Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
by Paul Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively...
Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity
The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to...
A World Trimmed with Fur
Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders...
Between Birth and Death
Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn...
by Lisa Florman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars...
by Lisa Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico—the...
The Life Within
Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period—as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out, focusing first on the household—buildings, lots, household...
Brazil's Steel City
Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the role the steelworkers played in Brazil's social and economic development under the country's import...
by Raanan Rein
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina...
Last Scene Underground
An Ethnographic Novel of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Leili could not have imagined that arriving late to Islamic morals class would change the course of her life. But her arrival catches the eye of a young man, and a chance meeting soon draws Leili into a new circle of friends and artists. Gathering in the cafes of Tehran, these young college students...
Goodbye, Antoura
A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned...
When Half Is Whole
Multiethnic Asian American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making...
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy
The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier"...