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In "I Love Learning; I Hate School," Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn contrasted with the way conventional education works, and...

Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and remains a key mechanism of contemporary US foreign relations. In this book, David A. Lake examines when and why it is pursued over...

Indonesia- April 2024Author: Eric Tagliacozzo, Joshua BarkerPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Aug 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This book investigates the public as a crucial - yet often overlooked - actor in international law compared to the conventional focus on elites. Integrating insights across numerous fields and...

Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to a popular topic: art forgery. Based on original published sources as well as current and past scholarship, Italian Forgers focuses not on art forgery...

Jew Boy--"Contents"--"Tales of Childhood" -- "The Audition" -- "The Purple Jew" -- "Asthma" -- "The Death of JFK" -- "Dry Goods" -- "Scum" -- "Bar Mitzvah" -- "Scars" -- "We'll Give You Blood" --...

These writings represent the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within an Atlantic history paradigm. By departing from a national approach, this volume...

Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain...

A comprehensive overview of policing and crime in French Algeria, including the organization, functioning, and challenges encountered by officers, who waged a constant struggle against escalating...

Why do some religious minorities, lacking any significant power and presenting no imminent threat, become targets of violent attacks? This book is a comparative-historical study of mass atrocities...

This book examines the role of note-taking in ancient education as a pedagogical method, by taking readers on a stimulating analysis of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their...

Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American...

In Misrecognitions, Ben Parker mounts a defense of novelistic recognition scenes based on Karl Marx's account of commodity fetishism and reification. The novel as a form, Parker argues, is structured...

This book is about Presbyterian missionaries, other Americans with ideals, and their Iranian partners during the twentieth century. It analyzes the various ways in which their respective missions...

Missionary Diplomacy traces the connections between the Protestant foreign mission movement and the US State Department over the nineteenth century, with particular attention paid to the development...

In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions...

Study of animal metaphor in particular and the literary representation of animals more generally in the Victorian and modernist periods--Author: Rasheed TazudeenPublisher: Cornell University...

In the wake of the Muslim capture of Acre in 1291, literary works began to circulate around Europe that fantasized not only about the Christian European reconquest of the Holy Land but the wholesale...

This book examines Stalinist sculptural and architectural monuments, which were tasked with 'immortalizing the memory' of the era, for the edification of future generations. The book analyzes how...

A consistent factor throughout New York State's dynamic history has been the complex interactions between groups with divergent worldviews and conflicting ambitions. Such scenarios have proven at...

New York History, Volume 105, Number 1 : Summer 2024Author: Robert Chiles, New York State Historian Devin Lander, Chief Curator Jennifer Lemak, Aaron NoblePublisher: Cornell University...

In this book, David Lehman, the longtime series editor of the Best American Poetry, offers a masterclass in writing in form and collaborative composition. An inspired compilation of his weekly column...

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century analyzes the emergence and consolidation of dynamic transnational agrarian social movements that seek to remake rural society and the world's food and...

People's Diplomacy analyzes the reconstruction of United States-China relations during the Cold War from the perspective of Americans and Chinese who promoted people-to-people exchanges in the...

This book depicts the lives of active construction workers in Tokyo's vanishing day-laborer district, San'ya. It asks how one group of men secured sociality and dignity under abject conditions of...

Philosophy at the Gymnasium sets Greek moral philosophy in its original context-Athenian gyms-to understand how training for the body sparked training for the mind. It explores Socratic dialogue set...

An account of the central tradition in the history of philosophy, Platonism, along with the class of philosophical positions collectively known as Naturalism and the 'anti-Platonism' of Naturalism...

Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 1968Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0801490715ISBN-13: 9780801490712

This book traces a cultural history of hoarding to expose the psychic, economic, epistemological, and ecological conditions of modernityAuthor: Rebecca R. FalkoffPublisher: Cornell University...