Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Transition to Neo-Confucianism
Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most...
Just Violence
Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite...
by Nancy Yousef
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This...
The Mechanical Song
Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Examining the privileged relation of women to the singing voice in nineteenth-century literary works, the author argues for an emerging identification between women and artifice in the period. Beginning with texts by Rousseau and Proust that show a link between nostalgia for the maternal voice and...
Measuring Up
A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on living standards in Mexico prior to the first measurement of income distribution in 1957. By offering...
State-Sponsored Inequality
The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese county...
Racialized Identities
Race and Achievement among African American Youth
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African...
Amazonian Routes
Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation....
Voice from the North
Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in Korea's...
Revolution in the Terra do Sol
The Cold War in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War–era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years. Rural social movements that unfolded in the Northeast beginning in the...
The Möbius Strip
A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
The Möbius Strip explores the history, political economy, and culture of space in central Guerrero, Mexico, during the colonial period. This study is significant for two reasons. First, space comprises a sphere of contention that affects all levels of society, from the individual and his or her household...
Days of Revolution
Political Unrest in an Iranian Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She...
The Guaraní and Their Missions
A Socioeconomic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The thirty Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established throughout the frontier regions of the Americas to convert, acculturate, and incorporate indigenous peoples and their lands into the Spanish and Portuguese empires. But...
Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu
The Origins of Dual Government in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This book is a much expanded and wholly rewritten treatment of the subject of the author's first book, Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan, published in 1974. In this new version, the "warrior" and "medieval" character of Japan's first shogunate is significantly de-emphasized,...