Stanford University: 1318 books
Mother Folly
A Tale
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...
Greece Before History
An Archaeological Companion and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
This book, a guide and companion to the prehistoric archaeology of Greece, is designed for students, travelers, and all general readers interested in archaeology. Greece has perhaps the longest and richest archaeological record in Europe, and this book reviews what is known of Greece from the earliest...
Dynasties and Democracy
The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security
From Pacifism to Realism?
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford...
by Thomas Biebricher
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary...
Spending Without Taxation
FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget...
Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups, and they have won seats in local and state...
Navigating Austerity
Currents of Debt along a South Asian River
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river...
Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania
The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,...
Colored Television
American Religion Gone Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the face of American religious broadcasting in recent decades. Colored Television looks at the influence of these ministries beyond the United...
The Class of 1761
Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers...
Under Contract
The Invisible Workers of America's Global War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual...
Enlightened Immunity
Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued....
The Absence of Grace
Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes...