Stanford University: 1318 books
What Remains
Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.
Drawing upon...
by Azriel Shohet
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community....
by Arthur Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This illuminating study, based upon the last...
Citizen Strangers
Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment,...
The One-State Condition
Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined...
Labor and Love in Guatemala
The Eve of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations...
The Modernity of Others
Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become...
Official Stories
Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional politics. While economic, political, and internal security policies are most often considered in discussions of regime maintenance, Laurie Brand introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important...
Before the Shining Path
Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, Before the Shining Path is the first long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political,...
Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new...
Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism
Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler,...
"We Are Now the True Spaniards"
Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide...