Stanford Social Sciences

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

This book presents an analytical account of the causes and dangerous consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.

The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long hist...

Reducere. The inclusive, flexible alternative to rigid traditional advice.About author(s): Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Univers...

Using newly collected data from American and Korean newspapers, this book examines relations between the United States and South Korea from 1992 to...

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 190 x 267 x 29Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Pia Orrenius...

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

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The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of th...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic data collected from multi-sited field research, Ling's book traces the journeys of dozens of second-generation...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Togzhan KassenovaNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 29Cover type: Har...

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In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increas...

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jean E. JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 27Cover type: Hardb...

DescriptionTeach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Ed...

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security argues that Japanese public opinion matters and has acted to prevent overseas military deployments ...

This book traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of minority identity within Japan's Korean community through its examination of their l...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardTranslator: Jane KuntzNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublic...

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

In the 1890s, German feminists fighting for female higher education envied American women their small colleges. Yet by 1910, German women could stu...

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public servi...

Reducere. This book argues that Japan's extremely low fertility rate is due to labor markets inhospitable to women, which make it difficult for them to balan...

This book is a detailed examination of a Chinese women's cult that confronts the dangers of pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood diseases.Publisher...

Taking its impetus from remarkable fact that holy things were given to children as toys in the early modern period as a way of destroying their pow...

DescriptionPower and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes ho...

The charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (1860-1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activis...

This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-milita...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Charis E. KubrinEditor: Thomas D. StuckyIntroduction to Criminal Justice is the first textbook to approach theories and pra...

Wing Commander Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until taken prisoner in 1942. This work offers an extract facsimile of his flyin...

Reducere. This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools that are most useful in advocacy and policy change evaluation....

This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning n...

Reducere. France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 520Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 255 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns condu...

Reducere. In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher conf...

Reducere. Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Pal...

While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertive...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jianglin LiNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 235 x 45Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques RanciereThis extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exi...

Reducere. From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and ...

Reducere. AwardsNational Book Critics Circle AwardDescriptionThe illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar a...

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea co...

Reducere. DescriptionThe social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning...

Contributor(s): Author: Leon FestingerLeon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential ...

This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inher...

Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the most notoriously difficult to understand. This revised,...

This book examines under what conditions peacebuilding can bring not only peace but also democracy to war-torn countries.

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Sanjeev RoutrayNumber of pages: 368Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Matthew SpecterNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Miguel PerezNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: R. W. ConnellSexual politics--from economic equality to anti-gay violence--is a vast area of debate. This exceptional book ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Susan Gilson MillerNumber of pages: 248Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geograp...

If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the s...

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--b...

Reducere. This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining th...

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BourdieuTranslator: Richard NiceOur usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primiti...

Reducere. Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine...

Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet...