Stanford University: 1318 books
To Belong in Buenos Aires
Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a massive wave of immigration transformed the cultural landscape of Argentina. Alongside other immigrants to Buenos Aires, German speakers strove to carve out a place for themselves as Argentines without fully relinquishing their German language...
by Joseph H. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant...
Protests Against U.S. Military Base Policy in Asia
Persuasion and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Since the end of World War II, protests against U.S. military base and related policies have occurred in several Asian host countries. How much influence have these protests had on the p;olicy regarding U.S. military bases? What conditions make protests more likely to influence policy? Protests Against...
Imagined Enemies
China Prepares for Uncertain War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
The fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies offers an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy. Beginnning with an examination of culturee adn thought in Part I, the authors explore the transition away transition...
Categorically Famous
Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers...
by Lisa Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative stance toward life in general. Replacing...
The History of Missed Opportunities
British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, The History of Missed Opportunities posits that the everyday first emerged as a distinct category of experience, or first became thinkable, in the Romantic period. Conceived here as something overlooked and only noticed in retrospect,...
The Proper Order of Things
Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so...
A Genealogy of Dissent
The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
In early modern Korea, the Chosŏn state conducted an extermination campaign against the Kaesŏng Wang, descendants of the preceding Koryŏ dynasty. It was so thorough that most of today's descendants are related to a single survivor. Before long, however, the Chosŏn dynasty sought to bolster its...
Borders of Belonging
Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the...
Scarcity and Survival in Central America
Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely...
One Blue Child
Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and...
by Joshua M. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made...
Recovering Armenia
The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Following World War I, as the victorious Allied powers occupied Ottoman territories, Armenian survivors returned to their hometowns optimistic that they might...