Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
The Miracle of Analogy
or The History of Photography, Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy,...
Time in the Shadows
Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Detention and confinement—of both combatants and large groups of civilians—have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing...
Slam School
Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school students....
Jazz As Critique
Adorno and Black Expression Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests,...
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political...
Between States
The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war...
by Peter Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy. Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding...
Growing Up in America
The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face. Growing Up in America provides a rich, first-hand account of the different social worlds that teens of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds...
The Self and It
Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life...
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its...
Race Defaced
Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds...
Becoming Asia
Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable one,...
Theater of State
Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book chronicles the expansion and creation of new public spheres in and around Parliament in the early Stuart period. It focuses on two closely interconnected narratives: the changing nature of communication and discourse within parliamentary chambers and the interaction of Parliament with the...