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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · yesterday

SCATTERED STEEL traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trade Center. Scattered Steel asks urgent questions: What does it mean to sanctify matter? And what happens when the symbols of tragedy become part of everyday landscapes? Learn more here: https://ow.ly/zKwx50Z2uWO

Scattered Steel by Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

How do we remember a seering event that left so little behind?Scattered Steel traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trade Center. When the Towers fell on September 11,...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 2d ago

INDONESIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES explores Indonesia’s diverse linguistic landscape, from documentation and analysis to language vitality in multilingual contexts. Learn more: https://ow.ly/eP4o50YZA2I #Indonesia #Linguistics #LanguageStudies #Multilingualism #Books

Indonesian Languages and Linguistics by edited by Maya R. Abtahian, Abigail C. Cohn, Thomas J. Conners, J. Joseph Errington, and Yanti | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Indonesian Languages and Literatures provides both an overview and in-depth studies of the multifaceted linguistic landscape of Indonesia as it informs the study of complex multilingual societies. Indonesia...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4d ago

TEXTUAL FORCES examines how political texts were forces of war, state-building, and inner- and inter-regime communication in early medieval China. Goh offers a new framework for understanding the significance of the political prose of early medieval China. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/uwpq50Z2rlU

Textual Forces by Meow Hui Goh | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Textual Forces examines how political texts were forces of war, state-building, and inner- and inter-regime communication in early medieval China. Meow Hui Goh shows that these texts acted as vectors:...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 5d ago

BLUE SEA, BLACK GOLD, RED BANNER by Tom Trier tells the story of the historical connections between two geographically distant and culturally distinct regions on the edges of #Europe: #Scandinavia and the South #Caucasus. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/mggb50YrFKX

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 6d ago

HERITAGE FORENSICS by Lori Khatchadourian, Adam T. Smith, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. #Culture #Archaeology #Caucasus Learn more here: https://ow.ly/IwuH50YrFMW

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last wk.

THE END OF VIOLENCE by Hugh McDonnell focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the #French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardière abruptly left his command in Algeria. #ColdWar #Military Learn more here: https://ow.ly/gLWx50YrFGQ

The End of Violence by Hugh McDonnell | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardière abruptly left his...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last wk.

THE LIES THAT BIND US by Ahsan I. Butt explores how history textbooks become battlegrounds of national belonging, borders, and memory. #Education #Nationalism #History #Politics Learn more here: https://ow.ly/jISg50YrFQ1

The Lies That Bind Us by Ahsan I. Butt | Paperback | Cornell University Press

In The Lies That Bind Us, Ahsan I. Butt explores how history textbooks become battlegrounds of national belonging, borders, and memory. History education has always sparked fierce debate. Disagreements...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last wk.

NEAR AND DESIRED THINGS by Marisa Karyl Franz reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making. #Museum #Anthropology #Russia Learn more here: https://ow.ly/T12x50YrFCM

Near and Desired Things by Marisa Karyl Franz | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last wk.

REDS, REVOLUTIONS, AND REBELLIONS by Benjamin R. Young investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements. #ColdWar #History #Global Learn more here: https://ow.ly/QM8O50YrFS4

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions by Benjamin R. Young | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 2w ago

AFTER BELSEN by Robert Thompson reveals the deeply personal ways in which #British and American #Christians responded to and were affected by survivors of the Holocaust in the years immediately following the liberation of concentration camps. #JewishHistory https://ow.ly/3J2Z50YrFzP

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 2w ago

TOUCHING LITERATURE, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LIMIT by Irving Goh shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork itself. https://ow.ly/5nW250YrFx1

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit by Irving Goh | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE UNORTHODOX offers a new history of #Ukraine and #Russia's Protestant communities, from the religious resurgence of World War II through four decades of the #ColdWar. Miriam Dobson examines why they provoked such interest for the communist regime. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/cACi50YrFtq

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 3w ago

While interconnections between #humanitarian actors and #military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts today, MILITARY HUMANITARIANISM, edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor, challenges the idea that interactions are a recent phenomenon. Buy here: https://ow.ly/HbfZ50Yr58S

Military Humanitarianism by edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor | Paperback | Cornell University Press

While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 3w ago

In CIRCULATING SUBJECTS, Philippa Hetherington investigates migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which #Russian #feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize as “white slavery.” Buy here: https://ow.ly/Gstg50Yr58n

Circulating Subjects by Philippa Hetherington. edited by Alessandro Iandolo and Gregory Afinogenov | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 3w ago

