Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania
The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,...
Colored Television
American Religion Gone Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the face of American religious broadcasting in recent decades. Colored Television looks at the influence of these ministries beyond the United...
The Class of 1761
Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers...
Under Contract
The Invisible Workers of America's Global War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual...
Enlightened Immunity
Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued....
The Absence of Grace
Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes...
To Belong in Buenos Aires
Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a massive wave of immigration transformed the cultural landscape of Argentina. Alongside other immigrants to Buenos Aires, German speakers strove to carve out a place for themselves as Argentines without fully relinquishing their German language...
by Joseph H. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1987
This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant...
Protests Against U.S. Military Base Policy in Asia
Persuasion and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Since the end of World War II, protests against U.S. military base and related policies have occurred in several Asian host countries. How much influence have these protests had on the p;olicy regarding U.S. military bases? What conditions make protests more likely to influence policy? Protests Against...
Imagined Enemies
China Prepares for Uncertain War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
The fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies offers an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy. Beginnning with an examination of culturee adn thought in Part I, the authors explore the transition away transition...
Categorically Famous
Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers...
by Lisa Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative stance toward life in general. Replacing...
The History of Missed Opportunities
British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, The History of Missed Opportunities posits that the everyday first emerged as a distinct category of experience, or first became thinkable, in the Romantic period. Conceived here as something overlooked and only noticed in retrospect,...
The Proper Order of Things
Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so...