Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in...
The Right Spouse
Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent...
by Sylvia Sellers-García
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous...
Ethnic Europe
Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas,...
Emptied Lands
A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine. The authors place this dispute in historical, legal, geographical, and international-comparative...
The Politics of Majority Nationalism
Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
What drives the politics of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates and peace mediations? In his innovative study of majority nationalism, Neophytos Loizides answers this important question by investigating how peacemakers succeed or fail in transforming the language of ethnic nationalism and...
Interdisciplinary Conversations
Challenging Habits of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of...
Waking from the Dream
Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary...
Empires of Coal
Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833–1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transformation,...
An Early Self
Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore,...
by Anna Ohanyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture. These "frozen conflicts" defy conflict management interventions by both internal and external agents and institutions. Worse, they...
The Dual Executive
Unilateral Orders in a Separated and Shared Power System
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Popular perception holds that presidents act "first and alone," resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off unfavorable legislation. Little research, however, has considered the diverse circumstances in which such orders are issued. The Dual Executive reinterprets how...