Stanford University: 1318 books
Narrowcast
Poetry and Audio Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies...
Rebranding Islam
Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader...
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual...
Other Englands
Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to...
Transition to Neo-Confucianism
Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most...
Just Violence
Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite...
by Nancy Yousef
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This...
The Mechanical Song
Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Examining the privileged relation of women to the singing voice in nineteenth-century literary works, the author argues for an emerging identification between women and artifice in the period. Beginning with texts by Rousseau and Proust that show a link between nostalgia for the maternal voice and...
Measuring Up
A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on living standards in Mexico prior to the first measurement of income distribution in 1957. By offering...
State-Sponsored Inequality
The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese county...
Racialized Identities
Race and Achievement among African American Youth
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African...
Amazonian Routes
Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation....
Voice from the North
Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in Korea's...
Revolution in the Terra do Sol
The Cold War in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War–era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years. Rural social movements that unfolded in the Northeast beginning in the...