Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres...
Challenged Hegemony
The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts in...
Judge and Punish
The Penal State on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from? Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years sitting in on trials, watching as individuals were judged and sentenced for armed robbery, assault, rape, and murder. His experience led to this original reflection on the...
by Phillip Stalley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "pollution havens"? The debate over this question has never before been the focus of a book about China. Phillip...
by Zaryab Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Assessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the human costs of war, particularly their effects on population well-being. In War and the Health of Nations, Zaryab Iqbal...
Alchemical Mercury
A Theory of Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation...
The Experimental Imagination
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...
Prozak Diaries
Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of...
Judging Policy
Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy. But how are courts drawn into the policy process, and how are patterns of policy debate shaped by the institutional structure of the courts?
Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy,...
The New Entrepreneurs
How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight continuing inequalities and constraints within American society. With a focus on a diverse group of Latino...
People's Science
Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the...
Khartoum at Night
Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid...
Tell This in My Memory
Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian...
by Jonathan Kramnick
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late...