Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Racing for Innocence
Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s—just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to...
Another Hungary
The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic...
Stories of Khmelnytsky
Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington....
Sweet Talk
Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better...
by Ian Read
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888 explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that...
After Empire
The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy...
What Remains
Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.
Drawing upon...
by Azriel Shohet
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community....
by Arthur Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This illuminating study, based upon the last...
Citizen Strangers
Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment,...
The One-State Condition
Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined...
Labor and Love in Guatemala
The Eve of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations...
The Modernity of Others
Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become...