Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Islam and Nation
Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists...
British State Romanticism
Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and viewed the supposedly less...
Patriotism and Public Spirit
Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Patriotism and Public Spirit is an innovative study of the formative influences shaping the early writings of the Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke and an early case-study of the relationship between the business of bookselling and the politics of criticism and persuasion. Through a radical reassessment...
by Barbara J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this...
Digging for the Disappeared
Forensic Science after Atrocity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study...
by Robert Zaller
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his...
Popular Democracy
The Paradox of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as...
Shifting Boundaries
Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come...
The Semblance of Identity
Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance...
Borderland Capitalism
Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. Borderland Capitalism argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration...
Straitjacket Sexualities
Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñas...
Constructing China's Jerusalem
Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence...
Weird John Brown
Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view,...
Risky Shores
Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Why did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context...