Stanford University: 1318 books
The Unsettled Sector
NGOs and the Cultivation of Democratic Citizenship in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In late twentieth century Mexico, the NGO boom was hailed as an harbinger of social change and democratic transition, with NGOs poised to transform the relationship between states and civil society on a global scale. And yet, great as the expectations were for NGOs to empower the poor and disenfranchised,...
America’s Arab Refugees
Vulnerability and Health on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once...
Live and Die Like a Man
Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender...
The Merchants of Oran
A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transition to French colonial rule. Through the life of Jacob Lasry and other influential Jewish merchants, Joshua Schreier tells the story of how this diverse...
The Neuro-Image
A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates...
Sonic Intimacy
Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the gendered, the creaturely, and the ecological. Through both a conceptual framework...
by Paul Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively...
Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity
The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to...
A World Trimmed with Fur
Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders...
Between Birth and Death
Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn...
by Lisa Florman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars...
by Lisa Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico—the...
The Life Within
Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period—as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out, focusing first on the household—buildings, lots, household...
Brazil's Steel City
Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the role the steelworkers played in Brazil's social and economic development under the country's import...