Stanford University: 1318 books
Waking from the Dream
Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary...
Empires of Coal
Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833–1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transformation,...
An Early Self
Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore,...
by Anna Ohanyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture. These "frozen conflicts" defy conflict management interventions by both internal and external agents and institutions. Worse, they...
The Dual Executive
Unilateral Orders in a Separated and Shared Power System
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Popular perception holds that presidents act "first and alone," resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off unfavorable legislation. Little research, however, has considered the diverse circumstances in which such orders are issued. The Dual Executive reinterprets how...
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres...
Challenged Hegemony
The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts in...
Judge and Punish
The Penal State on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from? Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years sitting in on trials, watching as individuals were judged and sentenced for armed robbery, assault, rape, and murder. His experience led to this original reflection on the...
by Phillip Stalley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "pollution havens"? The debate over this question has never before been the focus of a book about China. Phillip...
by Zaryab Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Assessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the human costs of war, particularly their effects on population well-being. In War and the Health of Nations, Zaryab Iqbal...
Alchemical Mercury
A Theory of Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation...
The Experimental Imagination
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...