In FINDING TREBLINKA, Caroline Sturdy Colls challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. #HolocaustHistory #WorldWarII #Research Learn more here: https://ow.ly/q54w50Yr553

Finding Treblinka by Caroline Sturdy Colls | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Finding Treblinka challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. Even though Nazis demolished...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 3w ago

REDS, REVOLUTIONS, AND REBELLIONS by Benjamin R. Young investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements. #ColdWar #History #Global Learn more here: https://ow.ly/QM8O50YrFS4

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions by Benjamin R. Young | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE LIES THAT BIND US by Ahsan I. Butt explores how history textbooks become battlegrounds of national belonging, borders, and memory. #Education #Nationalism #History #Politics Learn more here: https://ow.ly/jISg50YrFQ1

The Lies That Bind Us by Ahsan I. Butt | Paperback | Cornell University Press

In The Lies That Bind Us, Ahsan I. Butt explores how history textbooks become battlegrounds of national belonging, borders, and memory. History education has always sparked fierce debate. Disagreements...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4w ago

HERITAGE FORENSICS by Lori Khatchadourian, Adam T. Smith, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. #Culture #Archaeology #Caucasus Learn more here: https://ow.ly/IwuH50YrFMW

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4w ago

BLUE SEA, BLACK GOLD, RED BANNER by Tom Trier tells the story of the historical connections between two geographically distant and culturally distinct regions on the edges of #Europe: #Scandinavia and the South #Caucasus. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/mggb50YrFKX

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4w ago

THE END OF VIOLENCE by Hugh McDonnell focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the #French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardière abruptly left his command in Algeria. #ColdWar #Military Learn more here: https://ow.ly/gLWx50YrFGQ

The End of Violence by Hugh McDonnell | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardière abruptly left his...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEAR AND DESIRED THINGS by Marisa Karyl Franz reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making. #Museum #Anthropology #Russia Learn more here: https://ow.ly/T12x50YrFCM

Near and Desired Things by Marisa Karyl Franz | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 4w ago

AFTER BELSEN by Robert Thompson reveals the deeply personal ways in which #British and American #Christians responded to and were affected by survivors of the Holocaust in the years immediately following the liberation of concentration camps. #JewishHistory https://ow.ly/3J2Z50YrFzP

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

TOUCHING LITERATURE, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LIMIT by Irving Goh shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork itself. https://ow.ly/5nW250YrFx1

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit by Irving Goh | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

THE UNORTHODOX offers a new history of #Ukraine and #Russia's Protestant communities, from the religious resurgence of World War II through four decades of the #ColdWar. Miriam Dobson examines why they provoked such interest for the communist regime. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/cACi50YrFtq

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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

While interconnections between #humanitarian actors and #military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts today, MILITARY HUMANITARIANISM, edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor, challenges the idea that interactions are a recent phenomenon. Buy here: https://ow.ly/HbfZ50Yr58S

Military Humanitarianism by edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor | Paperback | Cornell University Press

While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

In CIRCULATING SUBJECTS, Philippa Hetherington investigates migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which #Russian #feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize as “white slavery.” Buy here: https://ow.ly/Gstg50Yr58n

Circulating Subjects by Philippa Hetherington. edited by Alessandro Iandolo and Gregory Afinogenov | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

In FINDING TREBLINKA, Caroline Sturdy Colls challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. #HolocaustHistory #WorldWarII #Research Learn more here: https://ow.ly/q54w50Yr553

Finding Treblinka by Caroline Sturdy Colls | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Finding Treblinka challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. Even though Nazis demolished...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

THE CHALLENGE OF TRADITION by Peter Uwe Hohendahl emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno's critique of tradition as incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections. #Theory Learn more here: https://ow.ly/UhCz50YkFjG

The Challenge of Tradition by Peter Uwe Hohendahl. edited by Kizer S. Walker | Paperback | Cornell University Press

The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

TREE-BECOMING by Shannon Kelley explores how Shakespeare uses his characters' identification with cypress, #balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as #metaphors to express emotional distress. #Shakespeare Learn more here: https://ow.ly/Bk6850YkyyG

Tree-Becoming by Shannon Kelley | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express...

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · last mo.

VIOLENCE IN THE SHADOWS by Jonathan Kishen Gamu challenges the supposedly #progressive nature of corporate social responsibility (#CSR) as a catalyst for more accountable and humane forms of corporate #capitalism. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/RaIQ50Ykyoq

Violence in the Shadows by Jonathan Kishen Gamu | Paperback | Cornell University Press

In Violence in the Shadows, Jonathan Kishen Gamu challenges the supposedly progressive nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a catalyst for more accountable and humane forms of corporate...

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