Stanford University Press: 1317 books
A Genealogy of Dissent
The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
In early modern Korea, the Chosŏn state conducted an extermination campaign against the Kaesŏng Wang, descendants of the preceding Koryŏ dynasty. It was so thorough that most of today's descendants are related to a single survivor. Before long, however, the Chosŏn dynasty sought to bolster its...
Borders of Belonging
Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the...
Scarcity and Survival in Central America
Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely...
One Blue Child
Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and...
by Joshua M. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made...
Recovering Armenia
The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Following World War I, as the victorious Allied powers occupied Ottoman territories, Armenian survivors returned to their hometowns optimistic that they might...
Divine Variations
How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human...
Phonopoetics
The Making of Early Literary Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded,...
Global Data Shock
Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively. Robert Mandel calls this phenomenon "global...
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language has...
The Truth of the Technological World
Essays on the Genealogy of Presence
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate...
Being with the Dead
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques...
by Paul J. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A sustained and systematic theological reflection on the idea that being a Christian is, first and last, a matter of the flesh, Christian Flesh shows us what being a Christian means for fleshly existence. Depicting and analyzing what the Christian tradition has to say about the flesh of Christians...
by Jan Mieszkowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle...