Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Counterfeit Capital
Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience...
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for...
The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson
Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In...
Behind the Laughs
Community and Inequality in Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Comedy is a brutal business. When comedians define success, they don't talk about money—they talk about not quitting. They work in a business where even big names work for free, and the inequalities of race, class, and gender create real barriers. But they also work in a business where people still...
A Life in Shadow
Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America,...
Less Rightly Said
Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal...
A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story
Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion...
Medieval Venuses and Cupids
Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus...
Outlaw Justice
The Messianic Politics of Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben,...
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,...