Books published by Stanford University Press

This book, published in conjunction with the hundredth anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference, traces President Woodrow Wilson's evolving thinking about the principle of national self-determination by closely examining his approach to the remapping of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War One.

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that define their work and its social value.

In the Name of the Nation offers a much-needed contemporary history of India's troubled Northeastern region.

A Miscarriage of Justiceexamines the intersection of women's reproductive health and state formation in early-twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, this book presents and examines Adorno's unusual concept of possibility and aims to answer how we are to articulate the possibility of a redeemed life without lapsing into a vague and naive utopianism.

As anti-colonial activism and global war intensified in the twentieth century, the Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army wrestled with the moral dilemma of giving their devotion to either nationalism or imperialism.

Focusing on its literary programming in particular, this study of UNESCO shines a light on the close relationship between state-backed economic development and the global postwar cultural policy establishment.

Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created "objective" field knowledge of human diversity to support imperial expansionism and control before 1945, and modernization under U.S. auspices thereafter.

This book makes a case for the acknowledgment and cultivation of poetic thinking-the kind of thinking we find in literature and the arts-for their uninhibited wisdom is vital for the protection of our social, political, and cultural freedom.

In this book, literary critic and political theorist Werner Hamacher shows how Hoelderlin's late poetry develops and enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique, unprecedented, and still revolutionary concept of revolution that begins with a groundbreaking understanding of language.

"A wide-ranging critique of legal and transnational approaches to sexual violence in armed conflict and how rape, in particular, developed as a central focus within the women's human rights movement"--

Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship to time and to death.

This book is about the next era of globalization and the trade policies that are needed to birth it.

"Creative Differences examines how intellectual property reflects and shapes racial formation in America, specifically arguing that copyright, trademark, and patent discourses operate in tandem with one another to form US ideals around race, citizenship, and property"--

This is an anthropological study of protest and popular sovereignty in Bangladesh.

This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as "therapies" for the pervasive dis-eases of our time.

Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.