Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
by Thomas Biebricher
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary...
Spending Without Taxation
FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget...
Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups, and they have won seats in local and state...
Navigating Austerity
Currents of Debt along a South Asian River
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river...
Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania
The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,...
Colored Television
American Religion Gone Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the face of American religious broadcasting in recent decades. Colored Television looks at the influence of these ministries beyond the United...
The Class of 1761
Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers...
Under Contract
The Invisible Workers of America's Global War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual...
Enlightened Immunity
Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued....
The Absence of Grace
Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes...
To Belong in Buenos Aires
Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a massive wave of immigration transformed the cultural landscape of Argentina. Alongside other immigrants to Buenos Aires, German speakers strove to carve out a place for themselves as Argentines without fully relinquishing their German language...
by Joseph H. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant...
Protests Against U.S. Military Base Policy in Asia
Persuasion and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Since the end of World War II, protests against U.S. military base and related policies have occurred in several Asian host countries. How much influence have these protests had on the p;olicy regarding U.S. military bases? What conditions make protests more likely to influence policy? Protests Against...
Imagined Enemies
China Prepares for Uncertain War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
The fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies offers an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy. Beginnning with an examination of culturee adn thought in Part I, the authors explore the transition away transition...