Stanford University: 1318 books
Manipulating Globalization
The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the "made in China" model—with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits—has begun to wane. Beginning in the 2000s, the Chinese state shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting the...
Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts...
Politics Beyond the Capital
The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones...
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
What Progressives Have Missed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment...
Myth of the Social Volcano
Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer is yes. In 2004, Harvard sociologist...
Germans into Jews
Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to...
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies. Numerous works deal with political change in the two societies individually, but few adopt a comparative approach—and most...
Varieties of Feminism
German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both conservative Christian and social democratic principles framing the feminist discourses and movement goals,...
Electrifying India
Regional Political Economies of Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until...
The Good Child
Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing...
For Better, For Worse
The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed...
Beyond the Middle Kingdom
Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of the...
Gourmets in the Land of Famine
The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global...