film

Seymour Chatman

A Commentary on Plutarch's "De latenter vivendo"

Geert Roskam

In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition.

A Common Stage

Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

Carol Symes

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The...

Communication, Life, Mega-evolution

Decrypting Life's Nature

A. De Loof

Communities of Memory

On Witness, Identity, and Justice

James Booth

"Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to justify great crimes, and yet it is central to the pursuit of justice. In these and more everyday ways, we live...

Communities of the Converted

Ukrainians and Global Evangelism

Catherine Wanner

After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted...

Communities without Borders

Images and Voices from the World of Migration

David Bacon

When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States, I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back, saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and...

Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village

Farm Tenancy Conciliation (1924–1938)

Dimitri Vanoverbeke

In fact, this is the first book-length study on the farm tenancy conciliation procedure and analysis of the Japanese government's wish to maintain tradition at al cost in the farmer community.

A Community of Europeans?

Transnational Identities and Public Spheres

Thomas Risse

In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term...

A Companion to Justinian's "Institutes"

The Corpus Iuris Civilis, a distillation of the entire body of Roman law, was directed by the Emperor Justinian and published in a.d. 533. The Institutes, the briefest of the four works that make up the Corpus, is considered to be the cradle of Roman...

Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part I

History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature, Second Edition

Jozef Ijsewijn

Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 5 In 1977 the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared. It evidently filled a long-felt lacuna, and was soon out of print. The first part of the second entirely rewritten edition came out in...

Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part II

Literary, Linguistic, Philological and Editorial Questions

Jozef Ijsewijn, Dirk Sacré

Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 14 In 1977 the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared. It evidently filled a long-felt lacuna, and was soon out of print. The first part of the second entirely rewritten edition came out in...

A Company of One

Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment

Carrie M. Lane

Surveying the new culture of corporate employment and unemployment.

The Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations

The distinguished contributors to this volume discuss the global marketplace; labor movements and industrial restructuring; international trends in work organization in the auto industry; linkages between economic development strategies, industrial...

The Complexities of Care

Nursing Reconsidered

"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the...

A Compulsion for Antiquity

Freud and the Ancient World

Richard H. Armstrong

"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in...

Comrades and Chicken Ranchers

The Story of a California Jewish Community

Kenneth L. Kann

Comrades at Odds

The United States and India, 1947–1964

Andrew Jon Rotter

Comrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective—that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing...

The Concept of Heresy in the Middle Ages (11th–13th C.)

Proceedings of the International Conference, Louvain, May 13–16, 1973

The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy

"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth-century Europe, in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by...

The Concept of Modernism

Astradur Eysteinsson

The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product...

The Concept of Russia

Patterns for Political Development in the Russian Federation

The Concept of Style

A ground-breaking attempt at a prolegomenon to the study of style, this collection brings together eleven essays by distinguished philosophers, literary theorists, art historians, and musicologists, all addressing the role played by style in the arts...

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

The One and the Many

Erik Hornung

Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia

Robert Heine-Geldern

A study of "the ideological foundations" of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of...

A Concordance to "Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844"

Charles Darwin

A Concordance to the Complete Poems of E. E. Cummings

e. e. cummings

A Concordance to the Plays of W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

A Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift

Condemned to Repeat?

The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

Fiona Terry

Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to...

Condensed Capitalism

Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century

Daniel Sidorick

The first in-depth history of the Campbell Soup Company and its workers, this book is also a broader exploration of strategies used by companies to keep costs down when they elect not to relocate: lean production, flexible labor sourcing, and untiunionism

Conflict of Interests

Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954–1968

Alan Draper

Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia

This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contributors examine internal displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East...

Conflicting Words

The Peace Treaty of Münster (1648) and the Political Culture of the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Monarchy

Laura Manzano Baena

Portraying the political culture of both the Spain and the United Provinces, Conflicting Words analyses the views held in both territories concerning the points that were discussed in pamphlets and treatises published during the peace negotiations.

The Conquest of a Continent

Siberia and the Russians

Bruce Lincoln

"In The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia's role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the frontier in the development of the United States. . . . It is a big, panoramic book, in keeping with the...

Consent

Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism

Pamela Susan Haag

Whom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the notion of consent—so crucial for law and politics today—emerge? In this brilliantly insightful work, Pamela Susan Haag traces the evolution of public...

Consorting with Saints

Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France

Megan McLaughlin

In this book, Megan McLaughlin explores the social and cultural significance of prayer for the dead in the West Frankish realm from the late eighth century through the end of the eleventh century. She argues that the primary function of funerary and...

