Stanford University Press: 1317 books
In the Time of Oil
Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people...
A Taste for Home
The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The "home" is a quintessentially quotidian topic, yet one at the center of global concerns: Consumption habits, aesthetic preferences, international trade, and state authority all influence the domestic sphere. For middle-class residents of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Beirut,...
Militants or Partisans
Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions...
Civic Engagements
The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
For refugees and immigrants in the United States, expressions of citizenship and belonging emerge not only during the naturalization process but also during more informal, everyday activities in the community. Based on research in the Dallas–Arlington–Fort Worth area of Texas, this book examines...
by Ajay Verghese
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action...
Radical Equality
Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As...
Jinnealogy
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government...
Nation and Family
Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization,...
Juridical Humanity
A Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that distinguished freedom from force and the human...
How India Became Territorial
Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination...
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal...
The Margins of Empire
Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story...
Partners of the Empire
The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements....
The Charity of War
Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
With the exception of a few targeted aerial bombardments of the city's port, Beirut and Mount Lebanon did not see direct combat in World War I. Yet civilian casualties in this part of the Ottoman Empire reached shocking heights, possibly numbering half a million people. No war, in its usual understanding,...