Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Digging for the Disappeared
Forensic Science after Atrocity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study...
by Robert Zaller
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his...
Popular Democracy
The Paradox of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as...
Shifting Boundaries
Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come...
The Semblance of Identity
Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance...
Borderland Capitalism
Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. Borderland Capitalism argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration...
Straitjacket Sexualities
Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a straitjacketing, according to author Celine Parreñas...
Constructing China's Jerusalem
Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence...
Weird John Brown
Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view,...
Risky Shores
Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Why did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context...
Captives and Corsairs
France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival...
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen...
Faith in Schools
Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American...
The Studios after the Studios
Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2010)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this...