Stanford University Press: 1317 books
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,...
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...
Militarizing Men
Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in...
Comparing Special Education
Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In today's schools the number of students who receive additional resources to access the curriculum is growing rapidly, and the ongoing expansion of special education is among the most significant worldwide educational developments of the past century. Yet even among developed democracies the range...
What's Law Got to Do With It?
What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What's at Stake
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
In What's Law Got to Do With It?, the nation's top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large. Although there is a growing consensus among legal scholars and political scientists,...
Paths to Peace
Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to end, because domestic obstacles to peace become...
Britain and the Bomb
Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Drawing on primary sources from both sides of the Atlantic, Britain and the Bomb explores how economic, political, and strategic considerations have shaped British nuclear diplomacy. The book concentrates on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first two terms of office, 1964-1970, which represent a critical...
Desert Borderland
The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins—illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian–Libyan borderland—the book...