Author: Charles. DREKMEIER
Publisher: Stanford University Press / Oxford University Press, 1962.
Keywords: india, community, kingship
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1962
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0804701148
ISBN-13: 9780804701143
Authors:Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, enlightenment, dialectic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0804736324
ISBN-13: 9780804736329
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself ou
Author: Avery Goldstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: security, studies, asian, international, strategy, challenge, china, grand, rising
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-04-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804752184
ISBN-13: 9780804752183
China’s increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the world, especially the United States, respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires not only figuring out the speed and extent of China’s rise, but also answering a question that has received much less attention: What is China’s grand strategy?This book describes and explains the grand strategy China’s leaders have adopted to pursue their country’s interests in the international system of the 21st century. The author argues tha
Author: Jeffrey Needell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: brazilian, monarchy, slavery, state, order, conservatives, party
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-11
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0804753695
ISBN-13: 9780804753692
This study analyzes Brazil’s monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionally based on African slavery. It focuses upon the Conservatives, who represented the sugar and coffee elites in reconstructing the new nation’s state as a strong, representative, constitutional monarchy in troubled times. After the monarch himself assumed power, however, his views undercut parliamentary and party government, which were also sapped by regional differences and the pressure for state patronage. Increasingly, the emperor and his cabinet
Author: Gary A. Polis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: scorpions, biology
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 1990-05
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0804712492
ISBN-13: 9780804712491
An up-to-date synthesis of all that is known about scorpions. The introduction and 11 papers cover anatomy and morphology; systematics, biogeography, and palaeontology; life history; behavioural responses and activity patterns; ecology; predators, prey, and parasites; environmental physiology.
Authors:Sergei Goncharov, John Lewis, Litai Xue,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: studies, international, security, war, korean, partners, stalin, mao, uncertain
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0804725217
ISBN-13: 9780804725217
The authors use major new documentary sources, including cables and letters between Mao Zedong and Stalin, to tell for the first time the inside story of the creation of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.
Authors:Joshua Landy, Michael Saler,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: rational, magic, secular, world, enchantment
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-01-21
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804752990
ISBN-13: 9780804752992
The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for r
