Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Revolutionary Womanhood
Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations....
Debating Arab Authoritarianism
Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab experts, the collected essays explore the ongoing political dynamics of the region and show how Arab regimes retain power despite...
by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, once a frontier province of little importance, become one of the most vital agricultural and industrial...
by Stefanos Geroulanos
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
French philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojève, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyré, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Hyppolite argued that man could no longer fill the...
The Stillbirth of Capital
Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century...
At the Chef's Table
Culinary Creativity in Elite Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book explores the question of how and why chefs make choices about the dishes they put on their menus. It answers this question...
Taiwan’s China Dilemma
Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved political relationship, let alone progress toward the...
Modern Migrations
Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized...
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory
Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim...
Breaking the WTO
How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters...
Controlling Immigration
A Global Perspective, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The third edition of this major work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of a selection of major countries, including the U.S., to deal with immigration and immigrant issues— paying particular attention to the ever-widening gap between their migration policy goals and outcomes....
The New Labour Experiment
Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed...
Income Inequality
Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention...