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Stanford University Press Founded in 1892, Stanford University Press publishes 135 books a year across the humanities, social sciences, law, and business.

In New York Nouveau, Sara Kippur proposes a new French literary history that traces the deep connections between postwar...
14/08/2025

In New York Nouveau, Sara Kippur proposes a new French literary history that traces the deep connections between postwar literary experimentalism and the New York publishing industry, compellingly arguing that US-based editors, publishers, producers, professors, and translators crucially intervened to shape French literature. https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/new-york-nouveau

"This highly original book combines a materialist approach to the social conditions of the circulation of books with close reading. Innovative and compelling, based on rich unknown archival sources, New York Nouveau renews our view of literary history."
—Gisèle Sapiro, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

This book is the newest entry in the Post*45 series.

A Revolution of Rules demonstrates that the nonprofit form is shaped primarily through its regulation, in a dynamic proc...
13/08/2025

A Revolution of Rules demonstrates that the nonprofit form is shaped primarily through its regulation, in a dynamic process of democratic and political negotiation. Erica Bornstein argues that the scrutiny of nonprofits in India must be understood in a wider, global context of political judicialization and regulatory reform. She examines how members of nonprofit organizations are the unsung heroes of democracy as they navigate a shrinking stage for rights-based work and struggle to protect civil society. https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/revolution-rules

"Erica Bornstein is one of the pioneers of the anthropology of nonprofit agencies, philanthropy and civil society. This sharp and innovative account offers a fresh perspective on how policy is constituted through negotiation and the vital role played by activists and staff in the face of an increasingly authoritarian Indian state. An important contribution."
—David Lewis, London School of Economics

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGrego...
12/08/2025

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais. The only problem—Poyais did not exist.
https://www.sup.org/books/history/financing-sovereignty

In Damian Clavel's deeply researched retelling of the Poyais story, MacGregor is less an unscrupulous adventurer aiming to defraud English investors than a luckless intermediary between Indigenous Miskitu elites and British financiers. From the coasts of Moskitia to the trading floors of London, Clavel traces the genesis, development, and downfall of the Poyais project, detailing how these events were the outcome of a failed attempt to finance the making of a new country in Central America. A microhistory set against the backdrop of global history, Financing Sovereignty offers a new lens through which to view the political, economic, legal, and social dynamics of the nineteenth-century revolutionary, financial, and imperial transformations that took place across the Atlantic.

In Bringing Law Home, Katherine Eva Maich offers a uniquely comparative and historical study of labor struggles for dome...
07/08/2025

In Bringing Law Home, Katherine Eva Maich offers a uniquely comparative and historical study of labor struggles for domestic workers in New York City and Lima, Peru. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/bringing-law-home

"'Is there a law?' puzzled New York City employers asked West Indian domestic worker Carla, one of the subjects of Katherine Maich's revelatory book. Yes, there are laws nominally protecting household workers. But Maich shows how entrenched racial and gender hierarchies, legacies of colonialism and slavery, and the power ideological separation between 'home' and 'work' undermine those laws' effect. Full of important lessons about work, law, power, and inequality, the book also explores how we could achieve a more just future."
—Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles

We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. It's well past time, Roy Scranton argues in Impasse, to...
06/08/2025

We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. It's well past time, Roy Scranton argues in Impasse, to free ourselves from our dangerous and dogmatic faith in progress. Such unwarranted optimism will only accelerate our collective disintegration. If we want to have any hope at all for the future, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism. https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/impasse

Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, and politics, as well as film, literature, and personal experience, Scranton describes the challenges we face in making sense of our predicament, from problems in communication to questions of justice, from the inherent biases in human perception to the difficulties of empirical knowledge. What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future.

In Cartesian Questions III, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the vario...
05/08/2025

In Cartesian Questions III, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various "Cartesianisms" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have constructed. https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/cartesian-questions-iii

The book's first half shows how Descartes lines up against Cartesianism, setting forth several closely argued attempts to free up the positive status of skepticism in the Cartesian corpus, the non-substantial (and non-reflexive) character of the ego cogito, the complex elaboration of the idea of the infinite, and the role of esteem as a mode of the cogitatio. Marion then offers a second set of studies examining the work of Montaigne, Hobbes, and Spinoza and seeking to reconstitute some of the ways in which Cartesianism (and non-Cartesianism) become opposed to Descartes.

The final volume in Jean-Luc Marion's erudite trilogy of Cartesian Questions, this authoritative book demonstrates that, rather than belonging strictly to the past, Descartes continues to speak to our future.

Today is your last chance to take advantage of our introductory ebook sale! ⌛Get 50% off of any ebooks purchased directl...
31/07/2025

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"Mobilizing the Past offers a sweeping reexamination of the many historical analogies behind the fatalistic view of an i...
31/07/2025

"Mobilizing the Past offers a sweeping reexamination of the many historical analogies behind the fatalistic view of an inevitable war between the Unites States and China. Steve Chan powerfully cautions against falling into the trap of wrong historical lessons in both policymaking and theory-building."
—Yong Deng, US Naval Academy https://www.sup.org/books/politics/mobilizing-past

Past precedents and parallels regularly inform analyses of China's relations with the US. By highlighting serious errors of commission or omission in popular narratives and scholarly studies concerning international relations in general and Sino-American relations in particular, Steve Chan challenges commonly accepted "lessons of history" and cautions against the misuse and misunderstanding of the past in examining China's rise and its implications for international peace and stability. This far-reaching book presents alternative, overlooked historical accounts that are highly pertinent to Sino-American relations today, making it essential for researchers and students of international affairs.

30/07/2025

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In Good Kids, Isabel Jijon reveals how global campaigns against child labor are often met with resistance from the very ...
30/07/2025

In Good Kids, Isabel Jijon reveals how global campaigns against child labor are often met with resistance from the very children they are meant to protect. Conducting interviews in Bolivia and Ecuador with children who defend their labor, Jijon explores what they mean by "value," "rights," and "dignity" in this context. She finds that working children seek a sense of self-worth, as well as worthiness in their closest relationships; they use work to prove that they are "good sons/daughters," "good friends," or simply "good kids." https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/good-kids

"Good Kids provides a fresh perspective on the place of work in children's lives. The author makes a useful contribution to our understanding of recognition by highlighting how moral entrepreneurs who oppose child labor overlook its role in promoting young people's a sense of worth and dignity while they contribute to their family's welfare. Her book offers an important corrective to widely shared assumptions about the agency of low-income children."
—Michèle Lamont, author of Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Heals a Divided World

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One of the oldest university presses in the U.S., now 125 years young.

Stanford University Press started from humble origins in 1892 under the auspices of Stanford’s very first president, David Starr Jordan, and at the initiative of one of the members of its Pioneer Class, printer Julius Quelle.

From the outset, the Press committed itself to the publication of works that both extend and challenge prevailing views in the academy and society—a mission that remains foremost in its work today and that has, over the course of many decades, studded the Press’s history with the stories of plucky pressmen, master craftspeople, and intellectual luminaries.

Today the Press publishes over 120 books per year that span the humanities, social sciences, business, and law, developing leading lists in a number of fields along the way. New genre-bending imprints, such as Stanford Briefs, Redwood Press, and supDigital reveal the Press’s continued commitment to providing a platform for authors and their ideas, whatever shape they may take. 2017 marked the Press’s 125th year of publishing—here’s to 125 more!