Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Official Stories
Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional politics. While economic, political, and internal security policies are most often considered in discussions of regime maintenance, Laurie Brand introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important...
Before the Shining Path
Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, Before the Shining Path is the first long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political,...
Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new...
Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism
Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler,...
"We Are Now the True Spaniards"
Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide...
‘This Culture of Ours’
Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The...
Barricades and Banners
The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish...
Integrating Regions
Asia in Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The proliferation of regional institutions and initiatives in Asia over the past decade is unmatched in any other region of the world. The authors in this collection explore the distinctive features of these institutions by comparing them for the first time to the experience of other regions; from...
A History of the Modern Middle East
Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Middle...
Palestinian Commemoration in Israel
Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Collective memory transforms historical events into political myths. In this book, Tamir Sorek considers the development of collective memory and national commemoration among the Palestinian citizens of Israel. He charts the popular politicization of four key events—the Nakba, the 1956 Kafr Qasim...
Brothers Apart
Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new country, controlled by a military regime that restricted their movement and political...
Moving Matters
Paths of Serial Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world...
Consuming Desires
Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. These marriages allow for men and women...