Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Building Blocs
How Parties Organize Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors'...
Field Notes
The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Field Notes reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding,...
Copts and the Security State
Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order...
Faith in Empire
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in...
by John Bender, Michael Marrinan
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams...
by Stephen Jay Kline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society. This gain in understanding has arisen from two sources: the use of the 'scientific method', and the breaking up of our intellectual enterprise...
The Politics of Trafficking
The First International Movement to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort to combat it. The Politics of Trafficking provides a unique look at the history of that first anti-trafficking movement, illuminating the...
Archaeology of Babel
The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the...
Wronged by Empire
Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way—by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new...
Quest for Harmony
The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese...
Diasporic Homecomings
Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
In recent decades, increasing numbers of diasporic peoples have returned to their ethnic homelands, whether because of economic pressures, a desire to rediscover ancestral roots, or the homeland government's preferential immigration and nationality policies. Although the returnees may initially be...
Social by Nature
The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors. In Social by Nature, Catherine Bliss recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions...
Diplomatic Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying...
Classical Geopolitics
A New Analytical Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Geopolitics is the study of how the projection of power (ideological, cultural, economic, or military) is effected and affected by the geographic and political landscape in which it operates. Despite the real world relevance of geopolitics, a common understanding of what classical geopolitics is and...