Constantin Meunier

A Dialogue with Allan Sekula

Hilde Van Gelder

This book is the outcome of a collaborative research project between LGC, the Leuven Museumsite and STUK Arts Centre. Constantin Meunier (1831–1905) was a Belgian painter and sculptor. On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Constantin...

The Constitution of Selves

Marya Schechtman

An amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The...

Constitutional Originalism

A Debate

Robert W. Bennett, Lawrence B. Solum

Elucidating the debate between constitutional originalism and the "living constitution" approach.

Constructing Grievance

Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics

Elise Giuliano

The relationship between ethnicity and nationalism in the republics of the Russian Federation.

Constructing the International Economy

Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what...

Consumer Capitalism

Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany

Gunnar Trumbull

"The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') dictates each consumer decision, has today virtually disappeared. Consumers have become the focus of intensive economic policymaking...

Consumer Society in American History

A Reader

This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.

Consuming Visions

Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine

Suzanne K. Kaufman

Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of...

The Consumption of Justice

Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

Daniel Lord Smail

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from...

Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector

Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations

In Contemporary Issues in Industrial Relations, a large and diverse group of contributors provides a new thematic treatment of key employment relations issues. These topics include: collective bargaining, worker disability, the return to work...

Contending with Stalinism

Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s

Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by...

Contested Ground

Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood

John Emmius Davis

The Contested Parterre

Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791

Jeffrey S. Ravel

In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to...

Contested Rituals

Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843–1933

Robin Judd

In Contested Rituals, Robin Judd shows that circumcision and kosher butchering became focal points of political struggle among the German state, its municipal governments, Jews, and Gentiles. In 1843, some German-Jewish fathers refused to circumcise...

Contested Tongues

Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine

Laada Bilaniuk

During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual...

Contingent Work

American Employment Relations in Transition

The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such...

The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought

John Koethe

Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical work is informed throughout by a particular broad theme: that the semantic and mentalistic attributes of language and human life are shown by verbal and nonverbal conduct, but that they resist incorporation into the...

Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America

Janet Farrell Brodie

Contradiction in Motion

Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value

Songsuk Susan Hahn

"Everything is contradictory," Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian studies, Songsuk Susan Hahn tackles the status of contradiction in Hegel's thought. Properly...

Contradictory Subjects

Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

George Mariscal

This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal...

Contributions to the Geology of Belgium and Northwest Europe

Proceedings of the First Geologica Belgica International Meeting

Contributions to the Mesolithic in Europe

Papers Presented at the Fourth International Symposium "The Mesolithic in Europe," Leuven 1990

P. Vermeersch, P. Van Peer

Conventional Deterrence

John J. Mearsheimer

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

Mita Choudhury

Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789...

Converging Divergences

Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems

Harry C. Katz, Owen Darbishire

Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen...

Conversing with Angels and Ancients

Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland

Joseph Falaky Nagy

How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from...

Cooperation among Nations

Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade

Joseph Grieco

Cooperation under Fire

Anglo-German Restraint during World War II

Jeffrey W. Legro

Coping with Social Change

Life Strategies of Workers in Poland's New Capitalism

Adam Mrozowicki

Coping with Social Change is essential not only for readers interested in postsocialism and working-class theory, but also for anybody inclined to think critically about workers' empowerment in late capitalist societies.

Copper Crucible

How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America, Second Edition

Jonathan D. Rosenblum

A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1995" "Jonathan D. Rosenblum's history of this one strike reveals to us, in chapter and verse, the barbaric use of power by the corporate big boys. It is a stunning metaphor for labor's trouble...

The Copywrights

Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination

Paul K. Saint-Amour

They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the...

Cornell

Glorious to View

Carol Kammen

The steep hills and dramatic gorges of Ithaca were the setting for a revolution in American education when, in the 1860s, a self-made man sought "to do the most good . . . to the poor and to posterity." Ezra Cornell's philanthropy, enhanced with funds...

Cornell '69

Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University

Donald Alexander Downs

In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters...

Cornell University

Founders and the Founding

Carl L. Becker

This succinct and engaging history of the founding of Cornell University traces the institution's origins within the educational climate of mid-nineteenth-century America. Originally delivered as six lectures celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary...

Corollaries on Place and Time

Simplicius

Corporate Warriors

The Rise of Privatized Military Industry

P.W. Singer

Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that...

Corporate Wasteland

The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization

Steven High, David W. Lewis

Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past—the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures—has for...

Corruption and Market in Contemporary China

Yan Sun

Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those...