Category: Tuesday Triva

November 2, 2018

Notable Title: The Anarchical Society

Over four decades after its publication, Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society continues to define and direct work in international relations. Bull’s work has been praised for its flexibility — there is much more to it than the international society perspective that it...

September 25, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Wm. Theodore de Bary, U.S. Naval Officer and Sinologist, Elevated Asian Studies at Columbia and Beyond

Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by Wm. Theodore De Bary and Irene Bloom, is a seminal collection of primary readings for scholars, students, and general readers. For over 40 years, the readings in this volume on the social, religious, and...

September 18, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Does Education Help Us Climb the Social Ladder? This Author Says Modern Schools Might Instead Reinforce Social and Economic Class Divides

Paul Willis’s Learning to Labor examines a debate that is just as lively today as it was when this book was first published almost forty years ago. Willis observed a group of working-class boys who were classmates in a secondary school in...

July 3, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Landmark Critique of Women’s History and Gender Inequality Examines the Use of Gender as a Tool for Historical and Cultural Analysis

Joan Wallach Scott’s Gender and the Politics of History played a significant role in the movement of women from the margins of historical focus to the center in the 1980s. This collection of essays was inspired by Scott’s tenure as Director of...

June 26, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Groundbreaking Work Traces Early Christian Preoccupations with Sexuality and the Body

Peter Brown’s study of the ascetic impulse in early Christianity begins in the pagan world of the first century AD and traces the early Christian preoccupation with sexuality and the body through the fifth century AD. The Body and Society explores the...

June 12, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: In 1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Opened the Door to the Discussions of Sex, Power, and Desire in the Arenas of Literary Criticism, Politics, Society, and Culture

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men has been described as a disruption in the field of literary criticism. Sedgwick almost single–handedly put a stop to the field’s tradition of suppressing queer subjects and subjectivities. She opened the door to discussions of sex, power,...

June 5, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: The Author of this Book Revolutionized the Fields of Feminist Studies, Queer Studies, and Literary Theory

Subjects of Desire, once described by Judith Butler as “my juvenilia,” examines the influence of Hegel on 20th-century French philosophy. By plotting the French reception of Hegel, Butler leads her readers to a reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that is...

May 29, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Jean Renoir Said This Filmmaker “Invented the Modern Hollywood”

Celebrated for his distinct style and credited with inventing the classic genre of the Hollywood romantic comedy and helping to create the musical, Lubitsch won the admiration of his fellow directors. He was revered in his day by such other leading...

May 1, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: In 1930, Columbia University Press Became the First University Press to Publish Books in the Field of Social Work

In 1930, Columbia University Press became and, for many decades remained, the only university press to publish in the field of social work. The Social Work Interview, now in its 5th edition, edited by Alfred and Goldie Kadushin, has been...

April 24, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Author Works with the United Nations to Develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world’s foremost experts on sustainable development and the fight against poverty. He is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia...

April 17, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Book Debuted in 1959, Launched a Career, and is Still in Print Today!

Columbia University Press closed the 1950s with the publication of Man, the State, and War — a book by Kenneth N. Waltz, a young political scientist who would go on to become one of the most highly-regarded figures in the field of...