Stanford University Press: 1317 books
The Politics of Compassion
The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how...
Judging Mohammed
Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign...
Partitions
A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Partition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later...
Illicit Flirtations
Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent—from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today....
Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad
France and the United States, 1890–1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
This book—the first long-term study of educational travel between France and the United States—suggests that, by studying abroad, ordinary people are constructively involved in international relations. Author Whitney Walton analyzes study abroad from the perspectives of the students, schools,...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860–1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The Yellow...
Mother Folly
A Tale
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...
Greece Before History
An Archaeological Companion and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
This book, a guide and companion to the prehistoric archaeology of Greece, is designed for students, travelers, and all general readers interested in archaeology. Greece has perhaps the longest and richest archaeological record in Europe, and this book reviews what is known of Greece from the earliest...
Dynasties and Democracy
The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security
From Pacifism to Realism?
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford...
by Thomas Biebricher
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary...
Spending Without Taxation
FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget...
Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups, and they have won seats in local and state...
Navigating Austerity
Currents of Debt along a South Asian River
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river...