Stanford University: 1318 books
Modern China’s Network Revolution
Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch chambers had been established throughout China....
Barrios to Burbs
The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the...
Risen from Ruins
The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city. In East Berlin, where the historic core of the city lay, decisions made by the socialist leadership about what should be restored, reconstructed, or entirely reimagined would have a tremendous and...
Ordinary Egyptians
Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain—it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for resistance to British and elite authority. This...
Contention in Context
Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model,...
Sephardism
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the...
Science for the Empire
Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what...
The Miracle of Analogy
or The History of Photography, Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy,...
Time in the Shadows
Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Detention and confinement—of both combatants and large groups of civilians—have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing...
Slam School
Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school students....
Jazz As Critique
Adorno and Black Expression Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests,...
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political...
Between States
The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war...
by Peter Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy. Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding...