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    • Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand 

      Sharp, Lauriston; Hanks, Lucien M. (Cornell University Press, 1978)
      Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the ...

    • Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy 

      Kefeli, Agnes Nilufer (Cornell University Press, 2014)
      In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire’s Middle Volga region (today’s Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the ...

    • Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque 

      Newman, Jane O. (Cornell University Press, 2011)
      In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in ...

    • Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 

      Smith, Jill Suzanne (Cornell University Press, 2014)
      During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an ...

    • Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma 

      Chang, Wen-Chin (Cornell University Press, 2014)
      The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic ...

    • Bibliography of Secondary Sources for VICTORY'S SHADOW: CONQUEST AND GOVERNANCE IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA 

      Barton, Thomas W. (Cornell University Press, 2019-06-15)
      Bibliography of secondary sources for Victory's Shadow by Thomas W. Barton, which offers a sweeping account of the capture and long-term integration of Muslim-ruled territories by an ascendant Christian regime in medieval ...

    • Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics 

      Kelanic, Rosemary A. (Cornell University Press, 2020)
      Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers ...

    • Blood Ties: Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908 

      Yosmaoglu, Ipek (Cornell University Press, 2013)
      The region that is today the Republic of Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To ...

    • Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature 

      Higonnet, Margaret R. (Cornell University Press, 1994)
      The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published ...

    • Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay 

      Brantlinger, Patrick (Cornell University Press, 1984)
      Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass ...

    • Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830–1871 

      Hohendahl, Peter Uwe (Cornell University Press, 1989)
      Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary ...

    • By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia 

      Kollmann, Nancy Shields (Cornell University Press, 1999)
      In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized ...

    • Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis 

      Dickinson, David (Cornell University Press, 2009)
      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 ...

    • Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science 

      Hayles, N. Katherine (Cornell University Press, 1990)
      N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen ...

    • Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde 

      Wetherbee, Winthrop (Cornell University Press, 1984)
      In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the ...

    • Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York 

      Chen, Hsiang-Shui (Cornell University Press, 1992)
      By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. ...

    • Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe 

      Purdy, Daniel Leonhard (Cornell University Press, 2021-09-15)
      Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of ...

    • Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan 

      Gates, Hill (Cornell University Press, 1987)
      Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of ...

    • City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain 

      Gardner, Andrew M. (Cornell University Press, 2010)
      In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an ...

    • Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa 

      Castle, Terry (Cornell University Press, 1982)
      As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only ...