Stanford University: 1318 books
Indigenous Citizens
Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply...
Revolution within the Revolution
Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world history. Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians...
Jewish Spain
A Mediterranean Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
What is meant by "Jewish Spain"? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their 1492 expulsion. The Mediterranean world witnessed...
by Barbara Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies,"...
The Global Rise of Populism
Performance, Political Style, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really threaten democracy? Why the...
Ideology, Power, Text
Self-Representation and the Peasant ‘Other’ in Modern Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The division between the scholar-gentry class and the “people” was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and...
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China
Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Day's Reform" has received a great deal of attention from historians...
Tales of Futures Past
Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed,...
Consuming Literature
Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author...
Contemplative Nation
A Philosophical Account of Jewish Theological Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Contemplative Nation challenges the long-standing view that theology is not a vital part of the Jewish tradition. For political and philosophical reasons, both scholars of Judaism and Jewish thinkers have sought to minimize the role of theology in Judaism. This book constructs a new model for understanding...
The Premise of Fidelity
Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful...
Reading Rio de Janeiro
Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand...
The Long Space
Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption...
Pious Practice and Secular Constraints
Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular...