Stanford University: 1318 books
by Tom K. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration...
Plain Text
The Poetics of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's...
Culture, Power, and the State
Rural North China, 1900-1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era. The author constructs a prismatic...
For the War Yet to Come
Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state...
Building Blocs
How Parties Organize Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors'...
Field Notes
The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Field Notes reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding,...
Copts and the Security State
Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order...
Faith in Empire
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in...
by John Bender, Michael Marrinan
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams...
by Stephen Jay Kline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society. This gain in understanding has arisen from two sources: the use of the 'scientific method', and the breaking up of our intellectual enterprise...
The Politics of Trafficking
The First International Movement to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort to combat it. The Politics of Trafficking provides a unique look at the history of that first anti-trafficking movement, illuminating the...
Archaeology of Babel
The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the...
Wronged by Empire
Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way—by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new...
Quest for Harmony
The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese...