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Cornell University Press

The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, making it the first university publishing enterprise in the United States, but was inactive from 1884 to 1930.[2][3]

Parent company

Cornell University

1869 (1869)

United States

Ithaca, New York

Longleaf Services[1]

Books

ILR Press

cornellpress.cornell.edu

The press was established in the College of the Mechanic Arts (as mechanical engineering was called in the 19th century) because engineers knew more about running steam-powered printing presses than literature professors.[4] Since its inception,[2] The press has offered work-study financial aid: students with previous training in the printing trades were paid for typesetting and running the presses that printed textbooks, pamphlets, a weekly student journal, and official university publications.[5]


Today, the press is one of the country's largest university presses.[6] It produces approximately 150 nonfiction titles each year in various disciplines, including anthropology, Asian studies, biological sciences, classics, history, industrial relations, literary criticism and theory, natural history, philosophy, politics and international relations, veterinary science, and women's studies.[3][7] Although the press has been subsidized by the university for most of its history, it is now largely dependent on book sales to finance its operations.[8]


In 2010, the Mellon Foundation, whose President Don Michael Randel is a former Cornell Provost, awarded to the press a $50,000 grant to explore new business models for publishing scholarly works in low-demand humanities subject areas. With this grant, a book series was published titled "Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thoughts".[9] Only 500 hard copies of each book in the series will be printed, with extra copies manufactured on demand once the original supply is depleted.[8]


Other currently active series include "Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge"[10] and Police/Worlds: Studies in security, crime and governance.


Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.[1]

(1991). Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. ISBN 978-0801481550.

Alston, William

(1973). The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution. ISBN 978-0801407802.

Avrich, Paul

Bennett, Simon (1980). . ISBN 9780801492020.

Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece

Davis, David Brion (1966). . ISBN 0-8014-0101-1.

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

(1981). The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. ISBN 0-8014-1442-3.

De Ste. Croix, Geoffrey Ernest Maurice

Hopgood, Stephen (2006). . ISBN 0-8014-4402-0.

Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International

(2005). The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace. ISBN 0-8014-4317-2.

Morris, Charles J.

Kang, Hildi (2001). . ISBN 978-0801438547.

Under the Black Umbrella: Voices From Colonial Korea, 1910-1945

Karpiak, Kevin; Mulla, Sameena; Garriott, William; Feldman, Ilana (eds.). .

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime and Governance

Kitamura, Hiroshi (2010). . ISBN 9780801445996.

Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan

Mills, Charles W. (1997). . ISBN 978-0-8014-8463-6.

The Racial Contract

Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2003). . ISBN 9781842127261.

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Posen, Barry (2014). . ISBN 978-0-8014-7087-5.

Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

(1990). The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective. ISBN 0-8014-9729-9.

Reich, Simon

(2003). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century. ISBN 9780801439650.

Valentino, Benjamin

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