Authors:William Sundstrom, Timothy Guinnane, Warren Whatl
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: technology, demographic, change, growth, economic, matters, essays, history
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-10-31
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 0804743983
ISBN-13: 9780804743983

Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic historians, use economic theory and historical cases to explore how and why “history matters.”The chapters, which range in subject matter from the economic theory of irreversible investment to the nineteenth-century decline in U.S. rural fertility to the English poor law reform, are unified by three

Authors:Sylvia Paletschek, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker,
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: european, perspective, century, nineteenth, emancipation, movements, women
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804747644
ISBN-13: 9780804747646

The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at different paces and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women?s emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader contex

Authors:Thomas Hammond, Chris Bonneau, Reginald Sheeha,
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: supreme, court, choice, policy, behavior, strategic
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-08-16
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0804751455
ISBN-13: 9780804751452

Despite several decades of research on Supreme Court decision-making by specialists in judicial politics, there is no good answer to a key question: if each justice’s behavior on the Court were motivated solely by some kind of “liberal” or “conservative” ideology, what patterns should be expected in the Court’s decision-making practices and in the Court’s final decisions? It is only when these patterns are identified in advance that political scientists will be able to empirically evaluate theories which assert that the justices’ behavior is motivated by the pursuit of their pe

Author: Chalmers A. Johnso
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: industrial, policy, growth, miracle, japanese, miti
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804712069
ISBN-13: 9780804712064

Author: Edward Seidensticker
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: kafu, nagai, writings, life, scribbler
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1965-06-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0804702675
ISBN-13: 9780804702676

Author: Alan Wachma
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: studies, asian, security, integrity, territorial, geostrategic, rationales, china, taiwan
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080475554X
ISBN-13: 9780804755542

Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has Beijing been feverishly developing means to prevail in combat with the U.S. over Taiwan’s status? Why is Taiwan worth fighting for? To answer, this book focuses on the territorial dimension of the Taiwan issue and highlights arguments made by PRC analysts about the geostrategic significance of Taiwan, rather than emphasizing the political dispute between Beijing and Taipei. It considers Beijing’s quest for Taiwan since 1949 against the backdrop of recurring Chinese anxieties about the island&

Authors:Jean Baudrillard,  Mark Poster, Jacques Mourra
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: second, writings, selected, baudrillard, jean
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804742731
ISBN-13: 9780804742733

This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds examples of Baudrillard’s work since that time.Reviews of the First Edition“This is a good book, and the author of its selected writings, Jean Baudrillard, deserves only a share of the compliment. It is difficult to introduce a difficult author, and Mark Poster has done a brilliant job. He has selected wisely from Baudrillard’s writings. . .