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As the Cold War wound down in the late '80s, what would replace anticommunism as the governing logic of US foreign policy was far from settled. Our book of the week traces how new threats converged into the concept of "rogue states."
By Matthew Frakes on @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Join Wah Guan Lim, author of DENATIONALIZING IDENTITIES for a talk on The Transnational Impact on Identity Formation in Theatre Across the Chinese-Speaking World.
🗓️ March 10, 2026
🔗Info: https://ow.ly/jSLC50Yl2XH
Gavin Healy, A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026
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With a foreword by Russell Shorto, FIRE AND FREEDOM, edited by Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander and Robert Chiles, shows that events off the battlefield were just as meaningful as the fighting itself. #EarlyAmerica #History
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LYRIC POETRY AS STATE CRITICISM IN MODERN JAPAN explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship, as Marianne Tarcov shows how lyric form enabled poets to veil their critique in plain sight. #Poetry
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Monday, 3/9, @ronajohnson.bsky.social joins the CPH to discuss his new book, Entangled Alliances
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The author copies of the paperback of my book just arrived! Available now @cornellupress.bsky.social and others: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Behold, #SkyStorians, the fantastic cover for the fantastic upcoming addition to the @cornellupress.bsky.social Histories and Cultures of Tourism series - "A Guide to Mao's China" by the fantastic Gavin Healy. Intrigued? Great news! You can preorder here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
CRITICAL FAILURES revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of #Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. Miyabi Goto argues that this gap between theory and practice—hihyō's failure—opened unexpected pathways for what critical reading could be.
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ALWAYS UNDER SIEGE presents a singular testament of resilience, despair, and stubborn creative intellect, as Irina Paperno shows what it means to live and to think in a state of siege. #History #Totalitarianism
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We are endlessly grateful to our fantastic editor @bethanywasik.bsky.social as well as the rest of the team at @cornellupress.bsky.social 💓
We are so proud of the whole volume, including contributions from Cedric Cotter, @mariacullen.bsky.social, Lewis Defrates, Bronwen Everill...
BEYOND THE ELITE, edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, focuses on the everyday social #history of Jews in #medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. #JewishStudies
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Amazing book talk with Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker, authors of FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR, at the ILR Global Labor and Work Colloquium. 📚👏
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After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026!
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In SERVANTS OF GOD, SLAVES OF THE CHURCH, Lisa Kaaren Bailey uncovers the surprising intimacy between sacred devotion and coerced labor in early medieval #Europe. #Medieval #History #Religion
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In ROGUE STATES, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. #USHistory #NationalSecurity
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In THE FILTHIEST VILLAGE IN EUROPE, Andrew Demshuk traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog," at the brink of gaping coal pits, became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology. #History #Environment
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Today's featured title:
"Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000," by Martha Rampton, Cornell University Press, 2026
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@cornellupress.bsky.social has been shaping scholarship since 1869.
The Cornell University Press Publisher Collection offers access to nearly 150 new titles in 2026 & more than 3,700 backlist works, including 300+ open access books available to read now.
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Such fun! Thanks to the @baylor.bsky.social community who joined the conversation about my @cornellupress.bsky.social book *Entangled Alliances*.📚
“Entangled Alliances (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
is the only history of the American Revolution that begins with enslaved African communities in Saint-Domingue [later Haiti].” 📚🇺🇸🇭🇹
MOBILIZING MAINSTREAM ISLAM by Saskia Schäfer explores how Indonesia’s religious and #political elites constructed a homogenized Islam after Suharto, marginalizing groups such as Ahmadiyya, Muslims, and LGBTQI-identifying people through securitization and delegitimization.
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Great news! Cornell University's Careers Beyond Academia and
@cornellupress.bsky.social are teaming up again to provide paid scholarly summer publishing/learning opportunities for *mid-career humanities Cornell grad students*.
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Our conversation about my @cornellupress.bsky.social book
was a moment of pure professional joy! 📚🎙️🙏🏾
Join Wah Guan Lim, author of DENATIONALIZING IDENTITIES for a talk on The Transnational Impact on Identity Formation in Theatre Across the Chinese-Speaking World.
🗓️ March 10, 2026
🔗Info: https://ow.ly/jus050Yl2RV
Making Music Together: Interracial Alliances and the Politics of Solidarity with Elissa Sampson, co-editor of FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR #SaveTheDate
🗓️ Sunday, May 3, 2026 / 2pm
📍56 E 1st St, New York, NY
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THE AFTERLIFE OF UT0PIA by Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany's first planned #socialist city, from a #ColdWar showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. #Urban #Architecture
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/LUj050XJsmj
Fun Fact: You can find more praise, info, and - wait, great news, team - an *OA* edition of her electric blue book from the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (2/2)
Forthcoming title shows how queer lives, in Belfast, before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling. Overcoming a history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia
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