Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
by Eduardo Moncada
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between urban political economies and patterns of armed...
Contraband Corridor
Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding...
Culture of Accidents
Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination....
Image and Presence
A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present—from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless...
A Covenant of Creatures
Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works...
Memos from the Besieged City
Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing...
The Great Social Laboratory
Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad...
by Paul A. Kottman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence...
Transformative Beauty
Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, Transformative Beauty examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral...
by Elizabeth S. Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance of phenomena—including money, gender, urban...
Anthropology's Politics
Disciplining the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as...
The Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity,...
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily...
by F. David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
In 1830, the dominant social outlook of the early Victorians was a paternalism that looked to property, the Church, and local Justices of the Peace to govern society and deal with its ills. By 1860, however, the dominant social outlook had become a vision of a laissez faire society that relied on...