Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Teach for Arabia
American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion dollar investment over the last two...
Sephardi Lives
A Documentary History, 1700–1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine....
The Illustration of the Master
Henry James and the Magazine Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. The book re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive growth of the magazine industry...
Fumo
Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history. Starting around 1900, the new and popular cigarette spread down the social hierarchy and eventually,...
On the Edge of the Global
Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"—and...
by Susan Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning...
The Future and Its Enemies
In Defense of Political Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unable to deal with radical uncertainty, do not make policies with a view to the long term. Instead, we suffer from a sense of powerlessness, collective irrationality,...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the...
Special Relations
The Americanization of Britain?
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical...
Copyright's Highway
From the Printing Press to the Cloud, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
In Copyright's Highway, one of the nation's leading authorities on intellectual property law offers an engaging, readable, and intelligent analysis of the effect of copyright on American politics, economy, and culture. From eighteenth-century copyright law, to the "celestial jukebox," to the future...
Accepting Authoritarianism
State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on...
Confessions of the Shtetl
Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates...
The Indonesian Way
ASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration....