Stanford University: 1318 books
by Amy Hungerford
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various...
by Michael W. Clune
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes. Thinkers from Edmund Burke to Elaine Scarry have understood this effort as the attempt to create new forms. But as anyone who has ever worn out a song by repeated listening knows, artistic form is hardly immune to...
by Jasper Bernes
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have seen the shift from an economy based on the...
The Orphan Scandal
Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist...
Bazaar Politics
Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical...
Losing Afghanistan
An Obituary for the Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan—or for the international community...
Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments
U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
One of the gravest issues facing the global community today is the threat of nuclear war. As a growing number of nations gain nuclear capabilities, the odds of nuclear conflict increase. Yet nuclear deterrence strategies remain rooted in Cold War models that do not take into account regional conflict....
Terms of Labor
Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor—the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others—are of great significance for understanding the past...
America's Corporate Art
The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures (1929–2001)
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Contrary to theories of single person authorship, America's Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio system and beyond, when studios became players in global dramas staged by massive entertainment conglomerates....
Hard Target
Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures...
by Ben Etherington
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern...
Crossing the Gulf
Love and Family in Migrant Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase the challenges faced by migrants and their...
Slow Print
Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation,...
American Terror
The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe,...