Stanford University: 1318 books
Composing Egypt
Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists, bureaucrats, journalists, and early feminists sought...
by Jean-Luc Marion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility—of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for...
Coercive Concern
Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Many liberal-minded Western democracies pride themselves on their commitments to egalitarianism, the fair treatment of immigrants, and the right to education. These environments would seem to provide a best-case scenario for the reception of immigrant youth. But that is not always the case. Coercive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a...
Super Continent
The Logic of Eurasian Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country's domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has,...
Beyond Nation
Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In the work of writer Abe Kōbō (1924–1993), characters are alienated both from themselves and from one another. Through close readings of Abe's work, Richard Calichman reveals how time and writing have the ability to unground identity. Over time, attempts to create unity of self cause alienation,...
Race and Upward Mobility
Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restraint...
Mourning Remains
State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they...
by Vitalis Danon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israélite Universelle and quickly adopted—and was adopted by—the local...
Souffles-Anfas
A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and a small group of avant-garde Moroccan...
Dreaming of Dry Land
Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and...
Democracy and War
Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau...
His Hiding Place Is Darkness
A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond...