Stanford University: 1318 books
Middle East Authoritarianisms
Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The developments of early 2011 changes the political landscape of the Middle East. But even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the...
The Polythink Syndrome
U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for...
The Institutional Imperative
The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues...
Global Talent
Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi build on an emerging stream of research that...
State and Agents in China
Disciplining Government Officials
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Chinese government officials have played a crucial role in China's economic development, but they are also responsible for severe problems, including environmental pollution, violation of citizens' rights, failure in governance, and corruption. How does the Chinese Party-state respond when a government...
The Man Awakened from Dreams
One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2005
In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder...
One Alliance, Two Lenses
U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
One Alliance, Two Lenses examines U.S.-Korea relations in a short but dramatic period (1992–2003) that witnessed the end of the Cold War, South Korea's full democratization, inter-Korean engagement, two nuclear crises, and the start of the U.S. war on terror. These events have led to a new era of...
Hip Figures
A Literary History of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion...
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan
Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted, opportunistic, innovative, and bold, it would be presumptuous to draw any hard and fast conclusions about...
Native Capital
Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institutions to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in São Paulo's urbanization...
Special Relations
The Americanization of Britain?
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical...
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in...
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds
Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial...