Stanford University Press: 1317 books
by Friedrich Katz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood,...
When the War Came Home
The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman...
Aurangzeb
The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the creation of a separate Muslim state in South Asia....
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers
Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as Asia's century, this book turns to the more intimate...
by Robert Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim...
by Joanna Levin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the...
Monopolizing the Master
Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary...
Obscure Invitations
The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature....
Maximum Feasible Participation
American Literature and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this phrase, the...
Stolen Honor
Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become...
Borrowed Light
Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe....
The Enigma of Isaac Babel
Biography, History, Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded"...
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle
Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893–1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating...
by Jonathan M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly...