Stanford University Press: 1317 books
From Boas to Black Power
Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very...
by John McCumber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most...
The Autumn of Dictatorship
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement,...
Mixing Musics
Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular"...
Mongrels or Marvels
The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched...
Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic
Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey,...
Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change...
Passive Revolution
Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another...
Five Long Winters
The Trials of British Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism...
Great Clarity
Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body...
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,"...