Stanford University Press: 1317 books
The New Great Game
China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this, previous coverage portrays events as determined almost entirely by Beijing. Such accounts minimize or ignore the other side of the equation: namely, what individuals, corporate actors,...
Continuity Despite Change
The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change...
Capital and Time
For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and...
Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan
Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan presents a compelling case study on change in political regimes through its exploration of Japan's transition to democracy. Within a broad-ranging examination of Japan's "semi-democratic" political system from 1918 to 1932, when political parties tended...
Architects of Austerity
International Finance and the Politics of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting that the postwar era was less socially democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical analysis of economic policy in the United States, the United Kingdom, and...
Pesos and Politics
Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876–1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout...
Public Engagement for Public Education
Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Community participation plays a large role in the success or failure of our public schools. This book focuses attention on the problem of inequality in public engagement, considering how race, class, ethnicity, language, and immigration status shape opportunities for engagement. Without the active...
Cuba’s Academic Advantage
Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks...
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Identity and Development Politics in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Indigenous groups are not often recognized as driving forces in the push for economic development. However, in development efforts across Latin America, governments and corporations have begun to see ethnic cultural difference as an advantage. Ethnic Entrepreneurs explores how diverse groups historically...
Making the Chinese Mexican
Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating...
Race Decoded
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. Drawing on personal interviews and life stories,...
The Schooled Society
The Educational Transformation of Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population attends some form of higher education. What are the effects of such radical, large-scale change? David...