Stanford University: 1318 books

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‘This Culture of Ours’

Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China

by Peter K. Bol
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The...
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Barricades and Banners

The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

by Scott Ury
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish...
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Integrating Regions

Asia in Comparative Context

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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013

The proliferation of regional institutions and initiatives in Asia over the past decade is unmatched in any other region of the world. The authors in this collection explore the distinctive features of these institutions by comparing them for the first time to the experience of other regions; from...
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A History of the Modern Middle East

Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues

by Betty S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

A History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Middle...
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Palestinian Commemoration in Israel

Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs

by Tamir Sorek
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015

Collective memory transforms historical events into political myths. In this book, Tamir Sorek considers the development of collective memory and national commemoration among the Palestinian citizens of Israel. He charts the popular politicization of four key events—the Nakba, the 1956 Kafr Qasim...
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Brothers Apart

Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World

by Maha Nassar
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new country, controlled by a military regime that restricted their movement and political...
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Moving Matters

Paths of Serial Migration

by Susan Ossman
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world...
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Consuming Desires

Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East

by Frances Hasso
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. These marriages allow for men and women...
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Racial Beachhead

Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town

by Carol Lynn McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance—a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo complete integration, the West Coast's...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers...
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Globalizing Knowledge

Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation

by Michael D. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014

Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however, are rarely considered critically....
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Working the Night Shift

Women in India’s Call Center Industry

by Reena Patel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010

Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about...
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Staged Seduction

Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club

by Akiko Takeyama
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game...
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Shades of Difference

Why Skin Color Matters

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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009

Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
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