Stanford University: 1318 books
Global Futures in East Asia
Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets, powerfully...
Anxious Wealth
Money and Morality Among China's New Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied,...
Money from Nothing
Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion—dubbed "banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts,...
The Dragon in the Room
China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin...
The Migration Apparatus
Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Every year, millions of people from around the world grapple with the European Union's emerging migration management apparatus. Through border controls, biometric information technology, and circular migration programs, this amorphous system combines a whirlwind of disparate policies. The Migration...
Plastic Money
Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card?...
Patronage and Power
Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese...
Business Networks in Syria
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private...
Revolutionary Womanhood
Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations....
Debating Arab Authoritarianism
Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab experts, the collected essays explore the ongoing political dynamics of the region and show how Arab regimes retain power despite...
by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, once a frontier province of little importance, become one of the most vital agricultural and industrial...
by Stefanos Geroulanos
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
French philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojève, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyré, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Hyppolite argued that man could no longer fill the...
The Stillbirth of Capital
Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century...