Stanford University: 1318 books
Economists with Guns
Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development....
Power in Uncertain Times
Strategy in the Fog of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
The United States faces a complex and rapidly shifting international security landscape. Forces of ethnic and religious extremism, diffusion of information technologies, proliferation of mass destruction weapons, and newly empowered non-state actors are just some of the trends whose complex interplay...
The Struggle for the World
Liberation Movements for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity's homogenizing processes. This controversial...
Customizing Indigeneity
Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous subjects. As...
To Sin No More
Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of...
Monsters by Trade
Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long...
by Xiaowei Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially...
Soundtrack of the Revolution
The Politics of Music in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran–Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists and audiences...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology...
Uprising of the Fools
Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly...
Accepting Authoritarianism
State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on...
Police Encounters
Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself not only with crime and politics, but also with control of social and moral order. Through surveillance,...
Cultures@SiliconValley
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley. The corporate landscape of the Valley has shifted, with tech giants like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter vying for space with a halo of applications that connect people for work,...
by Jean-Christophe Attias
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it...