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Cornell University Press: Recent submissions
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Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union
(Cornell University Press, 2021)Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU), focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU Law, why, and how that affects the governance in the EU and beyond. In ... -
With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
(Cornell University Press, 2012)When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers’ rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. ... -
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
(Cornell University Press, 1992)Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of ‘man’ as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist ... -
Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful
(Cornell University Press, 2015)In 1992, Dr. Susan C. Ball began her medical career taking care of patients with HIV in the Center for Special Studies, a designated AIDS care center at a large academic medical center in New York City. Her unsentimental ... -
War and Genocide in South Sudan
(Cornell University Press, 2021)Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clémence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism—extreme ethnic group entitlement—that ... -
The Scholar as Human: Research and Teaching for Public Impact
(Cornell University Press, 2020)The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and ... -
The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The ... -
The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
(Cornell University Press, 2016)There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and ... -
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. ... -
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
(Cornell University Press, 2021)By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is ...
