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Cornell Catalogues
Cornell Featured Titles
Everyday War
The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine
15 February 2023
Robots Won't Save Japan
An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation
15 February 2023
The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet
15 January 2023
The Plastic Turn
15 November 2022
Fragile Resonance
Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England
15 October 2022
The Ink in the Grooves
Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll
15 October 2022
Trying to Make It
The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade
15 August 2022
Staging Democracy
Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond
15 July 2022
Western Self-Contempt
Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations
15 May 2022
Uncertainty by Design
Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology
15 April 2022
Police, Provocation, Politics
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul
15 March 2022
Barack Obama
Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive
15 March 2022
The United States of Anonymous
How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
15 March 2022
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
15 March 2022
Fluid Russia
Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era
15 December 2021
Laboratory of Socialist Development
Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
15 November 2021
Trans Historical
Gender Plurality before the Modern
15 November 2021
Millennial Feminism at Work
Bridging Theory and Practice
15 November 2021
Singing Like Germans
Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
15 October 2021
England's Cross of Gold
Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs
15 September 2021
Can You Beat Churchill?
Teaching History through Simulations
15 June 2021
The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty
Political Imagination beyond the State
15 June 2021
Republicanism, Communism, Islam
Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
15 May 2021
Possessed
A Cultural History of Hoarding
15 May 2021
Cornell Featured Series
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
General Editor: David J. Silbey, Acquiring Editor: Bethany Wasik
Focusing on the intersection of battlefield, social, and cultural history, books in this series bring the strengths of each subfield to bear on the study of military history. We publish military history that draws on the continuing vitality of the field, while incorporating the best methods and analyses from the entire historical discipline. The series embeds our understanding of wars and the militaries within the societies and cultures that fought them and built them.
Flying Camelot
The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
Romania's Holy War
Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust
The Virtuous Wehrmacht
Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
Prevail until the Bitter End
Germans in the Waning Years of World War II
Dragonslayer
The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
Drunk on Genocide
Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
Comrades Betrayed
Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler
The Stuff of Soldiers
A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects
The Sexual Economy of War
Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Series Editor: Christine D. Worobec, Acquiring Editor: Amy Farranto
The NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, established in 1999, publishes important books in the areas of history and literature, spanning from the Middle Ages to the Post-Soviet era.
Fluid Russia
Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era
Disenchanted Wanderer
The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
All Future Plunges to the Past
James Joyce in Russian Literature
The Carpathians
Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine
Love for Sale
Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia
Solzhenitsyn
The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West
Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel
From Victory to Peace
Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon
On Russian Soil
Myth and Materiality
Russian Conservatism
The Tsar's Happy Occasion
Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745
Women of the Catacombs
Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900
A Sourcebook
God, Tsar, and People
The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia
Fyodor Dostoevsky—The Gathering Storm (1846–1847)
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
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