Stanford University: 1318 books
Resources for Reform
Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people's lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentina's experiment with privatizing its national oil company...
Fatal Love
Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan Californio's neck. One of them sat on his body...
Campaigning for Justice
Human Rights Advocacy in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human rights policies and practices, and transforming the terms of public debate. Yet too often, the strategies these advocates have employed are not broadly shared...
Contested Welfare States
Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The welfare state is a trademark of the European social model. An extensive set of social and institutional actors provides protection against common risks, offering economic support in periods of hardship and ensuring access to care and services. Welfare policies define a set of social rights and...
Isolate or Engage
Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The U.S. government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states: isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for U.S. diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states—China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea,...
Tough Choices
Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the past fifty years. This book provides the first...
Apostles of Modernity
Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Between 1830 and 1870, French army officers serving in the colonial Offices of Arab Affairs profoundly altered the course of political decision-making in Algeria. Guided by the modernizing ideologies of the Saint-Simonian school in their development and implementation of colonial policy, the officers...
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in...
The Right Spouse
Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent...
by Sylvia Sellers-García
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous...
Ethnic Europe
Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas,...
Emptied Lands
A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine. The authors place this dispute in historical, legal, geographical, and international-comparative...
The Politics of Majority Nationalism
Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
What drives the politics of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates and peace mediations? In his innovative study of majority nationalism, Neophytos Loizides answers this important question by investigating how peacemakers succeed or fail in transforming the language of ethnic nationalism and...
Interdisciplinary Conversations
Challenging Habits of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of...