Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
Glory and Agony
Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging...
From Continuity to Contiguity
Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped...
by Ivan Jablonka
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous, and they left little behind except their...
In Good Company
An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations have become increasingly important players in international development. These days, CSR's union of economics and ethics is virtually unquestioned as an antidote to harsh neoliberal reforms and the delinquency of the state, but...
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States,...
The Mind-Body Stage
Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between...
Engines of Empire
Steamships and the Victorian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could...
Overruled?
Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court-Congress Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides—laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes. Whether front-page news or not, overrides serve potentially vital functions in American policy-making. Federal statutes—and court cases interpreting...
Chimalpahin's Conquest
A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success....
by Fred Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.
Paolina's Innocence
Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is...
by Mike Hill, Warren Montag
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his...
by Joseph Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inauguration of Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinary sailors killed several officers and seized control of major new combat vessels, including two of the...