Stanford University: 1318 books
by Sabina Donati
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations....
Contentious Spirits
Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California. Historian David K. Yoo argues that religion is the most important aspect of this group's experience because its structures and sensibilities address...
Roots of the State
Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations...
by Kent Calder, Min Ye
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today among the most dangerous areas on earth, plagued by security problems...
Homes Away from Home
Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
How did Jews go from lives organized by synagogues, shul, and mikvehs to lives that—if explicitly Jewish at all—were conducted in Hillel houses, JCCs, Katz's, and even Chabad? In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century,...
Cleansing Honor with Blood
Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845–1889
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book offers a critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America. It focuses on the lives of lower-class men and women, known as sertanejo/as, in the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889. Challenging the widely...
The Making of Law
The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875–1931
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Despite Porfirio Díaz's authoritarian rule (1877-1911) and the fifteen years of violent conflict typifying much of Mexican politics after 1917, law and judicial decision-making were important for the country's political and economic organization. Influenced by French theories of jurisprudence in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Toward an Anthropology of the Will is the first book that systematically explores volition from an ethnographically informed anthropological point of view. While philosophers have for centuries puzzled over the degree to which individuals are "free" to choose how to act in the world, anthropologists...
Measuring College Learning Responsibly
Accountability in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Accrediting boards, the federal government, and state legislatures are now requiring a greater level of accountability from higher education. However, current accountability practices, including accreditation, No Child Left Behind, and performance reporting are inadequate to the task. If wielded indiscriminately,...
Confessions of the Shtetl
Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates...
Britain's Chinese Eye
Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented...
by Arianne Chernock
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism. Focusing on the revolutionary 1790s, the book introduces several dozen male reformers who insisted that women's emancipation would...
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
A Southeast Asia Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi...
Costly Democracy
Peacebuilding and Democratization After War
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy...