Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Help or Harm
The Human Security Effects of International NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
When do international non-governmental organizations like Oxfam or Human Rights Watch actually work? Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs answers this question by offering the first comprehensive framework for understanding the effects of the international non-governmental...
Networks in Tropical Medicine
Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890–1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism,...
Circles of Compensation
Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce...
Life Behind the Lobby
Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United...
Constructing East Asia
Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status...
The Strange Child
Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young.
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by Tom K. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration...
Plain Text
The Poetics of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's...
Culture, Power, and the State
Rural North China, 1900-1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era. The author constructs a prismatic...
For the War Yet to Come
Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state...
Building Blocs
How Parties Organize Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors'...
Field Notes
The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Field Notes reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Zachary Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding,...
Copts and the Security State
Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order...
Faith in Empire
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in...