Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in...
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds
Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial...
Markets in the Name of Socialism
The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms...
The Manhattan Project
A Theory of a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost.
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Impossible Exodus
Iraqi Jews in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were...
Dwelling in Conflict
Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Land disputes in Israel are most commonly described as stand-offs between distinct groups of Arabs and Jews. In Israel's southern region, the Negev, Jewish and Bedouin Arab citizens and governmental bodies contest access to land for farming, homes, and industry and struggle over the status of unrecognized...
Yosef Haim Brenner
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, "A Loaf of Bread," in 1900. After being drafted...
Palestinian Village Histories
Geographies of the Displaced
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried...
Looking for Balance
China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Debate surrounding "China's rise," and the prospects of its possible challenge to America's preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should "contain" or "engage" China; and whether the rise of Chinese power has inclined other East Asian states...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided...
Globalization Under and After Socialism
The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe have gone from being among the world's most closed, autarkic economies to being some of the most export-oriented and globally integrated. While previous accounts have attributed this shift to post-1989 market reform policies, Besnik Pula sees...
Was Hitler a Riddle?
Western Democracies and National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Was Hitler A Riddle? is the first comparative study of how British, French, and American diplomats serving in Germany assessed Hitler and the Nazi movement. These assessments provided the governments in London, Paris, and Washington with ample information about the ruthlessness of the authorities...
by John Bender
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and...
Why Literary Periods Mattered
Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum...