Stanford University: 1318 books
Growing Up in America
The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face. Growing Up in America provides a rich, first-hand account of the different social worlds that teens of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds...
The Self and It
Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning...
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its...
Race Defaced
Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds...
Becoming Asia
Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable one,...
Theater of State
Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book chronicles the expansion and creation of new public spheres in and around Parliament in the early Stuart period. It focuses on two closely interconnected narratives: the changing nature of communication and discourse within parliamentary chambers and the interaction of Parliament with the...
Racing for Innocence
Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s—just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to...
Another Hungary
The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic...
Stories of Khmelnytsky
Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington....
Sweet Talk
Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better...
by Ian Read
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888 explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that...
After Empire
The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy...